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Title
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Photos - Places
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Original Format
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glass negative
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Russell Smith Ford Sales & Service, 401 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan
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image/jpeg
Description
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These photographs are of the Russell Smith Ford Sales & Service Dealership, 401 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan. They were also a "Hi-Speed" Gasoline Station.<br /><br />They are advertising "Out They Go" sales of used cars; two older Fordson Tractors are in the scene. The names of the people and exact date are unknown but thought to be ~1941.
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Automobile dealers
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1941~
Creator
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Fred Teeples
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Image
automobile
automobile dealer
farm
gas pumps
howell
service station
tractor
unknown
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Title
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Photos - Events
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Knights Templar Conclave Parade in Howell, Michigan - 1913
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image/jpeg
Description
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This is a photograph of a parade heading east on East Grand River Avenue at the Livingston County Courthouse. The Knights Templar are in the foreground, and is likely the Howell Commandery No. 28.<br /><br />Also in the photograph are buggies, onlookers, early cars, and the signage of the Temple Theater. A color guard unit is following the Knights Templar.<br /><br />In 1913 the Knights Templar Organization held their annual Conclave (convention) in Howell, Michigan. As members of the socity gathered from everywhere in the state and each unit marched through Howell, Michigan in a gala parade.<br /><br />The names of the persons are unknown. It is noted that Grand River is unpaved; Grand River Avenue was paved in 1915.
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Parades
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Copyright Undetermined
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1913
Creator
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Fred Teeples
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Image
grand river avenue
howell
knights templar
livingston county courthouse
parade
theater
unknown
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Title
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Obituaries
Description
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<span>Contains obituary, death notices, some scrapbook marriage and news stories as well as funeral cards from mid-1800s–current for Livingston County. The Howell Area Archives houses donated scrapbooks that were pasted on the pages of old books or in scrapbooks. Obituaries appeared in Livingston County Daily Press & Argus or Fowlerville News & Views within 3 days of death unless otherwise noted.</span> The collection also contains other digital resources at the following:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://archive-it.org/organizations/1734" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Archive-IT Collections</a> - contains county funeral homes and local news sources.</li>
<li>Also view the <a href="https://archives.howelllibrary.org/collections/show/9">Newspaper Collection.</a></li>
</ul>
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M041 Obituaries Book
Description
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Contains Stockbridge Crostick obituaries also se Township box.
Abbott, Sarah [Mapes] M041-059d Gregory
Abbott, Sarah M. [Mapes] M04 1 -057dr losco Twp.
Achenbach, Eliza A. Laubach (Samuel) M04 1 -050d Albion
Ackley, Lena [Gaylord] M04 I -029dr 1934-11-12 Stockbridge
Adams, ???? Burgess (Edgar T.) M041-Ol3dr
Adams, Almina A. [Scoville] M041-086d 1902-11-12 White Oak Twp.
Adams, Aizina [Atwood] M04 1 -086dr 1902-11-12 MA, Boston
Adams, Grace Ramsdill (Roy W.) M041-OOld 1919-01-04 Mason
Afton, Amanda [Burden] M041-Ol2dr 1915-03-22
Aldrich, ???? Stephens (Alfred) M04l-OOld 1926-05-11 Stockbridge
Alexander, Amelia Hannah [Smith] M041-OOld 1934-11-14 Stockbridge
Allen, Arlington (Class Night) M041-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Allen, Luela May M041-O6Odr 1934-10-25 Leslie
Allen, Nina M041-085dr Lansing
Alles, Florence M041-035dr Detroit
Alles, Florence Topping M041-098dr 1935-05-22 Detroit
Alles, Florence Topping M041-098dr 1938-01-12 Detroit
Allison, Bertha [Miller] M041-OOldr 1940-12-27 Howell
Allison, James M04l-048dr 1936-07-18
Allison, Lydia [McCann] M04l-OOldr 1940-12-27 WA, Spokane
Allison, Mary (Eugene) M041-OOld 1940-12-27
Amos, Floyd M041-OX5dr 1941-02-02 Milan
Anderson, M. 0. M041-002d 1933-09-15 Parkers Corners
Anderson, Minnie Lewis M041-052dr 1936-01-07 Gladwin
Andrews, Martha Marie [Rheingans] M041-O8Odr 1934-04-05
Antcliff, Ival (Mapes reunion) M041-059m
Antcliff, Ival Mrs. (Mapes reunion) M041-059d
Antcliff, Mary Daniels (Ival) M041-002d Brooklyn
Antcliff, Mary Daniels (Ival) (Mapes reunion) M041-059w
Applegate, ???? [Lyons] M04 1 -OO2dr
Applegate, Ann Blackford (Edwin Ellison) M04 I -OO2dr 1937-12-10
Applegate, Anna Mae Miller (Edwin Ellison) M041-OO2dr 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Applegate, Bertha R. [Cronkhite] M04 1 -OO2dr 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Applegate, E. H. Mrs. M04 1 -002d Stockbridge
Applegate, Edwin Ellison M041-002d 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Applegate, Nellie [Copeland] M041-OO2dr AZ, White River
Armstrong, Effie Fewless M04 1 -OO4dr 1935-02-12 losco Twp.
Armstrong, Verna [Rheingans] M041-O8Odr 1934-04-05
Arnold, George M041-OO6dr 1929-03-21 Unadilla Twp.
Arnold, Merna Smith M041-O9Odr 1928-06-14 Dansville
Arnold, Vancie May [Bowman] M041-006d 1925-11-10 Gregory
Arnols, ???? Hopkins (A. H.) M04 1-039th 1927-07-22 Prescott
Arts, Erma (Eighth Grade) M041-l l3m 1928 Stockbridge
Artz Reunion M041-002m 1936
Artz, ????? Neithammer (Frank) M041-067dr 1927-04-26 Lansing
Ashenbach, Eliza A. Laubach M04l-OSldr 1904-12-27 Stockbridge
Ashmore, ???? Robeson (Gordon) M04l-082dr 1934-05-11 Stockbridge
Ashmore, Doris (Class Night) M041-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Asquith, ???? Dakin (Fred) M04l-O2Odr 1932-10-02 Stockbridge
Asquith, Ben (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge
Asquith, Elizabeth (M.P. class organized) M04l-1 14m 1852-04-16 Plainfield
Asquith, Elva Gaylor M041-079m 1927-10-31 Memphis
Asquith, Elva Mrs. M041-003d 1939-08-01 Memphis
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Asquith, Elva R. Gaylord (Sylvester J.) M04 1 -003d Memphis
Asquith, Esther H. [Pickett] M04 1 -003d 1924-02-21 Stockbridge
Asquith, Jas. (built early road) M04 1-056m Stockbridge
Asquith, Jay M041-1 14m 1904-04 Stockbridge C
Asquith, Maggie Boylan M04 1 -OO6dr 1921-05-19 Stockbridge
Asquith, Mary Cobb M04 1-016th
Asquith, William (M.P. class organized) M04 1-1 l4m 1852-04-16 Plainfield
Atkins, Carolyn Lou (Mapes reunion) M04 1 -059b
Atwood, Aizina Adams M041-086dr 1902-11-12 MA, Boston
Augre, Olive Welton M041-lO6dr 1935-01-01 Pontiac C Austin, William M. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Ayrault, Jane Sharp M04 l-094dr 1940-06-10 CA
Bachelor, Amelia [Holt] M04 1-039th Stockbridge C Bachus, Edna (Eighth Grade) M041-1 13m 1928 Stockbridge
Backus, ???? Burden (Edward) M04 1-01 2dr 1915-03-22 CA C
Backus, ???? Burgess (B. B.) M041-Ol3dr White Oak Twp. C Backus, Angeline Hadley M04 1 -OO7dr Dexter
Baker, ???? Reeves (F. G.) M041-O8Odr 1919-01-24 Lansing C
Baker, Alice Reeves (Frank G.) M041-004d 1922-04-04 Lansing
Baker, Carrie F. Fewless (Stephen) M041-004d 1935-02-12
Baker, Carrie Fewless (Stephen) M04 1 -OO4dr C
Baker, Glenadine Hall M04 1-036th Plymouth
Baker, Kitsey [Clampett] M04 1 -OO4dr 1922-04-04
Baker, Mabel Caskey M04 1-061 dr 1936-03-24 Plainfield C
Baker, Mabel Isham M04 1 -OO4dr Plainfield
Baker, Stephen M04 I -004d Plainfield
Barber, Isaphine[Walz] M041-lO3dr 1926-12-14 Stockbridge C
Barbour, Maggie Blanch Weight (Steven S.) M041-OO4dr 1933-12-01 Stockbridge
Barbour, Steven S. M041-004d 1933-12-01 Stockbridge
Barker, ???? Thompson M04 1-OO7dr Munith C
Barnes, ???? Nott (W. L.) M04 1-068th Lansing
Barnum, Emma Lucille [Camburn] M04 1-004th
Barnum, Sarah Bunker (Wirt Timothy) M04 1 -OO4dr Unadilla Twp. C
Barnum, Wirt Timothy M041-004d Unadilla Twp.
Barrett, Earl (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 l3d 194?
Barrett, Katherine McColl M04 1-061 dr C
Barrett, Mary Howlett M04 1-040th Detroit
Barrett, Sarah (M.P. class organized) M04 1-1 14m 1852-04-16 Plainfield
Barrett, William (M.P. class organized) M04 1-1 14m 1852-04-16 Plainfield C Barscer, ???? [Harmon] M04 1-108th Lansing
Barscer, ???? [Wilimore] M04 1- 108d Stockbridge
Barth, ???? [McMullen] M041-005th 1927-04-25 C Barth, Carl George M04 1 -005d 1927-04-25 Stockbridge
Barth, Ida Lehman M041-052dr 1939-01-24 Ann Arbor (2
Barth, Sarah Stanfield (Carl George) M04 1 -OOSdr 1927-04-25 Stockbridge C Barton, Dorothy King (Neil) M04 1-049dr Stockbridge
Barton, Lillie Sellers M041-086dr 1932-12-21 Howell C
Bates, Frankie [Mills] M04 1 -063dr 1905-03-23 Stockbridge C Battery, ???? Scoville (James) M041-086dr 1902-11-12
Bauer, Jacob M041-l 15d 1936-06 Stockbridge C
Baxter, Margaret Wasson (Richard E.) M04 1-105th C Beals, Marvin (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 l3d 194?
Beaumont, Josie Mitteer M04 I -064dr 1917-05-04 C
Beeman, ???? Rose (Frank) M04 1 -O9Odr C
C
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Beeman, Bert M041-l 14m 1904-04 ND, Valley City
Beenian, Celia [Dean] M04l-023d 1930-09-20 Stockbridge
Beeman, Minnie [Ellsworth] M04l-023dr 1930-09-20 CA
Behm, Sadie West M04l-lO6dr 1935-04-24 White Oak Twp.
Behm, Sadie West M04l-lO6dr 1941-01-06 White Oak Twp.
Bement, Mina (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Berquist, Earl (Liv. Co. WWII) M04l-1 13d 194?
Berry, Anna [Howard] M04 1 -OOSdr Detroit
Berry, Margaret McCann (Thomas A.) M04 1 -005d Stockbridge
Berry, Margaret McCann (Thomas) M041-OOSdr 1932-09-06 Stockbridge
Berry, Thomas M04 1 -005d 1932-09-06 Stockbridge
Bickert, Carl M041-108w 1925-05-04 IN, Auburn
Bickert, Margaret Wiegman (Carl) M041-108w 1925-05-04 IN, Auburn
Biging, Lena [Young] M04 1 -049dr IL, Chicago
Biging, Mattie Bertha [King] M04 1 -049d Stockbridge
Binding, Edward M041-005d 1932-06-27 White Oak Twp.
Binding, Ella Pulling (Edward) M041-OO5dr 1932-06-27 White Oak Twp.
Binding, Ella Pulling (Edward) M041-074d 1926-08-28 Stockbridge
Binding, Grace Stevens (James) M04 1 -OO5dr 1932-06-27
Binding, James M041-l 14m 1904-04 ND, Valley City
Bird, Nellie Mimer M041-064dr 1931-09-16 Stockbridge
Birkett, Thomas M041-l 14m 1909-10 Dexter
Black, ???? Isham (W. J.) M04 1 -046dr 1934-06-21 St. Johns
Black, Emma Isham M041-046dr 1925-01-28 St. Johns
Black, Emma Kellogg M04 1-049th 1934-02-23
Black, Louisa VanSyckel (William) M041-lOldr 1930-10-01 Lansing
Blackford, Ann [Applegate] M04 1 -OO2dr 1937-12-10
Blakely, Laura Hadley M04 1-007th Stockbridge
Bland, George Mrs. M041-Ol3dr 1922-05-25
Bleasdell, Floyd (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Bleasdell, Kenneth E. (Liv. Co. WWII) M04l-l 13d 194?
Bleasdell, LeRoy (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Blood, ???? Green (J. D.) M041-064dr 1914-11-07 Leslie
Boeve, Homer (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Bohnet, Amelia Mierndorf M041-l03dr 1934-02-10 Webberville
Bollinger, Frederick J. M041-005d 1930-04-04 Gregory
Bollinger, Ida M. Thompson (Frederick J.) M041-005th 1930-04-04 Gregory
Bott, ???? [Ives] M041-006th 1937-11-09
Bott, Anna Lila [Sawyer M041-006th 1937-11-09 Mason
Bott, Edmund J. M04l-006d 1937-11-09 Stockbridge
Bott, Elizabeth [Ives] M04 I -046d Stockbridge
Bott, Elizabeth [Ives] M04 1-046th TX
Bott, Fannie Wilmore (Edmund J.) M041-006th 1937-11-09 Stockbridge
Bott, Louise Foster (Thomas) M04 1-006th 1937-11-09
Boutell, Maurice (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Bowdish, Inez Hill M04l-038th 1922-04-06
Bowen, E. J. M04l-048dr 1936-07-18
Bowen, Isabell Sharp M041-094dr 1940-06-10 Gregory
Bowers, Goldies Jeffrey M04 I -048dr 1941-04-03
Bowles, Alta Reeves M04 1-077th 1929-01-05 CA
Bowles, Alta Reeves (Howell) M041-O8Odr 1919-01-24 Flint
Bowman, Glen Erwin M041-006d 1929-03-21 Unadilla Twp.
Bowman, Vancie May Arnold (John) M041-006d 1925-11-10 Gregory
Boyce Reunion M041-007m 1936-08-13 Jackson
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CC
Boyce, Addie A. [Lowe] M04 1 -054d 1933-07-27 Stockbridge C
Boyce, Aima Huldah [Riemschnider] M04 1-081 d 1931-03-19 Lyndon Twp.
Boyce, Anna Hadley M04 I -OO7dr Lyndon
Boyce, Daisy Josephine [Mann] M04 1 -OO7dr TX C]
Boyce, Jennie E. Thompson (Louis L.) M04 1 -007d Stockbridge
Boyce, Lydia A. Reason (Frank) M04 1 -076d 1925-01-22 Stockbridge
Boyce, Myrtie [Howlett] M04 1 -OO7dr Caro C
Boyce, Sam (50th Anniversary) M04 1 -007m 1935-12-29 Stockbridge
Boyce, Sylvia Hadley (Andrew J.) M04 1 -007d Stockbridge
Boyce, Vera [Woolfit] M041-OO7dr Flint (J
Boylan, ???? Coulson (C. A.) M04 1-038dr 1925-02-18 Stockbridge
Boylan, Cora [Daniels] M04 1-OO6dr 1921-05-19 Fowlerville
Boylan, frene E. Collar (Jacob) M041-OO6dr 1921-05-19 C
Boylan, Jacob M04 1 -006d 1921-05-19 Stockbridge
Boylan, Maggie [Asquith] M04 1 -OO6dr 1921-05-19 Stockbridge
Bradley, Gennie Miller (Sheldon) M041-023dr 1940-12-30 Rochester C
Braley, ???? [Topping] M041-OO8dr 1935-03-15 Plainfield
Braley, ???? [Wright] M04 1-008th 1935-03-15 Stockbridge
Braley, ???? [Wright] M04 1-008th 1933-09-20 a Braley, ???? Topping] M041-OO8dr 1933-09-20 Plainfield
Braley, Elmer Nathaniel M041-008d 1935-03-15
Braley, Emma [Wright (60th anniv.) M04 1-1 lOm 1936-12-13 Stockbridge C Braley, Emma [Wright (60th anniv.) M04 1-11 Im 1936-12-13 Stockbridge
Braley, Jessie E. [Topping] M041-098dr 1935-05-22 Plainfield C
Braley, Jessie Edna [Topping] M04 1 -098d 1938-01-12 Plainfield Q Braley, Lottie J. <Wm. S.> M041-008d 1933-09-20 Plainfleld
Braley, Pens Wood (Elmer N.) M041-109d 1937-01-08 Plainfleld C
Braley, Persis Wood (E. M.) M041-lOSdr C Branch, ???? [Johnson] M041-OO8dr 1904-01-07 Owosso
Branch, ???? [McKenzie] M041-OO8dr 1904-01-07 C
Branch, I. N. M04 I -008d Jackson
Branch, Marquis de LaFayette M041-008d 1904-01-07 Owosso
Branch, Rebecca J.Young(Marquis M041-OO8dr 1904-01-07 Q
deLaFayette)
Bravender, Metta M. Hayner M04 1-027dr 1929-01-15 Holly
Bravender, Netta Hayner M04 1 -025dr 1940-10-15 Holly C
Brayton, Kenneth (Liv. Co. WWU) M04 1-11 3d 194?
Brazie, Mary Standish M04 1-091 dr 1902-07-03
Brearley, Jennie [Voegts] M04 1- lO2dr 1934-08-24 Plainfield C
Briggs, ???? Topping (Herman) M04 1 -098dr 1932-01-30 Howell
Bristol, ???? Kellogg (Seba) M04 1-049dr 1934-02-23 Franklin
Brockway, Fred (Liv. Co. WWII) M04 1-11 3d 194? C
Brogan, ???? [Cavanaugh] M04 l-OO9dr Lansing
Brogan, ???? [Holt] M04 1-009th 1933-02-08 Stockbridge
Brogan, ???? [Sweet] M041-OO9dr 1933-02-08 Battle Creek C
Brogan, ???? Reithmiller (C.) M04 1-060th
Brogan, Agnes May [Brogan] M04 1-009w 1919-11-14 Lansing
Brogan, Agnes May Brogan (Ray) M04 1-009w 1919-11-14 Lansing Q
Brogan, Dr. M04l-0l lm Stockbridge
Brogan, James M04 I -009d Bunker Hill
Brogan, Katherine Winters (James) M04 1 -OO9dr Bunker Hill C
Brogan, Lucile M04 1 -009m Jackson
Brogan, Lucile M04 I -009m Jackson
Brogan, Lucile M04 I -009m Jackson C0
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Brogan, Paul Lawrence <John> M041-009d 1933-02-08 Bunker Hill
Brogan, Paulina Riethmiller (Christopher) M04 1 -009d Jackson
Brogan, Ray M041-009w 1919-11-14 Howell
Brogan, Rhea (pic) M04 1-01 0m
Brooks, ???? Cramer (B. D.) M041-Ol9dr Lansing
Brotherton, Beatrice [Conk] M04 1-O2Odr 1932-10-02 Gregory
Brotherton, Junia Rae [Gallup] M04 1-020th 1932-10-02 Coldwater
Brotherton, Myrtie Dakin (Edward) M04 1 -020d 1932-10-02 Gregory
Brotherton, Ruth [Cook] M04 1-020th 1932-10-02 Ann Arbor
Brower, ?7?? Holmes (Josiah) M041-1 14m 1904-04-26
Brower, ???? Miller (Burney E.) M041-063dr 19 17-04-26 Jackson
Brower, Grace Sellers M041-O8ldr 1922-08-14
Brown, ???? [Schoenals] M04 1-067th Howell
Brown, ???? Willmore (A. W.) M04 1-108th Stockbridge
Brown, Ada M04 1-016th Lyons
Brown, Dr. M04 1-011m Stockbridge
Brown, Ella May [Nichols] M04 1 -067d Stockbridge
Brown, Frederica [Rogers] M04 1 -009m Jackson
Brown, Herman D. Dr. M041-01 id Jackson
Brown, Julia Fewless M041-OO4dr 1935-02-12 Putnam Twp.
Brown, Laura Fewless M04 1 -OO4dr 1935-02-12 losco Twp.
Brown, Mary Lois [Chanter] M041 -011th 1935 Jackson
Brown, Rob Coleman (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Brown, W. E. M041-0l ld 1935 Stockbridge
Brownell, C. L. M041-01 id Jackson
Brownell, Martha Sackett [Haviland] M041-037dr 1904-04-04
Brownell, Mary Mitteer M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 Stockbridge
Brownell, Rena [Lantis] M041-052d Stockbridge
Bryant, Roy Mrs. M041-095dr 1925-11-03 IN, Bloomington
Buchanan, Clyde M041-048dr 1936-07-18
Buckley, Richard (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l l3d 194?
Bucknell, ???? Burden (H. G.) M041-Ol2dr 1915-03-22
Budd, Robert (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
BuhI, ???? [Smith] M041-012th 1930-09-09 CA
Buhi, Sarah J. [Hadley] M041-012d 1930-09-09 Unadilla Twp.
Bull, Eilene [Cranna] M04 1-0 l2dr 1941-05-27 Gregory
Bull, Julian Emmett M041-012d 1941-05-27 Gregory
Bull, Nora Sawdy M041-085dr 194 1-02-02 Gregory
Bull, Nora Sawdy (Julian Emmett) M04 1-0 l2dr 1941-05-27 Gregory
Bullin, Carlie [Wasson] M041-l04dr 1941-01-07
Bullis, ???? Hutson (George) M04 1-045th 1930-09-09
Bullis, ???? Hutson (George) M04 1-045th 1925-09-29
Bullis, Agnes Sharp M041-094dr 1940-06-10 Pinckney
Bullis, Mae [Mayer] M041-Ol2dr 1934-01-08 Munith
Bullis, Maude May (Sylvester) M041-012d 1934-01-08 Unadilla Twp.
Bullis, Thelma [Grosshans] M041-Ol2dr 1934-01-08 Gregory
Bullock, Maria [Dutcher] M041-Ol4dr 1934-10-25
Bunker, Sarah [Barnum] M04 1 -OO4dr Unadilla Twp.
Burden, ???? [Backus] M04 1-012th 1915-03-22 CA
Burden, ???? [Bucknell] M041-Ol2dr 1915-03-22
Burden, Amanda Afion (Enos) M041-Ol2dr 1915-03-22
Burden, Enos M041-012d 1915-03-22 White Oak Twp.
Burden, Ida Reason (Charles) M04 1-01 3d Lansing
Burden, James M04 1-01 2d Gregory
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Burden, Josephine Burgess (Enos) M04 1-01 2dr 1915-03-22
Burden, Lillie Goeffiey (James) M04 1-01 2dr Gregory
Burgess, ???? [Adams] M04 1-01 3dr
Burgess, ???? [Backus] M041-Ol3dr White Oak Twp.
Burgess, ???? [King] M041-Ol3dr Howell
Burgess, Anna Jane Crawford (John) M04 1-01 3dr
Burgess, David Henry M04 1-0 13d Mason C
Burgess, Etta [Matthews] M041-Ol3dr CAN, Warsaw
Burgess, Josephine [Burden] M04 1-01 2dr 1915-03-22
Burgess, Margaret O’Neil (David Henry) M04 1-01 3dr Mason C
Burgess, Minnie Jackson (J. R.) M041-047dr 1929-12-24
Burn, Roy (accident) M041-034m 1936-07-30 Gregory
Burns, Mary [Swartz] M04 1 -093dr Ann Arbor C
Bush, ???? [Hutson] M041-Ol3dr 1922-05-25
Bush, Ezra M041-013d 1922-05-25 Plainfield
Bush, Vivian (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m C
Butler, Bertha [Smith] M041-089d Jackson
Button, Jack C. (Liv. Co. WWU) M041-1 13d 194?
Byer, Bert J. M041-025d 1936-06-26 White Oak Twp. C Byrd, ???? Cramer (F. H.) M04 1-0 l9dr OR, Salem
Cain, Emma [Skidmore] M04 1-088m 1941-03-22 Stockbridge
Call, Edgar Mrs. (operation) M04 1-11 Sm Munish C Camburn, Anna M. Sweet M041-093dr 1934-01-20
Camburn, Emma Lucille Barnum M04 1 -OO4dr C
Cameron, Anjantee Townsend (Daniel) M04 1-0 14d 1927-03-29 C Cameron, Daniel M041-014d 1935-02-03 Plainfield
Cameron, Elizabeth Wasson M041-lOSdr 1923-04-05 WA, Charleston C
Cameron, Grace [Hoffineyer] M04 1-0 l4dr 1927-03-29 Stockbridge
Cameron, Grace [Hoflineyer] M041-Ol4dr 1935-02-03 Stockbridge
Cameron, Minnie [Longnecker] M04 1-0 14d 1931-12-20 C
Cameron, Sarah Sanford (Daniel) M04 1-0 l4dr 1935-02-03 Plainfield C Carley, Eda Mrs. (Artz Reunion) M04 1-002m 1936 Munith
Carmack, Ray (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-113d 194? C
Carpenter, ???? [Feltonj M04 1-0 l4dr 1934-10-25 White Oak Twp.
Carpenter, ???? [Walker] M041-Ol4dr 1934-10-25 White Oak Twp.
Carpenter, Abby Anna [Gauss] M041-028d 1932-04-22 C
Carpenter, Lettie [Keitchen] M041-028dr 1932-04-22 Lansing
Carpenter, Lettie Naomi [Keitchen] M041-Ol4dr 1934-10-25 Lansing
Carpenter, Mattie [Felton] M04 1 -028dr 1932-04-22 White Oak Twp. C
Carpenter, Olive [Walker] M041-028dr 1932-04-22 White Oak Twp.
Carpenter, Victoria Dutcher (Charles Henry) M04 1-0 14d 1934-10-25 White Oak Twp.
Carr, Agnes [Norton] M04 1-1 lOdr 193 9-02-04 Plainfield C
Carr, Alta [Worden] M04 1-11 Odr 1939-10-21 Gregory
Carr, Arlie Maynard M04 1-1 lOdr 1939-02-04 Gregory
Carter, Ella J. M04 1 -023dr 1939-05-13 Stockbridge C
Caskey, Clara [Pond] M04 1-0 l4dr 1914-12-08 Fowlerville
Caskey, Clara [Pond] M04 1-06 ldr 1936-03-24 Fowlerville
Caskey, Emma L. King (James) M04 1-01 4d 1927-04-21 Unadilla Twp. C
Caskey, Ersyl Jean M04 1-0 14d 1927-09-23 Unadilla
Caskey, Helen [Wilson] M041-Ol4dr 1914-12-08 Manchester
Caskey, Helen [Wilson] M04 1-061 dr 1936-03-24 Jackson Q Caskey, Julia [McGee] M04 1-0 l4dr 1914-12-08 Fowlerville
Caskey, Julia E. [McGee] M04 1-061 d 1936-03-24 Lansing
Caskey, Laura Wainright (William H. S.) M04 1-1 03d 1919-03-06 Stockbridge Q
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Caskey, Luella [Durkee] M04 1-061 dr 1936-03-24 Stockbridge
Caskey, Mabel [Baker] M04 1-06 ldr 1936-03-24 Plainfield
Caskey, Mable [Isham] M04 1-046dr 1934-06-21 Plainfield
Caskey, Nettie Elsie Whitaker M041-lO7dr 1936-05-07
Caskey, Robert W. M04 1-0 14d 1914-12-08 Plainfield
Caskey, Sarah [Secor] M041-Ol4dr 1914-12-08
Caskey, Sarah A. Worthington (Robert W.) M04 1-0 l4dr 1914-12-08 Plainfield
Caskey, Wm. (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-1 14m
Cavanaugh, ???? Brogan (J. B.) M04 I -OO9dr Lansing
Cave, Belle VanAiken M041-095dr 1934-04-12 Gladwin
Cavender, Alice Harris (Harry) M041-OlSdr 1919-12-15 Mason
Cavender, Harry M041-015d 1919-12-15 France
Chanter, Mary Lois Brown M04 1-011 dr 1935 Jackson
Chapman, Fannie Mrs. M04 1-076m 1914-07-24 Gregory
Chappel, Rosa Ann [Judson] M04 1-048dr 1936-07-18
Cheney, Ronald (Liv. Co. WWH) M041-1 13d 194?
Chipman, ???? Grieve (Edwin) M041-035dr 1915-10-30 Plainfield
Chipman, ???? Sommer (C. E.) M041-O9Odr 1931-04-07 Jackson
Chipman, ???? Watson (Ralph G.) M041-lO5dr 1907-01-13 Plainfield
Clampett, Kitsey Baker M041-OO4dr 1922-04-04
Clark, ???? Green (0. M.) M041-033dr CA, Hollywood
Clark, Emaline [Fox] M041-027dr 1937-02-24 Bunker Hill
Clark, Emeline Genette [Fox] M04 1-01 5d 1935-05-13 Stockbridge
Clark, F. D. M041-015d 1938-11-11 Stockbridge
Clark, Fannie [Hill] M04 1-038th 1922-04-06
Clark, Rozella M04 1-077dr 1929-01-05 CA
Clawson, Margaret [Wasson] M04 1-1 O4dr 1905-03-24
Clements, ???? Thompson (Thad) M04 1-094th Stockbridge
Clements, Sarah Lantis M04 1 -052dr White Oak Twp.
Coates, Belle [Roepckej M041-083dr Unadilla Twp.
Cobb, Eunice Singleton (Shepard L.) M04 1-01 6dr Stockbridge
Cobb, Mary [Asquith] M04 1-0 l6dr
Cobb, Shepard L. M041-016d Stockbridge
Cochrane, Pearl Rowe M041-084dr 1933-12-06 Mayfield
Cole, Margaret Saigeon M04 1-085th Detroit
Cole, Sarah Elizabeth [Wilson] M041-lO9d 1935-08-18 Munith
Collacott, E. Allen (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Collar, Irena E. [Boylan] M041-OO6dr 1921-05-19
Collier, Glenn M04 1-01 6dr IL, Chicago
Collier, R. C. M041-016d OH
Collins, Margaret (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Colston, Lottie Mrs. M041-075dr 1922-06-20 Mason
Corn stock, Carlie Mrs. (pie) M04 1-01 6m
Corn stock, Vara [Holt] M04 1-039dr Stockbridge
Congdon, ???? Townsend (Glenn) M04 1-lOOm 1935-11-17
Conk, Beatrice Brotherton M04 1-020th 1932-10-02 Gregory
Conklin, Bridget Ledwidge M041-045dr 1929-01-02 White Oak Twp.
Cook, ???? [Votes] M04 1-01 7dr
Cook, ???? Farrington (Claude) M041-ll5m Stockbridge
Cook, ???? Green (C. H.) M041-064dr 1914-11-07 IL, Chicago
Cook, ???? Jackson M041-lO7dr 1914-06-11
Cook, ????? Sellers (James) M041-086dr 1932-12-2 1 Lansing
Cook, Been M04 1-01 7d Stockbridge
Cook, Caroline M. Westfall (Leonard S.) M041-017d 1926-06-20
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Cook, Caroline M. Westfall (Leonard S.) M04 1-01 7dr 1923-09-07
Cook, Ilah Mrs. M041-O4Odr 1937-04-15
Cook, Leonard S. M04 1-01 7d 1923 -09-07
Cook, Ruth Brotherton M04 I-O2Odr 1932-10-02 Ann Arbor C
Cook, Susie A. M04 1-01 7d
Cool, ???? [Mapes] M04 1 -048dr Detroit
Cool, Emeline <John> M04 1-01 7d 1907-01-15 Plainfield C
Cool, Etta [Mapes] M041-048dr Detroit
Cool, Harriet [Gaylord] M04 1-OO3dr
Cool, Harriet [Gaylord] M04 1-01 7dr 1907-01-15 Plainfield C Cool, Harriet [Gaylord] M04 1 -029dr 1906-10-30 Stockbridge
Cool, Jane [Jacobs] M04 l-047dr Unadilla Twp.
Cool, Margaret [Langfitt] M04 1 -048dr Stockbridge C Cool, Margaret E. [Langfitt] M041-052dr 1919-01-31 Stockbridge
Cool, Margaret Sutton (John) M041-Ol7dr 1907-01-15
Cool, Mary Jane [Jacobs] M04 I -048d Plainfield C Cool, Mary Jane [Jacobs] M04 1 -048dr Plainfield
Cool, Mary VanSyckle (Charles) M04 1-048d Plainfield
Cool, Mary Vansyckle (Charles) M04 l-048dr (3 Cool, Sarah [Taft] M041-048dr Detroit
Cooper, Daisy [Reams] M04 1-01 8dr 1925-06-19 Jackson C
Cooper, Flora Townsend (E.) M04 1-031 dr 1902-07-27 Mayville C Cooper, Grace Louisa (commencement) M04 1-1 13m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Cooper, Ida Gillam (John A.) M04l-Ol8dr 1925-06-19 Millville C
Cooper, J. J. Rev. M041-018m Stockbridge C Cooper, J. J. Rev. (commencement) M041-1 13m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Cooper, John A. M041-018d 1925-06-19 Miliville C
Cooper, Lyda Edwards (John A.) M041-Ol8dr 1925-06-19 Millville a Copeland, Nellie Applegate M04 1-OO2dr AZ, White River
Corey, Omer M04 1 -045dr C
Corwin, Laura & Dora M04 1-029dr
Corwin, Mrs. M041-016m 1934-08 Dansville
Cosgray, Bessie Miss M04 1-01 6m C
Cottington, Eliza [Patrick] M04 1-071 dr 1932-02-02 Stockbridge
Coulson, ???? [Boylan] M04 I -038dr 1925-02-18 Stockbridge
Coulson, ???? [Malcho] M04 1-038dr 1925-02-18 Stockbridge C
Coulson, Cora Bell Holmes (A. L.) M04 1 -038d 1925-02-18 Stockbridge
Coulson, Ida Standish M041-O9ldr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Coulston, S. Mrs. M041-OOldr 1919-01-04 Mason C Coulston, Sidney M04 1 -049dr 1931-04-29 Mason
Cowan, Betty (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Cramer, ??7? [Brooks] M04 1-01 9dr Lansing 0 Cramer, ???? [Byrd] M04 1-01 9dr OR, Salem
Cramer, ???? [Stiff] M041-Ol9dr Owosso
Cramer, 7??? [Wilbur] M04 1-01 9dr Lansing 0 Cramer, Bessie Wilson M041-l09dr 1935-08-18 Ypsilanti
Cramer, Eugenia [Snyder] M04 1-01 9dr Ovid
Cramer, Nellie Marie [Smith] M04 1-01 9d Stockbridge C Cramma, Marion (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Cranna, Eilene Bull M04 1-0 l2dr 1941-05-27 Gregory
Cranna, Eleien M04 I -085dr 1941-02-02 Gregory (J Cranston, Agnes L. Sayles (D. 0.) M041-Ol8dr 1918-10-19 Stockbridge
Cranston, D. 0. Dr. M041-Ol8d 1918-10-19 Stockbridge
Crawford, Anna Jane [Burgess] M04 1-01 3dr (J
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Creery, Sadie K. King M04 1 -049dr IN, Logansport
Cretcher, Mary Wooton M04 1-11 Odr Oliver
Crippen, ???? Walz (Phil) M041-lO3dr 1926-06-08 Jackson
Crofoot, ???? Grieve (H. W.) M041-035dr 1915-10-30 Pinckney
Crofoot, John A. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Cronkhite, Bertha R. Applegate M04 I -OO2dr 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Culver, Mary [Hammond] M04 1 -036d 1933-12-31 Stockbridge
Curtis, Joyce (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Dadow, ???? Hopkins (Fred) M04 I -039dr 1927-07-22 Marshall
Dailey, Cecil Elwood <Philip> M041-020d Stockbridge
Dailey, Phillip M041-045dr
Dakin, ???? [Asquith] M04 1 -O2Odr 1932-10-02 Stockbridge
Dakin, Myrtie Ida [Brotherton] M04 1 -020d 1932-10-02 Gregory
Dancer, Daisy Howlett (Robert) M04 1 -O4Odr 1934-12-11 Stockbridge
Dancer, Dora [Hall] M04 1-021 dr 1929-02-07
Dancer, Frances M. Farmer (H.) M041-lO7dr 1933-01-18
Dancer, Helen Kinsey (Jenness John) M04 1-021 dr 1929-02-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, Jenness John M04 1-021 d 1929-02-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, Jennie Hoag (W. J.) M04 1 -020d Stockbridge
Dancer, Monabelle Proctor (funeral sermon) M041-022d 1935-12-16 Stockbridge
Dancer, Monabelle Proctor (Paul C.) M04 1-021 d 1935-12-16 Stockbridge
Dancer, William J. (pic) M041-021m
Daniels, Chloe (M.P. class organized) M041-1 14m 1852-04-16 Plainfleld
Daniels, Cora Boylan M04 1-OO6dr 1921-05-19 Fowlerville
Daniels, Dorothy [Smith] (Mapes reunion) M041-059w
Daniels, Ella Wood M041-lO9dr 1937-01-08
Daniels, Gilbert(M.P. class organized) M041-114m 1852-04-16 Plainfield
Daniels, Mae Jeffley M041-048dr 1941-04-03
Daniels, Margaret (M.P. class organized) M041-114m 1852-04-16 Plamfield
Daniels, Mary [Antcliffj M04 1 -002d Brooklyn
Daniels, Mary [Antclitl] (Mapes reunion) M04 1-059w
Daniels, Mary Ella [Montague] M04l-023d Plainfield
Daschner, ???? Hopkins (C. D.) M041-039dr 1927-07-22 Lansing
Davenport, Belmont (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-I 13d 194?
Day, Jennia Pineo M04l-072dr 1933-05-03
Dayton, T. E. Mrs. M041-028dr Mason
Dean, ???? [Dietz] M04 1 -028dr Lansing
Dean, ???? [Hague] M04 1 -028dr Pontiac
Dean, ???? [Joslin] M04l-028dr Williamston
Dean, ???? [Mierndorf] M041-028dr White Oak Twp.
Dean, ???? [Patrick] M041-028dr White Oak Twp.
Dean, ???? [Thomson] M041-028dr Albion
Dean, Blanche [Kruse] M04 1 -023dr 1930-09-20 Mason
Dean, Celia Beeman (L. D.) M041-023d 1930-09-20 Stockbridge
Dean, Charles 0. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Dean, Lola [May] M04 1 -023dr 1930-09-20 Concord
Dean, Margaret [Gauss] M04 1 -028d White Oak Twp.
Deboo, Gertrude Wilson M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 iN, Royal Center
DeCamp, ???? Harkness (Vern) M041-037dr 1934-10-23 Bunker Hill
Decker, Lucy Wood M04l-lO9dr 1937-01-08
Delamarter, Eugenia VanSyckel (Charles) M04l-lOldr 1930-10-01 Unadilla Twp.
Deloy, ma Welton M041-l06dr 1935-01-01 Cheboygan
Denton, Christine [Howlett] M04 1 -O4Odr 1934-12-11 Gregory
Denton, Christine [Howlett] M04 1-114w 1904-04-27 Gregory
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DePuy, ???? McIntyre (C. E.) M04 1 -083dr Pontiac
Dewey, Beulah Hazelton (Solomon T.) M04 1 -023dr 1939-05-13 Stockbridge
Dewey, Mary Miller (Segar) M041-023d 1940-12-30 Rochester
Dewey, Matilda Frinkel (Solomon T.) M041-023dr 1939-05-13 Stockbridge
Dewey, Matilda Frinkle (Solomon) M041-023d 1938-04-07 Stockbridge
Dewey, Solomon T. M04 1 -023d 1939-05-13 Stockbridge
DeWitt, ???? [Robeson] M041-l l2dr Stockbridge
DeWitt, Jennie [Yettaw] M04 1-11 2dr Stockbridge
Dickerson, Permelia Adeline Hedglen (Thomas) M04 I -024d 1917-09-21 White Oak Twp.
Dickson, Gerald Mrs. M041-1 l5m
Dietz, ???? Dean (Leroy) M041-028dr Lansing
Dietz, Leroy M04 1-024m
Dill, Goldie King (Richard) M04 1 -049dr Jackson
Dillingham, Roy (25th anniversary) M041-024m 1934-06-27 Putnam Twp.
Dillngham, Frederick (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Dillon, John R. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 l3d 194?
Disbrow, Charles (Kunath) (Liv. Co. WWII) M04 1-11 3d 194?
Disbrow, Harriet [Isham] M04l-O4ódr 1925-01-28 Plainfield
Disbrow, Harriet [Isham] M04 l-046dr 1934-06-21
Dixon, Laceme (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Doheer, Robert C. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Dorman, Esther Wooton M04 1-11 Odr WI, Milwaukee
Douglas, Marian May M041-O6Odr 1934-10-25 Cass City
Doyle, Grace I. Ingels M04 I -046dr 1927-03-12 Lansing
Draper, ???? McCleer (Jack) M04 1 -O6Odr 1941-02-23 IL, Decatur
Drown, ???? Nichols (Glen) M04 1 -067dr
Druck, Minerva Jane [Jones] M041-025d 1937-11-21 Webberville
DuBois, Mary Ett [McKenzie] M041-O6ldr 1923-03-04 Stockbridge
DuBois, Mary EU [McKenzie] M04l-062d 1928-05-03 White Oak Twp.
Dunn, Mary [Jacobs] M04 1 -047dr 1939-03-28 Plainfield
Dupre, ???? Hall (John) M041-036dr 1933-12-29 Birmingham
Durkee, Luella Caskey M04 1-06 ldr 1936-03-24 Stockbridge
Dutcher, Benj. (M.P. class organized) M041-1 14m 1852-04-16 Plainfield
Dutcher, Grace Hayner M04 I -025dr 1940-10-15 White Oak Twp.
Dutcher, Graice Lillian Fernald (John) M04 I -027d 1929-01-15 Ann Arbor
Dutcher, Ina E. Soules (John D.) M041-025dr 1940-10-15 Millville
Dutcher, ma Soules M041-O9Odr 1934-10-01
Dutcher, John Dunning M04 1 -025d 1940-10-15 Miliville
Dutcher, Lida H. [Green] M041-033d Stockbridge
Dutcher, Louise (M.P. class organized) M04 1-1 l4m 1852-04-16 Plainfield
Dutcher, Maria Bullock (Daniel) M04 1-0 l4dr 1934-10-25
Dutcher, Myra [Herrick] M04 1 -025dr 1940-10-15 Millville
Dutcher, Victoria [Carpenter] M04 1-0 14d 1934-10-25 White Oak Twp.
Dutton, ???? Glenn (Ashall) M041-032dr 1914-06-04 Plainfield
Dutton, A. L. (M.P. church dedicated) M041-1 14m 1907-01-27 Plainfield
Dutton, Asahell Lewis M04 1 -025d 1938-03-22 Plain field
Dutton, Florence Roberts (Asahel Lewis) M041-025dr 1938-03-22 Plainfield
Dutton, Jane Langnecker (Charles 0.) M041-025d 1933-01-25 Plainfield
Dutton, Mary Jane [Jackson] M04 1-047dr 1929-12-24 Stockbridge
Dutton, Minnie Glenn M04 l-032dr 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Dutton, Minnie Glenn M04 1- lO6dr 1921-12-10 Stockbridge
Dye, Lou Mrs. M04 1 -027dr Fenton
Dye, Luella Norton M04 1 -068dr Fenton
Dyer, ???? Wasson (Harvey) M041-l04dr 1941-01-07 Plainfield
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Dyer, Jessie J. Jones M041-025dr 1937-1 1-21 Long Lake
Dyer, Mary [Garrison] M041-025dr 1936-06-26
Dyer, Minnie M. Pulling (Bert) M041-025d 1926-04-06 White Oak Twp.
Dyer, Minnie Pulling (Bert J.) M041-025dr 1936-06-26 White Oak Twp.
Easley, Anna M04 1 -085dr 1941-02-02 Detroit
Eckles, ???? Norton M04 1 -068dr Northville
Eddy, Lawrence (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Edwards, Lyda [Cooper] M041-Ol8dr 1925-06-19 MilIville
Eggleston, James M04 1-01 6dr
Eggleston, Waity Ellen Phelps (James Wesley) M04 1-071 d 1933-12-24 Lansing
Elco, ???? Fox (C. G.) M041-Ol5dr 1935-05-13 Stockbridge
Elco, lalene Fox M04 1-027dr 1937-02-24 Stockbridge
Elliot, Orpha M041-085dr 1941-02-02 Flint
Elliott, Frank E. (pie) M04l-026m
Elliott, Frank Jr. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Ellsworth, Beverly Lee <Paul> M041-l 15b
Ellsworth, Mina Sharp M04 1 -094dr 1940-06-10 Stockbridge
Ellsworth, Minnie Beeman M041-023dr 1930-09-20 CA
Embury,Ethel M04 1-085th 1941-02-02 Gregory
Etzel, Kate Neithammer M041-067dr 1927-04-26
Evans, ???? Mitteer (D. J.) M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 OH, Van Wert
Fall, Earl (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-11 4m
Farmer, Edwin M041-l 14m 1909-10 Stockbridge
Farmer, Frances M. [Dancer] M04l-lO7dr 1933-01-18
Farmer, Minnie L. Westfall (Edwin) M041-107d 1933-01-18 Unadilla Twp.
Farrell, Wayne (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Farrington, ???? [Cook] M04 1-il 5m Stockbridge
Farrington, ???? Ramsdell (Frank A.) M041-076dr 1917-03-11 losco Twp.
Farrington, Helen (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Farrington, Lessie Mrs. M041-115m Stockbridge
Farrington, Lyle M041-1 15m
Farrington, Lyle (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Farrington, Tessie Ramsdell M041-O4Odr 1937-04-15
Feldpausch, Victor (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-1 14m
Felton, ???? Carpenter (Guy) M041-Ol4dr 1934-10-25 White Oak Twp.
Felton, Adel Townsend M04l-O3ldr 1902-07-27 White Oak Twp.
Felton, Mattie Carpenter M041-028dr 1932-04-22 White Oak Twp.
Ferguson, Sarah Mrs. M041-048dr 1936-07-18
Fernald, Graice Lillian [Hayner, Dutcher]] M04 1-027d 1929-01-15 Ann Arbor
Ferrington, Frank M041-Ol3dr 1922-05-25
Fewless, Carrie [Baker] M04 1-004th
Fewless, Carrie F. [Baker] M041-004d 1935-02-12
Fewless, Effie [Armstrong] M04l-OO4dr 1935-02-12 losco Twp.
Fewless, Julia [Brown] M041-OO4dr 1935-02-12 Putnam Twp.
Fewless, Laura [Brown] M041-OO4dr 1935-02-12 losco Twp.
Field, Hattie Hall M04 1 -036dr Stockbridge
Field, Margaret (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Field, Margaret (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Finch, Hattie C. [Rowe] M04l-084d 1933-12-06 Stockbridge
Finch, Sarah A. [Sweet] M041-084dr 1933-12-06 WA, Spokane
Fineout, ???? Richison (Bruce) M04 1-081 dr 1922-08-14 losco Twp.
Fineout, Belle Townsend M041-O3ldr 1902-07-27 Barryton
Fink, ???? Neithammer (Will) M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Fisher, Maggie mrs. M041-025dr 1940-10-15 Caro
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Fitch, ???? Wilimore (B. W.) M041-lO8dr Pontiac
Fletcher, A. E. M041-1 14m 1904-04 Stockbridge
Foote, Chloe Miller M041-023dr 1940-12-30
Force, ???? [Gibson] M04 1 -027dr Stockbridge C
Force, ???? [Raymond] M04 1 -027dr Stockbridge
Force, Abbie Wilson (Charles) M04 l-027d 1933-11-22 Blissfield
Force, Charles M04 1 -027d Stockbridge C
Force, Della [Norton] M041-068dr Stockbridge
Force, Edna [Sharp] M041-027dr 1933-11-22 OH, Sylvania
Force, Edna [Sharpe] M04 1 -027dr OH, Sylvania (]
Force, Florence [Raymond] M041-027dr 1933-11-22 Blissfield
Force, Mabel [Haviland] M04 1 -027dr Stockbridge
Force, Mable [Haviland] M04 1-027dr 1933-11-22 Stockbridge C Force, Ruth [Gibson] M04 1 -027dr 1933-11-22 Stockbridge
Foreman, Lucile M04 I -025dr 1940-10-15 Webberville
Foreman, Minnie M04 1-025dr 1940-10-15 Williamston (3
Fortman, ???? Holt (Charles) M04 1-039dr White Oak Twp.
Fortman, Charles M04 I -027d
Fortman, Samantha Holt M04 1 -027dr a Foster, Am Eugene M041-027d 1933-08-23 Lansing
Foster, Carrie [Phillips] M04 1-027dr 193 0-09-26 Stockbridge Q
Foster, Carrie [Phillips] M041-027dr 1933-08-23 Stockbridge C Foster, Carrie [Phillips] M04 1 -072dr 1931-03-06 Stockbridge
Foster, James Monroe M041-027d 1930-09-26 Gregory C
Foster, Louise [Bott] M041-OO6dr 1937-11-09 C Fox, ???? IElco] M041-Ol5dr 1935-05-13 Stockbridge
Fox, ???? [West] M041-Ol5dr 1935-05-13 White Oak Twp. C
Fox, Emaline Clark (George W.) M041-027dr 1937-02-24 Bunker Hill C Fox, Emeline Genette Clark (George W.) M04 1-01 Sd 1935-05-13 Stockbridge
Fox, George W. M041-027d 1937-02-24 Bunker Hill C
Fox, Hattie [West] M04 1 -027dr 1937-02-24 Dansville
Fox, lalene [Elco] M04 l-027dr 193 7-02-24 Stockbridge
Franklin, Billie M041-025dr 1940-10-15 C
Frederick, Donald M04 1 -025dr 1940-10-15
Frederikson, ???? Richison (F. S.) M041-O8ldr 1922-08-14 Pontiac
Frell, Aleatha (ideal sophomore girl) M041-1 l4m C
Frinkel, Matilda [Dewey] M04 1 -023dr 1939-05-13 Stockbridge
Frinkle, ???? [Hazelton] M04 1 -023dr 1938-04-07 Lincoln Park
Frinkle, ???? [Lewis] M041-023dr 1938-04-07 Stockbridge C
Frinkle, Matilda [Dewey] M041-023d 1938-04-07 Stockbridge
Frush, Charles E. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Furguson, Jessie Mrs. M04 1 -077dr 1929-01-05 Detroit C Gaffney, Francis (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Gallup, Junia Rae Brotherton M04 1-O2Odr 1932-10-02 Coldwater
Galpin, Gladys Patrick (Philo Ivan) M04 1-028w 1926-10-30 Dansville C Galpin, Philo Ivan M041-028w 1926-10-30 Ann Arbor
Gardner, Bernice Jackson (V. R) M04 1 -047dr 1929-12-24
Garrison, Mary Dyer M041-025dr 1936-06-26 C Gauss, ???? [Hair] M041-028dr 1932-04-22 Bunker Hill
Gauss, Abby Anna Carpenter (Wm J.) M04 1 -028d 1932-04-22
Gauss, Ada N. [VanSyckel] M04 1-101 dr 1930-10-01 Plainfield C Gauss, Anna Grosshans M04 1 -035dr 1948-10-13 Jackson
Gauss, Margaret Dean (Frederick) M04 1 -028d White Oak Twp. C
Gaylord, ???? [Hall] M04 1-OO3dr Stockbridge CC
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Gaylord, ???? [Reeves] M04 1 -OO3dr Stockbridge
Gaylord, Charles M041-029d 1934-11-12 Stockbridge
Gaylord, Elva [Asquithi M04 I -079m 1927-10-31 Memphis
Gaylord, Elva R. [Asquith] M04 l-003d Memphis
Gaylord, Harriet Cool M041-Ol7dr 1907-01-15 Plainfield
Gaylord, Harriet Cool (Wheeler) M04 1-OO3dr
Gaylord, Harriet Cool (Wheeler) M04 1 -029dr 1906-10-30 Stockbridge
Gaylord, Helen B. [Reeves] M04 1 -077d Stockbridge
Gaylord, Helen B. [Reeves] M04 1-077dr 1929- 12-08 Stockbridge
Gaylord, Lena Ackley (Charles) M04 I -029dr 1934-11-12 Stockbridge
Gaylord, Lena Mrs. M04 I -029dr
Gaylord, May [Hall] M04 1-079m 1927-10-31 Stockbridge
Gaylord, May M. [Hall] M04 I -036dr Stockbridge
Gaylord, Wheeler M04 I -029d 1906-10-30 Stockbridge
Gaylord, Wheeler (50th anniversary) M041-030m 1902-10-13 Stockbridge
Gaylord, Wheeler (fire) M041-115m 1903-12-14 Stockbridge
Geer, Alta Maynard M04 1-11 Odr 193 9-02-04 Fowlerville
Gepart, Daniel Nicholas M041-031d 1934-05-13 Stockbridge
Gibney, Nellie Frances [McCleer] M04 I -O6Odr 1941-02-23 Gregory
Gibson, ???? Force (Floyd) M04 1-027th Stockbridge
Gibson, Ruth Force M04 l-027dr 1933-11-22 Stockbridge
Gildart, Clyde (cadet at West Point) M041-1 14m 1909-10 NY, West Point
Gillam, Ida [Cooper] M041-Ol8dr 1925-06-19 Miliville
Gillette, Emma B. Reeves M04 1 -077dr CA, Paso Robles
Gillette, Erma B. Reeves (Thurlow) M04 I -077dr 1929-12-08 CA, Paso Robles
Gillette, Erma B. Reeves (Thurlow) M04 I -079m 1927-10-31 CA, Paso Robles
Gilliver, Lenora Ellen Hicks (Harry T.) M041-031d 1917-02-10 Plainfield
Gilliver, Leonroa Ellen Hicks (Harry) M041-038dr 193 1-04-21
Gillmore, Clare (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-113d 194?
Glaspie, Mrs. M041-077dr 1929-01-05 Jackson
Glattley, Emma A. Robison (William) M041-082d 1929-08-20 losco Twp.
Glattley, Grace M. [Schwantz] M04 I -082dr 1929-08-20 IA, Afton
Glattly, Emma A. Robison (William) M04 I -032dr losco Twp.
Glattly, William M041-032d losco Twp.
Glazier, Ellen [Welton] M041-IO6dr 1935-01-01 Stockbridge
Glenn, ???? [Dutton] M041-032dr 19 14-06-04 Plainfleld
Glenn, ???? [Griffith] M04 I -032dr 1914-06-04 CA
Glenn, ???? [Griffith] M041-lO6dr 192 1-12-10 CA, San Francisco
Glenn, ???? [Lantis] M041-032dr 1918-08-03
Glenn, ???? [Webb] M041-032dr 1914-06-04 Dakota
Glenn, ???? [Webb] M041-lO6dr 1921-12-10 CA, Lindsay
Glenn, Blanche [Lantis] M04 1 -032dr 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Glenn, Emory M04l-032d 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Glenn, Jay Taylor Sgt. M041-032d 1918-08-03 France
Glenn, Mary [Griffith] M041-032dr 1934-01-09 CA, San Francisco
Glenn, Matilda A. J. Watts (William H.) M041-106d 1921-12-10 CA, San Francisco
Glenn, Matilda J. Watts (William Henry) M041-032dr 1914-06-04 North Lake
Glenn, Matilda Watts (William) M041-032dr 1934-01-09
Glenn, Minnie [Dutton] M041-032dr 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Glenn, Minnie [Hutton] M041-lO6dr 1921-12-10 Stockbridge
Glenn, Nellie Taylor (Emory) M041-032dr 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Glenn, William Henry M041-032d 19 14-06-04 North Lake
Glover, Marietta [Waters] M041-lO6dr 1934-08-19
Glover,???? Sharp (Charles) M041-087dr 1936-08-09 Wolverine
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Godley, Asenath 0. Townsend M04 1-031 d 1902-07-27 Stockbridge
Goeffrey, Lillie [Burden] M041-Ol2dr Gregory
Goodwin, ???? Sommer (L. F.) M04 1-O9Odr 1931-04-07 TN, Cleveland
Goodwine, John W. (hotel fire) M041-043d 1934-12-11 Lansing (J
Gorslin, W. Ray M041-03 im
Gorsline, Helen J. [Hoffmeyer] M04 1-031w Lansing
Gorton, ???? Green (George) M041-033dr Jackson C
Gorton, Roland (Class Night) M041-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Gowing, Margaret Stevens M041-092dr 1937-06-03
Graf, Elizabeth (Eighth Grade) M041-1 13m 1928 Stockbridge
Grah, Evelyn (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-11 4m
Green, ???? [Blood] M041-064dr 19 14-1 1-07 Leslie
Green, ???? [Clark] M041-033dr CA, Hollywood C
Green, ???? [Cook] M041-064dr 1914-11-07 IL, Chicago
Green, ???? [Gorton] M04 1-033dr Jackson
Green, ???? [Howard] M04 1 -033dr Stockbridge
Green, ???? [Jennings] M041-033dr 1918-12-04 Clio
Green, ???? [Jennings] M041-033dr Ann Arbor
Green, ???? [Ramsdill] M041-033dr 1905-01-22 C Green, ???? [Ramsdill] M041-033dr 1925-05-24
Green, ???? [Springman] M041-033dr 1918-12-04 Stockbridge
Green, ???? Wilhxiore (A. B.) M041-lO8dr Jackson C Green, Bennett M041-033d 1905-01-22 Stockbridge
Green, Eleanor Mimer (James) M04 I -064d 1914-11-07 Stockbridge C
Green, Howard H. M04 1 -033d 1918-12-04 Stockbridge a Green, Lida H. Dutcher (Henry James) M04 1-03 3d Stockbridge
Green, Louvina [Green] M041-033dr 1925-05-24 Mason C
Green, Louvina Green (Bennett) M041-033dr 1925-05-24 Mason (I Green, Lovina [Green] M041-033dr 1905-01-22 Stockbridge
Green, Lovina Green (Bennett) M041-033dr 1905-01-22 Stockbridge 0
Green, Rosa [Ramsdell] M04 1 -076dr 1907-07-29 Stockbridge C Greening, Laura E. Haviland (William C.) M041-035dr 1936-07-23 Gregory
Greening, Laura Edna Haviland (William C.) M04 1-037d 1934-01-12 losco Twp. C
Greening, Laura Haviland M04 I -037dr 1904-04-04
Greening, William M041-034d 1936-07-30 Howell
Greening, William C. M041-035d 1936-07-23 Howell Q
Gregg, Edith Hoard M04 1-038dr 1934-01-10 Ypsilanti
Gregory, ???? Koons (Marcus) M04 1-051 dr 1904-12-27
Gregory, Mary Koons M04 1-OSOdr Albion 0
Grieve, ???? [Chipman] M04 1 -035dr 1915-10-30 Plainfleld
Grieve, ???? [Crofoot] M04 1 -035dr 1915-10-30 Pinckney
Grieve, ???? [Placeway] M04 1-035dr 1915-10-30 Pinckney C
Grieve, ???? [Topping] M04 1 -035dr 1915-10-30 Plainfield
Grieve, Harriet [Topping] M04 1 -035d Plainfleld
Grieve, Harriet [Topping] M04 1 -098dr 1932-01-30 Plainfield Q Grieve, Harriet McPherson (James) M041-035dr
Grieve, Henry Dudley M04l-035d 1915-10-30 Unadilla Twp.
Grieve, Phebe A. Hemingway (Henry Dudley) M04 1 -035dr 1915-10-30 Unadilla Twp. C Griffith, ???? Glenn (M.) M04 1-032dr 1914-06-04 CA
Griffith, ???? Glenn (Mahlon) M04 1- lO6dr 1921-12-10 CA, San Francisco
Griffith, Mary Glenn M04 I -032dr 1934-01-09 CA, San Francisco Q Grimes, ???? [Rockwell] M04 1 -O6Odr 1934-10-25 Stockbridge
Grimes, Blanche [May] M04l-060d 1934-10-25 Cass City
Groh, Virginia (Boyce Reunion) M04l-007m 1936-08-13 00
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Grosshans, Anna [Gauss] M041-035dr 1948-10-13 Jackson
Grosshans, Maybelle Swanson M04 I -035d 1948-10-13 Grass Lake
Grosshans, Thelma Bullis (John) M04 1-0 l2dr 1934-01-08 Gregory
Grubbs, Alice [Pineo] M04 I -072d 1933-05-03 Stockbridge
Gunmore, Eugenie Mrs. M041-O7ldr 1912-02-21 IA, Fort Madison
Hackenberg, Theodore (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Hadley, ???? [Petersoni M04 I -036dr 1935-07-27 Ann Arbor
Hadley, Angeline [Backus] M04 1 -OO7dr Dexter
Hadley, Anna [Boyce] M04 I -OO7dr Lyndon
Hadley, Emma [Kenney] M04 1 -OO7dr Hamburg
Hadley, lnez J. Marshall M041-059dr 1935-03-30
Hadley, Laura [Blakely] M04 1 -OO7dr Stockbridge
Hadley, Pearl flartsuff M04 1-037dr Gregory
Hadley, Pearl Mrs. (Palmer Reunion) M041-071m 1936 Gregory
Hadley, Sarah J. Buhi (Lyman K.) M041-Ol2d 1930-09-09 Unadilla Twp.
Hadley, Sylvia [Boyce] M04 1 -007d Stockbridge
Hadley, Wesley M04 1 -036d 1935-07-27 Stockbridge
Hague, ???? Dean (H. E.) M041-028dr Pontiac
Hague, Rebecca Mimer M041-064dr 1914-11-07 Stockbridge
Hair, ???? Gauss (Charles) M04 1-028th 1932-04-22 Bunker Hill
Hale, ???? Sharp (Charles) M04 1 -087dr 1936-08-09 Williamston
Hall, ???? [Dupre] M041-036dr 1933-12-29 Birmingham
Hall, ???? [Hardt] M04 1 -036dr 1933-12-29 Stockbridge
Hall, ???? [Leutzinger] M04 I -036dr Cadillac
Hall, ???? Gaylord (A. A.) M04 1 -OO3dr Stockbridge
Hall, A. A. (commencement) M041-1 13m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Hall, Adney Adelbert M04 l-036d Stockbridge
Hall, Dora Dancer M041-O2ldr 1929-02-07
Hall, Glenadine [Baker] M041-036dr Plymouth
Hall, Grace [Hubert] M04 1-036th Plymouth
Hall, Hattie [Field] M041-036dr Stockbridge
Hall, Hazel [Ostrander] M041-036dr Stockbridge
Hall, Jennie White (Emerson) M041-036d 1933-12-29 Birmingham
Hall, May Gaylord M041-079m 1927-10-31 Stockbridge
Hall, May M. Gaylord (Adney) M04 1 -036dr Stockbridge
Hall, Runa Grace (commencement) M04l-1 13m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Hammond, Mary Culver M04l-036d 1933-12-31 Stockbridge
Hannewald, Harold (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-11 4m
Hardt, ????? Hall (Ray) M04 I -036dr 1933-12-29 Stockbridge
Hardt, Katy Wasson M04 I -049dr 1926-08-03
Hardt, Katy Wasson M041-lOSdr 1923-04-05 WA, Newport
Harkness, ???? [DeCamp] M04l-037dr 1934-10-23 Bunker Hill
Harkness, ???? [Wilbur] M04l-037dr 1934-10-23 Leslie
Harkness, Ada Vicary (Rupert) M04 I -037dr 1934-10-23
Harkness, Rupert M04l-037d 1934-10-23
Harmon, ???? Barscer (Henry) M04l-lO8dr Lansing
Harr, John Mrs. (Artz Reunion) M041-002m 1936
Harrington, Homer (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Harris, Alice [Cavender] M041-Ol5dr 1919-12-15 Mason
Hartford, Clara A. [Ingels] M041-046dr 1927-03-12 Dansville
Hartranft, Nell VanAiken M041-095dr 1934-04-12 IN, South Bend
Hartsuff, Elnora C. Smith (Sydney Herbert) M04 I -089d 1929-01-15
Hartsuff, Erla [Munsell] M041-089dr 1929-01-15 Gregory
Hartsuff, Eula [Munsell] M04 1-037dr Gregory
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Hartsuff, Fay (Palmer Reunion) M04 1-07 lm 1936 East Lansing
Hartsuff, Fay [Herbert] M04 1-089dr 1929-01-15 Stockbridge a Hartsufl Gula Elma Palmer (Zena A.) M04 1-071 d 1912-02-21 IA, Fort Madison
Hartsuff, Herbert M04 I -037d Stockbridge C
Hartsuff, Kenneth (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Hartsuff, Pearl [Hadley] M041-037dr Gregory
Harvey, Effie M041-025dr 1926-04-06 Dexter C
Haskins, Glen (Liv. Co. WWII) M04l-1 13d 194?
Hastings, ???? [Richmond] M041-054dr 1926-03-09 Stockbridge
Hastings, Clara Standish M041-O9ldr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge (J
Hastings, Jessie [Lowe] M04 1 -054d 1926-03-09 Lansing
Haviland, ???? [Thompson] M04l-037dr 1940 Flint
Haviland, Florence Lavina Phillips (William) M04 1 -072d 1917-09-11 Stockbridge C Haviland, Florence Lavina Phillips (Wm. W.) M04 1 -037dr 1934-01-24 Stockbridge
Haviland, Herman M041-037d 1940 Stockbridge
Haviland, Iva [Thompson] M04l-037dr 1934-01-24 Stockbridge C Haviland, Iva [Thompson] M04 1 -072dr 1917-09-11 Stockbridge
Haviland, Laura [Greening] M041-037dr 1904-04-04
Haviland, Laura E. [Greening] M041-035dr 1936-07-23 Gregory C Haviland, Laura Edna [Greening] M041-037d 1934-01-12 losco Twp.
Haviland, Mabel Force M04 I -027dr Stockbridge
Haviland, Mable Force M041-027dr 1933-11-22 C Haviland, Martha Sackett Brownell (Wolcott S.) M041-037dr 1904-04-04
Haviland, William Warren M04 1 -037d 1934-01-24 Stockbridge
Haviland, Wolcott Stuart M04 1 -037d 1904-04-04 C Hayes, Jessie R [Poxson] M04 I -072dr 1927-04-29 Millville
Hayner, ???? Lowe (J. Harvey) M041-054dr 1933-07-27 Stockbridge C
Hayner, Bessie Pickett M04 1 -OO3dr 1924-02-21 Leslie ci Hayner, Carrie Lavina Morgan (Walter) M04 1 -066d 1933-08-24 Mason
Hayner, Eliza Ackerson [Proestelj M041-073dr 1941-02-05 Midland C
Hayner, Grace [Dutcher] M04 1 -025dr 1940-10-15 White Oak Twp. C Hayner, Graice Lillian Fernald (Charles A.) M04 1 -027d 1929-01-15 Ann Arbor
Hayner, Harvey M04 1 -055m 193? Stockbridge C
Hayner, Metta M. [Bravender] M04 1 -027dr 1929-01-15 Holly
Hayner, Netta [Bravender] M04 1-025dr 1940-10-15 Holly
Hayner, Zelley [Oakley] M041-069dr 1926-03-03 0
Hazelton, ???? Frinkle (George) M04 1 -023dr 1938-04-07 Lincoln Park
Hazelton, Beulah [Dewey] M04 1 -023dr 1939-05-13 Stockbridge
Headley, Mary D. [Rockwell] M041-082dr 0 Hedglen, Isabelle Jeffrey M04 1 -048dr 1941-04-03
Hedglen, Permelia A. [Hoyt,Showers,Dickersonj M04 1 -024d 1917-09-21 White Oak Twp.
Hedglin, Charles Mrs. M041-l 15m Lansing 0 Helmer, Max M04 I -009m Jackson
Heminger, Edith Hill M04 1 -038dr 1922-04-06
Hemingway, Phebe A. [Grieve] M041-035dr 19 15-10-30 Unadilla Twp. 0 Herbert, Fay Hartsuff M04 I -089dr 1929-01-15 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard Mrs. M04 1-O9Odr 1934-10-01 Mason
Herrick, Myra Dutcher (Howard) M04 1-025dr 1940-10-15 Millville 0 Flerter, Elizabeth [Neithammer] M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Herzer, ???? Koons M04 1 -O5Odr Albion
Hess, Mary Ann Laubach (John) M04 1-05 Id Albion Q Heusel, ???? Neithammer (Fred) M041-067dr 1927-04-26
Hibner, Effie Howell (Henry) M04 1 -040m 1934-03-20 Oceola Twp.
Hicks, Alma [Simonds] M04 1-03 8dr 1931-04-21 Q0
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Hicks, Clara A. Jackson (William Jefferson) M041-038dr 1931-04-21 Stockbridge
1-licks, Emma Mrs. M041-025dr 1940-10-15 MilIville
Hicks, Kettle Reeves M041-079m 1927-10-31 St. Johns
Hicks, 1-lettie Reeves M041-O8Odr 1919-01-24 St. Johns
Hicks, Lenora Ellen [Gilliver] M041-031d 19 17-02-10 Plainfield
Hicks, Lenora Ellen [Gilliver] M041-038dr 193 1-04-21
Hicks, William Jefferson M041-038d 193 1-04-2 1 Stockbridge
Hill, Clara [Roepcke] M041-038dr 1922-04-06
Hill, Ebenezer M041-038d 1922-04-06 Jackson
Hill, Edith [Heminger] M041-038dr 1922-04-06
Hill, Fannie Clark (Ebenezer) M041-038dr 1922-04-06
Hill, Inez [Bowdish] M04 1-038th 1922-04-06
Hines, Margaret Standish M04l-O9ldr 1937-1 1-21 Holt
Hines, Minnie B. (James) M041-038d 1941-06 Stockbridge
Hires, W. R M041-088m 194 1-03-22 OH, Lima
Hoag, Charles (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Hoag, Jennie [Dancer] M04 1-020d Stockbridge
Hoard, Alice Mould (Philander G.) M041-038dr 1934-01-10 Gregory
Hoard, Edith [Greggj M041-038dr 1934-01-10 Ypsilanti
Hoard, Philander G. M041-038d 1934-01-10 Gregory
Hodge, ???? Neithammer (Charles) M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 Lansing
Hoffineyer, Dorwin E. M041-03 1w Williamston
Hoffmeyer, Grace Cameron M04 1-0 l4dr 1935-02-03 Stockbridge
Hoffineyer, Grace Cameron (M.) M04l-Ol4dr 1927-03-29 Stockbridge
Hoflhieyer, Helen J. Gorsline (Dorwin E.) M041-031w Lansing
Hoffmeyer, Mannie Mrs. M041-098dr Stockbridge
Holland, Charles Mrs. M04 1 -035dr 1936-07-23 Ann Arbor
Hollis, Louise Moffat M041-065th Stockbridge
Hollis, Louise Moffat M041-065th Stockbridge
Holmes, ???? [Brower] M041-1 14m 1904-04-26
Holmes, ???? [Reason] M041-038th 1925-02-18 East Lansing
Holmes, ???? Milner (M. J.) M041-064dr 19 14-11-07 Stockbridge
Holmes, Cora Bell [Coulson] M04 1-03 8d 1925-02-18 Stockbridge
Holmes, Ralph (Liv. Co. WWU) M041-1 13d 194?
Holmes, Walter M04 1-11 4d 1904-04-26
Holt, ???? [Fortman] M04 1-039th White Oak Twp.
Holt, ???? Brogan (Rex) M04 1 -009dr 1933-02-08 Stockbridge
Holt, Amelia Bachelor (Chester P.) M04 1-039th Stockbridge
Holt, Chester P. Dr. M04 1-039d Stockbridge
Holt, Mina [Pultz] M041-039dr AK, Rison
Holt, Samantha [Fortman] M041-027dr
Holt, Vara Comstock (Chester P.) M04 1 -039dr Stockbridge
Hopkins, ???? [Arnols] M04 1-039th 1927-07-22 Prescott
Hopkins, ???? [Dadow] M04 1-039th 1927-07-22 Marshall
Hopkins, ???? [Daschner] M04 I -039dr 1927-07-22 Lansing
Hopkins, ???? [Keslar] M041-039th 1927-07-22 OH, Youngstown
Hopkins, ???? [Marshall] M041-039dr 1935-04-17 Unadilla Twp.
Hopkins, ???? [Prime] M041-039dr 1927-07-22 Holt
Hopkins, Corn E. Johnson (George W.) M041-039dr 1935-04-17
Hopkins, George W. M041-039d 1935-04-17
Hopkins, Marilda [Titus] M041-095dr 1936-03-11
Hopkins, Sybil Elnora [Woods] M041-039d 1927-07-22 Stockbridge
Horwood, Emma [Rice] M041-O8Odr 1921-05-19 Stockbridge
Howard, ???? Green (T. E.) M04 1-033dr Stockbridge
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Howard, Anna Berry (Thomas) M04 1 -005dr Detroit
Howe, Earlene <Earl A.> M041-039m Perry C Howell, ???? [Marshall] M04 I -O4Odr Gregory
Howell, ?7?? [Reid] M041-O4Odr Stockbridge C
Howell, Alvah A. M04 I -040d 1939-04-11 Jackson
Howell, Duane Parshall (Mapes reunion) M04 1 -059b
Howell, Effie [HibnerJ M041-040m 1934-03-20 Oceola Twp. C
Howell, Floyd (Mapes reunion) M04 1 -059m
Howell, Floyd P. (50th anniversary) M041-040m 1934-03-20 Howell
Howell, Leo (Mapes reunion) M041-059m Howell C
Howell, Lucy A. Mapes (Floyd P.) (50th ann.) M041-040m 1934-03-20 Howell
Howell, Sarah [Kitchen] M04 I -O4Odr 1937-04-15 Ann Arbor
Howell, Zella Ett [RamsdellJ M041-040d 1937-04-15 Plamfield Q Howlett, Bess [Marshall] M041-O4Odr 1934-12-11 Gregory
Howlett, Christine Denton (Henry) M04 1-114w 1904-04-27 Gregory
Howlett, Christine Denton (Thomas Henry) M04 1-040th- 1934-12-11 Gregory C Howlett, Daisy [Dancer] M04 I -O4Odr 1934-12-11 Stockbridge
Howlett, Daisy Westfall (Thomas Henry) M04 1-O4Odr 1934-12-11 Gregory
Howlett, Fred A. M04 1 -040d Detroit
Howlett, Henry M04 1- 114w 1904-04-27 Gregory
Howlett, Josephine Jackson (F. A.) M04 I -047dr 1929-12-24
Howlett, Mary [Barrett] M04 1 -O4Odr Detroit C Howlett, May Rockwell (Edward V.) M04 I -082dr Pontiac
Howlett, Myrtie Boy M04 I -OO7dr Caro
Howlett, Sarah Standish M041-O9ldr 1937-11-21 Dansville C Howlett, T. Henry (hotel fire) M041-041d 1934-12-11 Lansing
Howlett, T. Henry (hotel fire) M04 1 -042d 1934-12-11 Lansing
Howlett, T. Henry (hotel fire) M041-043d 1934-12-11 Lansing C Howlett, Thomas Henry M041-040d 1934-12-11 Lansing
Howlett, Vina [Reid] M04 1 -O4Odr 1934-12-11 Stockbridge C
Hoyt, Ethel Wilson M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Munith C Hoyt, Permelia Adeline Dickerson (Hiram) M04 1-024d 1917-09-21 White Oak Twp.
Hubert, Grace Hall M04 1-036dr Plymouth C
Huntington, Lois Rheingans (Alton) M04 I -O8Odr 1934-04-05 OH, Cleveland C Hurst, Vera (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Hutkins, Norma Mrs. M04 1-O4Sdr C
Hutson, ???? [Bullis] M04 1 -045dr 1930-09-09
Hutson, ???? [Bullis] M04 1 -045dr 1925-09-29
Hutson, ???? Bush (Joseph) M041-Ol3dr 1922-05-25 0
Hutson, Henry M041-045d 1925-09-29 White Oak Twp.
Hutson, L. Elpha Wright (Henry) M04 1 -045dr 1925-09-29 White Oak Twp.
Hutson, Laura Sharp M04 1 -094dr 1940-06-10 Stockbridge Q Hutson, Lucy Elpha Wright (Henry) M041-045d 1930-09-09 Eaton Rapids
Hutson, Rebecca [Hyde] M04 1 -045dr 1925-09-29
Hyde, Rebecca Hutson M041-045dr 1925-09-29 0 Flynes, 7??? [Osborne] M04 I -045dr 1929-01-12 Fowlerville
Hynes, John M04 I -045d 1929-01-12 Stockbridge
Hynes, Lela M. [Osborne] M041-O7Odr 194 1-06-05 White Oak Twp. 0 Hynes, Mary Ledwidge (John) M04 1 -045d 1929-01-02 Stockbridge
Hynes, Mary Ledwidge (John) M04 I -045dr 1929-01-12 Stockbridge
Hynes, Nat (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge (J
Ingels, Blanch [Parkinson] M04 I -046dr 1927-03-12 Jackson
Ingels, Clara A. Hartford (John W.) M041-046dr 1927-03-12 Dansville
Ingels, Grace I. [Doyle] M041-046dr 1927-03-12 Lansing Q0
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Ingels, John W. M041-046d 1927-03-12 Dansville
Isbell, C. E. M041-1 14m 1904-04 Saline
Isham, ???? [Black] M041-046dr 1934-06-21 St. Johns
Isham, ???? [Watters] M041-046dr 1934-06-21 losco Twp.
Isham, Amy M. Waters (Tim) M041-lO6dr 1934-08-19 losco Twp.
Isham, Anna [Sawdy] M041-046dr 1925-01-28
Isham, Cora [Watters] M041-046dr 192501-28
Isham, Emma [Black] M041-046dr 1925-01-28 St. Johns
Isham, Harriet Disbrow (Willis) M041-046dr 1925-01-28 Plainfield
Isham, Harriet Disbrown (Willis) M041-046dr 1934-06-21
r Isham, Harry (ideal sophomore boy) M041-1 14m
Isham, Mabel [Baker] M041-OO4dr Plainfield
Isham, Mable Caskey (Milo M.) M041-046dr 1934-06-2 1 Plainfield
Isham, Milo M. M041-046d 1934-06-2 1 Plainfield
Isham, Nettie [Kellogg] M04 1 -046dr 1925-01-28 Plainfield
Isham, Nettie [Kellogg] M041-049d 1934-02-23 Farmington
Isham, Orpha [Watters] M041-046dr 1925-01-28 losco Twp.
Isham, Willis M041-046d 1925-01-28 Plamfield
Isham, Willis (50th anniversary) M041-046m 1910-1 1-04 Plainfield
Ives, ???? Bott (Lute) M041-OO6dr 1937-11-09
Ives, Cynthia [Standish] M041-O9ldr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Ives, Elizabeth Bott M041-046d Stockbridge
Ives, Elizabeth Bott (Lute) M04 1 -046dr TX
Ives, Hazel [Stiles] M04 1 -092d 1934-06-05 Jackson
Ives, Helen [King] M04 1 -092dr 1934-06-05
Ives, Lute M041-046d TX
Jackson, ???? [Cook] M041-lO7dr 1914-06-11
Jackson, ?‘??? Mapes (John) M041-057dr 1917-12-31
Jackson, 7??? Mapes (John) M041-058m 1904-02-04 Unadilla
Jackson, ???? Mapes (John) M04 1 -059dr 1920-12-20 Stockbridge
Jackson, Alice Josephine Mapes (John) M041-057d 1935-01-10 Stockbridge
L Jackson, Andrew M04 1 -047d 1929-12-24 Stockbridge
Jackson, Bernice [Gardner] M041-047dr 1929-12-24
Jackson, Clara A. [Hicks] M04 I -038dr 1931-04-21 Stockbridge
Jackson, Ella Westfall M041-107d 1914-06-1 1
Jackson, Hannah S. Quick (John, Sr.) M041-047dr 1928-02-26
Jackson, James M041-047d 1928-02-26 Plainfield
Jackson, John (Mapes reunion) M04 1 -059m Stockbridge
Jackson, John Mrs. (Mapes reunion) M041-059d
Jackson, Josephine [Howlett] M04 1 -047dr 1929-12-24
Jackson, Maria Jane [Smith] M041-047dr 1928-02-26 Howell
Jackson, Mary Elizabeth [McGlocknie] M04 1-061 d 1924-03-27 Stockbridge
Jackson, Mary Jane Dutton (Andrew) M04 I -047dr 1929-12-24 Stockbridge
L Jackson, Minnie [Burgess] M04 1 -047dr 1929-12-24
Jackson, Sarah Eleen Westfall M041-047dr 1928-02-26 Plainfield
Jacobs, ???? Lewis (Fred) M041-lO8dr 1925-01-26 Gregory
Jacobs, ???? Montague (Orla) M041-065dr 1926-02-18 Plainfleld
Jacobs, Benjamin M041-047d 1904-07-27 Plainfleld
Jacobs, Jane Cool (Levi) M041-047dr Unadilla Twp.
L Jacobs, Levi M041-047d Unadilla Twp.
Jacobs, Mary Dunn (Philander) M041-047dr 1939-03-28 Plainfield
Jacobs, Mary Jane Cool (Levi) M041-048d Plainfield
Jacobs, Mary Jane Cool (Levi) M041-048dr Plainfleld
Jacobs, Orla M041-047d 1939-03-28 Plainfield
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Jacobs, Pearl [Watters] M04 1 -047dr 1939-03-28 C Jacobs, Wanda (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-11 4m
James, Lyle M041-025dr 1940-10-15 C
Jeffrey, Clarence H. M04 I -048d 1941-04-03 Stockbridge C Jeffiey, Goldie [Bowers] M04 1 -048dr 1941-04-03
Jeffrey, Isabelle [Hedglen] M04 1 -048dr 1941-04-03 C
Jeffrey, Leoma [McGinley] M04 l-O4Sdr 1941-04-03 C Jefliey, Mae [Daniels] M04 1 -048dr 1941-04-03
Jeffity, Martha Porter (Alexander) M04 I -048dr 1941-04-03 C
Jennings, ???? Green (Harley) M041-033dr 19 18-12-04 Clio
Jennings, ?fl? Green (Harley) M04 1-033dr Ann Arbor
Johnson, 7??? Branch (A. W.) M04 1 -OOSdr 1904-01-07 Owosso C
Johnson, Cora E. [Hopkins] M04 I -039dr 1935-04-17
Johnson, Minnie Rheingans M041-O8Odr 1934-04-05 Sarona
Jones, ???? McCleer (Arthur) M04 1 -O6Odr 1941-02-23 Howell C
Jones, Elizabeth Jane McKenzie (Eugene W.) M04 1-061 d Stockbridge
Jones, Grace Mrs. M04 1-01 7dr
Jones, Jessie J. [Dyer] M04 1 -025dr 1937-11-21 Long Lake C
Jones, Lura I. [Picketti M04 1 -025 dr 1937-11-21 Stockbridge
Jones, Mary Ann Rees (William) M04 1 -076d 1914-07-24 Gregory
Jones, Minerva Jane Druck (Jonathan J.) M04 1 -025d 1937-11-21 Webberville C Jones, Myrtle M. [Stevens] M04 1 -025dr 1937-11-21 Webberville
Jones, Trevor (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Joslin, ???? Dean (James) M04 I -028dr Williamston C Judson, George M04 I -048d 1936-07-18 Plain field
Judson, Rosa Ann Chappel (George) M04 I -O4Sdr 1936-07-18
Keelan, Melissa Wasson M041-lOSdr 1923-04-05 Howell C Keezler, Harold (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-11 4m
Kehrein, Mary [Rheingans} M04 I -O8Odr 1934-04-05
Keitchen, Lettie Carpenter M04 I -028dr 1932-04-22 Lansing
Keitchen, Lettie Naomi Carpenter M041-Ol4dr 1934-10-25 Lansing
Kelley, ???? [Royston] M04 1 -049dr 1931-04-29 Mason
Kelley, 7??? [Singleton] M04 l-049dr 1931-04-29 Stockbridge
Kelley, Charles A. M04 1 -049d 1931-04-29 Mason
Kelley, Mary Ann [Standish] M04l-091d 1937-1 1-21 Stockbridge C
Kelley, Peter (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge C Kellogg, 7??? [Bristol] M04 1-049dr 1934-02-23 Franklin
Kellogg, 7??? [Lillywhite] M04 1 -049dr 1934-02-23 Webberville C
Kellogg, ???? [Lovejoy] M04 I -049dr 1934-02-23 Jackson C Kellogg, 7??? [Walker] M041 -049dr 1934-02-23 Leslie
Kellogg, Emma [Black] M04 1 -049dr 1934-02-23
Kellogg, Martha Martin M04 1 -060dr 1904-11-25
Kellogg, Nettie Isham M04 I -046dr 1925-01-28 Plainfield
Kellogg, Nettie isham (Frederick A.) M04 I -049d 1934-02-23 Farmington C
Kellogg, Orpha [Watters] M04 1 -049dr 1934-02-23
Kelly, Harriet Lucina [Wasson] M04 1 -049d 1926-08-03 WA
Kelly, Harriet Lucina [Wasson] M04 1-I OSdr 1923-04-05
Kennedy, Lee Casper (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Kennedy, Will T. (commencement) M04 1-Il 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Kenney, Emma Hadley M04 1-007th Hamburg C
Kenyon, Loriia Roberts M04l-025dr 1938-03-22 Hilhnan
Keslar, 7??? Hopkins (Vern) M041-039dr 1927-07-22 01-1. Youngstown
Keyes, Earl J. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-ll3d 194? C Kimball, 7??? Scoville (Edgar) M041-086dr 1902-11-12
C Obitinx4 I .wrk 20 c
a
0
M041-066dr
M041-l 15m
M04 1-01 3dr
M041-049dr
M04 1-109w
M04 1 -049dr
M041-049dr
M041-014d
M041-049d
M041-049dr
M04 I -092dr
M04 1 -049dr
M04 1 -049d
M04 1 -049dr
M041-O2ldr
M041-098dr
M04 1 -035dr
M041-098dr
M041-1 13d
M04 1 -072dr
M041-114m
M041-O4Odr
M04 1 -040m
M041-1 14m
M041-052dr
M04 1 -050d
M04 I -O5Odr
M04 I -O5Odr
M04 1 -O5Odr
M04 1 -O5Odr
M041-O5Odr
M041-O5Odr
M04 1-052dr
M041-050d
M04 1 -050d
M041-05 ldr
M04 1 -OSOdr
M041-O5ldr
M04 1 -050d
M041-051d
M04 1 -O5Odr
M041-051d
M04 1 -023dr
M04 1-061 dr
M041-O5ldr
M041-051d
M041-O5ldr
M041-113d
M04 I -095dr
M04 1 -095d
M041-O5Idr
M041-052d
M041-048dr
M041-052dr
1933-08-24
Howell
Stockbridge
OH, BowlmgGreen
Stockbridge
Plymouth
1927-04-21 Unadilla Twp.
1918-03-18 VA, Ft. Meyer
Jackson
1934-06-05
Stockbridge
IN, Logansport
1929-02-07 Stockbridge
1935-05-22 Plainfield
Plainfield
1938-01-12 Plainfield
194?
1933-05-03
1928-06
1937-04-15
1934-03-20
1928-06
1936-01-07
1923-11-09
1902-10-14
1902-10-14
1907-04-14
1907-04-14
1907-04-14
1902-10-14
1902-10-14
1907-04- 14
1904-12-27
Albion
1904-12-27 Stockbridge
Albion
1904-12-27 Stockbridge
Albion
Albion
1930-09-20 Mason
194?
1936-03-11
1925-11-03
MT, Great Falls
Stockbridge
Gregory
Gregory
1919-01-31 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1919-01-31 Stockbridge
Kimball, Mary [Morgan]
Kimmel, Amelda (tonsilectomy)
King, ???? Burgess (Charles)
King, Charlotte [Wmzer]
King, Charlotte [Winzer]
King, Dorothy [Barton]
King, Edna [Weiher]
King, Emma L. [Caskeyl
King, Emmett Lee
King, Goldie [Dill]
King, Helen Ives
King, Lena [Martens]
King, Mattie Bertha Biging (Harry T.)
King, Sadie K. [Creery]
Kinsey, Helen [Dancer]
Kinsey, Marian Topping
Kinsey, Marion
Kinsey, Marion Topping
Kirby, Paul A. (Liv. Co. WWII)
Kistler, Addie Pineo
Kistler, Everett (Class Night)
Kitchen, Sarah Howell
Kitchen, Sarah Mrs.
Kitley, Charles (Class Night)
Knight, Eveline Lewis
Knight, John C.
Knight, Lizzie Ramsdell (William H.)
Knight, Mae [Osborne]
Knight, Maude [Lantis]
Knight, May [Osborne]
Knight, Minnie [Lantis]
Knight, Minnie [Lantis]
Knight, Minnie [Lantis]
Knight, William H.
Knight,, Eliza Ann (William H.)
Koons, ???? [Gregory]
Koons, ???? [Herzer]
Koons, Eliza A. Laubach (Josiah D.)
Koons, Eliza A. Laubach (Josiah)
Koons, Josiah D.
Koons, Mary [Gregory]
Koons, Mary Mn Laubach (William R.)
Kruse, Blanche Dean
Kuhlman, Henry Mrs.
Kuhn, ???? [Mclver]
Kuhn, Martin E.
Kuhn, Sarah [Lambom]
Kunath, Charles (Disbrow) (Liv. Co. WWII)
Lake, Kate L. [Titus]
Lake, Sarah Ann [Titus]
Lamborn, Sarah Kuhn
Langfitt, James C.
Langfitt, Margaret Cool
Langfitt, Margaret E. Cool (James C.)
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Altoona
Stockbridge
Altona
White Oak Twp.
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
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Langnecker, Jane [Dutton] M041-025d 1933-01-25 PlainfieLd
Lansing, Ida Mrs. M041-O9Odr 1934-10-01 Oakley
Lantis, ???? Glenn (Clifford) M041-032dr 1918-08-03 C Lantis, Blanche Glenn (Clifford) M04 1 -032dr 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Lantis, Ed (barn being built) M04l-l 14m 1904-04
Lantis, Edwin Fillmore M041-052d Lansing C Lantis, Irene [Pringle] M041-052dr White Oak Twp.
Lantis, Mandy [Reeves] M04 1 -052dr Jackson
Lantis, Maude Knight M041-O5Odr 1907-04-14 Stockbridge C Lantis, Minnie Knight M041-OSOdr 1907-04-14 White Oak Twp.
Lantis, Minnie Knight M041-OSOdr 1902-10-14 Stockbridge
Lantis, Minnie Knight (Edwin F.) M04 1 -052dr Stockbridge C Lantis, Minnie Martin M041-O6Odr 1904-11-25
Lantis, Rena Brownell (Daniel R) M04 l-052d Stockbridge
Lantis, Sarah [Clements] M04 1 -052dr White Oak Twp. C LaPorte, Cassiea Mrs. M04 1-1 O6dr 1935-04-24 Jackson
Laubach, Eliza A. [Achenbach, Koons] M04 1 -050d Albion
Laubach, Eliza A. [Ashenbach, Koons] M04 1-051 dr 1904-12-27 Stockbridge C Laubach, Mary Ann [Hess, Koons] M04 1-051 d Albion
Laughlin, ???? Smith M04 I -092dr 1928-01 Lansing
Lawrence, Mabel M041-1 15m 1936-06-25 India, Lucknow C Lawrence, Phoebe Miller M04 I -023dr 1940-12-30
Leach, Faye (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-11 4m
Leach, Faye (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-11 4m C Ledwidge, Bridget [Conklin] M04 1 -045dr 1929-01-02 White Oak Twp.
Ledwidge, Mary [Hynes] M04 I -045d 1929-01-02 Stockbridge
Ledwidge, Mary [Hynes] M04 1 -045dr 1929-01-12 Stockbridge C Lehman, Ida [Barth] M041-052dr 1939-01-24 Ann Arbor
Lehman, Lulu C. [Parshall] M04 1 -052dr 1939-01-24
Lehman, Matthew M04 1 -052d 1939-01-24 Stockbridge a Leidlein, John (hotel fire) M04 1 -043d 1934-12-11 Lansing
Lesiak, Joe (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-113d 194?
Lester, Lentha Eleanor Soules (Andrew) M041-090d 1934-10-0 1 CA, Los Angeles Q Leutzinger, ???? Hall (George) M04 1 -036dr Cadillac
Lewis, ???? [Jacobs] M04 1-1 O8dr 1925-01-26 Gregory
Lewis, ???? Frinkle (Will) M04 1 -023dr 1938-04-07 Stockbridge C) Lewis, Anna Mae Phelps (John) M04 1 -052d 1935-06-16 Stockbridge
Lewis, Arthur M04 1 -052d 1936-01-07 Stockbridge
Lewis, Eveline [Knight] M04 1 -052dr 1936-01-07 Stockbridge 0 Lewis, Harvey (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge
Lewis, Minnie [Anderson] M04 1 -052dr 1936-01-07 Gladwin
Lewis, Minnie [Vredenburgh] M04 1- lO8dr 1925-01-26 FowlervilLe 0 Lewis, Myrtie [Maine] M04 1 -052dr 1936-01-07 Mason
Lewis, Sarah E. Whited (Henry) M041-108d 1925-01-26 Webberville
Lillywhite, ???? Kellogg (William) M041-049dr 1934-02-23 WebberviLLe 0 Lillywhite, Edith [Stowe] M041-053dr 1914-03-11 Jackson
Lillywhite, Edith [Stowel M041-053dr 1939-08-06 Jackson
Lillywhite, Ethel [Shaw] M041-053dr 1914-03-li Leslie
Lillywhite, Ethel [Shawl M041-053dr 1939-08-06 Leslie
Lillywhite, Henry M041-053d 1914-03-li Plainfield
Lillywhite, Henry (2Stb anniversary) M041-053m 1913-10-30 Plainfield Q
Lillywhite, Mary [Woodall] M041-053dr 1914-03-11 ONT, Woodstock
Lillywhite, Maiy Hannah Lockwood (Henry) M041-053d 1939-08-06 Plainfield
Lillywhite, Mary Lockwood (Henry) M041-053dr 1914-03-11 Plainfield C)
0
Obitinx4 1 .wrk 22 Q
00
Lillywhite, Sarah Jane [McIntyre] M041-053dr 1914-03-11 Detroit
Little, James (house fire) M041-1 14m 1904-04-22 South Lake
Livermore, Russell M041-095dr 1924-04-04 Gregory
Lockwood, Elsie [Parks] M041-053dr 1939-08-06 Concord
Lockwood, Mary [Lillywhite] M041-053dr 1914-03-11 Plainfleld
Lockwood, Mary Hannah [Lillywhite] M041-053d 1939-08-06 Plainfield
Longnecker, Minnie Cameron (Wm. A.) M041-014d 193 1-12-20
Longnecker, William (M.P. church dedicated) M04l-l 14m 1907-01-27 Plainfleld
Lord, Fred M041-053d 1935-12-11 Stockbridge
Love, Charles (pic) M04 I -054m Livingston Co.
Love, Charles, Fred, & Bruce (pic) M041-053m Livingston Co.
Lovejoy, ???? Kellogg (Harold) M04 I -049dr 1934-02-23 Jackson
Lowe, ?T?? [Hayner] M041-054dr 1933-07-27 Stockbridge
Lowe, ???? [Solomon] M041-054dr 1933-07-27 TX, Houston
Lowe, Addie A. Boyce (Charles H.) M041-054d 1933-07-27 Stockbridge
Lowe, Bonnie M041-1 15m 1903-12-14 Detroit
Lowe, C. H. (biography) M04 I -056m Stockbridge
Lowe, Francis E. [Proctor] M041-073dr White Oak Twp.
Lowe, Jessie Hastings (Floyd B.) M041-054d 1926-03-09 Lansing
Lowe, Mahala Newkirk (Richard) M04 1-055w 1842 Stockbridge
Lowe, Rachel [Stocking] M04 1-055w 1836 Stockbridge
Lowe, Richard M041-055w 1842 Stockbridge
Lowe, Richard R (family history) M04 1-05Sm Stockbridge
Lyman, Flora A. [Williams] M041-lO8dr Stockbridge
Lyons, ???? Applegate (Frank) M04 1 -OO2dr
Lytle, Carrie May Wilson M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Stockbridge
Macintyre, Jane [Rockwell] M04 1 -082dr
MacNamara, Alma Rockwell (Fred J.) M04 I -082dr
Maddox, ???? Rockwood (Max) M04 I -082dr Leslie
Maine, Myrtie Lewis M041-052dr 1936-01-07 Mason
Malcho, ???? Coulson (Carl) M04 1-03 8dr 1925-02-18 Stockbridge
Mann, Daisy Josephine Boyce M041-OO7dr TX
Mapes, 7??? [Jackson] M041-058m 1904-02-04 Unadilla
Mapes, 7??? [Jackson] M04 1 -059dr 1920-12-20 Stockbridge
Mapes, ???? [Sweet] M041-059dr Gregory
Mapes, ???? Cool (George) M04 1 -048dr Detroit
Mapes, ????? [Jackson] M041-057dr 1917-12-31
Mapes, Alice Josephine [Jackson] M04 1 -057d 1935-01-10 Stockbridge
Mapes, Charles DuBois M041-057d losco Twp.
Mapes, Edith L. [Ostrander] M041-057dr 1921-11-15
Mapes, Esther Ann Wilimore (William Henry) M041-OS7d 1938-02-13 Stockbridge
Mapes, Etta Cool M04 1 -048dr Detroit
Mapes, Gladys [Wright] M04 1 -057dr NY, Ithaca
Mapes, Gladys [Wright] M041-059dr NY, Ithaca
Mapes, Horace M041-057d 1917-12-31 Stockbridge
Mapes, Horace (50th wedding anniverary) M04 1 -058m 1904-02-04 Stockbridge
Mapes, Jennie L. [Sharp] M04l-057d 1921-11-15 Stockbridge
Mapes, Lillie J. [Townsend] M041-057dr 1921-11-15 Jackson
Mapes, Lucy A. [Howell] (50th ann.) M04l-040m 1934-03-20 Howell
Mapes, Mary J. Williams (Horace) M04l-OS7dr 1917-12-31 Stockbridge
Mapes, Mary J. Williams (Horace) M041-058m 1904-02-04 Stockbridge
Mapes, Mary J. Williams (Horace) M04l-059d 1920-12-20 Stockbridge
Mapes, Minnie Wilmore M04l-OO6dr 1937-11-09 Stockbridge
Mapes, Sameul reunion M04 1 -059m Joslyn Lake
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CC
C
Mapes, Sarah Abbott (C. D.) M04 I -059d Gregory
Mapes, Sarah M. Abbott (Charles DuBois) M04 1-057dr losco Twp.
Mapes, Susie [Sweet] M04 I -057dr losco Twp. C Marshal, Doris (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-11 4m
Marshal, Doris (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Marshal, Doris (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m C Marshall George Sr. M041-059d 1935-03-30 Unadilla Twp.
Marshall, ???? Hopkins (Will) M041-039dr 1935-04-17 Unadilla Twp.
Marshall, 7??? Howell (H. E.) M04 1 -O4Odr Gregory C Marshall, ???? Sayles (Merrill G.) M041-085dr 1941-06-29 OK, Oklahoma Cty
Marshall, ???? Titus (Fred) M041-095dr 1924-04-04 Stockbridge
Marshall, Bess Howlett M04 1 -O4Odr 1934-12-11 Gregory C Marshall, Cora E. Watts (George) M041-059dr 1935-03-30 Unadilla Twp.
Marshall, Cora Mrs. M041-O7ldr 1912-02-21
Marshall, Ethel Louise Titus (Fred) M04 I -095dr 1936-03-11 White Oak Twp. C Marshall, Ethel Louise Titus (Fred) M04 I -095dr 1925-11-03 White Oak Twp.
Marshall, Hettie Whitaker (George E.) M04 1 -059d 1936-05-01 Gregory
Marshall, Inez J. [Hadley] M04 1 -059dr 1935-03-30 C Martens, Lena King M04 1 -049dr
Martin, Elizabeth C. (Morton) M041-060d 1904-11-25 White Oak Twp.
Martin, Flossie M. Smith M041-089dr 1927-04-30 C Martin, Gladys Mrs. M041-077dr 1929-01-05 CA
Martin, Libbie [Showers] M04 1 -O6Odr 1904-11-25
Martin, Martha [Kellogg] M04 1 -O6Odr 1904-11-25 C Martin, Minnie [Lantis] M04 1 -O6Odr 1904-11-25
Masic, Agnes Norton M04 1 -068dr Plymouth
Mast, ???? Neithammer (John) M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 IN, Angola I
Matthews, Etta Burgess M04 1-0 l3dr CAN, Warsaw
May, Blanche Grimes (John L.) M04 I -060d 1934-10-25 Cass City
May, Lola Dean M04 1 -023dr 193 0-09-20 Concord (J
May, Luela [Allen] M04 I -O6Odr 1934-10-25 Leslie
May, Marian [Douglas] M04 I -O6Odr 1934-10-25 Cass City
May, Ruth E. (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge C
May, Vesta Ermina Nott (George E.) M041-068d 1935-06-17 Stockbridge
Mayer, Christopher (621d anniversary) M04 1-1 14m 1909-10-03 Munith
Mayer, Daniel (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge C
Mayer, John M04 1-1 l4m 1904-04 Munith
Mayer, Mae Bullis (Glenn) M04 1-0 l2dr 1934-01-08 Munith
Maynard, Alta [Geer] M041-llOdr 1939-02-04 Fowlerville C
Maynard, Arlie [Carr, Worden] M04 1-Il Od 1939-02-04 Gregory
McCallum, Katherine McCann M04 1 -OOSdr Bunkerhill
McCann, Katherine [McCallum] M04 1 -OO5dr Bunkerhill C)
McCann, Lydia Allison M041-OOldr 1940-12-27 WA, Spokane
McCann, Margaret [Berry] M04 1 -005d Stockbridge
McCann, Margaret [Berry] M04 1 -OOSdr 1932-09-06 Stockbridge C
McCart, Mary [McCleer] M04 1 -O6Odr 1941-02-23
McCarthy, Amelia Smith M041-089dr 1929-01-15 Grand Rapids
McClear, ???? Reithmiller (John) M04 I -OO9dr Q
McClear, Ruth (pie) M04 1 -060m
McCleer, ???? [Draper] M04 1 -O6Odr 1941-02-23 IL, Decatur
McCleer, ???? [Jones] M04l-O6Odr 1941-02-23 Howell 0
McCleer, Lawrence Nicholas M04 1 -060d 1941-02-23 Gregory
McCleer, Mary McCart (Patrick) M04 1 -O6Odr 1941-02-23
McCleer, Merlyn (Liv. Co. WWU) M041-l l3d 194? 00
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McCleer, Nellie Frances Gibney (Lawrence N.) M041-060dr 194 1-02-23 Gregory
McCleer, Nettie Reithmiller (John) M04 1 -060d Jackson
McCloy, Margaret [Mimer] M04 I -064dr 1931-09-16 Stockbridge
McColl, ???? [Viele] M04 1-061 dr KS, Caidwell
McColl, Katherine [Barrett] M04 1-061 dr
McCoIl, Marcia (Samuel) M04 1-061 d
McColl, Samuel M041-061d
McCourtrie, Belle Moffat M04 1 -065dr Webberville
McCune, J. H. Rev. (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
McDaniels, Orval (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
McDowell, Louise Mierndorf M041-lO3dr 1934-02-10 OR, Bend
McDowell, Mary Pineo M04 1 -072dr 1933-05-03 IN, Royal Center
McGee, Julia Caskey M041-Ol4dr 1914-12-08 Fowlerville
McGee, Julia E. Caskey (William C.) M041-061d 1936-03-24 Lansing
McGinley, Leoma Jeffrey M04 1 -048dr 1941-04-03
McGlockne, Frank E. M041-lO6dr 1934-08-19 Owosso
McGlocknie, Mary Elizabeth Jackson (Ira J.) M041-061d 1924-03-27 Stockbridge
Mcintyre, ???? [DePuy] M041-083dr Pontiac
McIntyre, Lizzie [Roepcke] M04 1 -083d
Mcintyre, Mary Smith M04 1 -092dr 1928-01 Webberville
McIntyre, Sarah Jane Lillywhite M041-053dr 1914-03-11 Detroit
Mclver, ???? Kuhn (Angus) M04l-O5ldr MT, Great Falls
McKeever, Clare Francis (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
McKenzie, ???? Branch (Robert) M041-OO8dr 1904-01-07
McKenzie, Daniel M04 1-061 d 1923-03-04 Stockbridge
McKenzie, Daniel (Class Night) M041-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
McKenzie, Elizabeth Jane [Jones] M04 1-061 d Stockbridge
McKenzie, Flora Townsend (Jay J.) M04l-062d 1932-05-30 OH, Cleveland
McKenzie, J. S. Rev. (M.P. church dedicated) M04 1-11 4m 1868-09-23 Plainfield
McKenzie, Janet [Miller] M04 1 -063dr 1917-04-26 CA, Whittier
McKenzie, John (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge
McKenzie, Mary Ett (DuBois (Daniel) M041-062d 1928-05-03 White Oak Twp.
McKenzie, Mary Ett DuBois (Daniel) M04 1-061 dr 1923-03-04 Stockbridge
McKenzie, Minnie [Nott] M04 1 -068d Stockbridge
McKenzie, Peter (built early road) M04 I -056m Stockbridge
McKim, Lloyd Dr. M04 1 -062d Stockbridge
McLaughling, Barbara Reeves (C. 0.) M04 1 -077dr Whitmore Lake
McMullen, ???? Barth (A. I.) M04l-OO5dr 1927-04-25
McPherson, Harriet [Grieve] M041-035dr
Mierndorf, ???? Dean (Richard) M04 1 -028dr White Oak Twp.
Mierndorf, Amelia [Bohnet] M041-lO3dr 1934-02-10 Webberville
Mierndorf, Dora [Yago] M041-lO3dr 1934-02-10 Conway Twp.
Miemdorf Ida [Warfie] M041-lO3d 1934-02-10 Millville
Mierndorf, Louise [McDowell] M04l-lO3dr 1934-02-10 OR, Bend
Mierndorf, Merrie [Sleaford] M041-l03dr 1934-02-10 Locke Twp.
Miller, ???? [Brower] M041-063dr 1917-04-26 Jackson
Miller, ???? [Turner] M041-063dr 1917-04-26 CA, Whittier
Miller, Anna Mae [Applegate] M04 I -OO2dr 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Miller, Asher Gaylor M041-063d 1917-04-26 CA, Whittier
Miller, Bertha Allison M041-OOldr 1940-12-27 Howell
Miller, Charlotte [Phelps] M04 I -OO2dr 1937-12-10 Jackson
Miller, Chloe [Foote] M041-023dr 1940-12-30
Miller, Donald E. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Miller, Elanora [Mitteer] M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 Stockbridge
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Miller, Florence Mrs. M04 1-01 6dr Dexter
Miller, Gennie [Bradley] M04 1 -023dr 1940-12-30 Rochester
Miller, Janet McKenzie (Asher Gaylord) M04 1 -063dr 1917-04-26 CA, Whittier C Miller, Louisa [Soules] M04 1 -063dr 1917-04-26
Miller, Mary [Stowell, Dewey] M04 1 -023d 1940-12-30 Rochester
Miller, Phoebe [Lawrence] M04 1 -023dr 1940-12-30 C Mills, Clarence S. M04 1 -063d 1905-03-23 Stockbridge
Mills, Frankie Bates (Clarence S.) M041-063dr 1905-03-23 Stockbridge
Milner, ???? [Holmes] M041-064dr 1914-11-07 Stockbridge C
Mimer, Catherine Amelia Stocking (Elisha D.) M04 1 -092d 1917-10-15 Stockbridge
Milner, Catherine Stocking (Elisha D.) M04 1 -064dr 1931-09-16
Milner, Eleanor [Green] M04l-064d 1914-11-07 Stockbridge C
Mimer, Elisha (built early road) M04 l-056m Stockbridge
Mimer, Emil M041-088m 1941-03-22 Ann Arbor
Milner, Emil Mrs. (moving to CA) M04 1-1 14m 1904-04-22 CA C
Mimer, Jennie [Stephens] M04 1 -092dr 1917-10-15
Mimer, Louis M. M041-064d 1931-09-16 Stockbridge
Milner, Margaret McCloy (Louis M.) M041-064dr 1931-09-16 Stockbridge C
Milner, Nellie [Bird] M041-064dr 1931-09-16 Stockbridge
Milner, Rebecca [Hague] M04 1-064dr 1914-11-07 Stockbridge
Minniss, Cora Nott M041-068dr Lansing C
Mitchell, Wanda Afton <Arthur> M041-064d 1914-03-25
Mitteer, ???? [Evans] M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 OFl Van Wert
Mitteer, ???? Reeves (R H.) M04 1 -O8Odr 1919-01-24 Stockbridge C
Mitteer, Elanora Miller (George Kimball) M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 Stockbridge
Mitteer, George Kimball M041-064d 1917-05-04 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Hortense Reeves M04 1 -077dr 1929-12-08 Stockbridge C
Mitteer, Hortense Reeves M04 I -079m 1927-10-31 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Jas. M04 1-1 14m 1909-10 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Josie [Beaumont] M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 0
Mitteer, Mary Brownell] M04 1 -064dr 1917-05-04 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Ortance Reeves (Robert H.) M041-064d 1932 Stockbridge
Moeckel, Aaron Mrs. (Artz Reunion) M041-002m 1936 0
Moeckel, Carl W. (pic. of home) M041-065m Jackson Co.
Moeckel, Doris (pic.) M04 I -065m
Moffat, Belle [McCourtrie] M04 I -065dr Webberville Q
Moffat, Helen C. Pettit (Thomas) M04 1-065d Stockbridge
Moffat, Louise [Hollis] M04 I -065dr Stockbridge
Moffat, Louise [Hollis] M04 1 -065dr Stockbridge 0
Moffat, Thomas M04 1 -065d Stockbridge
Montague, ???? [Jacobs] M04 1-065dr 1926-02-18 Plainfield
Montague, ???? [Witty] M04 I -065dr 1926-02-18 C
Montague, Ella <George> M04 1 -065d 1926-02-18 Plainfield
Montague, Louise [VanSyckel] M04 1-101 dr 1930-10-01
Montague, Mary Ella Daniels (Fitch C.) M04 1 -023d Plainfield 0
Montague, Mary Louise [VanSyckel] M04 1-101 dr 1916-05-16 Plainfield
Montague, Mary Louise [VanSyckel] M04 1- 102d Plainfield
Morehouse, L. E. (Artz Reunion) M04 l-002m 1936 Jackson 0
Morgan, Amelia L. (Lewis) M04 1 -066d 1919-03-07
Morgan, Carrie Lavina [Hayner] M041-066d 1933-08-24 Mason
Morgan, H. W. M041-1 14m 1909-10 Unadilla Twp. 0
Morgan, Mary Kimball (Lewis) M04 1 -066dr 1933-08-24
Morgan, Melbourne (Liv. Co. ‘NW!!) M041-1 13d 194?
Morlan, Robert E. L. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194? 00
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00
Mort, Clara Reeves M04 1 -077dr 1929-12-08 CA, Los Angeles
Mort, Clara Reeves M04 1 -079m 1927-10-31 CA, Los Angeles
Mort, Clara Reeves M041-O8Odr 1919-01-24 CA, Los Angeles
Mould, Alice [Hoard] M041-038dr 1934-01-10 Gregory
Moule, John M04 I -066d Fowlerville
Moule, Sarah VanVoros (John) M04 1 -066dr Unadilla Twp.
Mumby, Joe M041-029dr
Munn, Cornelia [West] M041-106d 1941-01-06 Bunker Hill
Munn, Cornelia [West] M04l-lO6dr 1935-04-24 Bunker Hill
Munsell, Erla Hartsuff (Harlow) M04 1 -089dr 1929-01-15 Gregory
Munsell, Eula Hartsuff M04 1 -037dr Gregory
Munsell, H. E. Mrs. (Palmer Reunion) M041-071m 1936 Gregory
Murphy, Hattie [Saigeon] M04 1-085dr Lansing
Musbach, Elton Mrs. (Artz Reunion) M04 1 -002m 1936
Myler, Margaret [Wood] M041-lO9dr 1937-01-08
Myler, Persis [Wood] M041-lO5dr
Neithammer, ???? [Artz] M041-067dr 1927-04-26 Lansing
Neithammer, ???? [Fink] M04 I -067dr 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Neithammer, 7??? [Heusel] M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26
Neithammer, ???? [Hodge] M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 Lansing
Neithammer, ???? [Mast] M041-067dr 1927-04-26 IN, Angola
Neithammer, ???? [Stanfield] M04 1-067th 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Neithammer, Annie [Smith] M041-067dr 1927-04-26 Webberville
Neithammer, David M04 1 -067d 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Neithammer, Elizabeth Herter (David) M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Neithammer, Kate [Etzel] M041-067dr 1927-04-26
Neville, Rena Shreve M04 1 -082dr OH, Pauling
Newkirk, Mahala [Lowe] M04 1-055w 1842 Stockbridge
Nicholas, Erwin Mrs. M04l-038dr 1934-01-10 Gregory
Nichols, ???? [Drown] M04 1-067th
Nichols, ?7?? [Sommer] M041-067dr
Nichols, Ella May Brown (George Walter) M04 1 -067d Stockbridge
Nichols, John (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-I 14m
Nichols, Lila Welton M041-lO6dr 1935-01-01 Waterloo
Nichols, Walter M04 1 -067m Stockbridge
Nichols, Willie M04 1-1 14m 1904-04 Stockbridge
Niethammer, Mary [Smith] M04l-089dr 193 5-07-24 Stockbridge
Ninis, Alice Standish M04 1-091 dr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Norton, ???? [Eckles] M04 1-068th Northville
Norton, Agnes [Masic] M041-068dr Plymouth
Norton, Agnes Carr M04 1-11 Odr 1939-02-04 Plainfield
Norton, Augustus “Clark” M04 1 -068d Stockbridge
Norton, Della Force M04 1 -068dr Stockbridge
Norton, Ed Mrs. M04l-027dr Fenton
Norton, Luella [Dye] M04 1 -068dr Fenton
Norton, Margaret Steele (Ross E.) M041-068d Dansville
Nott, ???? [Barnes] M04 1 -068dr Lansing
Nott, C. J. M041-l 14m 1909-10 Unadilla Twp.
Nott, Cora [Minniss] M04 1 -068dr Lansing
Nott, Minnie McKenzie (William J.) M04 1 -068d Stockbridge
Nott, Vesta Ermina [May] M041-068d 1935-06-17 Stockbridge
Nott, William J. M04l-068d Stockbridge
Notton, Fred (Artz Reunion) M041-002m 1936 Chelsea
Noyes, ???? Sharp (Frank) M04 l-087dr 1936-08-09 losco Twp.
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Noyes, Clara Mable [Sharp, Shinn] M041-088d 1938-01-15 CA, Brawley
O’Dell, ???? Walz (Fred) M041-lO3dr 1926-12-14 Detroit
O’Neil, Margaret [Burgess] M04 1-01 3dr Mason
Oakley, Clifford Bert M041-069d 1926-03-03 Stockbridge
Oakley, Ferris M04 1 -069d Stockbridge
Oakley, Frances [Sooey] M04 I -069dr Stockbridge
Oakley, Sarah Riggs M04 1 -069d Stockbridge
Oakley, Sarah Riggs M041-OSOdr 1938-09-03
Oakley, William Richard M04 1 -069d 1935-03-04 CA, Oakland
Oakley, Zelley Hayner (Bert) M041-069dr 1926-03-03
Olds, Emma [Titus] M041-095dr 1936-03-11 Munith
Osborne, ???? Hynes (Rex) M041-045dr 1929-01-12 Fowlerville
Osborne, Lela M. Hynes (Rex D.) M041-O7Odr 1941-06-05 White Oak Twp.
Osborne, Mae Knight M041-OSOdr 1902-10-14 Altoona
Osborne, May Knight M041-O5Odr 1907-04-14 Altona
Osborne, Rex D. M04 I -070d 1941-06-05 Lansing
Ostrander, Edith L. Mapes M041-057dr 192 1-1 1-15
Ostrander, Edith L. Sharp (E. Burnie) M04 1 -087d 1918-02-23 Stockbridge
Ostrander, Edith Sharp M041-087dr
Ostrander, Hazel Hall M04 l-036dr Stockbridge
Ostrander, W. S. Rev. (M.P. church dedicated) M04 1-1 14m 1907-01-27 Plainfield
Owen, ???? Richison (V. A.) M041-O8ldr 1922-08-14 Stockbridge
Owen, Frank & Fred (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge
Owen, Stubb (poem) M04 1 -069m
Owens, Daimy (ideal sophomore boy) M041-114m
Palmer, Allie [Walz] M04 1-1 O3dr 1926-06-08 Stockbridge
Palmer, Benajah Reunions M04 1-07 im 1936 Mason
Palmer, Edna Teachout (Roy) M04 I -094dr 1937-05-22 Chelsea
Palmer, Ernest J. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Palmer, Gula Elma [Hartsuffj M04 1-071 d 1912-02-21 IA, Fort Madison
Palmer, Roy (Palmer Reunion) M04 1 -071m 1936 Eaton Rapids
Palmer, Thelma (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Parker, ???? [Walker] M04 1-101 dr 1924-09-19 Plainfleld
Parker, Charles D. (hotel fire) M041-043d 1934-12-11 Lansing
Parker, Duane (Liv. Co. WWII) M04 1-1 13d 194?
Parker, Ellen Augusta [VanSyckle] M04 1-101 d 1924-09-19 Battle Creek
Parkinson, Blanch Ingels M04 1-046dr 1927-03-12 Jackson
Parks, Elsie Lockwood M041-053dr 1939-08-06 Concord
Parshall, Lulu C. Lehman M041-052dr 1939-01-24
Patrick, ???? Dean (Dan) M041-028dr White Oak Twp.
Patrick, Eliza Cottington (William H.) M041-O7ldr 1932-02-02 Stockbridge
Patrick, Erma (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Patrick, Gladys [Galpin] M04 1-028w 1926-10-30 Dansville
Patrick, William H. M04 l-071d 1932-02-02 Stockbridge
Paul, Helen (Class Night) M04 1-I 14m 192 8-06 Stockbridge
Paul, William J. M04l-071d
Peckens, Otto M. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 l3d 194?
Perrington, Martin Rev. (M.P. class organized) M041-l 14m 1852-04-16 Plainfleld
Perry, ???? Proestel (Clyde) M04 1 -073dr 1941-02-05 Wheeler
Perry, James (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-1 14m
Perry, Robert M04 1 -045dr
Peterson, ???? Hadley (R. J.) M041-036dr 1935-07-27 Ann Arbor
Peterson, Emma [Swanson] M041-1 15m 1936-06-25 Stockbridge
Peterson, Harold Dale (Liv. Co. WWII) M04 1-11 3d 194?
0
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Pettit, Helen C. [Moffat] M04 1 -065d Stockbridge
Phelps, Anna Mae [Lewis] M041-052d 1935-06-16 Stockbridge
Phelps, Charlotte Miller M041-OO2dr 1937-12-10 Jackson
Phelps, Lefie M. [Smith] M04l-089dr 1927-04-30 Stockbridge
Phelps, Waity Ellen [Eggleston] M04 1-07 id 1933-12-24 Lansing
Phillips, Carrie Foster M041-027dr 1930-09-26 Stockbridge
Phillips, Carrie Foster M041-027dr 1933-08-23 Stockbridge
Phillips, Carrie Foster (Elmer) M041-072dr 193 1-03-06 Stockbridge
Phillips, Earl M041-1 14m 1928-06 Holland
Phillips, Elmer M04l-072d 193 1-03-06 Stockbridge
Phillips, Florence Lavina [Haviland] M04 1 -037dr 1934-01-24 Stockbridge
Phillips, Florence Lavina [Haviland] M04 1 -072d 1917-09-11 Stockbridge
Phillips, George H. M04 1 -072d Stockbridge
Phillips, Julie 0. York (George H.) M04 1 -072dr Stockbridge
Pickell, Eva Elizabeth [Teachout] M041-094d 1924-10-30 Unadilla Twp.
Pickell, Ishmail (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Pickell, Luella Rowe (irving) M04 I -094dr 1924-10-30
Pickett, Bessie [Hayner] M04 1 -OO3dr 1924-02-21 Leslie
Pickett, Esther H. Asquith (Eugene) M04 I -003d 1924-02-21 Stockbridge
Pickett, Lura I. Jones M04l-025dr 1937-11-21 Stockbridge
Picknell, Minnie [Yettaw] M04l-l l2dr
Pierce, Edward (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge
Pierce, Francis Johnson[Whitaker] M04 1-1 O7dr 1936-05-07 Gregory
Pierce, Ida May [Townsend] M04 1 -074dr 1926-11-07 Stockbridge
Pierce, Sarah A. Proctor M04 1 -073dr Stockbridge
Pierce, Sarah A. Proctor (Edward G.) M04 I -074d 1926-11-07 Stockbridge
Pineo, Addie [Kistler] M04 1 -072dr 1933-05-03 Stockbridge
Pineo, Alice Grubbs (George) M04 1 -072d 1933-05-03 Stockbridge
Pineo, George M041-072d 1933-05-06 Stockbridge
Pineo, Jennie [Day] M041-072dr 1933-05-03
Pineo, Mary [McDowell] M04 l-072dr 1933-05-03 IN, Royal Center
Pittinger, Edward J. (Liv. Co. WW1I) M04l-1 l3d 194?
Placeway, ???? Grieve (C. C.) M041-035dr 1915-10-30 Pinckney
Plummer, Wayne K. (Liv. Co. WWII) M04l-l 13d 194?
Pond, Clara Caskey M04l-Ol4dr 1914-12-08 Fowlerville
Pond, Clara Caskey M041-O6ldr 1936-03-24 Fowlerville
Poor, Geraldine Trapp M04 1-1 OOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Winamac
Porter, Martha [Jeffrey] M04 1 -048dr 1941-04-03
Powell, Alvira Standis M04 1-091 dr 1937-11-21 Jackson
Poxson, Charles H. M041-072d 1927-04-29 Miliville
Poxson, Jessie R. Hayes (Charles H.) M041-072dr 1927-04-29 MilIville
Price, Maggie Trapp M04 1-1 OOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Thornton
Prime, ???? Hopkins (C. P.) M041-039dr 1927-07-22 Holt
Pringle, Irene Lantis (Harry) M041-052dr White Oak Twp.
Proctor, ???? [Showers] M04l-073dr 1937 Dansville
Proctor, Asa (Class Night) M041-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Proctor, Bruce Wilson <E. Clayton> M041-073d Durand
Proctor, Edward John M041-073d 1937 Stockbridge
Proctor, Francis E. Lowe (George H.) M04 1 -073dr White Oak Tp.
Proctor, George H. M04 l-073d White Oak Twp.
Proctor, Ivarene (Eighth Grade) M04 1-1 13m 1928 Stockbridge
Proctor, Mary J. Wessel (George H.) M04 1 -073dr White Oak Twp.
Proctor, Monabelle [Dancer] M04 1-021 d 1935-12-16 Stockbridge
Proctor, Omadelle <Samuel> M04 1 -074d 1941-04-12 Stockbridge
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Proctor, Sarah A. [Pierce] M04 1 -073dr Stockbridge
Proctor, Sarah A. [Pierce] M04 1 -074d 1926-11-07 Stockbridge
Proctor, Sarah Naoma Wilson (Edward John) M04 1 -073dr 1937 Stockbridge C Proestel, ???? [Perry] M04 1 -073dr 1941-02-05 Wheeler
Proestel, August L. M04 1 -073d 1941-02-05 Midland
Proestel, Eliza Ackerson Hayner M04 1 -073dr 1941-02-05 Midland C Pulling, Ella [Binding] M041-OO5dr 1932-06-27 White Oak Twp.
Pulling, Ella [Binding] M041-074d 1926-08-28 Stockbridge
Pulling, Minnie [Dyer] M041-025dr 1936-06-26 White Oak Twp.
Pulling, Minnie M. [Dyer] M041-025d 1926-04-06 White Oak Twp.
Pultz, Mina Holt M04 I -039dr AK, Rison
Quick, Hannah S. [Jackson] M041-047dr 1928-02-26 Q Ralston, Clair (ideal sophomore boy) M04 1-1 14m
Ramsdall, Mrs. M04 1 -087dr Stockbridge
Ramsdell, ???? [Farrington] M041-076dr 1917-03-11 losco Twp. C Ramsdell, Edward T. Rev. (pic) M04 1 -075m Capac
Ramsdell, Guy 3. (home-pic) M04 1 -075m Stockbridge
Ramsdell, Lillie M. [Sharland] M041-075dr 1922-06-20 Dansville C Ramsdell, Lillie May [Sharland] M04l-075d 1916-01-25 Dansville
Ramsdell, Lizzie [Knight] M041-OSOdr 1902-10-14 Stockbridge
Ramsdell, Mary A. [Ramsdell] M04l-075dr 1922-06-20 Dansville C Ramsdell, Mary A. Ramsdell (John) M04 1 -075dr 1922-06-20 Dansville
Ramsdell, Newton M04 1 -076d 1907-07-29 Stockbridge
Ramsdell, Rosa Green (Daniel W.) M04 I -076dr 1907-07-29 Stockbridge (J
Ramsdell, Ruth Harriet <Daniel W.> M04 I -076d 1932-09-30 Stockbridge
Ramsdell, Susan Standish (Newton) M04 I -076dr 1907-07-29 Stockbridge
Ramsdell, Tessie [Farrington] M04 I -O4Odr 1937-04-15
Ramsdell, William M041-076d 1917-03-11 Plainfield
Ramsdell, Zella Ett Howell (William) M041-040d 1937-04-15 Plamfield
Ramsdill, ???? [Riggs] M04 1-001 dr 1919-01-04 Stockbridge a Ramsdill, ???? [Schneider] M041-OOldr 1919-01-04 Merrill
Ramsdill, ???? Green (D.) M041-033dr 1905-01-22
Ramsdill, ???? Green (Daniel) M04 1 -033dr 1925-05-24 C
Ramsdill, Grace [Adans] M041-OOld 1919-01-04 Mason
Raymond, ???? Force (Joe) M04 1 -027dr Stockbridge
Raymond, Florence Force M04 1 -027dr 1933-11-22 Blissfield C
Raymond, Harold (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-113d 194? Reader, Lloyd C. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194? Q
Reams, Daisy Cooper M041-Ol8dr 1925-06-19 Jackson 0
Reason, ???? [Wolever] M041-Ol3dr Lansing Reason, ???? Holmes M041-038dr 1925-02-18 East Lansing 0
Reason, Ida [Burden] M041-013d Lansing C
Reason, Lydia A. [Boyce] M04 I -076d 1925-01-22 Stockbridge 0 Rees, Mary Ann [Jones] M04 1 -076d 1914-07-24 Gregory
Reeves, ???? [Baker] M04 1 -O8Odr 1919-01-24 Lansing 0
Reeves, ???? [Mitteer] M04 1 -O8Odr 1919-01-24 Stockbridge 0 Reeves, ???? Gaylord (H. B.) M04 I -OO3dr Stockbridge
Reeves, Alice [Baker] M04 1 -004d 1922-04-04 Lansing 0
Reeves, Alta [Bowles] M041-077dr 1929-01-05 CA C Reeves, Alta [Bowles] M041-O8Odr 1919-01-24 Flint
Reeves, Barbara [McLaughlin] M041-077dr Whitmore Lake Q
Reeves, Clara [Mort] M04 1 -077dr 1929-12-08 CA, Los Angeles Q Reeves, Clara [Mort] M04 1 -079m 1927-10-31 CA, Los Angeles
Reeves, Clara [Mort] M04 1-O8Odr 1919-01-24 CA, Los Angeles
0
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M041-077d
M04 1-077th
M04 1 -077dr
M041-079m
M04 I -077d
M04 1-077dr
M041-079m
M04 1-080th
M041-077dr
M041-079m
M041-077d
M041-078m
M041-080d
M041-052dr
M04 1 -064d
M041-lO6dr
M04 1-O4Odr
M041-O4Odr
M041-060th
M041-009th
M041-OO9dr
M04 1-O6Odr
M041-060d
M041-OO9dr
M04 1-080th
M04 1-080d
M04 1-O8Odr
M04 1 -O8Odr
M041-O8Odr
M041-O8Odr
M041-O8Odr
M04 1 -O8Odr
M041-O8Odr
M041-1 14m
M041-080d
M041-081th
M041-O8ldr
M041-O8ldr
M04 1 -048dr
M04 1 -086dr
M041-081d
M041-054dr
M041-O3ldr
M04 1-11 4m
M041-1 13d
M041-081d
M041-lO7dr
M041-115w
M041-1 15w
M041-OOldr
M041-1 15m
M041-080d
M041-069d
M04l-O8Odr
1934-04-05
1934-04-05
1934-04-05
1934-04-05
1934-04-05
1934-04-05
1934-04-05
192 1-05-19
192 1-05-19
192 1-05-19
1922-08- 14
1922-08- 14
1922-08- 14
1936-07- 18
1932- 12-21
1922-08- 14
1926-03-09
1902-07-27
1904-04
194?
193 1-03-19
1903-12-09
1903- 12-09
1919-01-04
1938-09-03
1938-09-03
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
Kalamazoo
OH, Cleveland
Sarona
Lansing
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
losco Twp.
Pontiac
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Lyndon T.
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1929-01-05 Detroit
CA, Paso Robles
1929-12-08 CA, Paso Robles
1927-10-31 CA, Paso Robles
Stockbridge
1929-12-08 Stockbridge
1927-10-31 St. Johns
19 19-01-24 St. Johns
1929-12-08 Stockbridge
1927-10-31 Stockbridge
1929-12-08 Stockbridge
1927-10-31 Stockbridge
1919-01-24 Stockbridge
Jackson
1932 Stockbridge
1941-01-06 Jackson
Stockbridge
1934-12-11 Stockbridge
Reeves, Emily Topping (Howell)
Reeves, Emma B. [Gillette]
Reeves, Erma B. [Gillette]
Reeves, Erma B. [Gillette]
Reeves, Helen B. Gaylord (Horton B.)
Reeves, Helen B. Gaylord (Horton)
Reeves, Hettie [Hicks]
Reeves, Hettie [Hicks]
Reeves, Hortense [Mitteer]
Reeves, Hortense [Mitteer]
Reeves, Horton
Reeves, Horton B. (50th anniversary)
Reeves, Howell
Reeves, Mandy Lantis
Reeves, Ortance [Mitteer]
Reichle, Cassie Mrs.
Reid, ???? Howell (Alex)
Reid, Vina Howlett
Reithmiller, ???? [Brogan]
Reithmiller, ???? [McClear]
Reithmiller, ???? [Rose]
Reithmiller, ???? [Rose]
Reithmiller, Nettie [McCleer]
Reithmiller, Paulina [Brogan]
Rheingans, Hester [White]
Rheingans, John Henry Rev.
Rheingans, Lois [Huntington]
Rheingans, Martha Marie Andrews (John FL)
Rheingans, Mary Kehrein (Phillip)
Rheingans, Minnie [Johnson]
Rheingans, Verna Armstrong (John H.)
Rice, ???? [Williams]
Rice, Emma Horwood (Wilsey)
Rice, Wesley (ideal sophomore boy)
Rice, Wilsey
Richison, ???? [Fineout]
Richison, ???? [Frederikson]
Richison, ???? [Owen]
Richison, I. J.
Richison, Maude [Sellers]
Richison, Maude Rachel [Sellers]
Richmond, ???? Hastings (Grant)
Richmond, ???? Townsend (Arthur)
Richmond, A. L.
Richmond, William (Liv. Co. WWII)
Riemschnider, Alma Huldah Boyce(Howard M.)
Riethmiller, Dora Westfall (George M.)
Riethmiller, Dora Westfall (Herman)
Riethmiller, Herman
Riggs, ???? Ramsdill (Herman)
Riggs, Julia [Shaw]
Riggs, Julia Caroline [Shaw]
Riggs, Sarah [Oakley]
Riggs, Sarah [Oakley]
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C Rippey, Mattie Sellers M041-086dr 1932-12-21
Roberts, Andrew B. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Roberts, Florence [Dutton] M04 I -025dr 1938-03-22 Plainfield (J
Roberts, Florence Wainright M041-lO3dr 1919-03-06
Roberts, Lorna [Kenyon] M04 1 -025dr 1938-03-22 Hillman
Robeson, ???? [Ashmore] M041-082dr 1934-05-11 Stockbridge Q Robeson, ???? DeWitt (Clyde) M04 1-1 l2dr Stockbridge
Robeson, Clyde (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Robeson, Evelyn M041-092m 1936 Stockbridge
Robeson, Lauda (Class Night) M04 1-11 4m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Robeson, Lena M. Sunimerfeldt (Thos. Edw.) M041-082dr 1934-05-11 Stockbridge
Robeson, Thomas Edward M04 1 -082d 1934-05-11 Stockbridge Q Robison, Emma A. [Glattley] M041-082d 1929-08-20 losco Twp.
Robison, Emma A. [Glattly] M04 I -032dr losco Twp.
Rockwell, ???? Grimes M04 1 -O6Odr 1934-10-25 Stockbridge C Rockwell, Ahna [MacNamara] M04 I -082dr
Rockwell, Dennis M. M041-082d
Rockwell, Jane Macintyre (John) M04 1-082dr Q Rockwell, Mary D. Headley (Dennis M.) M04 I -082dr
Rockwell, May [Howlett] M04 I -082dr Pontiac
Rockwood, ???? [Maddox] M041-082dr Leslie C Rockwood, Susie Anna Shreve (George) M04 1 -082dr Lansing
Roepcke, Albert M04 1 -083d Unadilla Twp.
Roepcke, Belle Coats (Albert) M04 1 -083dr Unadilla Twp. Cl Roepcke, Clara Hill M04 1 -038dr 1922-04-06
Roepcke, Lizzie McIntyre (Fred) M04 I -083d
Roepcke, Louis (Boyce Reunion) M041-007m 1936-08-13 C Roepcke, Max A. M041-083d 19 15-12-07 Unadilla Twp. Q Rogers, Frederica Bro’s M04 1-009m Jackson
Rohrabacher, Kenneth (Liv. Co. WWII) M04 1-Il 3d 194?
Rolfe, Emma Eliza [James] M041-083d 19 15-02-24 Howell C Rolfe, Oma <James> M041-083d Howell
Rose, ???? [Beeman] M04 1 -O9Odr C Rose, ???? Reithiniller (Myron) M04 I -OO9dr C Rose, ???? Reithmiller (Myron) M04 I -O6Odr Jackson
Rose, E. S. (building barn) M041-I 14m 1904-04 C Rose, Sarah J. Snyder (Charles A.) M04 1 -090d Stockbridge C Rosser, Edwin R. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Rowe, Dr. M04 1-011m Stockbridge C Rowe, Ethel [Smith] M041-084dr 1933-12-06 Stockbridge C Rowe, George A. Dr. M04 I -084d Stockbridge
Rowe, Hattie C. Finch (Foster M.) M04l-084d 1933-12-06 Stockbridge C
Rowe, Luella [Pickell] M04 1 -094dr 1924-10-30 C Rowe, Nellie Runciman (George A.) M04 1 -084dr Stockbridge
Rowe, Pearl [Cochrane] M04 1 -084dr 1933-12-06 Mayfield C
Royston, ???? Kelley (Guy) M04 1 -049dr 1931-04-29 Mason C Rubbins, Lucy [Taylor] M04 1 -094dr Unadilla Twp.
Runciman, Glada M04 1-01 7dr Stockbridge C
Runciman, Nellie [Rowe] M04 I -084dr Stockbridge C Saigeon, Hattie Murphy (M. R) M04 I -085dr Lansing
Saigeon, M. R. Rev. M04 1 -085d Lansing
Saigeon, Margaret [Cole] M04 1-085dr Detroit C Saigeon, Sarah [Tucker] M041-085dr Imlay City
Sanders, Annabell [Sharp] M04 1-087dr Jackson
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Sanford, Sarah [Cameron] M041-Ol4dr 1935-02-03 Plainfield
Saroski, Edward T. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Sawdy, Andrew Bertran M041-085d 194 1-02-02 Stockbridge
Sawdy, Anna Isham M041-046dr 1925-01-28
Sawdy, Nora [Bull] M041-Ol2dr 194 1-05-27 Gregory
Sawdy. Nora [Bull] M041-085dr 1941-02-02 Gregory
Sawyer, ???? Smith (Gerald) M041-Ol9dr Alma
Sawyer, Anna Lila Bott M041-OO6dr 1937-11-09 Mason
Sayles, ???? [Marshall] M041-085dr 194 1-06-29 OK, Oklahoma Cty
Sayles, ???? [Scofield] M041-085dr 1941-06-29 Detroit
Sayles, 7??? [Whipp] M04 1 -085dr 1941-06-29 Lansing
Sayles, 7??? VanSyckel (J. G.) M04l-lOldr 1916-05-16 Stockbridge
Sayles, Agnes L. [Cranston] M04 1-018th 1918-10-19 Stockbridge
Sayles, John M041-085d 1914-09-25 Stockbridge
Sayles, Nellie Sharland (John) M041-O8Sdr 19 14-09-25 Stockbridge
Sayles, Sarah V. M04 1-085d 1941-06-29 OK, Oklahoma Cty
Scheffer, Charles T. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Scheffer, Francis S. (Liv. Co. WWTI) M041-1 13d 194?
Schmidt, 9??? Swartz M041-093dr Ann Arbor
Schmidt, Oscar A. M041-086d 1923-04-19 Jackson
Schmidt, Stacia Schwartz (Oscar A.) M041-086dr 1923-04-19
Schneider, 7??? Ramsdill (Henry) M041-OOldr 1919-01-04 Merrill
Schoenals, 9??? Brown M041-067dr 1-lowell
Schray, Eva Wilson M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Munith
Schubler, Cora Belle M041-085dr 1941-02-02 Washington
Schwantz, Grace M. Glattley M041-082dr 1929-08-20 TA, Afton
Schwartz, Stacia [Schmidt] M041-086dr 1923-04-19
Scofield, 7??? Sayles (Donald W.) M041-085dr 1941-06-29 Detroit
Scott, Wilson (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Scoville, ?
fl? [Battery] M04 I -086dr 1902-11-12
Scoville, 9??? [Kimball] M041-086dr 1902-11-12
Scoville, 7??? [Stephens] M041-086dr 1902-11-12
Scoville, 7??? [Thorburn] M04 I -086dr 1902-11-12
Scoville, 9??? [Topping] M041-086dr 1902-11-12
Scoville, Almina A. Adams (Stewart N.) M041-086d 1902-11-12 White Oak Tcp.
Sdunek, Eunice (Class Night) M041-l 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Secor, Sarah Caskey M041-OI4dr 1914-12-08
Sellers, ???? [Cook] M041-086dr 1932-12-21 Lansing
Sellers, Grace [Brower] M041-O8ldr 1922-08-14
Sellers, Henry M041-086d 1932-12-21
Sellers, Lillie [Barton] M041-086dr 1932-12-21 Howell
Sellers, Mattie [Rippey] M041-086dr 1932-12-21
Sellers, Maude Rachel Richison (Henry) M041-081d 1922-08-14 Stockbridge
Sellers, Maude Richison (Henry) M041-086dr 1932-12-21
Sessions, Gordon L. (Liv. Co. WWII) M04l-l l3d 194?
Sharland, Li?? (George) M041-087d Stockbridge
Sharland, Lillie M. Ramsdell M041-075dr 1922-06-20 Dansville
Sharland, Lillie May Ramsdell (William) M041-075d 1916-01-25 Dansville
Sharland, Nellie [Sayles] M041-085dr 1914-09-25 Stockbridge
Sharp, 7??? [Glover] M041-087dr 1936-08-09 Wolverine
Sharp, 7??? [Hale] M04l-087dr 1936-08-09 Williamston
Sharp, 7??? [Noyes] M04 1 -087dr 1936-08-09 losco Twp.
Sharp, Agnes [Bullis] M041-094dr 1940-06-10 Pinckney
Sharp, Annabell Sanders (William E.) M041-087dr Jackson
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Sharp, Clara Mable Noyes (Charles) M04 1 -088d 1938-01-15 CA, Brawley
Sharp, Clifford M04 1-01 7dr Jackson
Sharp, Edith [Ostrander] M04 1 -087dr Q
Sharp, Edith L. [Ostrander] M04 1 -087d 1918-02-23 Stockbridge
Sharp, Edna Force M04 1 -027dr 1933-11-22 011, Sylvania
Sharp, Elisabeth [Taylor] M04 I -094d 1940-06-10 Stockbridge Q
Sharp, Fredrick W. M04 1 -087d Stockbridge
Sharp, Isabell [Bowen] M04 1 -094dr 1940-06-10 Gregory
Sharp, Jane [Ayrault] M041-094dr 1940-06-10 CA C
Sharp, Jennie L. Mapes (Frederick W.) M04 1 -057d 1921-11-15 Stockbridge
Sharp, Laura [Hutson] M041-094dr 1940-06-10 Stockbridge
Sharp, Lillie [Townsend] M041-087dr 1918-02-23 Q
Sharp, Lillie [Towsend] M04 1 -087dr Jackson
Sharp, Mary M. (William) M041-087d 1936-08-09 losco Twp.
Sharp, Mma [Ellsworth] M04 1 -094dr 1940-06-10 Stockbridge C
Sharp, William E. M04 1 -087d Jackson
Sharpe, Edna Force M04 1 -027dr OH, Sylvania
Shaw, Ethel Lillywhite M041-053dr 1914-03-11 Leslie C
Shaw, Ethel Lillywhite M041-053dr 1939-08-06 Leslie
Shaw, Julia Caroline Riggs (Charles) M04 1 -080d 1938-09-03
Shaw, Julia Riggs M04 1-11 Sm Stockbridge C
Shelley, Carolyn (Mapes reunion) M041-059b
Sherman, Edson (Boyce Reunion) M04 1 -007m 1936-08-13
Sherman, Mary J. [Wasson] M04 1- lO4dr KS, Ottawa C
Sherriff, Florence Mrs. M04 1 -O9Odr 1934-10-01 CA, Los Angeles
Sherwood, Carolyn Belle <Donald> M04 1-11 5b Stockbridge
Shinn, Clara Mable Noyes (Elmer) M04 1 -088d 1938-01-15 CA, Brawley
Showers, ???? Proctor (Earl) M041-073dr 1937 Dansville
Showers, Libbie Martin M04 1 -O6Odr 1904-11-25
Showers, Permelia A. Dickerson (Joseph) M04 1 -024d 1917-09-21 White Oak Twp. C
Shreve, Rena [Neville] M04 1 -082dr OH, Pauling
Shreve, Susie Anna [Rockwood] M04 I -082d Lansing
Shreve, Zena [Snodgrass] M041-082dr OH, Pauling C
Sias, Donald E. (hotel fire) M041-043d 1934-12-11 Lansing
Simonds, Alma Hicks (Herman) M04 1-03 8dr 1931-04-21
Singer, Frederick (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194? C
Singleton, ???? Kelley (Grover) M04 I -049dr 1931-04-29 Stockbridge C Singleton, Eunice [Cobb] M04 1-01 6dr Stockbridge
Skidmore, C. A. (moving to CA) M04 1-1 14m 1904-04-22 CA C
Skidmore, Clint (65th anniversary) M04 1-088m 1941-03-22 Stockbridge C Skidmore, Elnathan J. (commencement) M041-1 13m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge
Skidmore, Emma Cain (Clinton) M04 1 -088m 1941-03-22 Stockbridge C
Sleaford, Merrie Mierndorf M04 1-1 O3dr 1934-02-10 Locke Twp. C Smith, ???? [Laughlin] M04 I -092dr 1928-01 Lansing
Smith, ???? [Sawyer] M041-Ol9dr Alma C
Smith, ???? [Yettaw] M041-089dr 1935-07-24 C Smith, ???? Buhi (W.) M04 1-01 2dr 1930-09-09 CA
Smith, Alice Jane [Stowe] M041-092d 1928-01 C
Smith, Amelia [McCarthy] M04 1 -089dr 1929-01-1 Grand Rapids Q Smith, Amelia Hannah Alexander (Fred C.) M04 1-00 id 1934-11-14 Stockbridge
Smith, Ami C. M041-089d 1935-07-24 Stockbridge C
Smith, Anna Wasson M04 1-1 O5dr 1923-04-05 CA, Los Angeles Q Smith, Annie Neithaminer M04 I -067dr 1927-04-26 Webberville
Smith, Bertha Butler (Marcus) M04 1 -089d Jackson 0
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Smith, Davis M. M041-089d 1940-03-08 Stockbridge
Smith, Donald (ideal sophomore boy) M041-1 14m
Smith, Donald (ideal sophomore boy) M041-1 14m
Smith, Dorothy Daniels (Floyd)(Mapes reunion) M041-059w
Smith, Earl M04 1 -089d Stockbridge
Smith, Elnora C. [Hartsufl] M041-089d 1929-01-15
Smith, Ethel Rowe M041-084dr 1933-12-06 Stockbridge
Smith, Eugene M041-089d 1927-04-30 Stockbridge
Smith, Ferris L. M041-lO5dr Howell
Smith, Flossie M. [Martin] M041-089dr 1927-04-30
Smith, Floyd (Mapes reunion) M04 1-059w
Smith, Frank (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Smith, Gladys Lucinda [Townsend] M04 1 -090d 1928-06-14 Stockbridge
Smith, Grant M04 1-11 5d Stockbridge
Smith, Grant F. M04 1 -090d Stockbridge
Smith, H. R Mrs. M041-035dr 1915-10-30
Smith, Harold V. (Liv. Co. VWII) M041-l 13d 194?
Smith, Lefie M. Phelps (Eugene) M04 1 -089dr 1927-04-30 Stockbridge
Smith, Maria Jane Jackson M04 1 -047dr 1928-02-26 Howell
Smith, Mary [McIntyre] M04 1 -092dr 1928-01 Webberville
Smith, Mary Niethammer (Ami C.) M041-089dr 1935-07-24 Stockbridge
Smith, Merna [Arnold] M041-O9Odr 1928-06-14 Dansville
Smith, Nellie Marie Cramer (Elvin L.) M041-019d Stockbridge
Smith, Phyllis (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Smith, Phyllis (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-11 4m
Smith, Sarah Ettie [Williams] M041-090d 1921-05-27 White Oak Twp.
Smith, Winifred [Topping] M041-097w 1924-12-31 Fowlerville
Snodgrass, Zena Shreve M041-082dr OH, Pauling
Snow, Inez Standish M04 1-091 dr 1937-11-21 Charlotte
Snyder, Eugenia Cramer M04 1-01 9dr Ovid
Snyder, Sarah J. [Rose] M04 I -090d Stockbridge
Solomon, ???? Lowe (Karl H.) M04 1 -054dr 1933-07-27 TX, Houston
Sommer, ???? [Chipman] M04 1 -O9Odr 1931-04-07 Jackson
Sommer, ???? [Goodwin] M04 1 -O9Odr 1931-04-07 TN, Cleveland
Somnier, ???? [Whitney] M04 1-090th 1931-04-07 Jackson
Sommer, ???? Nichols (Emil) M041-067dr
Sommer, Phillip M041-090d 193 1-04-07 Jackson
Sooey, Frances Oakley M04 1 -069dr Stockbridge
Soper, Eugene (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Soules, ma [Dutcher] M041-O9Odr 1934-10-01
Soules, ma E. [Dutcher] M041-025dr 1940-10-15 Millville
Soules, Lentha Eleanor [Lester] M04 1 -090d 1934-10-01 CA, Los Angeles
Soules, Louisa Miller M041-063dr 19 17-04-26
Spece, Eona I. [Trapp] M041-lOOdr 1939-01-17
Spece, Lulu Trapp M041-lOOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Lapas
Spooner, Belle VanSyckle M041-lOldr 1924-09-19 Battle Creek
Springman, ???? Green (Fred) M041-033dr 1918-12-04 Stockbridge
Springman, Charles M. M04 1-091 d Stockbridge
Standish, Alice [Nims] M041-O9ldr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Standish, Alvira [Powell] M041-O9ldr 1937-11-21 Jackson
Standish, Clara [Hastings] M04 1-091 dr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Standish, Cynthia Ives M04 1-091 dr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Standish, George W. M041-091d 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
Standish, Ida [Coulson] M04 1-091 dr 1902-07-03 Stockbridge
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Standish, Inez [Snow] M041-O9ldr 1937-11-21 CharLotte
Standish, Margaret [Hines] M041-091dr 1937-1 1-21 HoLt
Standish, Mary [Braziel M041-O9ldr 1902-07-03 Q Standish, Mary Ann Kelley (Smith) M041-091d 1937-11-21 Stockbridge
Standish, Sarah [HowLett] M041-O9ldr 1937-11-21 DansviLLe
Standish, Susan [Ramsdell] M04 I -076dr 1907-07-29 Stockbridge C
Stanfield, ???? Neithammer (Oland) M04 1 -067dr 1927-04-26 Stockbridge
Stanfield, Sarah [Barth] M04 1 -OO5dr 1927-04-25 Stockbridge
Staning, Opal [Titus] M04 1 -095dr 1924-04-04 Webberville C
Steele, Margaret [Norton] M041-068d Dansville
Steinacker, Lawrence R. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Stephens, ???? [Aldrich] M04 1-001 d 1926-05-11 Stockbridge C
Stephens, ???? Scoville (Charles) M041-086dr 1902-11-12
Stephens, Jennie Mimer M041-092dr 1917-10-15
Stephens, Olin Mrs. (commencement) M04 1-11 3m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge C
Stephens, Paul (pic) M04 I -092m 1936 Stockbridge
Stetler, Anna Williams M04 1 -O9Odr 1921-05-27 Springport
Stevens, Bessie [Wiegman] M04 1-108w 0
Stevens, Christine Whitney (Rusell Franklin) M04 1 -092dr 1937-06-03 Stockbridge
Stevens, Gladys (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Stevens, Gladys [Whitney] M04 I -092dr 193 7-06-03 0
Stevens, Grace [Binding] M04 1 -OO5dr 1932-06-27
Stevens, Margaret [Gowing] M04 1 -092dr 1937-06-03
Stevens, Mrs. M041-lO5dr 1907-01-13 Plainfield Q
Stevens, Myrtle M. Jones M041-025dr 1937-11-21 Webberville
Stevens, Rusell Franklin M04 1 -092d 1937-06-03 Jackson
Stiff, ???? Cramer (U. G.) M04 1-01 9dr Owosso (3
Stiles, Hazel Ives (Luman P.) M041-092d 1934-06-05 Jackson
Stitt, ???? Townsend (George) M041-062dr 1932-05-30 Stockbridge
Stocking (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge C
Stocking, Catherine [Mimer] M04 I -064dr 1931-09-16
Stocking, Catherine Amelia [Mimer] M04 1 -092d 1917-10-15 Stockbridge
Stocking, Charles Howard (commencement) M041-1 13m 1903-06-17 Stockbridge CJ
Stocking, E. M041-1 14m 1928-06 Owosso
Stocking, Emily Melissa [Townsend] M041-092d White Oak Twp.
Stocking, Hiram M04 1-055w 1836 Stockbridge 0
Stocking, Melissa [Townsend] M04 1 -092dr 1917-10-15
Stocking, Rachel Lowe (Hiram) M04 1-055w 1836 Stockbridge
Stowe, Alice Jane Smith (Wirt 1.) M041-092d 1928-0 1 0
Stowe, Edith Lillywhite M04 1 -053dr 1914-03-11 Jackson
Stowe, Edith Lillywhite M04 1 -053dr 1939-08-06 Jackson
Stowell, Mary Miller (Henry) M04 1-023d 1940-12-30 Rochester 0
Stroud, Mary (A. J.) M041-O6ldr
Summerfeldt, Lena M. [Robeson] M04 I -082dr 1934-05-Il Stockbridge
Sutton, Margaret [Cool] M041-Ol7dr 1907-01-15 C
Swanson, Emma Peterson M04 1-11 Sm 1936-06-25 Stockbridge
Swanson, Maybelle Grosshans (Norman F.) M041-035d 1948-10-13 Grass Lake
Swartz, ???? [Schmidt] M04 1 -093dr Ann Arbor C
Swartz, George M04 1 -093d Ann Arbor
Swartz, Mary Bums (George) M04 1 -093dr Ann Arbor
Sweet, ???? Brogan (J. J.) M041-OO9dr 1933-02-08 Battle Creek 0
Sweet, ???? Mapes M04 1 -059dr Gregory (J Sweet, Adah M. M041-093d 1934-01-20 FL, Miami
Sweet, Anna M. [Camburn] M041-093dr 1934-01-20 0
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Sweet, C. E. (Mapes reunion) M04 1 -059m Gregory
Sweet, Dorothy (ideal sophomore girl) M04 I-i 14m
Sweet, Maxine Mrs. (Mapes reunion) M04 1 -059m Chelsea
Sweet, Sarah A. Finch M04 1 -084dr 1933-12-06 WA, Spokane
Sweet, Susie Mapes (Courtland) M04 1 -057dr losco Twp.
Szymanski, Victor E. (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Taft, Sarah Cool M04 1 -048dr Detroit
Taylor, Alfred M041-094d Unadilla Twp.
Taylor, Elisabeth Sharp (Amos) M041-094d 1940-06-10 Stockbridge
Taylor, Evelyn Marie <June> M041-094d 1937-12-16 Jackson
Taylor, Lucy Rubbins (Alfred) M041-094dr Unadilla Twp.
Taylor, Nellie [Glenn] M041-032dr 1934-01-09 Stockbridge
Taylor, Sylvia Votes (June) M04 1 -094dr 1937-12-16 Stockbridge
Taylor, Tillia Williams M041-O9Odr 192 1-05-27 Dansville
Teachout, Charles F. M041-094d 1937-05-22 Unadilla Twp.
Teachout, Edna [Palmer] M04 1 -094dr 1937-05-22 Chelsea
Teachout, Eva Elizabeth Pickell (Bruce) M04 1-094d 1924-10-30 Unadilla Twp.
Teachout, Jean (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Tester, Ernest (Liv. Co. WWII) M04 1-11 3d 194?
Thomas, Roy (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-ll3d 194?
Thompson, ???? [Barker] M04 1 -OO7dr Munith
Thompson, ???? [Clements] M04 1 -094dr Stockbridge
Thompson, ???? Haviland (W. S.) M041-037dr 1940 Flint
Thompson, Fern L. (Class Night) M04 1-1 14m 1928-06 Stockbridge
Thompson, George M04 1 -094d Jackson
Thompson, H. A. M041-1 14m 1928-06 Detroit
Thompson, Ida M. [Bollinger] M04 1 -OOSdr 1930-04-04 Gregory
Thompson, Iva Haviland M04 1-037th 1934-01-24 Stockbridge
Thompson, Iva Haviland M04 1 -072dr 1917-09-11 Stockbridge
Thompson, Jennie E. [Boyce] M04 1 -007d Stockbridge
Thompson, Theo. M041-1 14m 1928-06 Williamston
Thomson, ???? Dean (W. L.) M041-028dr Albion
Thorbum, ???? Scoville (Thomas) M041-086dr 1902-1 1-12
Titus, ???? [Marshall] M04 1 -095dr 1924-04-04 Stockbridge
Titus, Alpha C. M041-095d 1936-03-11 Munith
Titus, Emma Olds (Alpha C.) M041-095dr 1936-03-11 Munith
Titus, Ethel Louise [Marshall] M041-095dr 1936-03-11 White Oak Twp.
Titus, Ethel Louise [Marshall] M04 1 -095dr 1925-11-03 White Oak Twp.
Titus, Kate L. Lake (Alpha C.) M041-095dr 1936-03-11
Titus, Lina M. M041-095d Mason
Titus, Marilda Hopkins (Miliville J.) M041-095dr 1936-03-il
Titus, Nora VanAiken (Manley J.) M041-095d 1934-04-12 Ann Arbor
Titus, Opal Stan ing (Robert William) M04 1-095th 1924-04-04 Webberville
Titus, Robert William M041-095d 1924-04-04 Webberville
Titus, Sarah Ann Lake (Alpha C.) M041-095d 1925-11-03 White Oak Twp.
Titus, Winnie M04 1 -096d Mason
Topping, ???? [Briggs] M04 1 -098dr 1932-01-30 Howell
Topping, ???? Braley (E. L.) M041-OO8dr 1935-03-15 Plainfield
Topping, ???? Braley (E. L.) M041-OO8dr 1933-09-20 Plainfield
Topping, ???? Grieve (S. G.) M041-035dr 1915-10-30 Plainfield
Topping, ???? Scoville (0. L.) M041-086dr 1902-11-12
Topping, Carl Emerson M04 1-097w 1924-12-31 Jackson
Topping, E. L. (M.P. church dedicated) M041-l 14m 1907-01-27 Plainfield
Topping, Emily [Reeves] M04 1 -077d 1929-01-05 Detroit
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Topping, Emmet LaVerne M04 1 -098d 1935-05-22 Plainfield
Topping, Florence [Alles] M04 1 -098dr 1935-05-22 Detroit
Topping, Florence [Alles] M04 1 -098dr 1938-01-12 Detroit
Topping, Harriet Grieve (Sylvester G.) M04 I -035d Plamfield
Topping, Harriet Grieve (Sylvester G.) M04l-098dr 1932-01-30 Plamfield
Topping, Jessie E. Braley (Erumet LaVerne) M04 1-098dr 1935-05-22 Plainfleld Q
Topping, Jessie Edna Braley (Emmet LaVerne) M041-098d 1938-01-12 Plainfleld
Topping, Lysander (M.P. church dedicated) M04 1-1 14m 1868-09-23 Plainfleld
Topping, Marian [Kinsey] M04 1 -098dr 1935-05-22 Plainfield C
Topping, Marion [Kinsey] M04 1 -098dr 1938-01-12 Plainfield
Topping, Sylvester G. M041-098d 1932-01-30 Plainfield
Topping, Winifred Smith (Carl Emerson) M041-097w 1924-12-31 Fowlerville C
Townsend, ?7?? [Congdon] M041-lOOm 1935-11-17
Townsend, ???? [Richmond] M04 1-031 dr 1902-07-27 Stockbridge
Townsend, ???? [StiLt] M041-062dr 1932-05-30 Stockbridge C
Townsend, Adel [Felton] M04 1-031 dr 1902-07-27 White Oak Twp.
Townsend, Alpheus D. M04 1 -098d Port Huron
Townsend, Anjantee [Cameron] M04 1-0 14d 1927-03-29 C
Townsend, Asenath 0. [God ley] M04 1-031 d 1902-07-27 Stockbridge
Townsend, Belle [Fineout] M04 1-031 dr 1902-07-27 Barryton
Townsend, Charles (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge C
Townsend, Emily Melissa Stocking (Martin B.) M04 1 -092d White Oak Twp.
Townsend, Flora [Cooper] M04 1-031 dr 1902-07-27 Mayville
Townsend, Flora [McKenzie] M04 I -062d 1932-05-30 OH, Cleveland C
Townsend, Gladys Lucinda Smith (Fay M.) M04 1 -090d 1928-06-14 Stockbridge
Townsend, Ida May Pierce M04 1 -074dr 1926-11-07 Stockbridge
Townsend, Liflie J. Mapes M041-057dr 192 1-1 1-15 Jackson C
Townsend, Lillie Sharp M04 1 -087dr 1918-02-23
Townsend, Lydia C. [Van Syckel] M04 1-1 O2dr 1915-08-06 Plainfield
Townsend, Melissa Stocking M04 1 -092dr 1917-10-15 C
Townsend, William (50th anniversary) M041-099m 1935-11-17
Townsend, William (50th anniversary) M04l-lOOm 1935-11-17
Towsend, Lillie Sharp M04 1 -087dr Jackson C
Trapp, David Henry M041-lOOd 1939-01-17
Trapp, Elizabeth [Tuley] M041-l00dr 1939-01-17 IN, Winamac
Trapp, Eona I. Spece (David Henry) M041-lOOdr 1939-01-17 C
Trapp, Estella [Tuley] M041-lOOdr 1939-01-17 Kalamazoo
Trapp, Geraldine [Poor[ M04 1-1 OOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Winamac
Trapp, Lulu [Spece] M041-lOOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Lapas C
Trapp, Maggie [Price] M04 1-1 OOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Thornton
Trapp, Susie [Zellers] M041-l00dr 1939-01-17 IN, Winamac
Tucker, Sarah Saigeon M041-085dr Imlay City C
Tuley, Elizabeth Trapp M041-l00dr 1939-01-17 IN, Winamac
Tuley, Estella Trapp M041-l00dr 1939-01-17 Kalamazoo
Turner, ???? Miller (Harry A.) M04l-063dr 19 17-04-26 CA, Whittier C
Tyler, Lorna D. [Wasson] M04 1-114w 1909-10-09 Jackson
Usher, Esther Mrs. M04 I -046m Stockbridge
VanAiken, Belle [Cave] M041-095dr 1934-04-12 Gladwin C
VanAiken, Nell [Hartranft] M041-095dr 1934-04-12 IN, South Bend C VanAiken, Nora [Titus] M041-095d 1934-04-12 Aim Arbor
VanBuren (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge C)
VanDeusen, Dr. M041-Ol6m 1934-08 Mason (J VanDuesen, George M04 1 -048dr 1936-07-18
VanGorder, Loretta [Votes] M04 1-1 O2dr 1925-05-27 White Oak Twp. CC
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VanSyckel, 7??? [Sayles] M04 1-101 dr 1916-05-16 Stockbridge
VanSyckel, Ada N. Gauss (Frank Montague) M041-lOldr 1930-10-01 Plainfield
VanSyckel, Edgar M04 1-101 d 1916-05-16 Plainfield
VanSyckel, Eugenia [Delamarter] M041-lOldr 1930-10-01 Unadilla Twp.
VanSyckel, Frank Montague M041-lOld 1930-10-01 Plainfleld
VanSyckel, John Firmon M041-102d 1915-08-06 Plainfield
VanSyckel, Louisa [Black] M041-lOldr 1930-10-01 Lansing
VanSyckel, Louise Montague (Edgar) M041-lOldr 1930-10-01
VanSyckel, Lydia C. Townsend (John Firmon) M041-lO2dr 1915-08-06 Plainfleld
VanSyckel, Mary Louise Montague (Edgar) M041-lOldr 1916-05-16 Plainfield
VanSyckel, Mary Louise Montague (Edgar) M041-102d Plainfield
VanSyckle, Belle [Spooner] M041-lOldr 1924-09-19 Battle Creek
VanSyckle, Ellen Augusta Parker (David F.) M04l-lOld 1924-09-19 Battle Creek
VanSyckle, Mary [Cool] M041-048d Plainfleld
Vansyckle, Mary [Cool] M04 I -048dr
VanVoros, Sarah [Moule] M04 1 -066dr Unadilla Twp.
VanWinkle, John (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Veits, Adeline B. [Watson] M041-lOSdr 1907-01-13
Vicary, Ada [Harkness] M04 I -037dr 1934-10-23
Viele, 7??? McColl M04 1-061 dr KS, Caidwell
Vincent, Lester Mrs. M04 1-028dr Mason
Vinton, Blanche Wilson M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Jackson
Voegts, Frank J. M041-102d 1934-08-24 Plainfield
Voegts, Jennie Brearley (Frank J.) M041-l02dr 1934-08-24 Plainfield
Voghts, Elizabeth M. [Walker] M041-lO3dr 1938-12-16 Plainfield
Voorhees, Vem (hotel fire) M041-043d 1934-12-1 1 Lansing
Votes, 7??? Cook (Lawton) M04 1-01 7dr
Votes, Frederick M041-102d 1925-05-27 White Oak Twp.
Votes, Loretta VanGorder (Frederick) M04 1-1 O2dr 1925-05-27 White Oak Twp.
Votes, Sylvia [Taylor] M04 1 -094dr 1937-12-16 Stockbridge
Vredenburgh, Minnie Lewis M041-IO8dr 1925-01-26 Fowlerville
Vyse, Orvin (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Wainright, Florence [Roberts] M04 1-1 O3dr 1919-03-06
Wainright, Laura [Caskey] M04 1-1 03d 1919-03-06 Stockbridge
Walker, 7??? Carpenter (Earl) M04l-Ol4dr 1934-10-25 White Oak Twp.
Walker, ???? Kellogg (Ernest) M04 1 -049dr 1934-02-23 Leslie
Walker, ???? Parker (James) M041-lOldr 1924-09-19 Plainfleld
Walker, Elizabeth M. Voghts (James S.) M041-lO3dr 1938-12-16 Plainfield
Walker, James S. M041-103d 1938-12-16 Plainfleld
Walker, Olive Carpenter M041-028dr 1932-04-22 White Oak Twp.
Wallace, Sarah E. Whited (Anthony F.) M041-108d 1925-01-26 Webberville
Walz, 7??? [Crippen] M04 1-I O3dr 1926-06-08 Jackson
Walz, ???? [O’Dell] M041-lO3dr 1926-12-14 Detroit
Walz, Allie Palmer (George) M041-lO3dr 1926-06-08 Stockbridge
Walz, Arthur Mrs. (Artz Reunion) M041-002m 1936
Walz, Fred M041-103d 1926-12-14 Stockbridge
Walz, George M041-103d 1926-06-08 Stockbridge
Walz, Harold Mrs. (Artz Reunion) M04 1 -002m 1936
Walz, Isaphine Barber (Fred) M04l-lO3dr 1926-12-14 Stockbridge
Ward, Nellie (Eighth Grade) M04 1-11 3m 1928 Stockbridge
Warfie, Ida Mierndorf(Wesley) M04l-lO3d 1934-02-10 Millville
Warner, Ceclia M041-l 15w 1936-06-25 Dearborn
Wason, Mary J. Sherman M041-lO4dr KS, Ottawa
Wasson, 7??? [Dyer] M041-lO4dr 1941-01-07 Plainfleld
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Wasson, Anna [Smith] M041-lO5dr 1923-04-05 CA, Los Angeles
Wasson, Carlie Bulim (Milton L.) M041-lO4cfr 1941-01-07
Wasson, Elizabeth [Cameron] M041-lO5dr 1923-04-05 WA, Charleston C
Wasson, Etta [Wright] M041-104w 1922-11-29 WA, Miller River
Wasson, Etta [Wright] M041-lO5dr 1923-04-05 WA, Miller River
Wasson, Harriet Lucina Kelly (Silas) M041-049d 1926-08-03 WA
Wasson, Harriet Lucma Kelly (Silas) M041-lO5dr 1923-04-05
Wasson, Katy [Hardtj M041-049dr 1926-08-03
Wasson, Katy [Hardt] M041-lOSdr 1923-04-05 WA, Newport C
Wasson, Lorna D. Tyler (Robert) M04 1-114w 1909-10-09 Jackson
Wasson, Margaret [Baxter] M04 1-1 O5dr
Wasson, Margaret Clawson (Myron H.) M041- lO4dr 1905-03-24 C
Wasson, Melissa [Keelan] M041-lO5dr 1923-04-05 Howell
Wasson, Milton L. M041-104d 1941-01-07 Plainfield
Wasson, Myron H. M041-104d 1905-03-24 C
Wasson, Norrene (ideal sophomore girl) M04 1-1 14m
Wasson, R. A. Dr. M041-104d KS, Ottawa
Wasson, Robert M041-1 14w 1909-10-09 Jackson C
Wasson, Silas M04 1- 105d 1923-04-05 WA, Charleston
Wasson, Viola Amanda Wood (Samuel T.) M04 1- 105d Detroit
Wasson, Viola Wood M041-lO9dr 1937-01-08 C
Waterbury, Frederick (Joe) (Liv. Co. WWII) M041-1 13d 194?
Waters, Amy M. [Isham] M041-lO6dr 1934-08-19 losco Twp.
Waters, Marietta Glover (Nelson E.) M041-lO6dr 1934-08-19 C
Waters, Nelson E. M041-106d 1934-08-19
Watson, ???? [Chipman] M041-lOSdr 1907-01-13
Watson, Adeline B. Veits (Theron A.) M041-lOSdr 1907-01-13 0
Watson, Theron A. M041-105d 1907-01-13
Watters, ???? Isham (F. 0.) M04 I -046dr 1934-06-21 losco Twp.
Watters, Cora Isham M041-046dr 1925-01-28 C
Watters, Orpha Isham M041-046dr 1925-01-28 losco Twp.
Watters, Orpha Kellogg M041-049dr 1934-02-23
Watters, Pearl Jacobs M04 1 -047dr 1939-03-28 C
Watts, ???? [Webb] M041-lO6dr 1921-12-10 Unadilla Twp.
Watts, Cora E. [Marshall] M04l-059dr 1935-03-30 Unadilla Twp.
Watts, Matilda [Glenn] M041-032dr 1934-01-09 0
Watts, Matilda A. J. [Glenn] M041-106d 1921-12-10 CA, San Francisco
Watts, Matilda J. [Glenn] M041-032dr 19 14-06-04 North Lake
Webb, ???? Glenn (R. W.) M041-lO6dr 192 1-12-10 CA, Lindsay C
Webb, ???? Glenn (Richard) M04 1-032dr 1914-06-04 Dakota
Webb, ???? Watts (John) M041-lO6dr 1921-12-10 Unadilla Twp.
Webster, Mrs. M041-Ol6dr Roots 0
Weight, Maggie Blanch [Barbour] M04 1 -OO4dr 1933-12-01 Stockbridge
Weiher, Edna Kmg (Merle) M041-049dr Plymouth
Welcker, Chas. Sherman (Liv. Co. WWU) M041-1 13d 194? 0
Welton, Ellen Glazier (Robert Nelson) M041-lO6dr 1935-01-01 Stockbridge
Welton, ma [Deloy] M04 1-1 O6dr 1935-01-01 Cheboygan
Welton, Lila [Nichols] M041-lO6dr 1935-01-01 Waterloo 0
Welton, Olive [Augre] M041-lO6dr 1935-01-01 Pontiac
Welton, Robert Nelson M041-106d 1935-01-01 Stockbridge
Wessel, Mary J. [Proctor] M04 1 -073dr White Oak Twp. 0
West, 2??? Fox (Claude) M041-Ol5dr 1935-05-13 White Oak Twp.
West, Cornelia Munn (Warren A.) M041-106d 1941-01-06 Bunker Hill
West, Comelia Munn (Warren Alexander) M04 1- lOódr 193 5-04-24 Bunker Hill 00
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West, Hattie Fox M04l-027dr 1937-02-24 Dansville
West, Sadie [Behm] M041-lO6dr 1935-04-24 White Oak Twp.
West, Sadie [Behm] M041-lO6dr 1941-01-06 White Oak Twp.
West, Warren Alexander M041-106d 1935-04-24 Bunker Hill
Westfall, Caroline M. [Cook] M04 1-01 7d 1926-06-20
Westfall, Caroline M. [Cook] M041-Ol7dr 1923-09-07
Westfall, Daisy [Howlett] M041-O4Odr 1934-12-11 Gregory
Westfall, Dora [Riethmiller] M041-lO7dr
Westfall, Dora [Riethmiller] M041-1 15w 1903-12-09 Stockbridge
Westfall, Ella [Jackson] M041-107d 1914-06-11
Westfall, George M. M04 1-1 07d Stockbridge
Westfall, Melvina Whited M04 1-1 O7dr Stockbridge
Westfall, Minnie L. [Farmer] M041-107d 1933-01-18 Unadilla Twp.
Westfall, Moses (built early road) M04 1 -056m Stockbridge
Westfall, Moses Mrs. M041-1 14d 1909-10-07 Stockbridge
Westfall, Sarah Eleen [Jackson] M04 1 -047dr 1928-02-26 Plainfleld
Whipp, ???? Sayles (D. V.) M041-085dr 194 1-06-29 Lansing
Whitaker, Francis Johnson Pierce (George B.) M04 1-1 O7dr 1936-05-07 Gregory
Whitaker, George Byron M041-107d 1936-05-07 Gregory
Whitaker, Hettie [Marshall] M041-059d 1936-05-0 1 Gregory
Whitaker, Nettie Elsie [Caskey] M041-IO7dr 1936-05-07
White, Hester Rheingans (Charles B.) M04 1-080th 1934-04-05 Kalamazoo
White, Jennie [Hall] M041-036d 1933-12-29 Birmingham
Whited, Hallie (fire) M041-1 15m 1903-12-14 Stockbridge
Whited, Jane [Winchell] M041-107d
Whited, Melvina [Westfall] M04 1-1 O7dr Stockbridge
Whited, Sarah E. [Lewis, Wallace] M041-108d 1925-01-26 Webberville
Whitney, ???? Sommer (H. F.) M041-O9Odr 193 1-04-07 Jackson
Whitney, Christine [Stevens] M04 1 -092dr 1937-06-03 Stockbridge
Whitney, Gladys Stevens M04 1 -092dr 1937-06-03
Wiegman, Bessie Stevens (James) M041-108w
Wiegman, Frances (pic) M04l-lO8m
Wiegman, James M041-108w
Wiegman, Margaret [Bickert] M04 1-108w 1925-05-04 IN, Auburn
Wilbur, ???? Cramer (E. T.) M041-Ol9dr Lansing
Wilbur, ???? Harkness (Ward) M04 1 -037dr 1934-10-23 Leslie
Wilcox, Viola (Boyce Reunion) M041-007m 1936-08-13
Williams, ???? Rice (L. P.) M041-O8Odr 1921-05-19 Lansing
Williams, Anna [Stetler] M041-O9Odr 1921-05-27 Springport
Williams, Flora A. Lyman (Friend) M04 1-1 O8dr Stockbridge
Williams, Friend M041-108d Stockbridge
Williams, Mary J. [Mapes] M041-057dr 1917-12-3 1 Stockbridge
Williams, Mary J. [Mapes] M041-058m 1904-02-04 Stoekbridge
Williams, Mary J. [Mapes] M041-059d 1920-12-20 Stockbridge
Williams, Sarah Ettie Smith (Samuel Arnold) M041-O9Odr 192 1-05-27 White Oak Twp.
Williams, Tillia [Taylor] M04l-O9Odr 192 1-05-27 Dansville
Williamson, Ruth Mrs. M041-049dr PA, Philadelphia
Wilimore, ???? [Brown] M04 1-1 O8dr Stockbridge
Willmore, ???? [Fitch] M04 1-1 O8dr Pontiac
Willmore, ???? [Green] M04 1-1 O8dr Jackson
Willmore, ???? Barscer (E. H.) M04l-108d Stockbridge
Willmore, Esther Ann [Mapes] M041-057d 1938-02-13 Stockbridge
Wilmore, Fannie [Bott] M041-OO6dr 1937-11-09 Stockbridge
Wilmore, Minnie [Mapes] M041-OO6dr 1937-11-09 Stockbridge
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Wilson, Abbie [Forcel M041-027d 1933-11-22 Blissfield
Wilson, Bessie [Cramer] M041-109dr 1935-08-18 Ypsilanti
Wilson, Blanche [Vinton] M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Jackson
Wilson, Carrie May [Lytle] M041-l09dr 1935-08-18 Stockbridge
Wilson, Ethel [Hoyt] M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Munith
Wilson, Eva (Eighth Grade) M041-1 l3m 1928 Stockbridge C Wilson, Eva [Schray] M041-lO9dr 1935-08-18 Munith
Wilson, Gertrude [DebooJ M041-109dr 1935-08-18 IN, Royal Center
Wilson, Helen Caskey M041-Ol4dr 1914-12-08 Manchester C Wilson, Helen Caskey M04 1-061 dr 1936-03-24 Jackson
Wilson, Sarah Elizabeth Cole (Warren A.) M041-109d 1935-08-18 Munith
Wilson, Sarah Naoma [Proctor] M04 1 -073dr 1937 Stockbridge C Wilson, Warren Arthur M041-109d 1935-08-17 Munith
Wilson, Warren MJM M041-109d Stockbridge
Wmchell, Jane Whited (Loren) M041-107d C
Winters, Katherine [Brogan] M04 1 -OO9dr Bunker Hill
Winzer, Charlotte King M04 1 -049dr Stockbridge
Winzer, Charlotte King (Walter J.) M041-109w OH, BowlingGreen C Winzer, Walter J. M04 1-109w OH, BowlingGreen
Witty, ???? Montague (Wesley) M04 I -065dr 1926-02-18
Wolever, ???? Reason (Charles) M04 1-01 3dr Lansing C
Wood, Ella [Daniels] M04l-l09dr 1937-01-08
Wood, Lucy [Decker] M041-lO9dr 1937-01-08
Wood, Margaret Myler (William) M041-lO9dr 1937-01-08 C
Wood, Pens [Braley] M041-109d 1937-01-08 Plainfield
Wood, Persis [Braley] M041-lOSdr
Wood, Persis Myler (William W.) M041-lOSdr C
Wood, Viola [Wasson] M041-lO9dr 1937-01-08
Wood, Viola Amanda [Wasson] M041-105d Detroit
Woodall, Mary Lillywhite M041-053dr 1914-03-11 ONT, Woodstock C
Woods, Hazen <Newton> M04 1-11 Od 1934-08-08 Stockbridge
Woods, Sybil Elnora Hopkins (Newton) M04 1 -039d 1927-07-22 Stockbridge
Woolfit, Vera Boyce M04 1 -OO7dr Flint C
Wooton, Esther [Dorman] M04 1-11 Odr WI, Milwaukee
Wooton, Margaret <J. R.> M04 1-11 Od Battle Creek
Wooton, Mary [Cretcher] M04 1-il Odr Oliver C
Worden, Alta Carr (Fred) M04 1-11 Odr 1939-10-21 Gregory
Worden, Arlie Maynard (Fred E.) M04 1-11 Od 1939-02-04 Gregory
Worden, Fred M041-110d 1939-10-21 Gregory C
Worthington, Sarah A. [Caskey] M04l-Ol4dr 1914-12-08 Plainfield
Wright, ???? Braley (F. L.) M041-OO8dr 1935-03-15 Stockbridge
Wright, ???? Braley (Frank) M041-008dr 1933-09-20 C
Wright, Emma Braley (Frank L.) (60th anniv.) M041-1 lOm 1936-12-13 Stockbridge
Wright, Emma Braley (Frank L.)(60th anniv.) M041-1 1 im 1936-12-13 Stockbridge
Wright, Etta Wasson M04l-lOSdr 1923-04-05 WA, Miller River C
Wright, Etta Wasson (J. T. Rev.) M04 1-104w 1922-11-29 WA, Miller River
Wright, F. L. (M.P. church dedicated) M041-l l4m 1907-01-27 Plainfield
Wright, Frank L. (60th anniversary) M04 1-11 Om 1936-12-13 Stockbridge C
Wright, Frank L. (60th anniversary) M04 1-11 im 1936-12-13 Stockbridge
Wright, Gladys Mapes M04 1 -059dr NY, Ithaca
Wright, Gladys Mapes (Prof.) M04 1 -057dr NY, Ithaca C
Wright, J. T. Rev. M04 1-104w 1922-11-29 WA, SeattleHghts.
Wright, L. Elpha [Hutson] M04l-045dr 1925-09-29 White Oak Twp.
Wright, Lucy Elpha [Hutson] M041-045d 1930-09-09 Eaton Rapids CC
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Yago, Dora Miemdorf M041-lO3dr 1934-02-10 Conway Twp.
Yettaw, ???? Smith (Ray) M041-089dr 1935-07-24
Yettaw, Jennie DeWitt M04 1-11 2dr Stockbridge
Yettaw, Minnie Picknell (Titus) M041-l l2dr
Yettaw, Raymond M041-l 12d Wayne
York, Julie 0. [Phillips] M04 1 -072dr Stockbridge
Young, Lena Biging M041-049dr IL, Chicago
Young, Rebecca J. [Branch] M041-OO8dr 1904-01-07
Zellers, Susie Trapp M041-lOOdr 1939-01-17 IN, Winamac
Zizka, Lawrence A. (Liv. Co. WWII) M0
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obituary
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<span>Contains obituary, death notices, some scrapbook marriage and news stories as well as funeral cards from mid-1800s–current for Livingston County. The Howell Area Archives houses donated scrapbooks that were pasted on the pages of old books or in scrapbooks. Obituaries appeared in Livingston County Daily Press & Argus or Fowlerville News & Views within 3 days of death unless otherwise noted.</span> The collection also contains other digital resources at the following:<br />
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M042 Obituaries Book
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Contains Stockbridge Crostick obituaries also se Township box.
Abbott, W. (Village Trustee) M042-220m 195 1-03 Stockbridge
Achenbach, Eliza [Koons] M042-1 04d Stockbridge
Ackley, 7??? Hale (Cecil) M042-066dr
Ackley, Alta [Wilcox] M042-OOldr 1944-09-14
Ackley, Glen M/M M042-067dr
Ackley, Ida Etta Hatt (Henry) M042-00 1 d 1944-09-14 Stockbridge
Ackley, Jean (wins trip ti Kansas City) M042-221m 1958-02 Stockbridge
Ackley, Muriel [Wild] M042-OOldr 1944-09-14
Adams, Stanley Mrs. (homemaker conference) M042-208m Lansing
• Albrecht, Hertha [Boyce] M042-OOlw Lansing
Allen, 7??? [Houseman] M042-OO2wr 1956-10-27
Allen, ???? Kleinschmidt (Clarence) M042-l03dr
• Allen, ???? Taylor (Robert) M042-172dr Detroit
Allen, Joyce Arnold (Lester) M042-002w 1956-10-27 Dansivile
Allen, Lester M042-002w 1956-10-27 Coleman
Allen, Wilie (injured in bike/car accident) M042-221m 1958-10 Stockbridge
Allis, Helen Nichols M042-132dr
Allison, Mamie Judson M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Fowlerville
Almond, Ona L. Collard (Walter) M042-OOlm 1959-09-20
Alstott, Gloria Bishop M042-OO9dr Howell
Amerman, Nora May [Errante] M042-220w 195 1-01 Gregory
L Amstbuechler, Aaron L. M042-OOlm Bannister
Anderson, 7??? [Phelps] M042-OOldr 1956-03-06 Millville
Anderson, ???? [Phelps] M042-OOldr
Anderson, Alma [McCloud] M042- 11 9dr Stockbridge
Anderson, Ella Stevens M042-167dr CO, Canan City
Anderson, John M042-OOld 1956-03-06 White Oak Twp.
Anderson, Kate Mrs. M042-025dr Millville
Anderson, Katie A. (John) M042-OOld White Oak Twp.
Anderson, Katie A. Mrs. M042-219d 1954-04 Millville
Anderson, Marian McCleer M042-ll8dr Royal Oak
Anderson, Phyllis Smith M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
r Anderson, Ralph (Village Clerk) M042-22 1m 1958-03 Stockbridge
L. Anderson, Ralph (Village Secretary) M042-216m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge
L Appleberry, Eleanor [Aubuchon] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-04 White Oak Twp.
Applegate, Lena [Lyons, Robbins] M042-003w CA, Boron
Archenbronn, Helen [Hannewald] M042-l2lwr
Archenbronn, Wilma [McMullen] M042-l2lw Munith
Armstrong, James L. M042-220w 1951-07 Stockbridge
Armstrong, Phyllis Ann Austin (James L.) M042-220w 195 1-07 Mason
Arnold George (new Methodist pastor) M042-219m 1954-06 Stockbridge
Arnold, ???? [Battige) M042-OO2wr 1956-10-27
L Arnold, Agnes J. Kirkland (Otto B.) M042-OO3dr 1953-11-22 Howell
L Arnold, Agnes Kirkland M042-OO8dr 1939-03-12 Gregory
Arnold, Agnes Mrs. M042-OO3dr
Arnold, Hazel [Catrell] M042-OO3dr 1953-11-22 Howell
L. Arnold, Joyce [Allen] M042-002w 1956-10-27 Dansivlle
Arnold, Minnie A. Kirkland (George H.) M042-003d
Arnold, Minnie A. Kirkland (Stephen) M042-003d L Arnold, Minnie Kirkland M042-OO8dr 1939-03-12 Gregory
Arnold, Myrna Smith M042-l6ldr 1943-11-10 Dansville
• Arnold, Roscoe Mrs. (homemaker conference) M042-208m Dansivlle
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Arnold, Uray B. Rev. M042-003d Dearborn
Arnold, Vancie [Bowman] M042-OO3dr
Arnold, Virginia [Bigelow] M042-OO3dr C
Amst, Edna Mrs. M042-135dr 1944-10-28 Stockbridge
Artz, Anna Neithammer M042-O5ldr Lansing
Artz, Josie Walker M042-072dr Eaton Rapids C
Artz, Melvin J. M042-220d 1951-04 Fitchburg C Artz, Zada Cain M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Grass Lake
Ashbaugh, Betty Lucille [Shortz] M042-221w 1958-07 Stockbridge C
Ashmore, Barbara Shew (Rial) M042-221w 1958-06 Munith C Ashmore, Bertha [Robeson] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 IL, Heyworth
Ashmore, Calvin Edward M042-003d 1950-04-27 Stockbridge C
Ashmore, Doris [Breedon] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 C Ashmore, Dorotha (Village Treasurer) M042-219m 1954-03 Stockbridge
Ashmore, Dorotha (Village Treasurer) M042-22 Im 1958-03 Stockbridge C
Ashmore, Dorotha (Village Treasurer) M042-222m 1955-03 Stockbridge * C Ashmore, Dorothy (Village Treasurer) M042-216m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge
Ashmore, Faye [Leeke] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 C
Ashmore, Lavon [Hudkins] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 C Ashmore, Marilyn (DAR Good Citizen) M042-222m 1955-12 Stockbridge
Ashmore, Mary Gordon Robeson (Calvin Edw.) M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 Stockbridge
Ashmore, Mollie [Jensen] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 IL, Heyworth C Ashmore, Rial M042-22 1w 1958-06 Stockbridge
Ashmore, Violet [Frinkel] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 C
Asquith, Daisy Beeman M042-OO9dr Stockbridge Q Asquith, Daisy l3eeman M042- 151 dr 1943-06-23 Stockbridge
Asquith, Florence Blood M042-1 l9dr 1943-01-24 Stockbridge
Asquith, Fred Mrs. M042-129dr Stockbridge C Asquith, Jay Mrs. M042-215m Stockbridge
Asquith, Margaret Boylan M042-Ol4dr 1954-10 Stockbridge
Atkinson, ???? Lantis (Cal) M042-OO3dr Stockbridge C Atkinson, Cal (Am. Legion Exec. Comm.) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbridge
Atkinson, Carlisle M042-105w 1941-07-10 North Lake
Atkinson, Danny <Cal> M042-003d Ann Arbor C Atkinson, Helen Christine Lantis (Carlisle) M042-105w 1941-07-10 Stockbridge
Atkinson, Helen Lantis M042-lO5dr 1941-07-11 Stockbridge
Aubichon, Eleanor Appleberry (Louis Alfred) M042-OO3dr 1950-04-04 White Oak Twp. C Aubichon, Viola [DeForest] M042-OO3dr 1950-04-04 Detroit
Aubuchon, Louis Alfred M042-003d 1950-04-04 White Oak Twp.
Auge, Olive Welton M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Pontiac C Austin, Phyllis Ann [Armstrong] M042-220w 1951-07 Mason
Avery, Dean (Farm Bureau Board) (pic) M042- 1 99m 1948-01-15 Mason
Avery, Doris M042-004m Stockbridge C Babcock, Frances L. Glover (Charles) M042-005d
Babcock, Loa [Lorenzen] M042-OO5dr Jackson
Babcock, Margaret ???? (Henry) M042-004d Stockbridge C Bachelor, ???? Morgan (Charles) M042-OO4dr 1940-08-09 Stockbridge
Bachelor, ???? Morgan (Charles) M042- 1 27dr 1940-08-09 Detroit
Bachelor, ???? Morgan (Charles) M042- 127dr 1939-08-16 Detroit C Bachman, Owen Mrs. M042-OOSdr Dansville
Bachus, Millie Bowman (R. E.) M042-004w Pinckney
Bachus, R. E. Rev. M042-004w Columbiaville C Backus, Angeline Boyce M042-0 1 3dr 193 8-08-27 Dexter
Backus, Angeline Hadley M042-OO8dr 1939-03-12 Dexter
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Backus, Anne Mae M042-004d Dansville
Backus, Elba Irene [Holmes] M042-086d Williamston
Backus, Eletta [Clawson] M042-086dr Howell
Backus, Elizabeth Burgess M042-025dr 1948-03-22 Dansville
Backus, Elizabeth Burgess (Benoni B.) M042-005d 1959-11-16 Dansville
Backus, Irene [Lewis] M042-086dr Petoskey
Backus, Lavisa [Flower] M042-086dr Lansing
Backus, Mary [Hanson] M042-086dr Gregory
Backus, Mary [Taylor] M042 I 72dr
Backus, Winifred [McNiel] M042-086dr Lansing
Bacon, Florence [Zoeller] M042-OO4dr 1953-11 CA, Downey
Bacon, Jessie [Mason] M042-OO4dr 1953-11 Mason
Bacon, Mabel [Henderson] M042-OO4dr 1953-Il Jackson
Bacon, William P. M042-004d 1953-il Jackson
Bailey, Laurine (leads Rebkahs) M042-22 im 1958-03 Stockbridge
Baker, ???? [LaRue] M042-OOSdr 1955-01-11 Howell
Baker, Anne [Bumpus] M042-OO4dr 1948-07-21 Plainfield
Baker, Eunice Mrs. (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Baker, Frankie M042-222d 1955-01 Gregory
Baker, Frankie Placeway M042-005d 1955-01-11 Gregory
Baker, Helen Marie [Swanson] M042-005w Miliville
Baker, Helen Miss (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownfMiHtown
Baker, Kathleen M042-099wr Grand Rapids
Baker, Kitsie [Clampett] M042-028d 1956-10 Stockbridge
Baker, Mabel Caskey M042-004d 1948-07-21 Plainfield
Baker, Mabel Caskey M042-196dr Gregory
Baker, Mabel Caskey , M042- 1 97dr Gregory
Baker, Mabel Mrs. M042-O9lwr 1941-07-10 Plainfield
Baker, Wayne M042-074m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Baker,. Alice Reeves (Frank G.) M042-028dr 1956-10
Baldwin, Diana M042-066wr 1950-09
Baldwin, Herbert Mrs. M042-072dr 1940-01-10 Mason
Baldwin, Meila [Kellenberger] M042-099dr Gregory
Ball, ???? Frinkle (Floyd) M042-004d
Ball, Faith [Moon] M042-OO4dr Marshall
Ballard, Ella Mae Hoffineyer (Hal Dean) M042-084w
Ballard, Hal Dean M042-084w Jackson
Ballard, Norma West M042-l9Odr Lansing
Ballard, Norma West M042-190m 1945-11-16 Perry
Banfield, Nellie Cosgray M042-034dr PA, Broomall
Bangs, Emogene [Bennett, Winslow] M042- 1 97d Ann Arbor
Banks, 2??? [Montgomery] M042-OO5dr 1953-06-03 Jackson
Banks, 2??? [Porter] M042-OOSdr 1953-06-03 Jackson
Banks, Evelyn Sommer (Earl) M042-162dr Litchfield
Banks, George M042-005d 1953-06-03
Banks, Grace [Push] M042-OO5dr 1953-06-03 Stockbridge
Banks, Icie Craft (George) M042-OOSdr 1953-06-03
Banks, Louisa Lovely (Harrison) M042-OO5dr 1953-06-03
Barber, Bessie (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Barber, Bill (Fire Chief) M042-219m 1954-03 Stoekbridge
Barber, Mary M042-220d 1951-09 Waterloo
Barber, Roberta [Cobb] M042-22 1 d 1958-01 Stockbridge
Barber, Tacy Roberta [Cobb] M042-030w 1958-01-16 Stockbridge
Barber, Wendall (Village President) M042-222m 1955-03 Stockbridge
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Barbour, Lois Lavey (Walter) M042- 106w Gregory
Barbour, Walter M042- 106w Gregory
Barbour, Walter (post office) M042-2 14m 1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Barker, ???? Thompson M042-0 l4dr Munith
Barnard, Maxine Smith (Gene) M042-l6Odr 1948-03-08 Okemos
Barnard, Maxine Smith (Gene) M042-lóOdr Okemos
Barnes, Joy Bishop M042-OO9dr Garden City
Barnes, Robert A. (engagement) M042-087m CA, Hawthorne
Barnum, Frank M042-222d 1955-02 Ann Arbor
Barry, Robert (H.S. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1 95 9-09 Stockbridge
Barth, Ferd (Farm Bureau Board) M042- 199m 1948-01-15 Stockbridge
Barth, June Ann [Butler] M042-148w Gregory
Barth, June Ann [Risner] M042-221w 1958-10 Stockbridge
Barth, Leatha (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Barth, Lou Kochel M042-034dr Stockbridge
Bartha, ???? Kochel (Lou) M042- I O4dr Stockbridge
Bartig, John M042-219d 1954-08 Unadilla Twp.
Bartlett, ???? McCloud (Jack) M042-1 l9dr Jackson
Bartlett, ???? Mimer (Louis) M042-124dr 1956-07-23 Germany
Barton, 7??? [Cook] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Stockbridge
Barton, ???? [Lammers] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Jackson
Barton, ???? [McCann] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Bunker Hill
Barton, 7??? [Sweet] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Fitchburg
Barton, 7??? [Wagner] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Fowlerville
Barton, ???? [Wardowski] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Leslie
Barton, 7??? [Wardowski] M042-153wr 1958-12-30
Barton, 7??? Griffin (Elbert D.) M042-057dr 1942-09-17 Gregory
Barton, ???? Nelson (Robert) M042-l3ldr 1937-12-10
Barton, Carrie [Ellis] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Jackson
Barton, Esther [Russell] M042-153w 1958-12-30
Barton, Esther Cantrell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Stockbridge
Barton, Esther Cantrell (James Elnaithan) M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14
Barton, James Elnaithan M042-006d 1953-09-14
Barton, Minnie [Curtis] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Jackson
Barton, Ruth Galligan M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Bunker Hill
Bartron, Mabel Bowen (Oscar) M042-Ol2dr 1949-06-13 NY, Rochester
Basore, ???? Mullins (N. E.) M042-129wr Stockbridge
Basore, Beverly Jean Stan field (Bob) M042-22 Tm 1 95 8-06 Stockbridge
Basore, Bob M042-22lm 1958-06 Stockbridge
Basore, Shirley [Lupinacci] M042-l lOw Stockbridge
Batdorff, Vida Holland (Irving) M042-085dr
Bates, Rex Mrs. M042-076m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Battige, 7??? Arnold (Melvin) M042-OO2wr 1956-10-27
Battige, ???? Townsend (Mel) M042- I 83wr Dansville
Baum, Patricia M042-1 12m 1957-03 Springport
Baum, Patricia (Co. dairy princess) (pie) M042-212m Springport
Baxter, 7??? [Huss] M042-OOódr 1954-11 Ann Arbor
Baxter, Margaret (Richard) M042-006d 1954-11
Baxter, Mike (air force) (pic) M042-206m Adrian
Beadle, Jennie May [Hopkins] M042-086dr 1952-07-26 Stockbridge
Beardsley, Agnes Mary Felton (Edward W.) M042-050d 1929-01-09 Attica
Beardsley, E. W. M042-OO7dr 1929-01
Bearss, Rose (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Beatham, Martha Mrs. M042-082dr 1954-12-19 Stockbridge
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Beauchamp, Aline (O.E.S., W. M.) M042-222m 1955-09 Stockbridge
I3eauchamp, Nina [Redinger] M042-2l9w 1954-08 Stockbridge
Beauchamp, Ted (O.E.S., W.P.) M042-222m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Becker, Colleen Faye Lantis (Howard A. Jr.) M042-006w Munith
Becker, Howard A. Jr. M042-006w Mason
Becker, Howard A. Jr. (engagement) M042-105m Diamondale
Becker, Kathryn T. (engagement) M042-006m IA, Dubuque
Beckwith, Frances (Betty Crocker Homemaker) M042-22 1m 1958-02 Stockbridge
Beckwith, Frances (Salutatorian M042-221m 1958-02 Stockbridge
Bedford, James (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Beduhn, Armond M042-007w Howell
Beduhn, Patricia Kunzelman (Armond) M042-007w Gregory
Beebe, Emma [Morgan] M042-127dr 1939-08-16 Stockbridge
Beeeman, Daisy [Asquith] M042-OO9dr Stockbridge
Beeman, Alva (J. of P.) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Beeman, Bernita [Nott] M042-OO9dr Stockbridge
Beeman, Daisy [Asquith] M042-l5ldr 1943-06-23 Stockbridge
Beeinan, Emma Riggs (Bert) M042-008d
Beeman, Frank M042-009d Howell
Beeman, Harold M042-220d 1951-01 Munith
Beeman, Helen Collins - M042-O3ldr 195 1-09-02 Stockbridge
Beeman, Leona (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Beeman, Lettie Rose (Frank) M042-009d Ann Arbor
Beeman, Minnie [Moffat] M042-OO9dr Stockbridge
Beeman, Myrtie [Westfall, Rose] M042-151d 1943-06-23 Stockbridge
Behm, 7??? [Slusser] M042-OO8dr Mason
Behm, ???? [Wemple] M042-OO8dr Dansville
Behm, Sadie West (Stephen L.) M042-OO8dr White Oak T.
Behm, Stephen L. M042-008d White Oak Twp.
Behner, F. G. (50th anniversary of ordination) M042-007m Stockbridge
Belle, Virginia (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
• Bennett, Emogene Bangs (Verne) M042- I 97d Ann Arbor
Bentley, Alvin M. (at County Fair) M042-205m 1962-08-16 Stockbridge
Bentley, Gladys Dewey M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Jackson
Bentley, L. A. Mrs. M042-047dr Corunna
• Berger, 7??? Huttenlocker (Homer) M042- 1 5Odr 1939-04-05 Detroit
Berry, 7??? [Cletus] M042-OO9dr 1951-02-02
Berry, 7??? McCann (Thomas) M042- 11 8dr 1940-03
Berry, Eleanor [Wilhelme] M042-OO9dr 1951-02-02
Berry, Eugene P. M042-009d 195 1-02-02 Detroit
Berry, Herbert M042-22 Id 1958-07 Stockbridge
• Berry, Herbert Joseph M042-009d 1958-07-27 Jackson
Berry, Howard (tennis team) M042-206m Stockbridge
Berry, Howard J. (engagement) M042-027m Stockbridge
Berry, Joanne [Embech] M042-OO9dr 1951-02-02
Berry, Marguerite [Richardson] M042-OO9dr 1958-07-27 Hillsdale
Best, Lucile (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Best, Rome (opens Archery Shop) M042-221m 1958-12 Stockbridge
Bevier, Jacob (first blacksmith) M042-2 1 6m 1858 Stockbridge
Bickert, ???? Wiegman (Carl) M042-194dr Williamston
Bieswenger, Emma Mrs. M042-082dr 1954-12-19 Leslie
Bigelow, Virginia Arnold M042-OO3dr Ann Arbor
Biggs, Josephine Dieterle M042-Ol5dr 1952-12-11 MO, Lebanon
Bilaski, Esther (engagement) M042-009m Parma
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Bird, Gertrude [Ryba] M042-OO9dr Stockbridge C
Bird, Maynie Grimes M042-042dr St. Clair Shores
Bird, Nellie A. M042-221d 1958-11 Stockbridge
Bird, Nellie A. Mimer M042-009d C
Bisel, Richard (Sr. play) (plc) M042-210m Stockbridge
Bishop, Dolores Farmer M042-047dr 1947-09-29 Stockbridge
Bishop, Glenn H. M042-009d Gregory Q
Bishop, Gloria [Alstott] M042-OO9dr Howell c Bishop, Hazel [Bruell] M042-009dr IN, Peru
Bishop, Joy [Barnes] M042-OO9dr Garden City C
Bishop, Mary [McCann] M042-OO9dr Gregory c Black, 7??? [Britt] M042-0 I Owr IN, Albion
Black, ???? [Huyck] M042-0 lOw C
Black, 7??? [Ramsey] M042-0 lOw VA, Parnassus c Black, Margaret Ann (engagement) M042-009m
Black, Margaret Ann (engagement) M042-O 12m Jackson C
Black, Margaret Ann [Musbach] M042-0 I Ow Jackson C Black, Margaret Ann [Musbach] M042-130w Jackson
Black, Margaret Ann [Musbach] M042-222w 1955-08 Jackson C
Blackmer, Ruth Evers M042-046dr Howell C Blakely, Laura Roselva Hadley (James) M042-008d 1939-03-12 Stockbridge
Blakley, Laura Hadley M042-OI3dr 1938-08-27 Gregory C
Blanchard, Arthur M042-012d 1966 Plainfield C Blanchard, Esther G. Hue M042-OS2dr 1951-02-03 Dansville
Bland, ???? Farrington (George) M042-047dr Pinckney C
Bland, Harriet Fewless M042-024dr 1949-11-07 C Bland, Rose B. [Buhi] M042-024d 1949-11-07 Howell
Blauvelt, Grace Taylor M042-172dr 1955-03-12 Flint 0
Blood, Ethel E. [Kimball] M042-009w Lansing C Blood, Florence [Asquith, McCreary] M042-1 l9dr 1943-01-24 Stockbridge
Bloom, Andrew Rev. M042-221w 1958-07 Waterloo C
Bloom, Marie Lehman (Andrew) M042-221w 1958-07 Stockbridge
Bloomfield, Grace Slauter M042-l6Odr TN, Knoxville
Blue, Emma [McCreary] M042-1 l9dr 1943-01-24 Stockbridge
Blyth, 7??? Dietrick (George) M042-044dr 1938
Bohnet, Amelia Mierndorf M042-123dr Webberville
Bohnet, Emma [Clark] M042-0 l2dr Stockbridge C
Bohnet, Gertrude M. Walker (Henry W.) M042-0 l2dr Dansvilie C Bohnet, Henry W. M042-O 12d Dansville
Bohnet, Martha [Warfie] M042-0 1
2dr Stockbridge
Bollinger, Ruth M042-222d 1955-05 Gregory C Bolton, Jesse James M042-222m 1955-11 Stockbridge
Bonfield, Nellie Cosgray M042-034dr CA, North Ridge
Botsford, Olive [Ostrander] M042- 137th’ 1946-02-10 C Bott, 7??? [Fitz] M042-Ol2wr 1936-10-31 IN
Bott, Eva Cline (Norris) M042-012w 1936-10-31 Lansing
I3ott, Loretta Boyce M042-Ol4dr 1956-03-06 Munith C Bott, Norris M042-0 12w 1936-10-31
Bott, Norris J. M042-012d Stockbridge
Bott, Norris J. M042-2 19d 1954-09 Stockbridge C Bott, Perna [Fitz] M042-Ol2dr IN, LaPaz
flouchet, Marie Mrs. M042-Ol4drr 1954-12-31 Stockbridge
Bouck, Hallie Whited (William Henry M042-Ol2dr CA, French Camp C
Bouck, William FL M042-222d 1955-11 CA c
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M042-012d
M042-026dr
M042-026dr
M042-OI2dr 1953-02-07
M042-0 I 2dr 1953-02-07
M042-OI2dr 1952-01-03
M042- 1 68dr
M042-0 1 2d 1952-01-03
M042-0 12d 1953-02-07
M042-082dr 1945-03
M042-0 1 2dr 1952-01-03
M042-0 I 2dr 1953-02-07
M042-095dr 1943-12-30
M042-Ollw 1941-01-02
M042-045dr 1952-12-20
M042-0 1 2dr 1949-06-13
M042-0 12d 1949-06-13
M042-01 id 1943-03-03
M042-0 1 2dr 1949-06-13
M042-01 ldr
M042-095dr 1943-12-30
M042-01 Id
M042-ll2m 1957-03
M042-2 12m
M042-lllm 1957-03
M042-162wr
M042- I 38dr
M042-O1 ldr
M042-01 id
M042-0 14w
M042-004w
M042-012d
M042-0 14w
M042-OO3dr
M042-140m
M042-0 1 4dr
M042-0 l4dr
M042-0 1 3dr
M042-0 l4dr
M042-0 l3dr
M042-Ol4clr
M042-1 83wr
M042-OOlw
M042-IO9dr
M042=Ui3dr
M042-013d
M042-Ol4dr
M042-0 13d
M042-Ol4dr
M042-053dr
M042-Ol3dr
M042- 151 d
M042-0 13w
M042-053dr
Bouck, William Henry
Boughton, 7??? Camburn (E. E.)
Boughton, Helen Camburn
Bowdish, 7??? [Heminger]
Bowdish, ???? [Roepcke]
Bowdish, Ettie [Lamb]
r Bowdish, Evelyn Stoffer
Bowdish, Fred McCall
Bowdish, Inez Hill
Bowdish, Inez Hill
Bowdish, Wanna [Erion]
Bowdish. Wanna [Erion]
Bowen, ???? Chappel (Edward)
Bowen, Betty Jane [Proctor]
Bowen, Francis Dyer
Bowen, Isabelle Sharp
Bowen, Joseph E.
Bowen, Joyce Irene <Spencer>
r Bowen, Mable [Bartron]
Bowen, Maxine Briggs (Roy David)
Bowen, Myrta Judson
Bowen, Roy David
Bowen, Ruthlynn
Bowen, Ruthlynn (Co. dairy princess) (pic)
Bowen, Ruthlynn (plc)
L. Bowerman, John Mrs.
Bowers, Lucy Parish
Bowles, ???? [Sheip]
Bowles, Alta Reeves (Willard)
Bowman, Beverly Sockow (Ross)
Bowman, Millie [Bachus]
Bowman, Robert S.
L Bowman, Ross
L Bowman, Vancie Arnold
Bowser, Richard (engagement)
L Boyce, 7??? [Gall]
L Boyce, 7??? [Howlett]
Boyce, ???? [Lowe]
L Boyce, 7??? [Martin]
L Boyce, 7??? [Plummer]
Boyce, ??7? [Wasson] L Boyce, 7??? Townsend (Wynn)
L Boyce, A. J.
Boyce, Addie A. [Lowe] L. 1nv Anoplinp
L. Boyce, Anna L. Hadley (Samuel)
Boyce, Arlene [Howe]
L Boyce, B. Frank
L. Boyce, Beulah Marsh (Wirt C.)
Boyce, Beulah Marsh (Wirt C.)
Boyce, Calista [Rose]
L. Boyce, Calista [Rose]
Boyce, Elaine [Martin]
Boyce, Elaine [Martin]
CA, French Camp
1958-12-24 Morenci
Monroe
Unadilla Twp.
Unadilla Twp.
NC, Dunn
Gregory
Gregory
Dexter
Gregory
CA, Sea Island
GA, Brunswick
Williamston
Gregory
Gregory
NY, Rochester
Ann Arbor
NY, Rochester
Williamston
Cement City
Cement City
Cement City
CO, Littleton
Vandercook Lake
1940-06-02 Lansing
1940-06-02 Flint
Pinckney
Pinckney
Grand Rapids
Stockbridge
Saline
Caro
1930-07-01 Stockbridge
Mason
1942-06-07 Gregory
Atlanta
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1944-03-25 Stockbridge
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1938-08-27 Lyndon Twp.
1954-12-3 1 Chelsea
1930-07-01 Jackson
1954-06-11
1938-08-27 Lyndon Twp.
1955-12-03 Jackson
Lyndon Twp.
1954-06-11 Mason
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Boyce, Eliza A. Daniels (B. Frank) M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-0 1
Boyce, Ella May [Skidmore] M042-157dr 1936-04-05
Boyce, Emma Brown (B. Frank) M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-01 C
Boyce, Fannie [Orr] M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-0 1 Battle Creek
Boyce. Fern E. [McCoy] M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-01 Battle Creek
Boyce, Floyd M042-013d 1942-06-07 Plainfield C
Boyce, Frances [Wilcox] M042-OI4dr 1956-03-06 Stockbridge
Boyce, Hertha Albrecht (A. J.) M042-OOlw Lansing
Boyce, Irene [Nichelle] M042-Ol3dr 1942-06-07 IN, New Castle C
Boyce, Ivah Mrs. M042-138dr 1951-03-24 Fowlerville
Boyce, Jennie E. Thompson M042-014d Okemos
Boyce, Katrene Gall Mrs. M042-2l9d 1954-06 Stockbridge C
Boyce, Loretta [Bott] M042-Ol4dr 1956-03-06 Munith
Boyce, Luther M042-0 14d 1928-01-05 Stockbridge
Boyce, Marie Louise Mrs. M042-219d 1954-12 Stockbridge C
Boyce, Marie-Louise Polites M042-014d 1954-12-31 Ann Arbor
Boyce, Shirley [Wasson] M042-053dr- 1954-06-11 Stockbridge
Boyce, Spencer, William M042-014d 1956-03-06 Lyndon Twp. C
Boyce, Sylvia Hadley (Andrew J.) M042-Ol4dr
Boyce, Vera [Woolfitt] M042-0 I 4dr Flint
Boyce, Vera Katrene [Gall] - M042-053d 1954-06-11 Ann Arbor C
Boyce, Virginia [Susjaner] M042-Ol4dr 1954-12-31 Wayne
Boyce, Wirt C. M042-014d Ann Arbor
Boyd, Bob (H.S. Teacher) M042-2 1 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge C
Boylan, Charles (50th anniversary) M042-220m 1951-11 Stockbridge
Boylan, Freeman M042-219d 1954-10 Stockbridge
Boylan, Freeman F. M042-014d 1954-10 Stockbridge
Boylan, Margaret [Asquith] M042-Ol4dr 1954-10 Stockbridge
Boylan, Mary Jane M042-222d 1955-12 Stockbridge
Boylan, Mary Jane (Charley) M042-0 I 4d Stockbridge C
Bradford, Mary Sharland M042-l6ldr 1943-11-10 Dansville
Bradley, Barbara Lee Stroud (Richard E.) M042-0 15w Mason
Bradley, David (air force) (pie) M042-206m Jackson 0
Bradley, Elizabeth Adele Lincoln (Guy) M042-015d 1952-12-11 Webberville
Bradley, Joacalyn Joy <Ellis> M042-218b 1955-03-17
Bradley, Richard (engagement) M042- 1 70m Mason
Bradley, Richard E. M042-015w Battle Creek
Bradshaw Clyde M042-016d 1955-02-24 Detroit
Bradshaw, ???? [Eagles] M042-0 l6dr 1958-01-25 Battle Creek C
Bradshaw, ???? [Hodley] M042-Ol6dr 1958-01-25 Hillsdale
Bradshaw, 9??? [Mend] M042-0 l6dr 1958-01-25 Battle Creek
Bradshaw, ???? [Shiery] M042-Ol6dr 1955-02-24 ID 0
Bradshaw, ???? [Warnes] M042-0 1 6dr 1958-01-25 MN, Minneapolis Q Bradshaw, Clyde M042-222d 1955-03 Detroit
Bradshaw, Gertrude Mrs. M042-188dr • Webberville C
Bradshaw, Wayne M042-016d 1958-01-25 Webberville C Bradshaw, Wayne M042-22ld 1958-02 Webberville
Brady, A. (Village Trustee) M042-222m 1955-03 Stockbridge C
Brady, Margaret [GibneyJ M042-054dr Gregory C Braley, Emma J. [Wright] M042-198d 1945-02-09 Stockbridge
Braley, Persis Wood (Elmer N.) M042-0 I 8d Highland Park
Branch, 9??? [Pawson] M042-Ollwr Tipton C Branch, ???? [Shoemaker] M042-0 l7wr Onsted
Branch, Claudette Jean Cook (H Edwin) M042-017w Onsted 0
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Branch, H. Edwin M042-017w Onsted
• Branch, Karin Marie (Pawson) M042-016w 1957-10-26 Onsted
• Branch, Nancy (engagement) M042-156m 1956-10-01 Onsted
Branch, Nancy J. [Shoemaker] M042-019w 1957-03-16 Onsted
Brearley, Jennie Louise [Voegts] M042-179d 1947-09-29 Gregory
Brearley, Susie [Vine] M042-179dr 1947-09-29
Breedon, Doris Ashmore M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27
Breniser, Emary <Elwin> (pie) M042-201m 1957-12-19 Gregory
Breniser, Mrs. M042-128dr 1935-04-25 Gregory
Brickman, Edwin Frank M042- 143w Detroit
Brickman, Ivarene Proctor (Edwin Frank) M042- 143w Stockbridge
Briggs, Janet (Honor Student) M042-044m 1957 Dansville
Briggs, Margaret [Stoddard] M042-0 1 8dr Jackson
Briggs, Maxine [Bowen] M042-0 11 dr
Briggs, William C. M042-018d Jackson
Bristol, Helen H. [Farmer] M042-047dr 1943-02-22
Bristol, Helen Harriet [Farmer] M042-047d 1947-09-29 Stockbridge
Bristow, 7??? [Woodsj M042-0 19th Ann Arbor
Bristow, Herbert C. M042-0 1 9d
Bristow, Lois [Hobley] M042-Ol9dr FL, Tampa
Bristow, Lois Carter (engagement) - M042-0 I 9m
Bristow, Loretta [Smith] M042-0 l9dr Jackson
Bristow, Martha [Osborne] M042-0 19th Jackson
Britt, ????? Black (Lenneth) M042-Ol0wr IN, Albion
Broesamle, Lowell D. (air fore (pic)e) M042-206m Munith
Brogan, ???? [Cavanaugh] M042-0 18th Lansing
Brogan, 7??? Huttenlocker (John) M042- 1 5Odr 1939-04-05 Stockbridge
Brogan, Bridget O’Neill (Christopher) M042-Ol9dr 1944-08-16
Brogan, Dorothy [Dinkel] M042-0 I 9dr Pinckney
Brogan, Dorothy [Dinkle] M042-0 19th 1944-08-16 Pinckney
Brogan, Emma C. M042-219d 1954-02 Stockbridge
Brogan, Emma Huttenlocher M042-0 1 9d Stockbridge
Brogan, James M042-0 1 8d Bunker Hill
Brogan, John M042-019d 1944-08-16 Ann Arbor
Brogan, Katherine Winters (James) M042-0 1 8dr Bunker Hill
Brogan, Luella [Holt] M042-0 1 9dr 1944-08-16 Stockbridge
Brogan, Luella [Patterson] M042-0 1 9dr Stockbridge
Brogan, Maida McCleer M042- 118th Lansing
Brogan, Marie [Sweet] M042-0 1 9dr Battle Creek
Brogan, Marie [Sweet] M042-019th 1944-08-16 Battle Creek
Brooks, 7??? Riley (Leonard) M042-l7lwr Jackson
Brotherton, Beatrice [Conk] M042-O2Odr 1953-06-07 Gregory
Brotherton, Edward M042-020d 1953-06-07 Midland
Brotherton, Myrtle I. Dakin (Edward) M042-O2Odr 1953-06-07
Brotherton, Ruth [Cook] M042-O2Odr 1953-06-07 Midland
Brower, 7??? [Welch] M042-O2Odr Jackson
Brower, Burney E. M042-020d Jackson
Brower, Burney E. Mrs. M042-1 14th 1953-07-02 Jackson
Brower, Grace Sellers (John) M042-02 Id 1936-06-06 Stockbridge
Brower, Margaret ???? (Henry) M042-004d Stockbridge
Brower, Margaret [Clements, Babcock] M042-004d Stockbridge
Brower, Patty (DAR award) M042O20m Stockbridge
Brower, Patty (engagement) M042-020m Stockbridge
Brown, 7??? Roepcke (William) M042-150th 1953-06 Chelsea
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Brown, ???? Wilimore (A. W.) M042-194dr Stockbridge
Brown, Adella Cantrell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Detroit
Brown, Alden W. M042-022m 1956-03-22 Stockbridge C
Brown, Caroline [Ragan] M042-022dr Mason C Brown, Caroline [Ragan] M042-024dr Mason
Brown, Dewey Nelson M042-022d Mason
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Brown, Effie Winters (Nelson C.) M042-022dr C Brown, Emma [Boyce] M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-01
Brown, Frances I. {Kistler] M042-219w 1954-06 Ann Arbor
Brown, Gerald (tractor contest) (pie) M042-2 I 3m Onondaga C Brown, Harvey D. (injured) M042-022m 1955-09-03
Brown, Kenneth (ran for Congress) M042-024m Charlotte
Brown, Mabel [CarrJ M042-022dr Battle Creek C Brown, Marian [Tyrrell] M042-022dr Charlevoix
Brown, Marian [Tyrrell] M042-024dr Charlevoix
Brown, Martha [Seeley] M042-022dr FL, St. Petersburg C Brown, Nellie Florence Rundel (Dewey Nelson) M042-024d Charlevoix
Brown, Nellie Rundell (Dewey Nelson) M042-022dr Mason
Brown, Sylvia (Alden) M042-024d 1954-12-22 Stockbridge C Brown, Sylvia Mrs. M042-2l9d 1954-12 Stockbridge
Brown, Vera [Hoag] - M042-022dr FL, St. Petersburg
Browne, Clara [Pefley] M042-02 1 dr C Browne, Edwin J. M042-02 1 d CA, Orange
Bruell, Hazel Bishop M042-OO9dr IN, Peru
Bruerton, Fannie [Corwin] M042-200w 1907-10-06 C Bruerton, Thomas H. M042-023d 1937
Buchanan, Metta Judson M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Stockbridge
Buckley, Clifford M042-068w C Buckley, Marion Maicho M042- 11 3dr 1962-10-29 Stockbridge
Buckley, Marion Malcho (Clifford) M042-068w
Buckwell, Mary Burden M042-025dr 1944-04-09 CA, Los Angeles C Budd, James M. M042-219d 1954-02 Stockbridge
Budd, Marie [Nott] M042-O2Sdr Jackson
Budd, Mary Ann (Robert) M042-025d C BuhI, Lillian [Dickson] M042-024dr 1949-11-07 Howell
Buhi, Rose B. Bland (William J.) M042-024d 1949-11-07 Howell
Bull, Eileen [Crenna] M042-024dr 1956-08-04 Stockbridge C Bull, Nora Estella Sawdy (Julien Emmett) M042-024d 1956-08-04
Bullis, ?7?? [Grosshans] M042-025dr Gregory
Bullis, ???? [Mayer] M042-025dr Munith C Bull is, ???? Ostrander (Arthur) M042- I 37dr 1946-02-10 Gregory
Bullis, Arthur (50th anniversary) M042-22 Im 195 8-09 Gregory
Bullis, Etta [HassencahlJ M042-O2Sdr Lansing Q Bullis, May Ostrander (Arthur) M042-137dr 1944-07-06 Ypsilanti
Bullis, Sylvester M042-025d Stockbridge
Bumpus, Anne Baker M042-OO4dr 1948-07-2 1 Plainfield C Bumpus, Anne Isham (Merwin E.) M042-091w 1941-07-10 Plainfield
Bumpus, Bertha L. Mrs. M042-025d 1959-03-22 Stockbridge
Bumpus, Charles H. (engagement) M042- 1 84m Stockbridge C Bumpus, Doris Mrs. M042-047dr 1943-02-22
Bumpus, Mary [Smith] M042-025dr 1959-03-22
Bumpus, Merwin E. M042-091w 194 1-07-10 OH, Toledo C
Bundenthall, Frances Cantrell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 MO, Augusta
Burbank, Rossie Schubert M042-154dr 1954 MN, Minneapolis
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C
Burch, Sadie Clark M042-029dr 1938-06-14 Detroit
Burden, Charles M042-025d 1944-04-09
Burden, Ida Reason (Charles) M042-025dr 1944-04-09
Burden, Margaret Harwood M042-025d 1952-06-19
Burden, Margaret Horwood M042-086dr 1947-06-23 MilIville
Burden, Mary [Buckwell] M042-025dr 1944-04-09 CA, Los Angeles
Burger, Hulda Huttenlocher M042-Ol9dr Detroit
Burgess, ???? Wilson (Andrew) M042-197dr 195 1-06-23 Northville
Burgess, Andrew (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Burgess, Cora [Siegfried] M042-033dr 1941-05-12
Burgess, Elizabeth [Backus] M042-005d 1959-11-16 Dansville
Burgess, Elizabeth [Backus] M042-025dr 1948-03-22 Dansville
Burgess, Gladys Wilson (Andrew) M042-196dr 1944-06-20 Northville
Burgess, Ida M. [Gillam, Cooper] M042-033d 194 1-05-12 White Oak Twp.
Burgess, John Robert M042-025d 1948-03-22 Unadilla Twp.
Burgess, Minnie A. Jackson (John Robert) M042-025dr 1948-03-22 Unadilla Twp.
Burgess, Minnie Adell Jackson (John R.) M042-025d 1952-09-25 Gregory
Burgess, Nina [Kelley] M042-033dr 194 1-05-12
Burley, Osa Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Burns, Robert M042-047dr Jackson
Burt, ???? [Kinsey] M042-lO2dr 1935-11-28 Doster
Burton, Ann (Legionette President) M042-222m 1955-12 Stockbridge
Bush, Vina Cantrell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Michigan Center
Bushnell, Electa Clark M042-029dr 1938-06-14 Fowlerville
Butler, ???? Roberts (Jack) M042-l49dr 1958-12-15 Gregory
Butler, John M/M M042-148wr Gregory
Butler, June Ann Barth (Bernard) M042-148w Gregory
Byerly, Joanne Wheeler (Kenneth) M042-220w 1951-Il Stockbridge
Byerly, Kenneth M042-220w 1951-11 Stockbridge
Cady, Frances [Garfield] M042-22 1w 1958-10 Stockbridge
Cain, 7??? [Libey] M042-l07dr 1955-03 Grass Lake
Cain, Eleanor Moore (John A.) M042-026dr 1958-06-14
Cain, Elmina [Camburn] M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Grosse Point
Cain, Emma [Skidmore] M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Stockbridge
Cain, Emma [Skidmore] M042-157d Stockbridge
Cain, Ethel (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 1 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Cain, John A. M042-026d 1958-06-14
Cain, John A. M042-221d 1958-06 Stockbridge
Cain, John A. (91 th birthday) M042-026m 1957-04-07 Grass Lake
Cain, Mina [Jacobs] M042-026dr 1958-06-14
Cain, Zada [Lindamood, Artz] M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Grass Lake
Calkins, Ernest M042-026w East Lansing
Calkins, Ernest (engagement) M042-046m 1952-04-10 East Lansing
Calkins, Phyllis Ruth Ellsworth (Ernest) M042-026w Stockbridge
Call, Dell Mrs. M042-219d 1954-08 Fitchburg
Call, Edgar (50th anniversary) M042-219m 1954-01 Fitchburg
Camburn, 7??? [Boughton] M042-026dr 1958-12-24 Morenci
Camburn, ???? [Eyster] M042-026dr 1958-12-24 Dearborn
Cainburn, 7??? [EysterJ M042-026dr Dearborn
Camburn, Anna M. Sweet (Arthur T.) M042-026d 1958-12-24
Camburn, Anna M. Sweet (Arthur T.) M042-026dr Monroe
Camburn, Arthur T. Rev. M042-026d Monroe
Camburn, Eliza Holdridge (Harmon) M042-026dr
Camburn, Elminá Cain M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Grosse Point
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C
C
Camburn, Helen [Boughton] M042-026dr Monroe
Camden, Bertha Mrs. M042-082dr 1954-12-19 Jackson
Cameron, Daniel M!M M042-193dr 1940 C Cameron, Elizabeth Wasson M042-068dr WA, Bremerton
Cameron, Janette [Votes] M042-181d 1945-03-10
Cameron, Minnie [Longiiecker] M042-026d 1931-12-20
Cameron, Nettie [Votes] M042-lSldr 1943-02-17 White Oak Twp.
Camp, Alex (auot accident) M042-220m 1951-05 Stockbridge
Camp, Edith Cole M042-03 ldr Stockbridge C
Camp, Edith Mrs. M042-027dr
Campbell, Cleo Patricia [Soderberg] M042-162w IL, Decatur
Canfield, Emily A. [James, Zeigenuliss] M042- 1 98d C
Canfield, Jennie Waters M042-187dr Fowlerville
Cantrell, Adella [Brown] M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Detroit
Cantrell, Ena [Dill] M042-027dr 1942-01-il Diamond Lake C
Cantrell, Esther [Barton] M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14
Cantrell, Esther [Barton] M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Stockbridge
Cantrell, Ethel [Sprout] M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Pmckney C
Cantrell, Frances [Bundenthall] M042-027dr 1942-01-1 1 MO, Augusta
Cantrell, Helen [Franklin] M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Stockbridge
Cantrell, Jennie [Mackinder] - M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Stockbridge C
Cantrell, Nellie E. Force (William) M042-027d 1942-01-11 Stockbridge
Cantrell, Nellie Mrs. M042-167dr 194 1-01-28 Stockbridge
Cantrell, Vina [Bush] M042-027dr 1942-01-1 1 Michigan Center C
Cardwell, Mabel Heying M042-082dr Imlay City
Carley, Jesse M042-22 1 d 1958-07 Munith
Carley, Vera Lavonda (engagement) M042-027m Munith C
Carpenter, ???? Wilimore (Gernith) M042- 1 94dr Detroit
Carpenter, James M042-222w 1955-11 Stockbridge
Carpenter, Olive Ida [Walker] M042-182d 195 1-04-15 MilIville C
Carpenter, Patricia K. Shilling (James) M042-222w 1955-11 Stockbridge
Carr, ???? Pulling (Delmar) M042-l44dr Webberville
Carr, Burdetta [Farrington] M042-048w 1937 (3
Carr, Delmar Mrs. (homemaker conference) M042-208m Webberville
Carr, Elizabeth (Sr. play) (pic) M042-2 1 Om Stockbridge
Carr, Mabel Brown M042-022dr Battle Creek Q
Carruthers, Cameron M042- 120m 1951-09-06 Bancroft
Carter, Ella Dewey M042-042dr
Carter, Ella 3. Clements (Mason J.) M042-028d Jackson C
Carter, Ella J. Clements (Mason) M042-OO4dr Stockbridge
Carter, Emma Houghtlin (Mason J.) M042- 151 dr
Carter, Emma J. Houghton (Mason J.) M042-027dr Stockbridge C
Carter, Jennie [Sharland] M042-027dr Clare
Carter, Mason J. M042-027d Stockbridge
Carter, Maude [Scheller] M042-027dr CA C
Carter, Millie [Rose] M042-027dr Gregory
Carter, Millie Mae [Rose] M042- 15 id Stockbridge
Caskey, Beverly (O.E.S., A.M.) M042-222m 1955-09 Stockbridge C
Caskey, Clara [Pond] M042-OO4dr 1948-07-21 Fowlerville
Caskey, Clara [Pond] M042-028dr Fowlerville
Caskey, Clara [Pond] M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Fowlerville C
Caskey, Clara [Pond] M042- I 96dr Fowlerville C Caskey, Clara [Pond] M042-197dr Fowlerville
Caskey, Erma King (James A.) M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Gregory Ca
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Caskey, Harold W. (engagement) M042-181m 1941 Gregory
Caskey, Helen D. [Wilson] M042-196dr Jackson
Caskey, Helen D. [Wilson] M042-197dr Jackson
Caskey, James A. M042-028d 1959-1 1-18 Gregory
Caskey, Jeffrey <Wm. D.> (pic) M042-028m
Caskey, Jeffley Allan <William> (pic) M042-202m 195 8-07-10 Vantown/Militown
Caskey, Joan [Corser] M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Hillsdale
Caskey, Joan [Corser] M042-220w 1951-07 Stockbridge
Caskey, Lois [Latson] M042-028w Gregory
Caskey, Lois [Lotson] M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Howell
Caskey, Louella [Durkee] M042- 1 9ódr Stockbridge
Caskey, Louella [Durkee] M042- 197dr Stockbridge
Caskey, Luella [Durkee] M042-OO4dr 1948-07-21 Stockbridge
Caskey, Luella [Durkee] M042-028dr Stockbridge
Caskey, Luella [Durkee] M042-028dr 1959-11-18
Caskey, Mabel [Bakerj M042-004d 1948-07-21 Plainfield
Caskey, Mabel [Baker] M042- 1 96dr Gregory
Caskey, Mabel [Baker] M042- 1 97dr Gregory
Caskey, Nettie E. Whitaker (James A.) M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Gregory
Caskey, Nettie Elsie Whitaker M042-193dr 1936-05-07 Gregory
Caskey, Sara Kellogg - M042-lOldr Stockbridge
Caskey, Sarah Worthington (Robert W.) M042-028dr 1959-11-18
Caskey, W. (Twp. Clerk) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Caskey, William (letter) M042-028m Italy
Caskey, William (Village Trustee) M042-216m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge
Caskey, William D. M042-028d 1950-04-25 Stockbridge
Casper, Twilla May M042-1 17th 1941-12 Mason
Cass, William Mrs. M042-099dr Pinckney
Cassidy, Rachel (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Catrell, Hazel Arnold (George) M042-OO3dr 1953-11-22 Howell
Caulkins, Margaret [McNamara] M042- 121 dr 1955-02-21 Howell
Cavanaugh, ???? Brogan (J. B.) M042-Ol8dr Lansing
Cavender, Richard Mrs. M042-l3ldr 1937-12-10 VA, Arlington
Chadwick, Ruth [Osborne] M042-136dr
Chambers, Zora Mrs. M042-025dr 1944-04-09 Pinckney
Chapel, Flora Mowell M042-127dr 1942-07-13 Lansing
Chapman, James E. (air force) (pie) M042-206m Leslie
Chappel, ?fl? [Bowen] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Williamston
Chappel, Dale (Village Trustee) M042-221m 1958-03 Stockbridge
Chappel, Louise Peters M042- 13 8dr 1951-03-24 Stockbridge
Chappel, Nettie [Glenn] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Mt. Pleasant
Chappel, Rosa Ann [Judson] M042-095d 1943-12-30 Williamston
Cheif, Geneva (Sr. play) (pie) M042-210m Stockbridge
Cheney, Will L. M042-224 1880 Hanover
Chenoweth, Barbara Sibley M042-1 19th 1956-01-24 TX, Dallas
Childs, Phylis Grostick (Tim) M042-059dr 1997-04-16 Lansing
Childs, Phylis Grostick (Tim) M042-O6Odr 1982-06-24 Lansing
Chipman, ???? Sommer M042-162dr Stockbridge
Chipman, ???? Watson (R. G.) M042-188dr 1942-0 1 Gregory
Chipman, ???? Watson (Ralph) M042-1 88th Gregory
Christian, Florence [Lundey] M042-174dr 1959-12-18 Lansing
Christian, Mary E. [Teachout] M042-174d 1959-12-18 Concord
Cieslak, Eileen Glynn M042-057dr 1962-04-26 Detroit
Clampett, Kitsie Baker M042-028d 1956-10 Stoekbridge
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CC
Clark, Abbie [Kirby] M042-029dr 1938-06-14 White Oak Twp. V
Clark, Ada [Titus] M042-082dr 1945-03 Stockbridge
Clark, Alta Reeves (Frank) M042-0l Id 1940-06-02 Flint C
Clark, Blanche [Wilcox] M042-029dr 1938-06-14 White Oak Twp.
Clark, Carla June Hodge M042-1 I4dr Lansing
Clark, Conrat M042-1 12m 1957-03 Springport C
Clark, Electa [Bushnell] M042-029dr 1938-06-14 Fowlerville
Clark, Emma Bohnet M042-Ol2dr Stockbridge
Clark, Emma Mrs. M042-029d Mason C
Clark, Emma Mrs. M042-186d Stockbridge C Clark, Ettie N. Sidell (Will G.) M042-029dr 193 8-06-14
Clark, Fannie [Hill] M042-082dr 1945-03 Gregory C
Clark, Gladys [Martin] M042-Ol ldr 1940-06-02 CA, Capitola C Clark, Helen Hopkins M042-086dr 1952-07-26
Clark, Jessie [Ferguson] M042-0 11 dr 1940-06-02 Detroit G
Clark, Lee (FFA) M042-209m Stockbridge a Clark, Lee (wins FFF state award) M042-22 1m 1958-03 Stockbridge
Clark, Marion Sommer (Jack) M042- I 62dr Stockbridge C
Clark, May [Graves] M042-082dr 1945-03 Chelsea C Clark, Mildred (H.S. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Clark, Mina Kleinschmidt (Lyle) M042-lO3dr C
Clark, Pauline Mrs. M042-029d 1953-05-25 Unadilla Twp.
Clark, Ruth Mitteer M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Gregory
Clark, Sadie [Burch] M042-029dr 1938-06-14 Detroit C
Clark, Will G. M042-029d 1938-06-14
Clarke, 7??? Mitteer (Floyd) M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Gregory
Clawson, 7??? Noyes (Benon) M042-134dr 1956-08-03 Parma C
Clawson, Eletta Backus M042-086dr Howell g
Clawson, Mildred Noyes M042-134dr 1958-12-19 Albion
Clayton, ???? West (Paul) M042-190m 1962-11-11 Jackson C
Clemens, Alan M042-221w 1958-12 Stockbridge C Clemens, Marilyn Kistler (Alan) M042-221w 1958-12 Stockbridge
Clements, Ella J. [Carter] M042-OO4dr Stockbridge V
Clements, Ella J. [Dewey, Carter] M042-028d Jackson C Clements, Margaret 7??? (James) M042-004d Stockbridge
Clements, Shirley Messner M042-122dr C
Cletus, ???? Berry (Raymond Howard) M042-OO9dr 1951-02-02 0 Clickner, Iva Shaw M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Mason
Cline, Eva [Bott] M042-012w 1936-10-3 1 Lansing C
Coakley, 7??? Morgan (James) M042- I 27dr 1939-08-16 Stockbridge C Coakley, Donald M042- 102w 1942 Stockbridge
Coakley, James M042-22 1 d 1958-10 Stockbridge
Coakley, James 1. M042-029d Jackson C Coakley, Phyllis Kinsey (Donald) M042-102w 1942 Plainfleld
Cobb, 7??? [Kemmer] M042-O3Odr 1959-1 1-03
Cobb, Arthur M042-030d Frederick C Cobb, Arthur M042-220d 1951-11 Stockbridge
Cobb, Arthur Ray M042-030w 1958-01-16 Stockbridge
Cobb, Arthur Ray M042-221d 1958-01 Stockbridge C Cobb, Blanche [Corbin] M042-O3Odr IN, Lafayette
Cobb, Cecil (Village Trustee) M042-219m 1954-03 Stockbridge
Cobb, Ella Maria Dyke (John B.) M042-030d 1944-01 Jackson C Cobb, Emma Lou [Pomrenke] M042-O3Odr Stockbridge
Cobb, Emma Lou [Pomrenke] M042-030w 1946-02-09 Stockbridge
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Cobb, lnez [Sweet]
Cobb, Irene Smith (Arthur)
Cobb, Irene Smith (Arthur)
Cobb, Jay
Cobb, Marcella (O.E.S., Sec.)
Cobb, Marion [Lindberg]
Cobb, Ray H.
Cobb, Roberta Barber (Arthur Ray)
Cobb, Tacy Roberta Barber
Cochran, ?fl? Wilson (W. Truman)
Cochran, Patricia Jean [Marshall]
Cochrane, Barbara (Honor Student)
Colby, Shirley Marie [Lambert]
Cole, Adelia [Stoner]
Cole, Anna C. Mrs.
Cole, Edith [Camp]
Cole, Eva [McConaughy]
Cole, Gussie [Ellsworth]
Coleman, ???? [Corwin]
Coleman, ???? [Hodge]
Coleman, 7??? [Shirley]
Coleman, ???? [Wright]
Coleman, Bertha [Wygant]
Coleman, Hazel [Wygant]
Coleman, Joyce Lucille Maicho (Richard N.)
Coleman, Oscar E.
Coleman, Richard Norman
Coleman, William
Collard, Ona L. [Gaylord, Almond]
Collier, Dennis M/M (open house)
Collier, Marion Collins (Wayne)
Collings, Agnes [Coulson]
Collings, Joyce (Legionette Treasurer)
Collings, Rose Ann (tennis team)
Collings, Rose Anne (school play)
Collins, 7?’?? Trapp (Dale)
Collins, Ardie Hubbard (Thomas Herbert)
Collins, Art (Village Trustee)
Collins, Arthur (Village Trustee)
Collins, Chris & John <Jack> (pic)
Collins, Dale Robert
Collins, Dale Robert
Collins, Esther [Reynolds]
Collins, Florence E. [Mills]
Collins, Helen [Beeman]
Collins, Herbert
Collins, Herbert (Village Assessor)
Collins, Jeanette Carolyn Trapp (Dale Robert)
Collins, Jeannette Carolyn Trapp (Dale Robert)
Collins, Lorn (Am. Legion Adj.)
Collins, Marion [Collier]
Collins, Phyllis (writes re. TX Flood)
Collins, Thomas Herbert
Collum, Elizabeth Walker (Henry)
1948-03-08 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1959-11-03 Ann Arbor
1955-09 Stockbridge
Farmington
Eaton Rapids
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Gregory
Gregory
Dansville
Stockbridge
1957
1958-08
1944-07-06
1959-09-20
1958-06
195 1-09-02
1945-11-04
1955- 12
White Oak Twp.
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Munith
Chelsea
1950-06-24 Chelsea
1951-09-02 Jackson
Leslie
Stockbriclge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1955-06
195 1-09-02
1954-07
1951-09-02
M042-O3Odr 1944-01 Stockbridge -
1957-02-26
1958-01
1958-01-16
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
IN, Indianapolis
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Deerfield
Stockbridge
Dansville
Belding
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1942-01-08
1942-01-08
1942-01-08
M042- 1 6Odr
M042-l6Odr
M042-030d
M042-222m
M042-O3Odr
M042-030d
M042-221d
M042-030w
M042-032wr
M042-032w,.
M042-044m
M042-22 1w
M042- I 37dr
M042-03 id
M042-03 ldr
M042-03 ldr
M042-03 ldr
M042-O3ldr
M042-03 1 dr
M042-03 ldr
M042-O3Idr
M042-03 1 dr
M042-O3ldr
M042-l 13w
M042-031d
M042-1 13w
M042-O3ld
M042-OOlm
M042-22lm
M042-O3ldr
M042-036dr
M042-222m
M042-206m
M042-200m
M042-l54wr
M042-03 ldr
M042-222m
M042-2l6m
M042-20 1m
M042-03 1w
M042-177w
M042-03 I dr
M042-123d
M042-03 ldr
M042-220d
M042-220m
M042-177w
M042-03 1w
M042-222rn
M042-03 I dr
M042-219m
M042-O3ld
M042-190d
195 1-09-02
1955-03
1958-07-20
1955-03-24
1951-09-02
195 1-09-04
195 1-03
1950-06-24
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Dansville
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Comford, ???? [Smith] M042-035wr 1955-04 Dansville
Conay, Ruth Mrs. M042-221d 1958-11 Stockbridge
Cone, Mina McGee M042-1 l9dr 1938-01-02 Gregory
Congdon, Hazel Dell Townsend M042-175dr 1953-07-09 Grand Ledge C Conk, Beatrice Brotherton M042-O2Odr 1953-06-07 Gregory
Conk, Melvin M042-222d 1955-09 Gregory
Conklin, Bridget Ledwedge (Ellsworth) M042-031d 194 1-12-23 White Oak Twp. C Cook, ???? Barton (Ernest) M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Stockbridge
Cook, Charles E. M042-033m 195 1-02-20 Stockbridge
Cook, Chaudette, Jean [Branch] M042-0 17w Onsted C Cook, Claude M042-048w 1936-06-24
Cook, Darrly D. M042-095w Stockbridge C
Cook, Genevieve Arlinn Johnson (Darrly D.) M042-095w Grgory C Cook, Ilabelle Farrington (Claude) M042-048w 1936-06-24
Cook, Kenneth (Farmer of the Month) M042-033m Onsted C
Cook, Lillie Knight M042-OSldr Stockbridge
Cook, Richard (Farmer of the Month) M042-033m Onsted
Cook, Ruth Brotherton M042-O2Odr 1953-06-07 Midland C Cook, Samuel Stiliman (volunteered for draft) M042-200m 194? Mason
Cool, Max (Twp. Trustee) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Cooper, ???? Runciman (Edward) - M042-153dr 1943-02-19 Waterloo Q Cooper, Albert Mrs. M042-1 l7wr 1945-11-08
Cooper, Daisy [Reames] M042-033dr 194 1-05-12 Jackson
Cooper, Edmund Mrs. M042-220d 1951-12 Waterloo C Cooper, Georgina Parish M042-138dr Albion
Cooper, Helen Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Cooper, Ida M. Burgess (John A.) M042-033d 194 1-05-12 White Oak Twp.
Cooper, Myra M042-222d 1955-07 Stockbridge
Cooper, Myrna C. Singleton M042-157dr 1954-01-21 Detroit
Cooper, Nina [Kelley] M042-lOOdr 1954-12-18 Stockbridge C Corbin, Blanche Cobb M042-O3Odr IN, Lafayette
Corey, Helen Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1943-01 Pinckney C
Corey, Helen Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Portage Lake C Corey, Helen Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 Pinckney
Cornford, Eileen (Sr. play) (pic) M042-2 lOm Stockbridge C
Comford, Eileen Marie [Young] M042-035w 1955-04 Stockbridge
Cornstubble, Wanda (Co. dairy princess) (pie) M042-2 12m Hanover-Horton
Cornstubble, Wanda Lou M042- 11 2m 1957-03 Hanover C Cornwell, Etta [Dietrick] M042-044d Stockbridge
Cornwell, Etta [Dietrick] M042-044dr 1938
Corser, Ernest J. M042-221d 1958-05 Gregory C Corser, Fred A. M042-220w 1951-07 Stockbridge
Corser, Harold M042- 133w Gregory
Corser, Joan Caskey M042-O2Sdr 1959-1 1-18 Hillsdale C Corser, Joan Caskey (Fred A.) M042-220w 1951-07 Stockbridge
Corser, LaVon Norton (Harold) M042- 133w Williamston
Corser, Nellie M042-O3lwr C Corser, Nellie M042- 1 77wr 1950-06-24
Corser, Nellie [Sampson] M042-220w 195 1-06 Unadilla Twp. C
Corser, Winifred Dewey M042-042dr Lansing C Corwin, ???? [Hopkins] M042-033dr 1960-01-26 Ackerson Lake
Corwin, ???? [Marsh] M042-033dr 1955-06-17 Jackson
Corwin, ???? [Marsh] M042-033dr 1955-06-17 Jackson C Corwin, ???? Coleman (Gerald) M042-03 ldr Stockbridge
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Corwin, Claud L. (pie) M042-034m Munith
Corwin, Claud 0. (pic) M042-034m Jackson
Corwin, Claud V. M042-033d 1960-01-26 Jackson
Corwin, Claude M042-200w 1907-10-06
Corwin, Dora [Marsh] M042-033dr 1960-01-26 Jackson
Corwin, Dora [Marsh] M042-l 14w 1935-03-14 Jackson
Corwin, Fannie Bruerton (Claude) M042-200w 1907-10-06
Corwin, Fred Mrs. M042-056wr 1937-09-11 Dansville
Corwin, Gerald T. M042-033d 1955-06-17 Ann Arbor
Corwin, Louva [Marsh] M042-033dr 1960-01-26 Grass Lake
Corwin, Louva V. [Marsh] M042-033w Jackson
Corwin, 0. D. (pic) M042-034m Munith
Corwin, Rose Mrs. (pic) M042-034m Dansville
Corwin, Timothy J. (pie) M042-034m Munith
Corwin, Tom (air force) (pic) M042-206m Gregory
Cosgray, ???? Kochel (William) M042- 1 O4dr Stockbridge
Cosgray, Bertha Ann Kochel (William) M042-034d
Cosgray, Bessie [Reynolds] M042-034dr Stockbridge
Cosgray, Bessie [Reynolds] M042-034dr Stockbridge
Cosgray, ha M042-057dr 1955-02-10
Cosgray, hlene [Myer] M042-034dr Gregory
Cosgray, Nellie [Banfield] M042-034dr PA, Broomall
Cosgray, Nellie [Bonfield] M042-034dr CA, North Ridge
Cosgray, William M042-034d Stockbridge
Cosgray, Wm. M042-222d 1955-04 Stockbridge
Coulson, Agnes Collings (George Alfred) M042-036dr 1945-11-04 White Oak Twp.
Coulson, Cora Holmes M042-124dr 1935-1 1-29
Coulson, George Alfred M042-036d 1945-11-04 White Oak Twp.
Cowger, Hattie Paul M042-138dr IN, Monticello
Craft, Barbara J. [Massey] M042-222w 1955-06 Fitchburg
Craft, Icie [Banks] M042-OO5dr 1953-06-03
Craig, Agnes [Wing] M042-036dr 195 1-06-23 MN, Minneapolis
Craig, Althea [Gorecki] M042-036dr Devil’s Lake
Craig, Eva [Wohlgamuth] M042-036dr Petersburg
Craig, Irene [Torrey] M042-036dr Flint
Craig, James Archibald M042-036d 195 1-06-23 Stockbridge
Craig, Ora 0. Olds (James Archibald) M042-036dr 195 1-06-23 Stockbridge
Craig, Ora Olds M042-136dr 1959-06-25 Stockbridge
Craig, Thomas Russell M042-036d Palmyra
Crandall, Christine Matthiesen (Lawrence) M042-036d Webberville
Crandall, Doris Katz (Ellsworth) M042-221w 1958-04 Munith
Crandall, Ellsworth M042-22 1w 1958-04 Stockbridge
Crandall, Laurence (pic) M042-152m 1960-04-03 Webberville
Crandall, Ruth [West] M042-036dr Webberville
Cranna, Josephine B. M042-22 1 d 1958-06 Stockbridge
Cranna, Josephine B. May (Erward D.) M042-036d 1958-06-04 Munith
Cranna, Marion [Liebeck] M042-036dr 1958-06-04 Munith
Cranna, Nancy May [Johnson] M042-036dr 1958-06-04 Chelsea
Creager, ???? Kelley (Alva) M042-099dr Stockbridge
Crenna, Eileen Bull M042-024dr 1956-08-04 Stockbridge
Cribley, Joe M042-219d 1954-04 Stockbridge
Croman, Mary Elizabeth [Dewey] M042-042d 1938-12-24
Cronkhite, Alva (Twp. Supervisor) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Cronkhite, Don (FLS. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
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Cronkhite, Donovan C. (Pres. Voc. Teachers) M042-22 Im 1958-08 Stockbridge
Cronkhite, Frances Miss (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown c Cronkhite, Irma (H.S. Teacher) M042-2 17m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Cronkite, Alva (Township Supervisor) M042-2 I 6m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge (j
Crossman, C. B. M042-056wr 1937-09-11 Ortonville
Crotty, Isabelle Kuhn (William) M042-104w Gregory
Crotty, William M042-104w C Crouse, May Westphal M042-04 I dr 1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Crusoe, ???? Glover (Walter) M042-056dr Midland
Crysler, Fred M042-036d 1945-03 White Oak Twp. C Cullen, Francis Mrs. M042-037d Bunker Hill
Cullen, William Bryan M042-037d 1929-08-14 Bunker Hill
Culver, ???? [Griffin] M042-037wr 1954-12-30 Dearborn C Culver, ???? Kohls (G. D.) M042-lO4dr 1952-11
Culver, Guy D. (auto accident) M042-037m 1939 Stockbridge
Culver, Mary Lee McAllister (Raymond E.) M042-037w 1954-12-30 Ann Arbor C Culver, Mary Lee McAllister (Raymond E.) M042-219w 1954-12 Ann Arbor
Culver, Raymon E. (engagement) M042- 11 8m Stockbridge C
Culver, Raymond E. M042-037w 1954-12-30 Stockbridge C Culver, Raymond E. M042-219w 1954-12 Stockbridge
Culver, Ruth E. [Griffin] M042-220w 195 1-08 Stockbridge C
Curry, Neil Mrs. M042-154dr 1955-07-10 Plymouth
Curtis, Florence [Freymuth] M042-037dr 1958 Munith
Curtis, Helen Mrs. (choir) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Militown C Curtis, Helen Walker M042-l82dr 1951-01-30 White Oak Twp.
Curtis, Helen Walker M042-l82dr 195 1-04-15 White Oak Twp.
Curtis, Lewis M042-037d 1958 Jackson C Curtis, Minnie Barton M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Jackson
Daft, Eleanor [Mayer] M042-038w
Dailey, Marie Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 VanDyke C Daily, Marie Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 VanDyke
Dakin, Myrtie I. [Brotherton] M042-O2Odr 1953-06-07
Daley, Marie Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1943-0 1 VanDyke C Dalrymple, Betty [Rheims] M042-072wr
Dalrymple, JoAnn Marie [Herrick] M042-072w Onondaga
Dancer, ???? [Ford] M042-038wr 1950-06 C Dancer, ???? [Hall] M042-04 ldr 1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, ???? Miteer (Ray) M042-125dr Stockbridge C
Dancer, Frances Farmer M042-047dr 1943-02-22 C Dancer, Frances Mrs. M042-047dr 1947-09-29
Dancer, Jennie Hoag (William J.) M042-O4ldr 1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, John (Car stolen) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Dancer, Marian (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Dancer, Marian (tennis team) M042-206m Stockbridge C
Dancer, Marie (tennis team) M042-206m Stockbridge
Dancer, May Westphal Crouse (William J.) M042-O4ldr 1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, Polly Joyce Mitteer (Ray Vance) M042-039w 1956-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, Polly Joyce Mitteer (Ray Vance) M042-040w 1956-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, Ray Vance M042-039w 1956-07 Stockbridge
Dancer, Ray Vance M042-040w 1956-07 Stockbridge C Dancer, Rose (Village Clerk) M042-219m 1954-03 Stockbridge
Dancer, Rose (Village Clerk) M042-222m 1955-03 Stockbridge
Dancer, Sally Marie [Hurst] M042-038w 1950-06 Stockbridge C Dancer, William J. M042-O4ld 1942-03-07 Stockbridge c
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Daniel, Theodore (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Daniels, ???? [Jacobs] M042- 1 72dr 1947-06-24 Plain field
Daniels, Edna Mae [Teachout] M042-172d 1947-06-24 Unadilla Twp.
Daniels, Eliza A. [Boyce] M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-0 1
Dapp, Anna [Grail M042-057dr 1955-02-10 Stockbridge
Darnell, Cleo Matthiesen M042-036dr Webberville
Daugherty, Charlene M042-1 12m 1957-03 Brooklyn
Daugherty, Charlene (Co. dairy princess) (pic) M042-2 I 2m Brooklyn
Davis, Leslie (at County Fair) M042-205m 1962-08-16
Davis, Lucy (Kate) [Herrick] M042-072d 1948-01-29 Howell
Davis, Margaret Felton M042-OSOdr 1948-1 1-19 Ann Arbor
Davis, Mary [King] M042-072dr 1948-01-29 Lansing
Dean, Mabel West M042-190m 1945-11-16 Lansing
Dean, Mable West M042-l9Odr Lansing
Dear, Patricia (Co. dairy princess) (pic) M042-212m Concord
Dear, Patricia Ann M042-1 12m 1957-03 Concord
DeBar, Theodore H. M042-041d 1958-02-12 Owosso
DeBruler, Shirley M042-1 12m 1957-03 Leslie
DeBruler, Shirley (Co. dairy princess) (pic) M042-2l2m Leslie
DeCamp, Effie (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
DeCamp, Ella N. Grimes (Nelson) - M042-042d Jackson
DeCamp, Hazel [Knight] M042-042dr Jackson
DeCamp, Monabell [Hawley] M042-042dr Jackson
Deford, Ethel M. [Stephens] M042- 1 66dr Stockbridge
DeForest, Viola Aubichon M042-OO3dr 1950-04-04 Detroit
Delamarter, Dorothy M042-0 I Owr Okemos
Delamater, Eugenia VanSyckel M042-179dr Okemos
Deloy, Iva Welton M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Cheboygan
Dempsey, Pat (air force) (pic) M042-206m Adrian
Densmore, Rose Holland M042-085dr 1948-06-21 Mason
Denton, Elizabeth Johnson M042-042dr 1939-02-25 Gregory
Denton, Samuel M042-042d 1939-02-25 Gregory
Depew, Edna Mrs. (choir) (plc) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Depew, Martha Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown!Milltown
Depuy, C. E. M042-022m Stockbridge
Devin, Joseph M042-155dr Howell
Dewey, 9??? [Lyon] M042-028dr Jackson
Dewey, Alida [Sheele] M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Jackson
Dewey, Dora Valentine (Henry Martin) M042-042dr Gregory
Dewey, Doris [Earl] M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Munith
Dewey, Edith (Arthur) M042-042d 1955-03-21 Munith
Dewey, Ella [Carter] M042-042dr
Dewey, Ella J. Clements (Samuel E.) M042-028d Jackson
Dewey, Gladys [Bentley] M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Jackson
Dewey, Henry Martin M042-042d Gregory
Dewey, Lola [Rogers] M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Jackson
Dewey, Marie [Mills] M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Stockbridge
Dewey, Mary Elizabeth Croman (Lorenzo) M042-042d 1938-12-24
Dewey, Sol M042-042d Unadilla Twp.
Dewey, Winifred [Corser] M042-042dr Lansing
DeWitt, Kenneth Mrs. M042-184wr 1957-05-04
Dibley, 9??? Wiegman (J. Charles)’ M042-194dr St. Charles
Dickenson, Donald (Village Trustee) M042-216m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge
Dickinson, Don (Village Trustee) M042-221m 1958-03 Stockbridge
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Dickinson, Donald M042-221w 1958-09 Stockbridge
Dickinson, Herbert M042-039wr 1956-07
Dickinson, Herbert M042-O4Owr 1956-07
Dickinson, Jocille Smith M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge C
Dickinson, Mary J0 (plc) M042-2 1 Sm Stockbridge
Dickinson, Nancy Miller (Donald) M042-221w 1958-09 Jackson
Dickinson, Robert (tennis team) M042-206m Stockbridge a Dickinson, Sue Carol [Fizer] M042-22 1m 1958-04 Stockbridge
Dickson, Lillian Buhl (Alva) M042-024dr 1949-11-07 Howell
Dieterle, Elizabeth Adele Lincoln (Henry A.) M042-OlSd 1952-12-11 Webberville (3 Dieterle, Josephine [Biggs] M042-OlSdr 1952-12-11 MO, Lebanon
Dieterle, Katherine [McLain] M042-OlSdr 1952-12-Il Jackson
Dieterle, Sylvia [Lewis] M042-22 1w 1958-04 Stockbridge C Dietirck, Etta Cornwell (Arthur Daniel) M042-044dr 1938
Dietrich, Laurene Ruth [Sheathelm] M042-043w 1956-10-20 Fowlerville
Dietrich, Thora [Robinson] M042-043wr 1956-10-20 Lansing C Dietrick, ???? [Blythe] M042-044dr 1938
Dietrick, Allan (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown 0
Dietrick, Arthur Daniel M042-044d 1938
Dietrick, Cheryl <Allan> (pic) M042-044m
Dietrick, Etta Cornwell M042-044d Stockbridge C
Dietrick, Helen Mrs. (choir) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Dill, Ena Cantrell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Diamond Lake
Dinkel, Dorothy Brogan M042-0 I 9dr Pinckney C Dinkle, Dorothy Brogan M042-OI9dr 1944-08-16 Pinckney
Dixon, Forrest (elected to school board) M042-044m Stockbridge
Dixon, Peggy [Glenn] M042-219w 1954-02 Munith
Dixon, Thomas H. M042-221d 1958-04 Munith
Dixon, Virginia Mae [Williams] M042-194dr 1955-02-14 Stockbridge
Doesburg, Harry M042-076m 1955-09 Stockbridge C Doesburg, Harry M042-080m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Doesburg, Harry M042-08 I m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Doesburg, Harry (pic) M042-079m 1955-09 Stockbridge C Dormire, Debby M042-l9lwr 1956
Douglas, Marion May M042- 11 7dr 1941-12 Cass City C
Douthit, Dennis (engagement) M042-009m C Draper, Julia McCleer M042-1 I 8dr Jackson
Driver, ???? Peterson (Lyle) M042-138dr Fowlerville C
Drown, 2??? [VanBuren] M042-044dr TX, Irwen
Drown, Carolyn M042-220d 1951-01 Stockbridge
Drown, Gerald M042-222w 1955-07 Stockbridge C
Drown, Gladys [Parker] M042-044dr Wyandotte
Drown, Jane Mrs. M042-044d Techumseh
Drown, Jean Shinevar (Gerald) M042-222w 1955-07 Stockbridge C Dubay, Robert (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Duffield, Marie Kemler M042-lOldr FL, Bonifay
Dunkel, Anna Mrs. M042- 197dr Bath C Dunsmore, Dorothy (Valedictorian) M042-044m 1957 Dansville
Dunsmore, Dorothy Jeanette [1-litchcock] M042-083w Webberville
Dunsmore, Helen D. [Malcho] M042-1 13d 1962-10-29 Stockbridge C Durkee, Floyd M042-045d 1 94?-0 1 Stockbridge
Durkee, Louella Caskey M042- 196th Stockbridge
Durkee, Louella Caskey M042-197dr Stockbridge C Durkee, Luella Caskey M042-OO4dr 1948-07-21 Stockbridge a
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Durkee, Luella Caskey M042-028dr Stockbridge
Durkee, Luella Caskey M042-028dr 1959-1 1-18
Durkee, Nancy [May] M042-036dr 1958-06-04
Durkee, Nora [Singleton] M042-045dr 194?-01 CA
Dutcher, J. D. M/M M042-072dr 1926-08-26
Dutton, Charles Ostrom M042-045d 1940-03-25 Perry
Dutton, Florence Mrs. M042-149dr Plainfield
Dutton, Jane Longnecker (Charles Ostrom) M042-045dr 1940-03-25
Dutton, Minnie Glenn M042-045d Stockbridge
Dyer, Bert J. M042-045d White Oak Twp.
Dyer, Carlie [Weidmen] M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Dexter
Dyer, Francis [Bowen] M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Gregory
Dyer, Francis Wood (John Shotwell) M042-045dr 1952-12-20
Dyer, Harvey J. M042-045d 1952-12-20 Stockbridge
Dyer, Margaret (Class of 1918) M042-200m 19 18-06 Stockbridge
Dyer, Margaret [Reasoner] M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Holt
Dyer, Marie [Roberts] M042- 149dr losco Twp.
Dyer, Marie [Thompson] M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Ann Arbor
Dyer, Mary [Garrison] M042-045dr White Oak Twp.
Dyer, Minnie Pulling (Bert 3.) M042-045dr White Oak Twp.
Dyer, T. Josephine Wasson (Harvey J:) M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Stockbridge
Dyke, Ella Maria [Cobb] M042-030d 1944-01 Jackson
Dyko, Doris Holmes M042-086dr Fowlerville
Eagles, 7??? Bradshaw (J. J.) M042-0 I 6dr 1958-01-25 Battle Creek
Eames, Mabel Thompson M042-174dr Mason
Earl, 7??? Leaich (C. W.) M042-196dr 1944-06-20 IL, Belvidere
Earl, Addie • M042-221d 1958-05 Fitchburg
Earl, Doris Dewey M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Munith
Eaton, Clara [Thompson] M042-046dr 1952-07 OK, Bartlesville
Eaton, Leslie Donald M042-046d 1952-07 Dearborn
Eaton, Lucille Palmatier (Leslie Donald) M042-046dr 1952-07 FL, Miami
Echman, Harry, Mason, & Earl M042-027dr WA
Eder, ???? Roepcke (John) M042-I5Odr 1953-06 Chelsea
Eedy, Barbara M042-126wr 1959-08-06
Egeler, Alice Smith M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 Pinckney
Eggler, Alice Smith M042-l6ldr 1957-10-03 Pinckney
Eggleston, ???? [McConnell] M042-046dr Lyons
Eggleston, 7??? [Osborne] M042-046dr Jackson
Eggleston, James Wesley M042-046d Miliville
Eggleston, Linnie [Holt] M042-046dr Stockbridge
Ehnis, Leo M042-1 12m 1957-03 Napoleon
Eichhorn, Neva Smith M042-l6ldr 1943-11-10 Ypsilanti
Eldridge, Ruth Elaine Johnson (Thos. L.) M042-221w 1958-07 Stockbridge
Eldridge, Thomas L. M042-22lw 1958-07 Stockbridge
Elliott, Daisy [Richmond] M042-046dr 1960-01-23 L’Anse
Elliott, Lillian S. Mrs. M042-046d 1960-01-23 Mason
Elliott, Sammy baby M042-221d 1958-11 Stockbridge
Ellis, Carrie Barton M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Jackson
Ellsworth, Agnes [Montgomery] M042-046dr 1946-11-22 Detroit
Ellsworth, Alice [Kator] M042-046dr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Ellsworth, Alice [Kator] M042-lO2dr 1942-01
Ellsworth, Charles William M042-046d 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Ellsworth, Delia [Kinney] M042-102d 1942-01
Ellsworth, Dick (FFA) M042-209m Stockbridge
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Ellsworth, Gussie Cole
Ellsworth, Gussie Mrs.
Ellsworth, Lelah [Grosshans]
Ellsworth, Mima
Ellsworth, Mima Edith Sharp (Charles William)
Ellsworth, Phyllis (engagement)
Ellsworth, Phyllis Ruth [Calkins]
Embech, Joanne Berry (Edmund P.)
Emerson, Carolyn Maurer (Dale W.)
Emerson, Dale W.
Emerson, Fay Kochel
Emerson, Fay Kochel
Erion, Wanna Bowdish
Erion, Wanna Bowdish
Errante, John W.
Errante, Nora May Amerman (John W.)
Esau, William (H.S. Teacher)
Esch, Jim (Goes to Philmont Ranch in NM)
Estleman, ???? Steiner
Evers, Anna [Russman]
Evers, Anna [Russman]
Evers, Henry
Evers, Lillian [Wylie]
Evers, Ruth [Blackmer]
Ewers, Eva [Shawl
Eyster, ???? Camburn (George)
Eyster, ???? Cambum (George)
Fairchild, ???? Mills (George)
Falkerson, Margaret [Walters]
Fall, Jas. Mrs.
Farmer, Dolores [Bishop]
Farmer, Frances [Dancer]
Farmer, Helen H. Bristol (John Jacob)
Farmer, Helen Harriet Bristol (John)
Farmer, John Jacob
Farrel, Cletus (Class of 1918)
Farrington, 2??? [Bland]
Farrington, Burdetta Carr (Lyle)
Farrington, Francis (Mock Congress)
Farrington, Francis (school play)
Farrington, Frank A.
Farrington, Ilabelle [Cook]
Farrington, Lessie Ramsdell (Frank A.)
Farrington, Linda
Farrington, Lyle
Farrmgton, Mary Frances Mahler (Stephen G.)
Farrington, Mary Lessie
Farrington, Stephen G.
Fay, Marilyn Ann Lombard (Stanley)
Fay, Olive B. Smith (Ted W.)
Fay, Olive Smith
Fay, Stanley
Fay, Ted (Farm Buruea Bd.) (pic)
Fay, Ted W.
IL, Dansville
IL, Dansville
CA, Sea Island
GA, Brunswick
Detroit
Gregory
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Ann Arbor
1951-04-14 Stockbridge
Plainfield
Dexter
Howell
1959-12-03 Dansville
1958-12-24 Dearborn
Dearborn
Bellevue
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Pinckney
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
losco Twp.
losco Twp.
Jackson
NY, Scarsdale
1965-02-02 Lansing
NY, New York
1954-01 Stockbridge
Dansville
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Mason
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Plainfield
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1946-11-22
1954-0 1
1946-11-22
1952-04-10
1951-02-02
1952-01-03
1953-02-07
1951-01
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1959-09
195 1-07
1946-01-29
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M042-034dr
M042-l04dr
M042-0 1 2dr
M042-0 l2dr
M042-220w
M042-220w
M042-2 I 7m
M042-220m
M042-164dr
M042-046dr
M042- I 53d
M042-046d
M042-046dr
M042-046dr
M042- 1 55dr
M042-026dr
M042-026dr
M042-123dr
M042-1 88dr
M042-222d
M042-047dr
M042-047dr
M042-047dr
M042-047d
M042-047d
M042-200m
M042-047dr
M042-048w
M042-200m
M042-200m
M042-047d
M042-048w
M042-047dr
M042-Ol7wr
M042-048w
M042-049w
M042-048f
M042-049w
M042-2l9w
M042-048w
M042-l6ldr
M042-2 19w
M042- 199m
M042-048w
22
Stockbridge
1954-12-25
1955-05
1947-09-29
1943-02-22
1943-02-22
1947-09-29
1943-02-22
1918-06
1937
1936-06-24
1937
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1943-11-10
1954-01
1948-01-15
Fay,. Alice M042-OO2wr 1956-10-27
Fear, Marlene [Lewis] M042-22 1w 1958-01 Stockbridge
Feasel, Hazel Galley M042-053dr Lansing
Fee, Harriet Kimball (Harry A.) M042-O5Odr Adrian
Fee, Harry A. M042-050d Adrian
Feher, Jean (Sr. play) (pie) M042-2 lOm Stockbridge
Feldpausch, Doris [Richmond] M042- 146w 1950-06 Stockbridge
Feldpausch, Lois [McGauley] M042-219w 1954-il Stockbridge
Felton, Agnes Mary [Beardsley] M042-050d 1929-01-09 Attica
Felton, Frank M042-050d 1948-11-19 Stockbridge
Felton, Jeane [Stephens] M042-O5Odr 1948-11-19 Stockbridge
Felton, Leone (O.E.S., Treas.) M042-222m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Felton, Margaret (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Felton, Margaret (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Felton, Margaret [Davis] M042-O5Odr 1948-1 1-19 Ann Arbor
Felton, Mattie [Fosdick] M042-O5Odr 1948-11-19 Lapeer
Felton, Ruby [Pulling] M042-OSOdr 1948-11-19 Stockbridge
r Felton, Wilma (engagement) M042-050m 1950-01-05 Mason
Fenton, Phyllis M042-lS7dr 1954-01-21 Portland
Ferguson, Jessie Clark M042-0i ldr 1940-06-02 Detroit
Fetzer, Agnes Foster M042-052m OH, Lodi
Fewlass, Harriet [Bland] M042-024dr 1949-11-07
Fickes, Marlene (Sr. play) (pie) M042-2lOm Stockbridge
Field, Clarence (50th anniversary) M042-219m 1954-06 Stockbridge
Fillmore, Ann <Ronald> (plc) M042-201m 1957-12-19 Stockbridge
Fillmore, I-Jester Topping (Ronald) M042-219w 1954-06 Stockbridge
Fillmore, Ronald M042-219w 1954-06 Stockbridge
Fillmore, Ronald (H.S. and Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
r Fillmore, Ronald J. (engagement) M042-175m Fraser
Fineout, Lula 1. Ludden (Rex) M042-051d 1948-12-Il Mason
Fink Mary Sue Higgins (Donald) M042-222w 1955-09 Stockbridge
r Fink, Donald M042-222w 1955-09 Stockbridge
L Fink, Dorothy (post office) M042-214m 1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Fink, Emma Mrs. M042-219d 1954-07 Stockbridge
Fink, Emma Niethammer M042-051d Stockbridge
L Fink, Irene [Starr] M042-OSldr Okemos
Fink, Lester D. M042-051d 1934-08-03 Newberry
Fink, Lucille [O’Dell] M042-O5ldr Webberville
L Fink, Lucille [O’Dell] M042-OSldr 1934-08-03
L Fink, Wm. (buys Mason Jewelry) M042-2 1 9m 1954-06 Stockbridge
Fish, Michael (air force) (pie) M042-206m Napoleon
L. Fisher, H. A. Dr. M042-219d 1954-09 Dearborn
( Fisher, Lottie (Gregory Elem. Teacher) M042-2 17m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Fitch, 7??? Willmore (B. W.) M042-194dr Pontiac
L Fitch, Lavina [Gailey] M042-053dr
Fitch, Minnie Mrs. M042-024dr 1954-12-22 Pontiac
Fitz, ???? Bott (C. A.) M042-Ol2wr 1936-10-3 1 IN
Fitz, Pema Bolt M042-Ol2dr IN, LaPaz
Fizer, Donald Roy M042-221m 1958-04 Stockbridge
Fizer, Sue Carol Dickinson (Donald Roy) M042-221rn 1958-04 Stockbridge
Flemming, W. Mrs (pie). M042-131m 1941-08-28
Fletcher, Alice Knight M042-05 id Stockbridge
Flower, Lavisa Backus M042-086dr Lansing
Foell, ???? [Lehman] M042-lO6dr Stockbridge
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C
C
Foell, ???? [Lehman] M042-lO6dr Stockbridge C
Foell, Althea [Lehman] M042-OSlw 1941-06-li C Fogle, George (Farm Buruea Bd.) (pic) M042-199m 1948-01-15 Mason
Foler, Gertrude (Gregory Elem. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Force, Abbie Wilson (Charles) M042-054dr 1955-03-23 C Force, Edna [Sharp] M042-054dr 1955-03-23 OH, Sylvania
Force, Florence [Raymond] M042-054dr 1955-03-23 Aigom Cemter CD
Force, Mabel Grace [Gidner] M042-054d 1955-03-23 Mason Force, Nellie E. [Cantrell] M042-027d 1942-01-11 Stockbridge C
Force, Ruth [Gibson] M042-054dr 1955-03-23 Williamston Q Ford, 7??? Dancer (Duane) M042-038wr 1950-06 e Ford, D. (Village Trustee) M042-222m 1955-03 Stockbridge
Ford, Duane (Village Trustee) M042-2 I 6m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge a Ford, Duane (Village Trustee) M042-22 Im 1958-03 Stockbridge
Ford, Fred W. M042-219w 1954-09 Munith
Ford, Julia May (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge C Ford, Julia May (Salutatorian M042-219m 1954-05 Stockbridge
Ford, Ruth [Gibbs] M042-220w 195 1-08 Munith
Ford, Vesta Pauline Wild (Fred W) M042-219w 1954-09 Munith C Foreman, Judy Marie <Otto> M042-051d 1943-03-03 Lansing
Foreman, Lucile Mrs. M042-072dr 1948-01-29 Webberville
Foreman, Monnie Mrs. M042-072dr 1948-01-29 Williamston C Fortman, Anna B. Schnecenburg (Jacob) M042- I l4dr
Fortman, Charles J. M042-052d Dansville
Fortman, Christina F. jMartin, Magahay] M042-1 14d White Oak Twp. C Fortman, Samanatha Holt (Charles J.) M042-052dr Dansville
Fosdick, Mattie B. and Agnes M. • M042-OO7dr 1929-01 C
Fosdick, Mattie Felton M042-OSOdr 1948-11-19 Lapeer C Foster, Agnes [Fetzer] M042-052m OH, Lodi
Foster, Bernice [Utter] M042-052m Dansville C Foster, Dorothy [Whipple] M042-052m Mason
Foster, George Mrs. M042-056wr 1937-09-Il Dansville
Foster, Gertrude [Glover] M042-052m Dansville C Foster, Olive (George) (86th birthday) M042-052m Dansville
Fox, 7??? Jackson (George) M042-092dr Lansing
Fox, Glen (Farm Buruea Bd.) (pic) M042-199m 1948-01-15 Dansville CI Fox, Hattie M. [West] M042-190m 1962-11-11 Jackson
Fox, Morrell Mrs. (homemaker conference) M042-208m Lansing
Fox,. Lucille Lewis M042-172dr 1955-03-12 NY C Fraer, Katherine Mrs. M042-lO7dr 1955-03 Northville
Frank, Louis Mrs. M042-220d 1951-08 Stockbridge
Franklin, Helen Cantrell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Stockbridge Q Frantz, Dale (air force) (pie) M042-206m Hudson
Fredenburg, Albert Arthur M042- 126w 1959-08-06 Gregory
Fredenburg, Mary Jane Morse (Albert Arthur) M042-126w 1959-08-06 Maston C Fredenburg, Minnie Lewis M042-092dr 1953-06-25 Fowlerville
Freese, Donald M042- 1 36dr Niles C
Freiermuth, Howard Clifford <Frank> M042-052d 1939-12-04 C French, Bessie [Winslow] M042- 171 dr WI, Webster
French, Leona [Maguson] M042-l7ldr CA, Huntington Pk C
French, Roma A. [Swanson] M042- 171 d Stockbridge C Freymuth, Florence Curtis M042-037dr 1958 Munith
Friermuth, 7??? [Slocum] M042-052dr Cavanaugh Lake C Friermuth, Minnie Jean <Frank> M042-052d Stockbridge C
C Obitinx42.sor 24 a
C
C
Frinkel, Kate C. [Lewis] M042-106d 1954-12-28 Stockbridge
Frinkel, Sarah [Hazelton] M042-106dr 1954-12-28 Bancroft
Frinkel, Violet Ashmore M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27
Frinkle, ????? [Wilson, Ball] M042-004d
Frinkle, Arnold M042-2 19d 1954-08 Stockbridge
Frinkle, Frank W. M042-222d 1955-12 Stockbridge
Frinkle, Jack (Am. Legion l Vice) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbridge
Frinkle, Martha Summers (George) M042-OO4dr
Frinkle, Minnie [Stanfieldj M042-OO4dr Munith
Frinkle, Myrtle [Stanfield] M042-OO4dr Munith
Frost, George Mrs. (Farm Buruea Bd.) (pie) M042-199m 1948-01-15 Wheatfield Twp.
Fryer, Cleo Long M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 IN, Mishawaka
Fuller, Barbara Oesterle M042-047dr Whitemore
Fuller, Barbara Oesterle M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Whitmore Lake
Fuller, LaVergne (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Fultz, Lucille Hodge M042-1 l4dr Lansing
Furman, ???? Mapes (Munro) M042-1 l4dr 1953-07-02
Furman, Munro Mrs. M042-O2Odr Jackson
Gailey, Bessie [Oakley] M042-053dr Mason
Gailey, Edna [Hatch] M042-053dr Detroit
Gailey, Emma [LoVette] M042-053dr Mason
Gailey, Fred M042-053d
Gailey, Hazel [Feasel] M042-053dr Lansing
Gailey, Iva [Lantis] M042-053dr Mason
Gailey, Lavina Fitch (Fred) M042-053dr
Galley, May [Nelson] M042-053dr Howell
Galbreath, Elaine M042-183wr Dansville
Gall, ???? Boyce (Herman) M042-Ol4dr Saline
Gall, Katrene [Boyce) M042-219d 1954-06 Stoekbridge
Gall, Vera Katrene Gall (Albert E.) M042-053d 1954-06-1 1 Ann Arbor
Galligan, Carrie Steffey (John) M042-053d 1945-02-08
Galligan, Eva [Tripp] M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Jackson
Galligan, Grace [Stockwell] M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Manchester
Galligan, Olive [McCormick] M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Ann Arbor
Galligan, Ruth [Barton] M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Bunker Hill
Galloway, Shirley I. [North] M042-133w Leslie
Gallup, Flora Taylor M042-172dr
Gallup, Flora Taylor (Eugene) M042-053d 1939-07-26 Stockbridge
Gallup, Florence [Rose] M042-053dr 1939-07-26 Ann Arbor
Gallup, Lafayette M042-042dr
Gallup, Mabel [Huston] M042-053dr 1939-07-26 Detroit
Gardener, ???? Sprout (Glenn) M042-163dr Stanton
Gardner, Bernice Jackson M042-025dr 1952-09-25 NJ, NewBrunswick
Gardner, Grace [Runciman] M042-153dr 1943-02-19 Gregory
Gardner, Lynn C. Mrs. M042-054d losco Twp.
Gardner, Mirtie Lewis M042-lO6dr 1952-08-04 Howell
Garfield, Frances Cady (Graham) M042-221w 1958-10 Stockbridge
Garfield, Graham M042-221w 1958-10 Stockbridge
Garland, Linda Kleinschmidt (Jack) M042-lO3dr
Garrison, Mary Dyer M042-045dr White Oak Twp.
Gauss, ???? [Hair] M042-054dr Grand Ledge
Gauss, ???? [Wright] M042-054m Lansing
Gauss, Ada [VanSyckel] M042-179d Jackson
Gauss, Ada [VanSyckle] M042-054dr Okemos
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C
C
C
Gauss, Bertha Sweet (Fred) M042-054d 1953-12-02 Gregory
Gauss, Fred (8Oth birthday) M042-054m Dansville c Gauss, Irene Hague M042-067dr MilIville
Gauss, Jean Glynn M042-057dr 1962-04-26 Stockbridge
Gauss, Lawton Mrs. (homemaker confernce) M042-208m Dansville
Gauss, Paul Mrs. (Teen Center assistant) M042- I 69m 1960 Stockbridge
Gauss, Will J. M042-054d Stockbridge C Gaylord, ???? [Mills] M042-054dr Lansing
Gaylord, ???? [Webster] M042-00 Id 1959-09-20 Mason
Gaylord, Audrey [Lawrence] M042-00 Id 1959-09-20 Detroit C Gaylord, Helen [Scott] M042-054dr Rochester
Gaylord, Kitty Eloise (John) M042-054d
Gaylord, Laura [Tucker] M042-054dr Rochester C Gaylord, Lila [Stockhouse] M042-054dr Rochester
Gaylord, Ona L. (Elmer) M042-OOId 1959-09-20
Geer, fl?? Hadley (Wayne) M042-067m 1960-03-16 Stockbridge C Geer, Helen Janette Staninger (Sam) M042-054dr 1953-12-02 OH, Toledo
German, ???? Holmes (Nelson) M042-086dr 1957-12-li Lansing C
German, ???? Holmes (Nelson) M042-086dr 195 1-04-13 Lansing C Gething, ???? Wilson (G. C.) M042-196dr Jackson
Gething, ???? Wilson (G. C.) M042-197dr Jackson C
Gething, ????? Wilson (Garrett) M042-196dr 1957-06-13 Jackson Geyer, Pearl [Morgan] M042-127dr 1940-08-09 IN, Logansport C
Gibbs, Dorothy Martenies M042-I l4dr Lansing C Gibbs, Dorothy Marten ies (Harold) M042-054w
Gibbs, Harold M042-054w Eaton Rapids
Gibbs, Ruth Ford (Ray) M042-220w 1951-08 Munith C Gibney, ???? [Goetz] M042-054dr Royal Oak
Gibney, ???? [Kramer] M042-054dr Royal Oak
Gibney, ???? [McCleer] M042-054dr Gregory C Gibney, ???? [Murphy] M042-054dr Bunker Hill
Gibney, ???? [Rogers] M042-054dr Ann Arbor
Gibney, ???? [Seefeld] M042-054dr Royal Oak C Gibney, ???? [Shehan] M042-054dr Ann Arbor
Gibney, James M042-054d Gregory
Gibney, Katherine (shower) M042-054m Q Gibney, Margaret Brady (James) M042-OS4dr Gregory
Gibney, Thomas (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Gibson, Ruth Force M042-054dr 1955-03-23 Williamston C Gidner, Mabel Grace Force (Walter) M042-054d 1955-03-23 Mason
Giff, Ray M042-220w 195 1-08 Ypsilanti C
Gilder, Paul Mrs. M042-lO9dr 1944-03-25 TX, Houston a Gillam, Ida M. Burgess (Edgar M.) M042-033d 1941-05-12 White Oak Twp.
Gillespie, John M042-221w 1958-05 Stockbridge C Gillespie, Mary Lou Roepcke (John) M042-221w 1958-05 Stockbridge
Gilliam, Beryl Abigail [Phelps] M042-140d 1926-10-20 Millville
Gillmore, Edward M042-219d 1954-12 Gregory C Gilhnore, Rose Lewis M042-l72dr 1955-03-12 Gregory
Gilmore, Edward (airplane crash) M042-055d 1954-12-05 Stockbridge
Giltner, Eula Hopkins M042-086dr 1952-07-26 Traverse City C Gladstone, ???? Holmes (Roy) M042-086dr 1957-12-11 Plainfleld
Gladstone, ???? Holmes (Roy) M042-086dr 1951-04-13 Plainfield
Gladstone, Janet [Richard] M042-2 19w 1954-10 Stockbridge C Glenn, Beverly Miner (Duane) M042-056w Munith
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Glenn, Blanch [Lantis]
Glenn, Blanche [Lantis]
Glenn, David
Glenn, Duane
Glenn, Helen Hubbard (Lyle Emory)
Glenn, James Milton
Glenn, Lyle E.
Glenn, Lyle Emory
Glenn, Martha Walz
Glenn, Matie [Griffith]
Glenn, Mildred Maxine (engagement)
Glenn, Minnie [Dutton]
Glenn, Nellie M. (Emory)
Glenn, Nellie Mrs.
Glenn, Nellie Mrs. (89tI birthday)
Glenn, Nellie Mrs. (90th birthday)
Glenn, Nettie Chappel
Glenn, Peggy Dixon (David)
Glenn, Phyllis Merrill (James Milton)
Glover, ‘1??? [Crusoe]
Glover, Abigail Moon (Alfred Ramson)
Glover, Alfred
Glover, Edna E. Osborne (Gilbert C.)
Glover, Frances L. [Babcock]
Glover, Gertrude Foster
Glover, Gilbert C.
Glover, Jessie [Kievit]
Glover, Jessie [Kiviet]
Glover, Lyle (plc)
Glover, Rex
Glover, Robert (engagement)
Glover, Sammy
Glover, Susie [Jacobs]
Glover, Susie Ann [Jacobs]
Glynn, Edna Jane Warner (Ralph)
Glynn, Eileen [Cieslak]
Glynn, Jean [Gauss]
Glynn, Thelma [Monroe]
Goetz, ???? Gibney (George)
Gonner, Henry R.
Goodrich, ???? Lantis (Henry G.)
Goodwin, ???? [Lee]
Goodwin, Charles L. (air force) (pic)
Goodwin, Flora [Hadley]
Goodwin, George B.
Gordon, Bernadine [Millerl
Gorecki, Aithea Craig
Gorton, May Green
Gourley, Laura Smith
Gourley, Laura Smith
Gowing, Margaret Stevens
Graf, Anna Dapp (Gottfried)
Graf, Carol
Graf Elizabeth [Lytle]
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Highland Park
Ypsilanti
Ypsilanti
Jackson
CA, Stockton
Dansville
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Mt. Pleasant
Munith
Plainfield
Midland
Stockbridge
Mason
Eaton Rapids
Dansville
Detroit
Stockbridge
Webberville
Royal Oak
Jackson
1941-07-11 Lansing
Lyndon Twp.
Jackson
Unadilla Twp.
Lyndon Twp.
1954-03 Stockbridge
Devil’s Lake
Jackson
1957-10-19 CA, Gardena
1957-10-03 CA, Gardena
Eagle
1955-02-10
1955-02- 10
1955-07-30
1960-08-26
1954-02
1955-07-30
1950-06-03
1955-08
1955-07-30
1956-09- 13
1960-08-26
1954-05
1955-06
1943- 12-30
1954-02
1950-06-03
M042-056dr
M042-056dr
M042-2 19w
M042-056w
M042-056dr
M042-056d
M042-222d
M042-056d
M042- I 84dr
M042-045dr
M042-056m
M042-045d
M042-056d
M042-OO3dr
M042-219m
M042-222m
M042-095dr
M042-2 19w
M042-056dr
M042-056dr
M042-093dr
M042-056d
M042-056w
M042-005d
M042-052m
M042-056w
M042-093dr
M042-OOSdr
M042-056m
M042-056m
M042-006m
M042-l9lwr
M042-OO5dr
M042-093d
M042-057d
M042-057dr
M042-057dr
M042-057dr
M042-054dr
M042-056m
M042-lOSdr
M042-057dr
M042-206m
M042-057dr
M042-057d
M042-2 19w
M042-036dr
M042-057dr
M042-l6ldr
M042-l6ldr
M042-167dr
M042-057dr
M042-098wr
M042-057dr
Tompkins
1937-09-11 Dansville
Dansville
1937-09-11 Dansville
Eaton Rapids
Eaton Rapids
Fowlerville
1956
1962-04-26
1962-04-26
1962-04-26
1962-04-26
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D
D
D
D
D
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
M042-060f
M042-061m
M042-064m
M042-062m
M042-063m
M042-065d
M042-061m
M042-059dr
M042-059dr
M042-O6Odr
M042-Ol7wr
M042-219m
M042- 1 87d
M042-065w
M042- 1 98dr
M042- 1 98dr
M042- 1 64dr
M042-066w
M042-066w
M042-129d
M042-067m
M042-067m
M042-164dr
M042-OO8dr
M042-0 1 3d
M042-067m
M042-066m
M042-066m
M042-057dr
M042-066m
M042-164dr
M042-0 1 3dr
M042-OO3dr
M042-008d
M042-067m
M042-066m
M042-222w
M042-0 l4dr
M042- 1 37dr
M042-094dr
M042-22 1 d
M042-067dr
M042-067d
M042-067dr
M042-099w
M042-054dr
M042-066dr
M042-066d
M042-067d
M042-O4ldr
M042-067w
M042-200m
M042-063m
M042-086dr
1982-06-24 Lansing
1952-02-05 Fowlerville
1970-04-01 Fowlerville
Fowlerville
Wliitmore Lake
Fowlerville
IL, Barrington
Lansing
Lansing
Lansing
Stockbridge
Josco Twp.
Gregory
TX, Corsicana
NY, Rochester
Ann Arbor
Holt
Lansing
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
FL, Groveland
Gregory
Dexter
Lyndon Twp.
White Oak Twp.
Gregory
Ann Arbor
Unadilla Twp.
1959-04-30 Ann Arbor
1946-01-29
1938-08-27
1953-11-22
1939-03- 12
1960-03- 16
1959-04-30
1955-08
Jackson
Onsted
Jackson
Miliville
Jackson
Ann Arbor
Gregory
Grand Ledge
Williamston
1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1918-06 Stockbridge
Howell
1947-06-23 Pontiac
1976-05-28
1952-02-05
1997-04-16
1997-04-16
1982-06-24
1954-12
1944
1945-02-09
1959-06-20
1950-09
1950-09
1960-03-16
1960-03-16
1946-01-29
1939-03-12
1938-08-27
1960-03-16
1959-04-30
1959-04-30
Grostick, Ernest W.
Grostick, Henry (5Oth anniversary)
Grostick, Ida (87th 89th 90th birthday)
Grostick, Ida (pic)
Grostick, Ida (pic)
Grostick, Ida A.
Grostick, Ida Peterson (Henry) (501h anniversary)
Grostick, Melissa Wickert (David W.)
Grostick, Phylis [Childs]
Grostick, Phylis [Childs]
Grostick, Phyllis
Grosvenor home burned
Grover, Marietta [Waters]
Gullett, Alda [Nichols]
Gundiy, Mary E. Wright
Gundry, Mary Wright
Flaas, Mary E. [Steffey]
Hack, Clifton
Hack, Earlene Howe (Clifton)
Haddock, Emma [Munson]
Hadley, 7??? [Geer]
Hadley, ???? [Thigpin]
Hadley, ???? Steiner (Steve)
Hadley, Angeline [Backus]
Hadley, Anna L. [Boyce]
Hadley, CIeo Smith (Ray)
Hadley, Eloise [Kunzelman]
Hadley, Esther [McLellan]
Hadley, Flora Goodwin
Hadley, Helen [Peterson]
Hadley, Josephine [Steiner]
Hadley, Laura [Blakley]
Hadley, Laura [Kirkland]
Hadley, Laura Roselva [Kirkland, Blakely]
Hadley, Ray (50th anniversary)
Hadley, Roy (50th anniversary)
Hadley, Sally Lou [Moeckel]
Hadley, Sylvia [Boyce]
Hague, 7??? Ostrander (L. E.)
Hague, Ada Grimes (Fred)
Hague, Ara L.
Hague, Irene [Gauss]
Hague, Orrie
Hague, Susie [Richmond]
Haines, Judy Ann [Keiser]
Hair, 7??? Gauss (Charles)
Hale, 7??? [Ackley]
Hale, Mae Mrs.
Hale, May Mrs.
Hall, 7??? Dancer (Sumner)
Hall, Jane [McKibbin]
Hall, Mabel (Class of 1918)
Hamer, Burr
Hamilton, Harriet Horwood
Gregory
Stockbridge
White Oak Twp.
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1946-02-10
1957-07-07
1958-02
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Hamilton, Hattie Harwood
Hammond, ?fl? West (Bitt)
Hammond, John Mrs.
Hanna, Wiliam
Hannewald, ?fl? Huttenlocker (Ezra)
Hannewald, Ada Huttenlocher
Hannewald, Carol (Valedictorian)
Hannewald, Ezra (25th anniversary)
Hannewald, Helen (McKinzie Rur. Sch. Teacher)
Hannewald, Helen Archenbronn
Hansen, Delbert
Hansen, Nancy Musbach (Delbert)
Hanson, Mary Backus
Hardt, Charles Mrs.
Hardt, Ethel Scott (Rolland D.)
Hardt, Ida Mrs.
Hardt, Katy M. Wasson
Hardt, Rolland D.
Hardt, Ruth (school play)
Harland, ???? Wilde (Jack)
Harland, Randy <Jack> (pic)
Harley, ???? Richmond (E. V.)
Harley, Elvin
Harley,Virginia Arlene Richmond (Elvin)
Harr, Gladys [Stanfield]
Harris, Albert
Harris, Bernice [Miller]
Harris, Mamie Lea [Stetler]
1-larrs, Harold (open House)
Hart, ???? Morehouse (Earl)
Hartsuff, Emma Singleton
Harvey, Mary A. [Wilson]
Harwood, Emma [Morgan]
Harwood, Hattie [Hamilton]
Harwood, Margaret [Burden]
Hassencahi, Etta Bullis
Hassencahi, John C. (air force) (pic)
Hatch, Edna Gailey
Hath, Grace McGee
Hatt, Ester [Stadel]
Hatt, Ida Etta [Ackley]
Haulett, Laura Wilson
Haven, Howard
Havens, Ralph
Hawkins, Jesse MIM
Hawkins, Marjorie M. Rev.
Hawley, Joe Mrs.
Hawley, Monabell DeCamp
Hawxhurst, William (post office)
Hayden, ???? Wilson (C. G.)
Hayden, ???? Wilson (C. G.)
Hayden, ???? Wilson (Charles)
Hayes, Marjorie
Hayes, Marjorie
M042- 1 96dr
M042-03 1 wr
M042- 1 77wr
Pontiac
Okemos
1937-09-11 Mason
1939-04-05 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Kalamazoo
Stockbridge
1954-01 Munith
1939-03-06 IN, Lafayette
Lansing
Gregory
Detroit
Howell
Stockbridge
Howell
Tompkins
Bancroft
Fitchburg
Jackson
1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Lansing
Lansing
CCCCCCC
CCCCCC
C
C
‘3aCCCCC
a
aC C
C
CCCCCCC
CCC
C
1952-06-19
1962-11-11
1958-02
1935
1959-09
Jackson
Munith
Gregory
1954-12-30 Waterloo
Lansing
1954-12 Stockbridge
CA, Auburn
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1957-05-04
M042-025dr
M042- I 90m
M042-145dr
M042-056wr
M042- 1 SOdr
M042-0 I 9dr
M042-22 Im
M042-068m
M042-217m
M042-l2lwr
M042-068w
M042-068w
M042-086dr
M042-068c1
M042- 154w
M042-2 1 9d
M042-068d
M042-154w
M042-200m
M042-184wr
M042-068m
M042- 1 29wr
M042- 147w
M042- 147w
M042-2 19w
M042-l2ldr
M042-123w
M042-167dr
M042-221m
M042-lO8wr
M042- I 57dr
M042-195dr
M042-025dr
M042-025dr
M042-025d
M042-025dr
M042-206m
M042-053dr
M042-I l9dr
M042-OOldr
M042-00 1 d
M042-196dr
M042-1 l2m
M042-I l4dr
M042-067dr
M042-l9Odr
M042-042dr
M042-042dr
M042-2 I 4m
M042-196dr
M042- I 97dr
NM, Albuquerque
Munith
Lansing
Ann Arbor
White Oak Twp.
White Oak Twp.
Pontiac
1958-10
1950-06-29
1954-01-21
1947-07- 19
1952-06- 19
1952-06- 19
1952-06-19
1938-01-02
1944-09-14
1944-09- 14
1957-06-13
1957-03
Obitinx42.sor 30
1957-06-13 Lansing
1950-06-24
CCC
aI
Hayner, ???? Lowe (Harvey) M042-lO9dr 1944-03-25 Stockbridge
Hayner, Harvey M042-068d Stockbridge
Hayner, Harvey M042-069d 1950-05-05 Stockbridge
Hayner, Harvey Mrs. M042-068m 1958-08-05 Lansing
Hayner, Hazel Kelley (Ralph) M042-099dr Miliville
Hayner, Josie E. Lowe (Harvey) M042-069dr 1950-05-05 Stockbridge
Hayner, Josie Lowe (Harvey) M042-068d 1962-09 Lansing
1-layner, Ralph (sugar bush) M042-070m Stockbridge
Hayner, Ralph (sugar bush) M042-07 im Stockbridge
Hayner, Ralph Mrs. M042-lOOdr 1954-12-18 White Oak Twp.
Hayner, Ralph mrs. M042-lOldr White Oak Twp.
Hayner, Zelley E. [Oakley] M042-135dr 1953-08-10 Stockbridge
Haywood, ???? Mimer (Harold) M042-124dr 1956-07-23 OH, Cleveland
Haywood, Woody & Greg <Harold> (pie) M042-202m 1958-01-16 Stockbridge
Hazell, Barbara (Valedictorian) M042-220m 1951-04 Stockbridge
Hazell, Barbara M. [Risner] M042-219w 1954-05 Stockbridge
Hazelton, Sarah Frinkel M042-lO6dr 1954-12-28 Bancroft
Henley, Jacqueline [Munsell] M042-220w 1951-06 Stockbridge
Hedglen, Eula [Perrine] M042-072dr Dansville
Hedglen, Lucille [Howe] M042-072dr Lansing
Hedgien, Mabel Walker (Arthur) M042-072d Mason
Hedgien, Paul Richard (engagement) M042-125m Dansville
Hedican, ???? Steiner (Lemual) M042-164dr 1946-01-29 Fowlerville
Heeney, Tom (FFA) M042-209m Stockbridge
Heinrich, Velma West M042-l9Odr Fowlerville
Heinrich, Velma West M042-190m 1945-11-16 Webberville
Heminger, ???? Bowdish (Will) M042-Ol2dr 1953-02-07 Unadilla Twp.
Heminger, Edith Hill M042-082dr 1945-03 Perry
Hemingway, Caroline Smith (Fred) M042-072dr 1940-01-10
Hemingway, Fred M042-072d 1940-01-10 Mason
Henderson, Mabel Bacon M042-OO4dr 1953-11 Jackson
Henseleit, Juanita Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Hensley, Jerry <Earl> (pie) M042-201m 1957-12-19 Stockbridge
Herrick, Fred M042-05 ldr 1943-03-03
Herriek, Grace Evelyn <Howard> M042-072d 1926-08-26
Herrick, Harold F. M042-072w Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard M042-OSIdr 1943-03-03
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-073d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herriek, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-074d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-075d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-076d 1955-09 Stoekbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-077d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-078d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-079d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-080d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, Howard and Myra (murdered) M042-08 1 d 1955-09 Stoekbridge
Herrick, Howard MIM M042-222d 1955-09 Stockbridge
Herrick, JoAnn Marie Dalrymple (Harold F.) M042-072w Onondaga
Herrick, Lucy (Kate) Davis (Fred) M042-072d 1948-01-29 Howell
Herzer, ???? Koons (H. A.) M042-lO4dr Albion
Heydlauff, August M042-2 I 9d 1954-01 Waterloo
Heying, Bernice [Weiss] M042-082dr linlay City
Heying, Gladys [Sharland] M042-082dr Mt. Clemens
Heying, Henry M042-082d Stockbridge
Obitinx42.sor 31
C
C
Heying, Mabel [Cardwell] M042-082dr Imlay City
Heying, Ruth [Hubbard] M042-082dr Rochester
Hibner, ???? Howell (Harry) M042-087dr Howell
Higgins, Mary Sue [Fink] M042-222w 1955-09 Stockbridge
Hue, Blanche Mrs. M042-220d 195 1-02 Gregory
Hue, Blanche Thompson (Oscar N.) M042-082d 1951-02-03 Gregory
Hile, Esther G. [BlanchardJ M042-082dr 195 1-02-03 Dansville
Hill, Clara [Roepcke[ M042-082dr 1945-03 Gregory
Hill, Edith [Heminger] M042-082dr 1945-03 Perry
Hill, Fannie Clark M042-082d 1945-03 Gregory
Hill, Inez [Bowdish] M042-0 I 2d 1953-02-07 Dexter
Hill, lnez [Bowdish] M042-082dr 1945-03 Gregory
Himm, Marilyn [Kuhn] M042-220w 1951-09 Stockbridge
Himmelright, Eva [Paul] M042-138dr Stockbridge
Hinckley, Lena (Floyd) M042-082d 1954-12-19 Stockbridge
Hinckley, Lena Mrs. M042-219d 1954-12 Stockbridge
Hines, Alice McGee M042- 11 9dr 1938-01-02 Ypsilanti
Hires, Esther Skidmore M042-lS7dr 1948-05-06 OH, Lima
Hires, Esther Skidmore M042-157dr OH, Lima
Hitchcock, Allen Lee M042-083w Williamston
Hitchcock, Dorothy J. Dunsmore (Allen Lee) M042-083w Webberville
Hizer, Gary M. (air force) (pie) M042-206m Tecumsch
Hoad, Ethel [Nicholas] M042- I 32dr 1944-03-12 Gregory
Hoag, Jennie [Dancer] M042-04 I dr 1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Hoag, Vera Brown M042-022dr FL, St. Petersburg
Hoard, Hozel L. M042-082d Gregory
Hoard, Jane [Pickell] M042-082dr Linden
Hoard, Nila Grace (engagement) M042-085m Gregory
Hobley, Edwin J. (engagement) M042-0 1 9m
Hobley, Lois Bristow M042-0 1 9dr FL, Tampa
Hodge, ???? Coleman (James) M042-03 ldr Stockbridge
lodge, Carla June [Clark] M042-1 l4dr Lansing
Hodge, Lucille [Fultz] M042-1 l4dr Lansing
Hodgen, ???? Rockwell (Lloyd) M042-150m 1953-11 Belding
Hodgen, Lloyd girl M042-150b 1953-11-29 Greenville
Hodgen, Shirley Rockwell (Lloyd) M042-lSObr 1953-11-29 Greenville
Hodley, ???? Bradshaw (Don) M042-0 I 6dr 1958-01-25 HilIsdale
Hoffinayer, ???? Peterson (Woolford) M042- 13 8dr Lansing
Hoffmeyer, Dorwin E. (appointed coronor) M042-084m 1955-01 Ingham Co.
Hoffmeyer, Ella Mae [Ballard] M042-084w
Hoffmeyer, Ella Mae [Voss] M042-085dr 1957-06-19 Lansing
Hoffmeyer, Fred W. M042-085d 1954-12-20
Hoflineyer, Nora Mae Lantis M042-085d 1957-06-19 Lansing
Holder, Everett Mrs. M042- 131 dr 1937-12-10 ONT, Jordan
Hoidridge, Eliza [Camburn] M042-026dr
Holland, Benjamin J. M042-085d 1948-06-21 Stockbridge
Holland, Douglas (air force) (pie) M042-206m Onsted
Holland, Edith M042-220d 1951-12 Fitchburg
Holland, Edith M. Richmond (Benjamin) M042-085dr 1948-06-2 1 Stockbridge
Holland, Edith Richmond (Benjamin) M042-085d Fitchburg
Holland, Rose [Densmore] M042-085dr 1948-06-21 Mason
Holland, Vida [Batdorff] M042-085dr
Hollis, Barbara (pie) M042-2 1 Sm Stockbridge
Hollis, Donnie (accidently shot) M042-220m 1951-06 Stockbridge
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Hollis, George Mrs.
1-loIm, Edith McClinchey
Holmes, 7??? [German]
Holmes, ???? [German]
Holmes, ???? [Gladstone]
Holmes, ???? [Gladstone]
Holmes, 7??? [Miller]
Holmes, ???? [Miller]
Holmes, ???? [Reason]
Holmes, A. J.
Holmes, Alexander Joseph
Holmes, Bernard Clare (volunteered for drafi)
Holmes, Cora [Coulson]
Holmes, Dale (school play)
Holmes, Dora [Moser]
Holmes, Doris [Dyko]
Holmes, Elba Irene Backus
Holmes, Florence
Holmes, Florence Mrs.
Holmes, Florence Palmer (Alexander Joseph)
Holmes, Mary Jane Mimer (John T.)
Holmes, Mary Margaret [Newman]
Holt, Emma [Olds, Titus]
Holt, Emma Titus (A.)
Holt, Linnie Eggleston
Holt, Luella Brogan
Holt, Marilyn (O.E.S., Conductor
bIt, Samantha [Fortman]
Homes, Dale (Mock Congress)
Homestead, Reeves
Hoover, Molly Long
Hopkins, ???? Corwin (Isa)
Hopkins, Eula [Giltner]
Hopkins, Frank Mrs.
Hopkins, Frank Richard
Hopkins, Helen [Clark)
Hopkins, Jennie May Beadle (Frank)
Hopkins, Louine [Pickell]
Hopkins, Louise [Marshall]
Homer, Sam Mrs.
Horse, John (Am. Legion Commander)
Horwood, Emma [Morgan)
Florwood, Everett Edward
Horwood, Harriet [Hamilton]
Horwood, Margaret [Burden]
Houghtlin, Emma [Carter]
Houghton, Emma J. [Carter]
Houseman, ???? Allen (Bernard)
Howard, Martha [Miller)
Howard, Ruth Green
Howe, Arlene Boyce
Howe, Bertha L. Weinpie
Howe, Earlene [Hack]
Howe, Earlene [Sowers]
Plainfield
Plainfield
Mason
Stockbridge
Petoskey
Fowlerville
Williamston
1957-12-Il Lansing
Plainfield
195 1-04-13 Plainfield
1935-11-29 Stockbridge
Williamston
Munith
Munith
Stockbridge
1944-08-16 Stockbridge
1955-09 Stockbridge
Dansville
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
IN, Star City
Ackerson Lake
Traverse City
1952-07-26
1952-07-26
1952-07-26
1952-07-26
1952-07-26
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Chelsea
Lansing
Lansing
Stockbridge
1939-04-05 Stockbridge
ONT, Preston
Lansing
Lansing
Plainfield
Plainfield
Lansing
Lansing
1957-12-11
195 1-04-13
1957-12-11
1951-04-13
1957-12-11
195 1-04-13
1935-1 1-29
195 1-04
195 1-04-13
194?
1935-11-29
M042-1 50m
M042-l l8dr
M042-086dr
M042-086c1r
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042- 124dr
M042-220d
M042-086d
M042-200m
M042- I 24dr
M042-200m
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-086d
M042-086d
M042-Ol4dr
M042-086dr
M042- 124d
M042-086dr
M042-174d
M042- 1 74d
M042-046dr
M042-Ol9dr
M042-222m
M042-052dr
M042-200m
M042- 145m
M042-O9Odr
M042-033dr
M042-086dr
M042-l4Owr
M042-086d
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-1 88wr
M042-222m
M042-086dr
M042-086d
M042-086dr
M042-086dr
M042-l5ldr
M042-027dr
M042-OO2wr
M042-22 1w
M042-057dr
M042-0 l4dr
M042-087d
M042-066w
M042- 162w
1959-04-01
1954-06-30
1960-01-26
1952-07-26
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Gregory
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Millville
MilIville
Pontiac
Millville
1955-06
1947-06-23
1947-06-23
1947-06-23
1947-06-23
1956- 10-27
1958- 12
1954-12-31
1957-06-16
1950-09
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C
C
Howe, Georgia Latimer M042-034dr Chelsea
Howe, Georgia Latimer M042-034dr Chelsea
Howe, Lucille Hedgien M042-072dr Lansing
Howe, Vesta Mariah [Thompson] M042- 1 74d 1937-03-11 Stockbridge C
Howell, ???? [Hibner] M042-087dr Howell
Howell, Almira Labauch (Westbrook) M042- 1 94dr
Howell, Emma [Sheathehnj M042-194dr Dansville C
Howell, Emma M. E. Revold (Floyd) M042-087d Webberville
Howell, Etta [Pryer] M042-194dr Lansing
Howell, Jennie E. [Wiegman] M042-194d Mason C Howell, Lina [Wemple] M042-194dr Williamston
Howell, Sarah [Kitchen] M042-145d Ann Arbor
Howlett, ???? Boyce (Robert) M042-0 I4dr Caro C Howlett, ???? McCloud (Richard) M042- 11 9dr Stockbridge
Howlett, Benjamin D. (Boys’ State) M042-205m 1960-06-16 Gregory
Howlett, Dick (stops coaching) M042-089m 1954-02-25 Stockbridge C Howlett, Dick (Village Trustee) M042-220m 1951-03 Stockbridge
Howlett, Dora Mae Walker M042-182dr 1951-01-30 White Oak Twp. C
Howlett, Dora Mae Walker M042-182dr 1951-04-15 White Oak Twp. C Howlett, Josephine Jackson M042-025dr 1952-09-25
Howlett, Laura Wilson M042-196dr 1955-11-28 Howell C
Howlett, LeAnna (H.S. Teacher) M042-2 l7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Howlett, Linwood Anson M042-088w 1959-04-23 Stockbridge
Howlett, Manly Louise (engagement) M042-087m Birmingham Q
Howlett, Marlene Mary Warfie (Linwood A.) M042-088w 1959-04-23 Dansville
Howlett, Richard (H.S. Principal) M042-2 1 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Howlett, William Elmer M042-089d Dansville
Hoyt, Cerita Williams M042-194dr 1955-02-14 Stockbridge
Hubbard, Ardie [Collins] M042-03 ldr 1951-09-02 Stockbridge
Hubbard, Helen [Glenn] M042-056dr 1955-07-30 C Hubbard, Janet McKenzie (Earl A.) M042-089d 1947-02-15 Ypsilanti
Hubbard, Jeanne (pie) M042-089m Onsted
Hubbard, John and Robert M042-03 ldr 1951-09-02 Jackson C Hubbard, Ruth (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Hubbard, Ruth Heying M042-082dr Rochester
Hudkins, ???? [Sutton] M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Jackson C Hudkins, Carl M042-090d 1943-01 Dexter
Hudkins, Helen [Corey] M042-O9Odr 1943-01 Pinckney C
Hudkins, Helen [Corey] M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Portage Lake C Hudkins, Helen [Corey] M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 Pinckney
Hudkins, John W. M042-090d 1947-12-08 Pinckney C
Hudkins, Lavon [Mayhew] M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Ann Arbor
Hudkins, Lavon AshmoreMarshall, Luada Mrs. M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27
Hudkins, Marie [Dailey] M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 VanDyke C
Hudkins, Marie [Daily] M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 VanDyke
Hudkins, Marie [Daley] M042-O9Odr 1943-01 VanDyke
Hudkins, Maxine (pie) M042-2 1 Sm Stockbridge C
Hudkins, Melba [Perry] M042-O9Odr 1943-01 Ann Arbor
Hudkins, Melba [Perry] M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Ann Arbor
Hudkins, Melba [Perry] M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 Ann Arbor Q Hudkins, Nellie Ann Long (John W.) M042-090d 1954-06-30 Pinckney
Hudkins, Nellie Ann Long (John W.) M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Pinckney
Hudkins, Nellie Mrs. M042-2 1 9d 1954-07 Stockbridge C Hudson, Beulah Kemler M042- 101 dr Webberville
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Ca
1i
Hudson, Leah M042-OOSdr 1955-01-1 1 CA
Hudson, Ula (Class of 1918) M042-200m 19 18-06 Stockbridge
1-luffine, Wilma Parman M042-138dr Fitchburg
Humrich, flfl Roberts (Ralph) M042-l49dr 1958-12-15 Fowlerville
Humrich, ?fl? Townsend (Lawrence) M042-183wr Webberville
Hunt, Fannie Stoner M042-137dr 1944-07-06 IL, Chicago
Hurst, Charles A. M042-038w 1950-06 Jackson
Hurst, Minnie Mrs. M042-221d 1958-08 Stockbridge
Hurst, Sally Marie Dancer (Charles A.) M042-038w 1950-06 Stockbridge
Huss, ???? Baxter (John) M042-OO6dr 1954-11 Ann Arbor
Huston, Mabel Gallup M042-053dr 1939-07-26 Detroit
Hutson, Elouise Johnson (Ward) M042-090w Fenton
Hutson, Mabel mrs. M042- 1 72dr Detroit
Hutson, Ward M042-090w Stockbridge
Huttenlocher, Ada [Hatmewald] M042-0 l9dr Stockbridge
Huttenloclier, Amanda [Wright] M042-Ol9dr St. Clair
Huttenlocher, Emma [Brogan] M042-0 I 9d Stockbridge
Huttenlocher, Hulda [Burger] M042-0 1 9dr Detroit
Huttenlocker, ???? [Bergen M042- 1 5Odr 1939-04-05 Detroit
Huttenlocker, ???? [Brogan] M042-lSOdr 1939-04-05 Stockbriclge
Huttenlocker, ???? [Hannewald] M042-lSOdr 1939-04-05 Stockbridge
Huttenlocker, 77?? [Lehman] M042- 1 SOdr 1939-04-05 Detroit
Huttenlocker, ???? [Schamp] M042- 1 SOdr 1939-04-05 Jackson
Huttenlocker, ???? [Wright] M042-lSOdr 1939-04-05 St. Clair
Huttenlocker, Ella [Robeson] M042-150d 1939-04-05 Stockbridge
Huyck, 7??? Black (Frank) M042-0 lOw
Huyck, Frank (volunteered for draft) M042-200m 194? Lansing
Hynes, James E. M042-090d 195 1-04-09 Stockbridge
Hynes, James E. M042-220d 195 1-04 Stockbridge
Hynes, Lela [McGuire] M042-O9Odr 195 1-04-09 Fowlerville
Ide, Lucy [Mae, Sharland] M042-155d Williamston
Ingles, Edith R. (Clare) M042-091d Lansing
Inman, Donal E. (air force) (pie) M042-206m Jackson
Isham, ?fl? Waters (Tim) M042-09 1 dr
Isham, fifi Waters (Tim) M042-187dr losco Twp.
Isham, Amy M. Waters M042-187dr 1952-11-02 losco Twp.
Isham, Anne (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Isham, Anne [Bumpus] M042-O9lw 194 1-07-10 Plainfield
Isham, Orpha [Watters] M042-188dr 1954-12-25 losco Twp.
Isham, Timothy M042-222d 1955-04 Plainfield
Ives, Vincent M042-l 12m 1957-03 Grass Lake
Jackson, ?fl? [Fox] M042-092dr Lansing
Jackson, Alice Mapes (John) M042-092dr Stockbridge
Jackson, Bernice [Gardner] M042-025dr 1952-09-25 NJ, NewBrunswick
Jackson, Burr A. M042-092d 1959-10-21 Gregory
Jackson, John M042-092d Stockbridge
Jackson, Josephine [Howlett] M042-025dr 1952-09-25
Jackson, Minnie A. [Burgess] M042-025dr 1948-03-22 Unadilla Twp.
Jackson, Minnie Adell [Burgess] M042-025d 1952-09-25 Gregory
Jackson, Pearl Ostrander (A. 0.) M042-092d Detroit
Jacobs, 7??? [Stanfield] M042-092dr Stockbridge
Jacobs, 7??? [Townsend] M042-092dr Stockbridge
Jacobs, ??fl Daniels (Clyde) M042- 1 72dr 1947-06-24 Plainfield
Jacobs, Beulah Johnson (Norman) M042-094w MN
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CC
C
Jacobs, Diane Teachout (Gerald) M042-22 1w 1958-09 Stockbridge
Jacobs, Duane M042-092d Stockbridge C Jacobs, Duane (card of thanks) M042-092m
Jacobs, Elizabeth Ann [Townsend] M042-176w 1958-11-29 Plainfleld C
Jacobs, Emma Lewis (Fred) M042-092d 1953-06-25 Stockbridge C Jacobs, Emma Lewis (Fred) M042-093dr 1955-10-07 Stockbridge
Jacobs, Fred M042-093d 1955-10-07 Stockbridge
Jacobs, Fred M042-222d 1955-09 Plainfield
Jacobs, Genevieve [Stanfield] M042-093w Gregory
Jacobs, Gerald M042-22 1w 1958-09 Gregory Q
Jacobs, Leslie [Peterson] M042- 13 8dr
Jacobs, Lloyd C. M042-092d 1956-10-01
Jacobs, Lloyd C. M042-093d 1956-10-03 Plainfield C
Jacobs, Lori, Thomas, & Dennis <Norman> M042-094m
Jacobs, Marie (DAR Good Citizen) M042-093m Gregory
Jacobs, Mina Cain M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Q Jacobs, Norman M042-094w Plainfield
Jacobs, Norman (FFA) M042-209m Stockbridge a
Jacobs, Pearl D. [Watters] M042-188d 1950-01-04 Plainfield C Jacobs, Susie Ann Glover (Wirt) M042-093d Eaton Rapids
Jacobs, Susie Glover (Susie) . M042-OO5dr Mason C
James, Emily A. Canfield (Harry) M042-198d C James, Harry Mrs. M042-095wr Gregory
James, Innez (Gregory Elem. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge 0
Jennings, Ruby Green M042-057dr Clio
Jensen, Clifford Sgt. M042-060m
Jensen, Evelyn Groh (Frank Bernard) M042-095w Williamston C
Jensen, Frank Bernard M042-095w
Jensen, Glen M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 IL, Bloomington
Jensen, Mollie Ashmore M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27 IL, Heyworth
Jerue, Hubert Guy (volunteered for draft) M042-200m 194? Lansing
Jesse, ???? Grimes (Francis) M042-094d 1957-07-07 Stockbridge
Jesse, Elsie [Perkins] M042-094dr 1957-03-19 Williamston C Jesse, Elsie [Perkins] M042-094dr 1957-07-07 Williamston
Jesse, Francis M042-094d 1957-03-19 Stockbridge
Jesse, Luella [Otis] M042-094dr 1957-03-19 Mason C Jesse, Luella [Otis] M042-094dr 1957-07-07 Mason
Jewell, Jennie M042- 1 55dr Leslie
Job, Alice Strickrodt M042-165wr Stockbridge C Johnson, Alvina [Neeley] M042-222w 1955-09 MN, Austin
Johnson, Beulah [Jacobs] M042-094w MN C
Johnson, Caroline [Robeson] M042-222w 1955-09 Stockbridge C Johnson, Elizabeth [Denton] M042-042dr 1939-02-25 Gregory
Johnson, Elouise [Hutson] M042-090w Fenton C
Johnson, Florence Mrs. M042-137dr 1952-08-19 NM, Mt. Kisko
Johnson, Francis [Pierce] M042-193dr 1936-05-07 Gregory
Johnson, Genevieve Arlinn [Cool] M042-095w Grgory C
Johnson, Nancy May Cranna M042-036dr 1958-06-04 Chelsea
Johnson, Ruth Elaine [Eldridge] M042-22 1w 1958-07 Stockbridge
Johnson, T. E. (teacher) M042-200rn 1907 Stockbridge C
Johnston, Erman Mrs. M042-082dr 1954-12-19 Dearborn
Johnstone, Alice Mabel [Parish] M042-138d Albion
Jones, Clara Welton M042-l 55dr 1959-12-03 Howell C
Jones, Dallas Mrs. M042-lOldr White Oak Twp. a
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Jones, Dallis Mrs. M042-lOOdr 1954-12-18 White Oak Twp.
r Jones, Ethel Kelley M042-099dr Miliville
Jones, Francis Jr. family(pic) M042-096m East Lansing
Jones, Kathleen Peterson (Richard) M042-138w Gregory
Jones, Margaret McCleer M042- 11 8dr Howell
Jones, Metta Gregon (Orville) M042-097m Stockbridge
Jones, Orville M042-097m Stockbridge
Jones, Richard M042- 138w South Lyon
Jones, Richard girl M042-095b 1954-02-1 1 Gregory r Jors, Alice Longnecker (Paul) M042- 107th 1943-01-28 Jackson
Judson, Alice [Griggs] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Bay City
Judson, Daisy [Kneale] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 East Lansing
Judson, Mamie [Allison] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Fowlerville
Judson, Metta [Buchanan] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Stockbridge
Judson, Myrta [Bowen] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 Williamston
Judson, Nellie [Richison] M042-095dr 1943-12-30 CA, Reseda
Judson, Rosa Ann Chappel (George) M042-095d 1943-12-30 Williamston
Julien, Donald (H.S. Teacher) M042-2l7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Kaiser, Madge M042-OOSdr 1955-01-11 Pontiac
Kator, Alice Ellsworth M042-046dr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Kator, Alice Ellsworth M042-lO2dr 1942-01
Katz, Dean M042-098w Mtmith
Katz, Dean (engagement) M042-098m Munith
Katz, Doris [Crandall] M042-221w 1958-04 Munith
Katz, Eldon M042-219d 1954-01 Stockbridge
Katz, Marilyn Katz (Dean) M042-098w Munith
Keep, June M042-054dr 1953-12-02 Lansing
Keeper, Betty (Melodette) M042-2 1 7m Stockbridge
Keeper, Betty Lou (engagement) M042-098m Stockbridge
r Keeper, Dixie <Leonard> M042-098d 1937-10-07 Stockbridge
Keeper, Gordon Mrs. M042-150m 1939-04-05 Stockbridge
Keezer, ???? Pulling (Wilbur) M042-l44dr East Lansing
r Keichen, Blanch Dorthy Wilson (Maynard) M042-099w
Keichen, Maynard M042-099w Jackson
Keiser, Judy Ann Haines (Robert) M042-099w Gregory
Keiser, Robert M042-099w Pinckney
L Keiser, Ruth Ann Young (Valbert) M042-099w Gregory
L Keiser, Valbert M042-099w Gregory
Kellenberger, Joyce Ann <Glenn> M042-099d Gregory
L Kellenberger, Mella Baldwin (Glenn) M042-099dr Gregory
L Kelley, ???? [Creager] M042-099dr Stockbridge
Kelley, ?fl? [Singleton] M042-lOOdr 1954-12-18 Stockbridge L Kelley, Earl M042-099d Stockbridge
L Kelley, Ethel [Jones] M042-099dr MilIville
Kelley, Hazel [Hayner] M042-099dr Miliville 1... Kelley, Maggie [Singleton] M042-200w 1907-10-06
L Kelley, Neva [Parker] M042-099dr Lansing
Kelley, Nina A. Mrs. M042-099d Millville L. Kelley, Nina Burgess M042-033dr 1941-05-12
L. Kelley, Nina Cooper (Thomas J.) M042-lOOdr 1954-12-18 Stockbridge
Kelley, Thomas J. M042-lOOd 1954-12-18 Stockbridge L Kelley, Tom M042-219d 1954-12 Stockbridge
Kellogg, Cora Lillie Mrs. M042-lOld Stockbridge
Kellogg, Edna [Morehouse] M042- 101 dr Battle Creek
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Kellogg, Sara [Caskey] M042- 101 dr Stockbridge C
Kelly, ???? [Singleton] M042-lOldr Stockbridge G Kelly, Thomas J. M042-lOld Stockbridge
Kelly, William James (engagement) M042- 16 im VA, Norfolk C
Keish, Ed Mrs. M042-099wr OH C Kemler, Beulah [Hudson] M042- 101 dr Webberville
Kemler, Clarence Doyle M042- 101 d Jackson C Kemler, Doris Marshall M042- 1 l4dr Webberville
Kemler, Helen [Kinne] M042-lOldr Dansville
Kemler, Leona [Pulinan] M042-lOldr OH, Paulding (3 Kemler, Marie [Duffield] M042-lOldr FL, Bonifay
Kemmer, ???? Cobb (Joseph) M042-O3Odr 1959-11-03
Kenyon, ???? Roberts (Douglas) M042-149dr Hillman C Kerbawy, N. (tennis coath) M042-206m Stockbridge
Kerbawy, W. Nicholas M042-lOlm East Lansing
Kessen, ???? Wiegman (Melvin) M042-194dr OH, Cincinnati C Kiefer, Agnes McGee M042-1 l9dr 1938-01-02 Jackson
Kievit, Henry A. M042-102d Eaton Rapids
Kievit, Jessie Glover M042-093dr Eaton Rapids C Kimball, Ethel E. Blood (Homer E.) M042-009w Lansing
Kimball, Harriet [Fee] M042-OSOdr Adrian C
Kimball, Homer E. M042-009w Jackson C Kimberauskas, Ann (salutatorian) M042-2 11m 1960 Stockbridge
King, Emma M. E. Revold (Charles) M042-087d Webberville C King, Erma [Caskey] M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Gregory a King, F. Serviss (onion king) M042-120m Owosso
King, Floyd family (pic) M042-102m 1957 C King, Hazel Nicholas M042-132dr 1944-03-12 Plainfield
King, Mary Davis M042-072dr 1948-01-29 Lansing
King, Mina L. [Kleinschmidtj M042-lO3dr Parkers Corners C Kink, Emmitte (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Kinloch, Jack M/M M042-092dr- 1956-10-01
Kinlock, John (pie) M042-lOlm 1955 Gregory C, Kinne, Grace Oesterle M042-047dr Dansville
Kinne, Grace Oesterle M042-1 35dr 1947-03-13 Dansville
Kinne, Helen Kemler M042-lOldr Dansville C Kinney, Delia Ellsworth M042-102d 1942-0 1
Kinsey, ???? Burt (Russell) M042-lO2dr 1935-11-28 Doster
Kinsey, James Russell <Kenneth> M042-102d 1935-1 1-28 Jackson C Kinsey, Joyce Elaine [Millhouse] M042-124dr 1956-07-23
Kinsey, Phyllis [Coakley] M042-102w 1942 Plainfield
Kirby, Abbie Clark M042-029dr 1938-06-14 White Oak Twp. C Kirkland, Agnes [Arnold] M042-OO8dr 1939-03-12 Gregory
Kirkland, Agnes J. [Arnold] M042-OO3dr 1953-11-22 Howell C Kirkland, Laura Hadley (Joseph) M042-003d 1953-11-22 C Kirkland, Laura Roselva Hadley (Joseph) M042-008d 1939-03-12 Stockbridge
Kirkland, Minnie [Arnold] M042-OO8dr 1939-03-12 Gregory C Kirkland, Minnie A. [Arnold] M042-003d C Kisor, Tommy M042-126wr 1959-08-06
Kister, William M!M M042-095wr Detroit C Kistler, E. E. (25th anniversary) M042-219m 1954-12 Stockbridge
Kistler, Frances I. Brown (Fred L.) M042-2 19w 1954-06 Ann Arbor
Kistler, Fred L. M042-2 19w 1954-06 Stockbridge C Kistler, Manly (Valedicorian) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge c
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Kistler, Marilyn [Clemens] M042-221w 1958-12 Stockbridge
Kitchen, Sarah I-lowell M042-145d Ann Arbor
Kiviet, Jessie Glover M042-OO5dr Eaton Rapids
Klein, Doris V. [Sober] M042-162dr Stockbridge
Kleinschmidt, ?fl? [Allen] M042-lO3dr
Kleinschmidt, Agnes Oesterle M042-047dr Ann Arbor
Kleinschmidt, Agnes Oesterle M042- 1 35dr 1947-03-13 Ann Arbor
Kleinschmidt, Agnes Oesterle (Lambert Henry) M042-lO3dr
Kleinschmidt, Clarence E. M042- 1 03d Parkers Corners
Kleinschmidt, Elna [Love] M042-lO3dr
Kleinschmidt, Linda [Garland] M042-lO3dr
Kleinschmidt, Mina [Clark] M042-lO3dr
Kleinschmidt, Mina L. King (Clarence E.) M042-lO3dr Parkers Corners
Klinger, Wilbur (pic) M042- 1 03m
Kneale, Daisy Judson M042-095dr 1943-12-30 East Lansing
Kneale, Pearl (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Knight, ???? Miteer (Harold) M042-125dr St. Ignace
Knight, Alice [Fletcher] M042-05 Id Stockbridge
Knight, Hattie [Mapes] M042-05 1 dr Jackson
Knight, Hazel DeCamp M042-042dr Jackson
Knight, Lillie [Cook] - M042-O5ldr Stockbridge
Knight, Marie Mitteer M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Lansing
Knight, Marie Mitteer M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Lansing
Knott, Mary Ellen (valedictorian) M042-21 im 1960 Stockbridge
Kochel, ???? [Barth] M042-iO4dr Stockbridge
Kochel, ???? [Cosgray] M042- 1 O4dr Stockbridge
Kochel, Bertha Ann [Latimer, Cosgray] M042-034d
Kochel, Fay [Emerson] M042-034dr IL, Dansville
Kochel, Fay [Emerson] M042-lO4dr IL, Dansville
Kochel, Lou [Barth] M042-034dr Stockbridge
Kochel, Peter M042- 1 04d Stockbridge
Kochel, Susanna Swartzell (Peter) M042-IO4dr Stockbridge
Kockel, Lela M042-034dr Stockbridge
Koemke, ?fl? McKenzie (Julius) M042-l2Odr 1932-05-30 Ann Arbor
Koernke, Mary McKenzie (Julius H.) M042-104d Ann Arbor
Koernke, Mary Mrs. M042-222d 1955-12 Stockbridge
Kohis, ???? [Culver] M042-lO4dr 1952-11
Kohis, William M042-104d 1952-il Ann Arbor
Kohout, Abbie Young M042-128dr 1952-10-30 Detroit
Koons, ???? [Herzer] M042-lO4dr Albion
Koons, Eliza Achenbach (Josiah) M042-104d Stockbridge
Koons, Mary [Gregory] M042- 104th Albion
Krall, Chester (air force) (plc) M042-206m Adrian
Kramer, ???? Gibney (John) M042-054dr Royal Oak
Krummery, Robt. (Twp. Constable) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Kruse, ?fl? [Reimenschneider] M042-l2Odr 1940-07-03 Chelsea
Kruse, Lena [McKenzie] M042- 120d 1940-07-03 Stockbridge
Kuhn, Isabelle [Crotty] M042-104w Gregory
Kuhn, Margaret [Roberts] M042-149dr 1958-12-15
Kuhn, Marilyn Himm (William H.) M042-220w 1951-09 Stockbridge
Kuhn, William H. M042-220w 195 1-09 Gregory
Kunde, Otto M042-060m
Kunzelman, Eloise Hadley M042-066m 1959-04-30 Gregory
Kunzelman, Jean MeClinchey M042- 118th Stockbridge
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Kunzelman, Patricia [Beduhn] M042-007w Gregory
Kunzelman, Sabina M042-221d 1958-04 Gregory C Labauch, Almira [Howell] M042-194dr
Laberteaux, Lester M/M M042-154wr Lansing C
LaHaire, Albert M042-O3ldr 194 1-12-23
Laird, Helen E. McCloy (Nathaniel W.) M042-1 19w Stockbridge
Laud, Nathaniel W. M042-1 19w Chelsea C Lamb, Ettie Bowdish M042-Ol2dr 1952-01-03 NC, Dunn
Lamb, John Mrs. M042-143wr Detroit
Lambert, Grace Woods (William) M042-105d 1955-10-06 IA, Council Bluffs Q Lambert, Lewis M042-22 1w 1958-08 Stockbridge
Lambert, Shirley Marie Colby (Lewis) M042-22 1w 1958-08 Stockbridge
Lammers, 7??? Barton (Edward) M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Jackson C Lamoreaux, 7??? Steiner (F. P.) M042- I 64dr 1946-01-29 South Lyon
Lance, Eleanor (Honor Student) M042-044m 1957 Dansville
Landstrom, ???? Peterson (Ken) M042- 13 8dr Detroit C Lane, C. C. Dr. M042-105d 1943-12-12 Chelsea
Lane, Janice Mrs. M042-OISdr 1952-12-Il CA, San Pedro C
Lane, Mary W. Mrs. M042-219d 1954-04 Fitchburg C Lange, Jacob Mrs. M042- I 3Owr Jackson
Lange, Louisa Mrs. M042-009m C
Lange, Louisa VanSyckel M042- I 79dr Jackson
Lange, Meta [Ludtke] M042-1 lOdr 1949-06-16 Gregory
Langham, Myrtle Martenies M042-l l4dr CA, Oakland
Lantis, ???? [Atkinson] M042-OO3dr Stockbridge
Lantis, 7??? [Goodrich] M042-lOSdr 1941-07-11 Lansing
Lantis, Beulah Pickell (Paul) M042-140w Unadilla C Lantis, Blanch Glenn M042-056dr 1955-07-30 Stockbridge
Lantis, Blanche Glenn (C. G.) M042-056dr 1960-08-26 Stockbridge
Lantis, C. 0. (Village Assessor) M042-222m 1955-03 Stockbridge C Lantis, Colleen (engagement) M042-105m Munith
Lantis, Colleen Faye [Becker] M042-006w Munith
Lantis, Frank W. M042-105d 1941-07-11 Lansing C Lantis, Helen (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Lantis, Flelen [Atkinson] M042- 1 OSdr 1941-07-11 Stockbridge
Lantis, Helen Christine [Atkinson] M042-105w 1941-07-10 Stockbridge C Lantis, Ida [Wolfi M042-lOSdr 1941-07-11 Jackson
Lantis, Iva Gailey M042-053dr Mason C
Lantis, Nora Mae [Hoffmeyer] M042-085d 1957-06-19 Lansing C Lantis, Opal Elizabeth Staninger (Daniel R.) M042-054dr 1953-12-02 Stockbridge
Lantis, Paul M042-140w Unadilla C
Lantis, Pearl [Oakley] M042-135dr 1944-10-28 Jackson C Lamed, ?7?? Rockwell (Clifford J.) M042-150m 195 1-01-04 Greenville
LaRock, Ernest G. (air force) (pic) M042-206m Jackson C LaRue, 7??? Baker (J. E.) M042-OO5dr 1955-01-fl Howell
Latimer, Bertha Ann Kochel (Gurson W.) M042-034d
Latimer, Georgia [Howe] M042-034dr Chelsea 0 Latimer, Georgia [Howe] M042-034dr Chelsea
Latimer, Olive [McGauley] M042-034dr Stockbridge
Lator, Maudie Waters M042- 1 87dr 1942-08-27 Brighton C Latson, Charles M042-028w Howell
Latson, Lois Caskey (Charles) M042-028w Gregory
Latson, Ruth [Gregory] M042-028wr C LaVan, Zella (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 17m 1959-09 Stockbridge o
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Lavey, Lois [Barbour] M042- 106w Gregory
Lawrence, Audrey Gaylor M042-OOld 1959-09-20 Detroit
Laxton, JoAnne (Sr. play) (pic) M042-210m Stockbridge
Laxton, Maxine Walker M042-047dr Dansville
Laxton, Maxine Walker M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Dansville
Lay, George (Gregory Elem. Teacher) M042-2 1 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Leach, Donna [Williams] M042-219w 1954-10 Plainfield
Leaich, ???? [Earl] M042-196dr 1944-06-20 IL, Belvidere
Leaich, Mary J. [Wilson] M042-196d 1944-06-20 Parkers Corners
Leaich, May [Wilson] M042-197dr 1951-06-23 Iosco Twp.
Leatherman, Walter Mrs. M042- 11 7wr
Ledwedge, Bridget [Conklin] M042-03 Id 1941-12-23 White Oak Twp.
Lee, ???? Goodwin Earl) M042-057dr Lyndon Twp.
Lee, Jenny Mrs. M042-l l4dr Adrian
Leece, Ethel (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Leeke, Faye Ashmore M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27
Leeke, Peggy M042-1 12m 1957-03 Napleon
Leeke, Peggy (Co. dairy princess) (plc) M042-2 1 2m Napoleon
Leeke, Peggy (pic) M042-l 1 Im 1957-03 Jackson
Lehman, ???? [Schumacher] M042-l l6wr 1955-11 Grass Lake
Lehman, ???? [Schumacher] . M042-1 l6wr Grass Lake
Lehman, ???? Foell (Elmer) M042-l06dr Stockbridge
Lehman, ???? Foell (Elmer) M042- I O6dr Stockbridge
Lehman, ???? Huttenlocker (Ralph) M042- 1 5Odr 1939-04-05 Detroit
Lehman, Alta (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Lehman, Althea Foell (Elmer) M042-051w 1941-06-11
Lehman, Carrie Mrs. M042-OlQdr Detroit
Lehman, Doris Mae [Marz] M042-l 16w 1955-11 Stockbridge
Lehman, Elemer girl M042-218b 1955-03-18
Lehman, Elma (postmaster) M042-207m Stockbridge
Lehman, Elmer M042-OSlw 1941-06-Il
Lehman, Elmer (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Lehman, Elmer (pic) M042-l 18m Stockbridge
Lehman, Elmer (post office) M042-214m 1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Lehman, Irene [Marz] M042-1 16w Stockbridge
Lehman, Irene [Marz] M042-I l6wr 1955-1 1 Stockbridge
Lehman, Irene [Marz] M042-222w 1955-09 Stockbridge
Lehman, Judy (pie) M042-2 1 Sm Stockbridge
Lehman, Lulu [Parshall] M042- 106th Homer
Lehman, Marie [Bloom] M042-22lw 1958-07 Stockbridge
Lehman, Matthew Paul <Elmer> M042-106d Jackson
Lehman, Melvin Daniel <Elmer> M042-106d Jackson
Lehman, Paul K. M042-106d Stockbridge
Lehman, Vera [Schumacher] M042- 1 O6dr Grass Lake
Leinhart, Arthur J. (volunteered for draft) M042-200m 194? Stockbridge
Lepeschkim, Julie Wilson M042-195dr 1952-09-18
Lewis, Asa M042-106d 1952-08-04 Stockbridge
Lewis, Bess [Ward] M042-IO6dr 1952-08-04 Webberville
Lewis, Blanche [Strobel] M042- 1 O6dr Webberville
Lewis, Clara Ann [Taylor] M042-172d 1955-03-12 Flint
Lewis, Donald M042-221w 1958-01 Stockbridge
Lewis, Edna Miss M042-106d 1960-08-17 Kalamazoo
Lewis, Edwin M042-106d Webberville
Lewis, Emma [Jacobs] M042-092d 1953-06-25 Stockbridge
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Lewis, Emma [Jacobs] M042-093dr 1955-10-07 Stockbridge C Lewis, Grace [Strobel] M042-lO6dr Webberville
Lewis, Irene Backus M042-086dr Petoskey
Lewis, J. P M042-221w 1958-04 Stockbridge C Lewis, Kate C. Frinkel (Will) M042-106d 1954-12-28 Stockbridge
Lewis, Kate C. Mrs M042-2 19d 1954-12 Stockbridge
Lewis, Lucille [Fox] M042-172dr 1955-03-12 NY C Lewis, Marlene Fear (Donald) M042-221w 1958-01 Stockbridge
Lewis, Minnie [Fredenburg] M042-092dr 1953-06-25 Fowlerville
Lewis, Minnie [Verdenburgh] M042- lO6dr Farm ington Q Lewis, Mirtie (Gardner] M042-lO6dr 1952-08-04 Howell
Lewis, Myrtie D. [Maine] M042-I 13d Jackson
Lewis, Rose [Gilimore] M042- I 72dr 1955-03-12 Gregory C Lewis, Sylvia Dieterle (J. R.) M042-22 1w 1958-04 Stockbridge
Libey, ‘1??? Cain (James) M042-lO7dr 1955-03 Grass Lake C
Libey, Thomas <James> M042-107d 1955-03 Jackson C Liebeck, Marilyn [Spencer] M042-221w 1958-09 Stockbridge
Liebeck, Marion Cranna (George) M042-036dr 1958-06-04 Munith C Lincoln, Elizabeth Adele [Dieterle, Bradleyl M042-015d 1952-12-11 Webberville
Lindamood, Zada Cain M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Grass Lake
Lindberg, Marion Cobb (Andor) M042-O3Odr Farmington C Lindemer, L. B M042-222m 1955-07 Stockbridge
Lindsley, Eva Smith M042-l6Odr 1948-03-08 IL, Armstrong
Line, Evelyn (engagement) M042- 1 07m Stockbridge C Line, Luana (engagement) M042- I 07m Stockbridge
Linman, Andrew Sgt M042-OóOm
Lombard, Marilyn Ann [Fay] M042-219w 1954-01 Stockbridge C Long, Cico [Fryer] M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 IN, Mishawaka
Long, Molly [Hoover] M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 IN, Star City
Long, Myrtle [Phillips] M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 IN, South Bend
Long, Nellie Ann [HudkIns] M042-090d 1954-06-30 Pinckney
Long, Nellie Ann [Hudkins] M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Pinckney
Longnecker, Alice [Jors] M042-lO7dr 1943-01-28 Jackson C Longnecker, Frank M042-107d 1943-01-28 Plainfield
Longnecker, Jane [Dutton] M042-045dr 1940-03-25 0
Longnecker, Minnie Cameron (William A.) M042-026d 193 1-12-20 0 Lopez, Rudy (air force) M042-206m Britton
Lord, Clara Grimes M042-042dr St. Clair Shores C Lore, Robert C. (air force) M042-206m Ypsilanti
Lorenzen, Loa Babcock M042-OO5dr Jackson
Lotson, Lois Caskey M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Howell 0 Love, Elna Kleinschmidt (Fred) M042- I O3dr
Lovejoy, Velma Irene [Morehouse] M042-108w 1950-06-29 Gilletts Lake
Lovejoy, William M042-OO8dr Munith 0 Lovell, Robert D. (air force) (pic) M042-206m Hudson
Lovely, Louisa [Banks] M042-OO5dr 1953-06-03
LoVette, Emma Gailey M042-053dr Mason C Lowe, ???? [Flayner] M042- I O9dr 1944-03-25 Stockbridge
Lowe, ???? [Solomon] M042- I O9dr 1944-03-25 TX, Houston
Lowe, ???? Boyce (Charles) M042-0 I 3dr 1930-07-01 Stockbridge 0 Lowe, ???? Price (Charles) M042-l4Idr 1952-08-17 IL, Waterman
Lowe, Addie A. Boyce (Charles Herman) M042-lO9dr 1944-03-25 Stockbridge
Lowe, Bonnie [Solomon] M042-068dr 1962-09 TX 0 Lowe, C. H M042-O2ldr Stockbridge
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0
1
M042-109d
M042-109d
M042-068d
M042-069dr
M042- I O9dr
M042-2 16m
M042-2 I 6m
M042-05 1 dr
M042-05 Id
M042-1 lOdr
M042-222m
M042-1 lOm
M042-1 IOdr
M042-1 lOd
M042-174dr
M042-1 lOw
M042-1 lOw
M042-024dr
M042-028dr
M042-003w
M042-057dr
M042-1 lOm
M042-2 1 2m
M042-1 12m
M042-1 I Im
M042-098w
M042-098m
M042-167dr
M042-1 l3dr
M042-027dr
M042-1 13d
M042-2 I 6m
M042-1 l3dr
M042- 1 SOwr
M042- 1 55d
M042-1 14d
M042-I7ldr
M042-049w
M042- 1 55dr
M042-! l3dr
M042-1 l3dr
M042-1 13d
M042-222m
M042-1 13th
M042-1 l3dr
M042-1 13d
M042-220d
M042-204m
M042-1 13d
M042-113d
M042-22 im
M042-1 13w
M042-082dr
M042-068w
1944-03-25
1958-08
1962-09
1950-05-05
1944-03-25
1948-12-11
1948-12-11
1949-06- 16
1955-06
1949-06-16
1949-06-16
1959-12-18
195 1-11
1949-04-07
1962-10-29
195 8-09
Stockbridge
St. Johns
Lansing
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Williamston
Mason
Gregory
Stockbridge
Gregory
Gregory
Gregory
Lansing
PA, Sewickley
Stockbridge
Jackson
CA, Boron
Lowe, Charles Herman
Lowe, Floyd Mrs.
Lowe, Josie [Hayner]
Lowe, Josie E. [Hayner]
Lowe, Mahala Newkirk
Lowe, Peter (first justice of the peace)
Lowe, Richard (first sheriff)
Ludden, Aleta [Ruhlj
Ludden, Lula 1. [Fineout]
Ludtke, Elizabeth Vogt (Paul H.)
Ludtke, Herold (Am. Legion Historian)
Ludtke, Herold W. (pic)
Ludtke, Meta Lange (Paul H.)
Ludtke, Paul H.
Lundey, Florence Christian
Lupinacci, James
Lupinacci, Shirley Basore (James)
Lusk, Fannie [Rundel]
Lyon, 77?? Dewey (G. E.)
Lyons, Lena Applegate
Lytle, Elizabeth Graf
Lytle, Elmer & Elizabeth (card of thanks)
Lytle, Marilyn (Co. dairy princess) (pic)
Lytle, Marilyn (dairy princess)
Lytle, Marilyn (pic)
Lytle, Marilyn [Katz]
Lytle, Marilyn Ann (engagement)
Mackinder, ???? [Stevens]
MacKinder, ???? Williams
Mackinder, Jennie Cantrell
MacKinder, Richard Ellis
Mackinder, Robert (Village Trustee)
MacManamon, Addie Maine
Maddox, ???? Rockwell (George)
Mae, Lucy Ide (Isaac)
Magahay, Christina F. Fortman (Robert B.)
Maguson, Leona French
Mahier, Mary Frances [Farrington]
Maier, Lena Sharp
Maine, Addie [MacManamon]
Maine, Bessie [Stoddard]
Maine, Myrtie D. Lewis (Oliver)
Malcho, Albert (cracked ribs in fall on ice)
Maicho, Clara [Stowe]
Maicho, Clara [Stowe]
Maicho, George
Malcho, George
Maicho, Gladys Mrs. (choir) (pie)
Malcho, Helen D. Dunsmore (Albert)
Maleho, Henry Mrs.
Maicho, John (25th anniversary)
Maicho, Joyce Lucille [Coleman]
Maicho, Lawrence
Maicho, Marion [Buckley]
1955-02- 10
Stockbridge
1957-03 Munith
1957-03 Munith
Munith
Munith
1941-01-28 Stockbridge
1942-01-11 Stockbridge
1958-07-20 Stockbridge
Lansing
Onondaga
Williamston
White Oak Twp.
CA, Huntington Pk
NY, Scarsdale
Whitrnore Lake
Lansing
Jackson
Jackson
1955-02 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
VantownlMilltown
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Dansville
1954-12-19 Dearborn
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C
C
C
C
Malcho, Marion [Buckley] M042-I l3dr 1962-10-29 Stockbridge C
Maicho, Martha [Marlette] M042- 11 3dr Jackson C Maicho, Martha [Millet] M042- 11 3dr Jackson
Maicho, Phyllis [Stowe] M042-l l3dr 1962-10-29 Stockbridge
Maicho, Vivian [Spry] M042-l l3dr 1962-10-29 Jackson C Mallett, Ira M042-1 14d Ann Arbor
Mallett, Vera [Prince] M042-l l4dr OR
Mapes, 7??? [Furman] M042-1 l4dr 1953-07-02 C Mapes, Alice [Jackson] M042-092dr Stockbridge
Mapes, Hattie Knight M042-05 ldr Jackson
Mapes, Howard Dr. M042-1 14d 1953-07-02 Three Rivers C Marinich, Carol Ann Richmond (John Patrick) M042-1 15w 1960-06-18 L’Anse
Marinich, John Patrick M042-1 15w 1960-06-18 L’Anse C Marks, Ellyn [McCleer] M042-1 lSdr Detroit
Marlette, Martha Maicho M042- 1 l3dr Jackson
Marquis, Jack Mrs. M042-222d 1955-03 Stockbridge G Marsh, 7??? Corwin (Frank) M042-033dr 1955-06-17 Jackson
Marsh, ???? Corwin (Harold) M042-033dr 1955-06-17 Jackson
Marsh, Alice (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge C Marsh, Beulah [Boyce] M042-0 l4dr
Marsh, Beulah [Boyce] M042-053dr 1954-06-11
Marsh, Dora Corwin (Francis) M042-033dr 1960-01-26 Jackson C Marsh, Dora Corwin (Francis) M042-114w 1935-03-14 Jackson
Marsh, Francis M042-1 14w 1935-03-14 Jackson
Marsh, Harold N. M042-033w Waterloo C Marsh, Louva Corwin (Harold) M042-033dr 1960-01-26 Grass Lake
Marsh, Louva V. Corwin (Harold N.) . M042-033w Jackson
Marshall, Dale Ernest M042-032w Gregory C Marshall, Doris [Kemler] M042-1 l4dr Webberville
Marshall, Elaine (salutatorian) M042-2 Elm 1960 Stockbridge
Marshall, Ethel Louise Titus (Fred) M042-l 14d Stockbridge C Marshall, Jean Marie [Watters] M042-188w Plainfield
Marshall, Lorna [May] M042-1 l4dr Gregory C Marshall, Louise Hopkins M042-086dr 1952-07-26 Stockbridge
Marshall, Luada Robeson M042- 1 óOdr 1948-03-08 Stockbridge
Marshall, Myra [Meabon] M042- 1 l4dr Pinckney C Marshall, Patricia Jean Cochran (Dale Ernest) M042-032w Gregory
Marshall, William B. M042-l 14d Stockbridge
Marshall, Wm. (61 anniversary) M042-220m 1951-01 Stockbridge C Marshall, Wm. B. M042-222d 1955-11 Stockbridge
Marshall, Wm. Mrs. M042-2 1 9d 1954-08 Stockbridge
Martenies, Dorothy [Gibbs] M042-054w C Martenies, Dorothy [Gibbs] M042-1 l4dr Lansing
Martenies, Grace [Wolf] M042-1 l4dr TX
Martenies, John M042-1 14d Lansing C Martenies, Lottie [Pease] M042-1 l4dr Williamston
Martenies, Myrtle [Langham] M042-1 l4dr CA, Oakland
Martin, ???? Boyce (Herman) M042-0 14dr Mason C Martin, Christina F. Fortman (William J.) M042-1 14d White Oak Twp.
Martin, Elaine Boyce (Herman W.) M042-013w Lyndon Twp.
Martin, Elaine Boyce (Herman) M042-053dr 1954-06-11 Mason
Martin, Gladys Clark M042-01 ldr 1940-06-02 CA, Capitola
Martin, H. Mrs. M042-089dr Jackson
Martin, Herman W. M042-0 13w Stockbridge C
C
Obitinx42.sor 44 C
C
C
M042-2 19w
M042-1 16w
M042-1 16w
M042-1 l6wr
M042-222w
M042-1 16w
M042-222w
M042-1 16w
M042-OO4dr
M042-047dr
M042-222w
M042-222w
M042-O5ldr
M042-2 I 7m
M042-036d
M042-036dr
M042-036dr
M042-1 17m
M042-1 17w
M042- 1 84dr
M042-222m
M042-1 17d
M042-1 17d
M042-036d
M042-1 l4dr
M042-1 l7dr
M042-036dr
M042-1 l7dr
M042-025dr
M042-1 17w
M042-03 8w
M042-2 1 9d
M042-038w
M042-O9Odr
M042-037w
M042-2 19w
M042-1 18m
M042-2 1 9m
M042-1 l8dr
M042-1 l8dr
M042-1 18th
M042-OO6dr
M042-221d
M042-1 18d
M042-OO9dr
M042-1 18d
M042-206m
M042- 129wr
M042-054dr
M042-1 l8dr
M042-1 l8dr
M042-1 l8dr
M042-1 l8dr
M042-1 lSdr
1954-06 Stockbridge
1955-11 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1953-11 Mason
1943-02-22
1955-06 Fitchburg
1955-06 Stockbridge
IN, Angola
1959-09 Stockbridge
Webberville
Webberville
Charlotte
Lansing
Grass Lake
Stockbridge
Unadilla Twp.
Romeo
Munith
Gregory
Cass City
Mason
Munith
1945-1 1-08 Munith
1954-10 Munith
1947-12-08
1954-12-30
1954- 12
1954-05
1940-03
1940-03
1940-03
1953-09- 14
1958-01
1940-03
Bunker Hill
Stockbridge
Bunker Hill
Gregory
1959-12 Mason
Onsted
IN, Millersburg
Gregory
Detroit
Jackson
Lansing
Howell
Royal Oak
1955-Il
1955-09
1955-11
1955-09
Marvin, Gale Jeanette [Young]
Marz, Doris Mae Lehman (Ralph Arthur)
Marz, Irene Lehman (Raymond P.)
Marz, Irene Lehman (Raymond P.)
Marz, Irene Lehman (Raymond)
Marz, Ralph Arthur
Marz, Raymond
Marz, Raymond P.
Mason, Jessie Bacon
Mason, Marion Mrs.
Massey, Barbara J. Craft (James, Jr.)
Massey, James Jr.
Mast, Lydia Neithammer
Mathews, Berta (Reeves Rural School Teacher)
Matthiesen, Christine [Crandall]
Matthiesen, Cleo [Darnell]
Matthiesen, Mildred [McCormick]
Mauer, Marlin
Maurer, Carolyn [Bmerson]
Maute, Delia Walz
Mavis, A. C. (O.E.S.)
May, Howard James
May, John L.
May, Josephine B. [Cranna]
May, Lorna Marshall
May, Marion [Douglas]
May, Nancy Durkee (Francis)
May, Twilla [Casper]
Mayer, ???? Bullis (Glenn)
Mayer, Doris [Stowe]
Mayer, Eleanor Daft (William)
Mayer, W. P.. Mrs.
Mayer, William
Mayhew, Lavon Hudkins
McAllister, Mary Lee [Culver]
McAllister, Mary Lee [Culver]
McAllistcr,Mary Lee (engagement)
McArthur, Ruth (Valedictorian)
McCallum, ???? McCann (A. B.)
McCann, ???? [Berry]
McCann, 7??? [McCallum]
McCann, 7??? Barton (Timothy)
McCann, Duane girl
McCann, Mary A. Miss
McCann, Mary Bishop
McCarty, Margaret Miss
McCaughey, Bill (air force) (pic)
McClain, C. M. M/M
McCleer, 7??? Gibney (Lawrence)
McCleer, Ellyn Marks (Neil)
McCleer, Julia [Draper]
McCleer, Maida [Brogan]
McCleer, Margaret [Jones]
McCleer, Marian [Anderson]
1956-09- 13
1955-09
1956-01-07
1941-12
1958-06-04
1941-12
1958-06-04
1941-12
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor
Stockbridge
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CC
‘C
C
McCleer, Neil T. Dr. M042-1 18d Dearborn
McCleer, Neil T. Dr. M042-220d 1951-12 Stockbridge C MeClelland, Charles (air force) (pie) M042-206m Jackson
McClinchey, Anna ]Tice] M042-1 l8dr Clare
McClinchey, Edith [Hobo] M042-1 1 8dr ONT, Preston
McClinchey, Emily [Speed] M042-1 l8dr Dearborn
MeClinchey, Esther [Parham] M042- 11 8dr Brighton C MeClinchey, Jean [Kunzelman] M042- 11 8dr Stockbridge
McClinchey, Jean Titus (Robert) M042-220w 1951-12 Stockbridge
McClinchey, Robert M042-220w 195 1-12 Stockbridge C McClinchey, Roy M042- 11 8d Stockbridge
McCloud, ???? [Bartlett] M042- 11 9dr Jackson
McCloud, ???? [Howlett] M042- 11 9dr Stockbridge C McCloud, Alma Anderson (Roy) M042- 11 9dr Stockbridge
McCloud, Roy M042- 11 9d Stockbridge
McCloud, Roy W. (post office safety awardO M042-207m Stockbridge C MeCloud, Roy W. (postumous citation) M042-118m Stockbridge
McCloy, Helen E. [Laird] M042- 119w Stockbridge
McCloy, Margaret [Mimer] M042-124d 195 1-05-29 Stockbridge C McConaghy, Eva Mrs. M042-027dr
McConaughy, Eva Cole - M042-03 1 dr IN, Indianapolis C
McConnell, ???? Eggleston (Fred) M042-046dr Lyons McCormick, Mildred Matthiesen M042-036dr Charlotte C
McCormick, Olive Galligan M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Ann Arbor C McCorney, Adeline Plummer M042-137dr Gregory
McCoy, Fern E. Boyce M042-Ol3dr 1930-07-0 1 Battle Creek
McCreary, Emma Blue (Harvey) M042-1 l9dr 1943-01-24 Stockbridge C McCreary, Florence Blood (Harvey) M042- 11 9dr 1943-01-24 Stockbridge
McCreary, Harvey M042- 11 9d 1943-01-24 Stockbridge
McCue, Patricia Sibley (Paul) M042-l 19d 1956-01-24 NY, Rochester C McDowell, Louise Miemdorf M042-123dr OR, Bend
McEwing, Janean [Younglove] M042-222w 1955-12 Stockbridge
McGauley, Lois Feldpausch (Robert) M042-2 19w 1954-11 Stockbridge C McGauley, Olive Latimer M042-034dr Stockbridge
McGauley, Robert M042-2 19w 1954-11 Stockbridge
McGee, Agnes [Kiefer] M042-l l9dr 1938-01-02 Jackson C McGee, Agnes [Smith] M042-1 I9dr 1938-01-02 CA
McGee, Alice [Hines] M042-1 19dr 1938-01-02 Ypsilanti
McGee, Charles M042-l 19d 1938-01-02 Ypsilanti C McGee, Grace [Hath] M042-1 l9dr 1938-01-02 Howell
McGee, Mina [Cone] M042-1 l9dr 1938-01-02 Gregory C
McGee, Virena [Moore] M042- 11 9dr 1938-01-02 Howell C McGuffey, Carl (onion king) M042-120m Shelbyville
McGuire, Lela Hynes M042-O9Odr 1951-04-09 Fowlerville C McKenzie, 7??? [Koernke] M042-l20dr 1932-05-30 Ann Arbor
McKenzie, ???? [Nott] M042-I2Odr 1932-05-30 Stockbridge
McKenzie, Flora Miss M042-120d 1932-05-30 Stockbridge C McKenzie, Flora Townsend (Jay) M042- 120d 1941-01 01-1, Shaker Hts.
McKenzie, Janet [Hubbard] M042-089d 1947-02-15 Ypsilanti
McKenzie, Lena Kruse (DeBurt) M042- 120d. 1940-07-03 Stockbridge C McKenzie, Mary [Schaible, Koernke] M042- 1 04d Ann Arbor
McKenzie, Minnie [Nott] M042-lO4dr Ann Arbor
McKibbin, Clifford Jr. M042-067w East Lansing (2 McKibbin, Jane Hall (Clifford, Jr.) M042-067w Stockbridge a
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CC
McKim, Nancy & Becky <Douglas> (pie) M042-201m 1957-12-19 Stockbridge
McKin, Susie, Nancy, & Becky <Doug> (pic) M042-201m 1955-03-24 Stockbridge
McKinney, Glenda Marlene Streets (John Edw.) M042-219w 1954-12 Stockbridge
McKinney, John Edward M042-219w 1954-12 Stockbridge
McKune, James Mrs. M042-099wr
McKune, Monica Mrs. M042-099wr
McLain, Katherine Dieterle M042-Ol5dr 1952-12-11 Jackson
McLellan, Esther Hadley M042-066m 1959-04-30 Ann Arbor
McMullen, William M042- 121w Munith
McMullen, Wilma Archenbronn (William) M042-121w Munith
McNamara, ???? Sharp (John) M042-155dr Howell
McNamara, Dick M042-222d 1955-03 Stockbridge
McNamara, Margaret Caulkins (Richard F.) M042-l2ldr 1955-02-21 Howell
McNamara, Richard F. M042-121d 1955-02-21 Howell
McNiel, Winifred Backus M042-086dr Lansing
McQuaig, Anna [Paul] M042-138dr
McVay, Gurneth [Stoffer] M042-l2ldr 1939-03-06 Stockbridge
McVay, Thomas Harold <Harold> M042-l2ld 1939-03-06 Stockbridge
McVey, 77?? Stoffer (Gurnith) M042- 1 68dr Stockbridge
Meabon, Mirnaveve Miss M042-121d 1936-08-05 Pinckney
Meabon, Myra Marshall M042-1 l4dr Pinckney
Mead, 7??? Bradshaw (L. J.) M042-Ol6dr 1958-01-25 Battle Creek
Mead, Hubert Mrs. M042-OlOwr Linden
Mead, Marilyn Nichols M042-132dr
Meade, Karl (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Mears, Lida Mrs. M042-221d 1958-03 Fitchburg
Mears, Lydia Parman • M042-138dr Fitchburg
Meerman, Matt Mrs. M042-lO9dr 1944-03-25 Plymouth
Meerman, Ruth Sommer (Fred) M042-162dr Williamston
Melton, Rose Mary Smith M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 CA, Anaheim
Melton, Rose Mary Smith M042-l6ldr 1957-10-03 CA, Asham
Menovske, Helen Rae [West] M042- 192w Mason
Mercer, Clara Mowell M042-127dr 1942-07-13 Unadilla Twp.
Merrill, Phyllis [Glenn] M042-056dr 1950-06-03 Plainfield
Messner, Ray M042-222d 1955-1 1 Stockbridge
Messner, Ray <Dale> M042- 1 22d Munith
Messner, Shirley [Clements] M042- I 22dr
Mevis, Dora M042-OO5dr 1955-01-11 Greenville
Mierndorf, Amelia [Bohnet] M042-123dr Webberville
Mierndorf Dora [Yago] M042-123dr Conway Twp.
Mierndorf, Ida [Warflej M042-123d Leroy Twp.
Mierndorf, Louise [McDowell] M042- I 23dr OR, Bend
Micrndorf Minnie [Sleaford] M042-123dr Locke Twp.
Miller farm (near Eaton Rapids) (plc) M042-123m
Miller, 7??? Holmes (Leland) M042-086dr 1957-12-11 Lansing
Miller, ???? Holmes (Leland) M042-086dr 195 1-04-13 Lansing
Miller, ???? Ohls (Fred) M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 Farmington
Miller, Adolph boy M042-218b 1940-01-31
Miller, Alberta [Serls] M042-221w 1958-02 Stockbridge
Miller, Bernadine Gordon (Norman L.) M042-219w 1954-03 Stockbridge
Miller, Bernice Hans (Herbert) M042-123w
Miller, Dale A. M042-219w 1954-09 Stockbridge
Miller, Donald F. M042-221w 1958-12 Stockbridge
Miller, Dorothy Mrs. M042-138dr 195 1-03-24 Stockbridge
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Miller, Etta Mrs.
Miller, Floyd W.
Miller, Herbert
Miller, Lucille Waters
Miller, Martha Howard (Donald F.)
Miller, Mary Lou Schubert (Dale A.)
Miller, Nancy [Dickinson]
Miller, Norman L.
Miller, Patricia Ann (engagement)
Miller, Rella Rose
Millet, Martha Maicho
Millhouse, Clarence L.
Milihouse, Joyce Elaine Kinsey (Clarence L.)
Milihouse, Julia A., Elizabeth & John A. (pie)
Millhouse, Marie <Clarence> (pic)
Milliken, Luella Tisch (Lloyd)
Mills, ???? [Fairchild]
Mills, 7??? Gaylord (1. 0.)
Mills, Fern Thompson
Mills, Florence E. Collins (Claude)
Mills, Marie Dewey
Mills, Max (Twp. Constable)
Milner, ???? [Bartlett]
Mimer, ???? [Haywood]
Milner, ???? [Sackett]
Milner, Elsie Skidmore
Milner, Elsie Skidmore
Mimer, Gladys [Sackett]
Mimer, Hugh
Mimer, Hugh M.
Mimer, Lenora Tisch
Milner, Lenora Tisch (Hugh)
Mimer, Margaret (Louis M.)
Milner, Margaret Mrs.
Milner, Mary (Melodette)
Mimer, Mary Jane [Holmes]
Mimer, Nellie A. [Bird]
Miner, Beverly [Glenn]
Minnis, Carl (Honor Student)
Minnis, Cora Nott
Minnix, Carl Mrs. (auto accident)
Minnix, Connie Sue
Minor, Owen Henderson (volunteered for draft)
Mitchell, Bessie (H.S. Teacher)
Mitchell, Bessie Musbach
Miteer, ???? [Dancer]
Miteer, ???? [Knight]
Miteer, 7??? [Swartout]
Mittchell, Eldina [Roberts]
Mitteer, ???? [Clarke]
Mitteer, Georgia Westfall
Mitteer, Helen (Smith Elem. Teacher)
Mitteer, Jack A. (Boys’ State)
Mitteer, James A.
1942-06-07 Ann Arbor
1958-08 Stockbridge
Gregory
1942-08-27 Jackson
1958-12 Stockbridge
1954-09 Stockbridge
1958-09 Jackson
1954-03 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1955-12-03 Millville
Jackson
1956-07-23
1956-07-23
1958-07-17 VantownfMilltown
1958-07-17 VantownlMilltown
Stockbridge
Bellevue
Lansing
AZ, Tucson
Leslie
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Germany
OH, Cleveland
Lansing
Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor
1951-05-29 Lansing
Stockbridge
1956-07-23 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1951-05-29 Stockbridge
1951-05 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1935-11-29 Stockbridge
Munith
Dansville
Lansing
Stockbridge
Clear Lake
Mason
Stockbridge
Munith
Stockbridge
St. Ignace
TX, Houston
1955-03-21
1955-04
1956-07-23
1956-07-23
1956-07-23
1948-05-06
M042-0 1 3dr
M042-22 1 d
M042- 123w
M042-187dr
M042-221w
M042-2 19w
M042-22 1w
M042-2 19w
M042-123m
M042-l5ldr
M042-1 l3dr
M042- I 24dr
M042- 1 24dr
M042-203m
M042-203m
M042- I 25d
M042- 1 23dr
M042-054dr
M042-174dr
M042-123d
M042-042dr
M042-222m
M042-.124dr
M042- 124dr
M042- 1 24dr
M042- I 57dr
M042- I 57dr
M042-124dr
M042-124w
M042- 124d
M042- 1 25dr
M042-124w
M042-124d
M042-220d
M042-2 1 7m
M042- 124d
M042-009d
M042-056w
M042-044m
M042-133dr
M042-220m
M042-222d
M042-200m
M042-2 1 7m
M042- I 3Odr
M042- I 25dr
M042-125dr
M042-125dr
M042- I 49dr
M042- 125dr
M042-125dr
M042-2 1 7m
M042-205m
M042-125d
48
C
C
C
C
C
C
CCCCa
CCCCCC
C
CC
Ca
CC
C
0CaCaC
aCCCCa
CC0000
1957
195 1-12
1955-07
194?
1959-09
195 8-12-15
1944-05-21
1944-05-21
1959-09
1960-06-16
1944-05-21
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Gregory
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Mitteer, James Allen M042-l25d 1944-05-21 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Marie [Knight] M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Lansing
Mitteer, Marie [Knight] M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Lansing
Mitteer, Ortance Reeves (Robert Henry) M042-125dr 1944-05-2 1
Mitteer, Polly Joyce [Dancer] M042-039w 1956-07 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Polly Joyce [Dancer] M042-040w 1956-07 Stockbridge
Mitteer, Robert H. M042- 1 25d Jackson
Mitteer, Ruth [Clark] M042-125dr 1944-05-2 1 Gregory
Mixter, Rodney M042-lO7dr 1955-03 Williamston
Moeckel, James M042-222w 1955-08 Stockbridge
Moeckel, KennethCool, Max (Twp. Trustee) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Moeckel, Ottmar F. M042-219d 1954-09 Stockbridge
Moeckel, Sally Lou Hadley (James) M042-222w 1955-08 Stockbridge
Moench, Mavis M042-lO6dr NY, Long Island
Moffat, Minnie Beeman M042-OO9dr Stockbridge
Monroe, Alice Mrs. (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown
Monroe, Harold (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Monroe, Ivan (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Monroe, Merna Mrs. (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Monroe, Thelma Glynn M042-057dr 1962-04-26 Webberville
Montgomery, 7??? Banks (Wedsel) M042-OOSdr 1953-06-03 Jackson
Montgomery, Agnes Ellsworth M042-046dr 1946-11-22 Detroit
Moon, Abigail [Glover] M042-093dr
Moon, Faith Ball M042-OO4dr Marshall
Moon, James (engagement) M042- 1 07m Holt
Moon, Lizzie Mrs. M042-125d Kalamazoo
Moore, Eleanor [Cain] M042-026dr 1958-06-14
Moore, Eunice Shaw M042-155dr 1959-12-03
Moore, Louise [Olson] M042-l36d Stockbridge
Moore, Marie Sergison M042-l49dr 1952-08-18 Garden City
Moore, Pearl Mrs. M042-150m 1939-04-05 Stockbridge
Moore, Richard (air force) (pic) M042-206m Jackson
Moore, Suzanne (engagement) M042-125m Owosso
Moore, Virena McGee M042-1 l9dr 1938-01-02 Howell
Morehouse, 7??? [Hart] M042- 1 O8wr 1950-06-29 Lansing
Morehouse, Clayton (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Morehouse, Edna Kellogg M042- 101 dr Battle Creek
Morehouse, Frank Mrs. M042-220d 1951-05 Stockbridge
Morehouse, Ned M042-108w 1950-06-29 Gilletts Lake
Morehouse, Velma Irene Lovejoy (Ned) M042-108w 1950-06-29 Stockbridge
Morgan, 7??? [Bachelor] M042-OO4dr 1940-08-09 Stockbridge
Morgan, 7??? [Bachelor] M042- 127th 1940-08-09 Detroit
Morgan, 7??? [Bachelor] M042- 127dr 1939-08-16 Detroit
Morgan, ???? [Coakley] M042- I 27dr 1939-08-16 Stockbridge
Morgan, Alice (teacher) M042-200m 1907 Stockbridge
Morgan, Emma Beebe (1-filbert W.) M042-127dr 1939-08-16 Stockbridge
Morgan, Emma Harwood M042-025dr 1952-06-19 White Oak Twp.
Morgan, Emma Horwood M042-086dr 1947-06-23 Millville
Morgan, Ernest M042-004d 1940-08-09 iN, Logansport
Morgan, Ernest Casper M042-127d 1940-08-09 IN, Logansport
Morgan, Hubert W. M042-l27d 1939-08-16 Stockbridge
Morgan, Julia A., Kevin E. & Kathleen M. (pie) M042-203m 1958-07-24 VantownlMilltown
Morgan, Pearl Geyer (Ernest Casper) M042-127dr 1940-08-09 IN, Logansport
Morgan, Ray (Am. Legion Fin. Officer) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbridge
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C
Morgan, Rita & Julia <Roy> (plc) M042-127m 1954
Morgan, Rita Kay <Ray> (plc) M042-203m 1958-07-24 VantownlMilltown
Morris, Christene Sergison M042-149dr 1952-08-18 Plymouth
Morrison, Mary Ethel Skidmore M042-157dr 1936-04-05 Ann Arbor
Morse, Mary Jane [Fredenburg] M042-126w 1959-08-06 Maston C Moser, Dora Holmes M042-086dr Pctoskey
Mowell, Augustus M042-127d 1942-07-13 Stockbridge C
Mowell, Clara [Mercer] M042- 1 27dr 1942-07-13 Unadilla Twp. G Mowell, Flora [Chapel] M042- 1 27dr 1942-07-13 Lansing
Moyer, Hazen Wayne M042-128d 1935-04-25 Ypsilanti
Moyer, Opal May Young (Ernest) M042- 128d 1952-10-30 Ann Arbor
Muiholland, Doris Stevens M042-167dr Williamston
Mullins, 2??? [Basore] M042-129wr Stockbridge C
Mullins, Dick J. M042-129w Dansville
Mullins, Dick J. (engagement) M042-146m Dansville
Mullins, Joan Ruth Richmond (Dick J.) M042-129w Stockbridge C Munsell, Harlow M042-025dr 1944-04-09 Gregory
Munsell, Jacqueline Healey (Robert) M042-220w 1951-06 Stockbridge
Munsell, Robert M042-220w 1951-06 Gregory C Munson, Emma Haddock M042-129d Stockbridge
Murphy, 2??? Gibney (Patrick) M042-054dr Bunker Hill
Murphy, Lucille Mrs. M042-197dr Lansing C Musbach, Bessie (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Musbach, Bessie [Mitchell] M042-l3Odr Munith
Musbach, Douglas Wayne & Donita Kaye (pic) M042-203m 1958-07-17 Vantown/Milltown C Musbach, Gladys {Nearpass] M042- 1 3Odr Jackson
Musbach, Margaret Ann Black (Wayne E.) M042-0 lOw Jackson C
Musbach, Margaret Ann Black (Wayne E.) M042-l3Ow Jackson C Musbach, Margaret Ann Black (Wayne) M042-222w 1955-08 Jackson
Musbach, Margaret Parish M042-138dr Munith 0
Musbach, Nancy [Hansen] M042-068w Munith
Musbach, Susie M042-220d 1951-12 Munith
Musbach, Susie Mrs. M042-130d Munith C
Musbach, Wayne M042-222w 1955-08 Munith
Musbach, Wayne (engagement) M042-0 12m Munith
Musbach, Wayne E. M042-0 lOw Munith C Musbach, Wayne E. M042-l3Ow Munith
Musbach, Wayne E. (engagement) M042-009m Munith
Musolff Neale (Sr. play) (pie) M042-2 1 Om Stockbridge C Myer, Ilene Cosgray M042-034dr Gregory
Nagley, Evona (Legionette Secretary) M042-222m 1955-12 Stockbridge
Nagley, William Mrs. M042-150m 1939-04-05 Stockbridge C Nagley, Wm. (Home damaged by fire) M042-220m 1951-03 Stockbridge
Nearpass, Gladys Musbach M042- I 3Odr Jackson
Nebel, Mary Sue (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge C Neeley, Alvina Johnson (Alvirus) M042-222w 1955-09 MN, Austin
Neeley, Alvirus M042-222w 1955-09 Munith C
Neill, Gilbert (Am. Legion 2” Vice) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbridge C Neithammer, Anna [Artz] M042-05 1 dr Lansing
Neithammer, Clara [Stanfield] M042-05 ldr Stockbridge C
Neithammer, Emma [Fink] M042-05 1 d Stockbridge C Neithammer, Lydia [Mast] M042-05 ldr IN, Angola
Nelson, 2??? [Barton] M042-l3ldr 1937-12-10 C
Nelson, 2??? [Streets[ M042-l3Idr 1937-12-10 C0
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M042-194dr
M042- 19 1w
M042-l3ldr
M042-191w
M042-131d
M042-217m
M042-053dr
M042-135dr
M042-204m
M042- 1 O9dr
M042-086dr
M042-0 l3dr
M042-1 72m
M042-132d
M042- 1 32dr
MO421 32dr
M042-065w
M042- I 32dr
M042-065w
M042- 131 m
M042- 1 32m
M042-133m
M042-202m
M042- 132dr
M042-219d
M042- I 32d
M042-22 1 d
M042-204m
M042-207m
M042-220m
M042-200m
M042-133w
M042-133w
M042-OO8dr
M042-133w
M042-l2Odr
M042-OO9dr
M042-133dr
M042-133d
M042-220d
M042-1 l9dr
M042-133dr
M042- I 55d
M042-O2Sdr
M042-133d
M042- 1 O4dr
M042- I 47m
M042- 196dr
M042- 1 96dr
M042-197dr
M042-134dr
M042-134d
M042-22 1 d
M042-222m
Kalamazoo
Webberville
Stockbridge
Webberville
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Howell
Leroy Twp.
Vantown/Militown
Williamston
IN, New Castle
Rives Junction
Dearborn
Gregory
Plainfield
Gregory
Stockbridge
1941-08-28 Stockbridge
1941-07-10 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1958-07-10 VantownlMilltown
1954-05 Stockbridge
Jackson
1958-09 FL
1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Munith
195 1-06 Munith
1907 Stockbridge
Leslie
Leslie
Stockbridge
Williamston
1932-05-30 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Lansing
Stockbridge
1951-07 Stockbridge
1943-01-24
Jackson
Jackson
Jackson
1958-05-28 Chelsea
Ann Arbor
Stockbridge
MN, Minneapolis
1957-06-13 MN, Minneapolis
MN, Minneapolis
Parma
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1956
1937-12-10
1956
1937-12-10
1959-09
1953-08-10
1949-04-07
1944-03-25
1942-06-07
1958-03-25
1944-03- 12
1944-03- 12
1944-03-12
Nelson, ???? Wiegman (Carl)
Nelson, E. JoAnne West (Kenneth E.)
Nelson, Eva Owen (Arthur)
Nelson, Kenneth E.
Nelson, Louise Arlene <Arthur>
Nelson, Maxine (Smith Elem. Teacher)
Nelson, May Gailey
Nemer, Mina Oakley
Nemer, Virginia Mrs. (choir) (pic)
Newkirk, Mahala [Lowe]
Newman, Mary Margaret Holmes
Nichelle, Irene Boyce
Nichol, Luah [Teachout]
Nicholas, Erwin Earl
Nicholas, Ethel Hoad (Erwin Earl)
Nicholas, Hazel [King]
Nichols, Alda Gullett (John)
Nichols, Helen [Allis]
Nichols, John
Nichols, John (pic)
Nichols, John (pic)
Nichols, John (plc)
Nichols, Lauri Ann <John> (pic)
Nichols, Marilyn [Mead]
Nichols, Robert E.
Nichols, Robert Elliott
Nichols, Wm. J.
Nickolson, Ralph (choir) (pic)
Nixon, James D. (Lions)
Nixon, James Rev. (Methodist from Plainfield)
Noble, Celia (teacher)
North, Frederick D.
North, Shirley 1. Galloway (Frederick D.)
Norton, Anna Riggs
Norton, LaVon [Corser]
Nott, ???? McKenzie (William)
Nott, Bernita Beeman
Nott, Cora [Minnis]
Nott, Elmer E.
Nott, Elmer E.
Nort, Elmer E. Mrs.
Nott, Etha [Sharland]
Nott, Etha V. [Sharland]
Nott, Marie Budd
Nott, Minnie M.
NoU, Minnie McKenzie
Nottingham, Clark (buys farm)
Nowlin, ???? Wilson (F. D.)
Nowlin, 7??? Wilson (F. D.)
Nowlin, ???? Wilson (F. D.)
Noyes, ???? [Clawson]
Noyes, Frank
Noyes, Frank
Noyes, Frank (56th anniversary)
1956-08-03
1958-12-19
1958-12
1955-09
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Noyes, Mildred [Clawson] M042-134dr 1958-12-19 Albion C
Noyes, Myrtie E. Sharp (Frank) M042-134d 1956-08-03 Stockbridge C O’Brien, Nella (l-l.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
O’Dell, Lucille Fink M042-OSldr Webberville C
O’Dell, Lucille Fink M042-OSldr 1934-08-03 C O’Neill, Bridget [Brogan] M042-Ol9dr 1944-08-16
Oakley, Bert C. M042-135d 1953-08-10 Stockbridge C
Oakley, Bessie Galley M042-053dr Mason
Oakley, Emily VanBuren (William) M042-135dr 1953-08-10
Oakley, Lawton Phelps M042- 1 35d 1944-10-28 Jackson C
Oakley, Lottie Usher M042-178dr Stockbridge
Oakley, Mina [Nemer] M042-135dr 1953-08-10 Leroy Twp.
Oakley, Pearl Lantis (Lawton Phelps) M042-135dr 1944-10-28 Jackson (J
Oakley, Zelley E. Hayner (Bert C.) M042-135dr 1953-08-10 Stockbridge
Oesterle, Agnes [Kleinschmidt] M042-047dr Ann Arbor
Oesterle, Agnes [Kleinschmidt] M042-lO3dr C Oesterle, Agnes [Kleinschmidt] M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Ann Arbor
Oesterle, Barbara [Fuller] M042-047dr Whitemore
Oesterle, Barbara [Fuller] M042- I 35dr 1947-03-13 Whitmore Lake C Oesterle, Carrie A. Risch (Fred C.) M042-047dr Leroy Twp.
Oesterle, Carrie A. Risch (Fred C.) M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Leroy Twp. C
Oesterle, Fay Walker (Fred C.) M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Leroy Twp. C Oesterle, Faye Walker (Fred C.) M042-047dr LeRoy Twp.
Oesterle, Fern [Worden] M042-047dr Stockbridge C
Oesterle, Fern [Worden] M042- 1 35dr 1947-03-13 Stockbridge
Oesterle, Fred C. M042-047d Leroy Twp.
Oesterle, Fred C. • M042-135d 1947-03-13 Leroy Twp.
Oesterle, Grace [Kinne] M042-047dr Dansville
Oesterle, Grace [Kinne] M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Dansville
Oesterle, Pauline Mrs. (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown (I
Oesterle, Robert (choir) (plc) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VaritownfMilltown
Ohis, ?T1? [Miller] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 Farmington
Ohls, Katie Belle [Smith] M042-161d 1957-10-19 Stockbridge C
Olds, Emma Holt (Frank) M042-174d Munith
Olds, Lovine [Reed] M042-l74dr Bay City
Olds, Myrta E. Smith (Franklin L.) M042-136d 1959-06-25 Stockbridge C Olds, Nellie [Tuttle] M042-l74dr Munith
Olds, Ora [Craig] M042-136dr 1959-06-25 Stockbridge
Olds, Ora 0. [Craig] M042-036dr 1951-06-23 Stockbridge C Olsen, Lucia Skidmore M042-157dr 1936-04-05 MT
Olson, Louise Moore (Andrew) M042-136d Stockbridge C
Orr, Fannie Boyce M042-0 I 3dr 1930-07-01 Battle Creek C Orr, Margaret (plc) M042-133m Detroit
Orr, Margaret D. (pic) M042-132m 1941-07-10 Detroit C
Osborn, Edna [Wright] M042-136dr Detroit C Osborne, ???? Eggleston (Ira) M042-046dr Jackson
Osborne, Edna B. Pulling (Rutherford Jay) M042-136dr C
Osborne, Edna E. [Glover] M042-056w 1937-09-11 Dansville C Osborne, Edna Pulling M042-144dr Webberville
Osborne, Janet (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge C
Osborne, Martha Bristow M042-0 I 9dr Jackson
Osborne, Ruth Chadwick (Jewel! Jay) M042- 1 36dr
Osborne, Rutherford Jay M042- 1 36d C
Ostrander, ???? [Bullis] M042- 1 37dr 1946-02-10 Gregory CC
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F Ostrander, ???? [Hague] M042-137dr 1946-02-10 Jackson
Ostrander, Adella [Singer] M042-137dr 1946-02-10 Detroit
Ostrander, Don R. Maj.Gen.(appointed toNASA) M042-l37m
Ostrander, Hazel Mrs. (post office) M042-214m 1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Ostrander, Levi Wellington M042-137d 1946-02-10 Stockbridge
Ostrander, Ludlla Maude Stoner (Wellington) M042- 137d 1944-07-06 Gregory
Ostrander, Luella Stoner (Levi Wellington) M042-137dr 1946-02-10 Stockbridge
Ostrander, May [Bullis] M042-137dr 1944-07-06 Ypsilanti
Ostrander, Olive Botsford (John) M042-137dr 1946-02-10
Ostrander, Pearl [Jackson] M042-092d Detroit
Otis, Luella Jesse M042-094dr 1957-03-19 Mason
Otis, Luella Jesse (L. C.) M042-094dr 1957-07-07 Mason
Ousley, George M042-073m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Ovitt, Frank M042-137d 1952-08-19 Gregory
r Ovitt, Ida M. Plwnmer M042-137d Stockbridge
Owen, Dan (building 15 unit apartment house) M042-221m 1958-09 Stockbridge
Owen, Emma [Westfall] M042-193dr Stockbridge
Owen, Eva [Nelson] M042-13 ldr 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Owen, Stub MIM M042-l3ldr 1937-12-10 Stockbridge
Owens, Dorothy M042-221d 1958-01 Gregory
Palen, Betty Ann M042-149dr 1943-04-14
Palmatier, D. D. M042-220d 1951-12 Stockbridge
Palmatier, Lucille [Eaton] M042-046dr 1952-07 FL, Miami
Palmer, Edna Teachout M042-173dr 1959-12-26 Eaton Rapids
Palmer, Edna Teachout M042-l74dr 1959-12-18 Eaton Rapids
r Palmer, Florence [Holmes] M042-086dr 1951-04-13 Plainfield
Palmer, Priscilla (Co. dairy princess) (pic) M042-212m Parma
Palmer, Priscilla Jane M042-1 12m 1957-03 Parma
( Pardee, Myrtal J. [Smith] M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Pardee, Myrtal J. [Smith] M042-161d 1950-01-29 Stockbridge
Parham, Esther McClinchey M042-1 l8dr Brighton
r Parish, Agnes R. [Waterhouse] M042-138dr Lansing
b Parish, Alice Mabel (Johnstone (George) M042-138d Albion
L Parish, Catherine A. [Swan] M042-138dr Dansville
Parish, Georgina [Cooper] M042-138dr Albion
b Parish, Lucy [Bowers] M042- 1 38dr Vandercook Lake
Parish, Margaret [Musbach] M042- I 38dr Munith
r Parker, Clayton Mrs. M042-lOOdr 1954-12-18 Lansing
Parker, Clayton Mrs. M042-lOldr Lansing
L Parker, Gladys Drown M042-044dr Wyandotte
Parker, Neva Kelley M042-099dr Lansing
L Parman, Bert M042-222d 1955-02 Stockbridge
L Parman, Frank M042-138d Fitchburg
Parman, Lydia [Mears] M042-138dr Fitchburg
Parman, Wilma [Huffine] M042-138dr Fitchburg
Parshall, Lulu Lehman M042-lO6dr Homer
Parson, Wanda (Sr. play) (pie) M042-2 1 Om Stockbridge
Parson, Wilmer (Honor Student) M042-044m 1957 Dansville
Patrick Irene [Singles] M042-220w 1951-03 Stockbridge
Patrick, Anna [Shouse] M042-220w 1951-03 Stockbridge
Patterson, Luella Brogan M042-Ol9dr Stockbridge
Patton, Frances Mrs. M042-138dr 195 1-03-24 Webberville
Paul, ???? [Pickett] M042-138dr
Paul, ???? [Rainier] M042-138dr IN, Vedeersburg
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Paul, Anna McQuaig (Judson) M042-138dr
Paul, Eva Himmelright (William J.) M042-I3Sdr Stockbridge C Paul, Hattie [Cowger] M042-138dr IN, Monticello
Paul, Kathleen M042-098wr
Paul, Rosalie (Bullock Rural School Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge Q Paul, Rosalie Graf M042-057dr 1955-02-10
Paul, Rosalie Mrs. (choir) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown CD
Paul, William J. M042-138d Stockbridge a Pawson, ???? Branch (Dorman) M042-0 I 7wr Tipton
Pawson, Dorman Keith M042-016w 1957-10-26 Tipton 0
Pawson, Karin Marie Branch (Dorman Keith) M042-016w 1957-10-26 Onsted
Pease, Lottie Martenies M042-1 l4dr Williamston
Peck, Harry Mrs. M042-056wr Munith C
Peet, Max M. Dr. (pic) M042-140m Ann Arbor
Peet, Max M. Dr. (polio prevention) M042-139m Ann Arbor
Pefley, Clara Browne M042-02 I dr C Perkins, Elsie Jesse M042-094dr 1957-03-19 Williamston
Perkins, Elsie Jesse (Roy) M042-094dr 1957-07-07 Williamston
Perrine, Eula Hedglen M042-072dr Dansville C Perrine, Leland (Sr. play) (pic) M042-2 1 Om Stockbridge
Perry, Jerome M042-221d 1958-01 Fitchburg
Perry, Mebla Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1943-0 1 Ann Arbor
Perry, Melba Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Ann Arbor
Perry, Melba Hudkins M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 Ann Arbor 0
Peschke, Virginia M042-045dr 194?-Ol C Peters, Clifford (Munith Elem. Principal) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Peters, Eda E. M042-138d 195 1-03-24 Stockbridge C
Peters, Louise [Chappel] M042-138dr 195 1-03-24 Stockbridge 0 Peterson Reunion M042-060m
Peterson, ???? [Hoffinayer] M042-138dr Lansing C
Peterson, 7??? [Landstrom] M042-138dr Detroit
Peterson, 7??? [Sorenson] M042-138dr IN, Ft. Wayne
Peterson, ????? [Driver] M042-138dr Fowlerville 0
Peterson, Helen Hadley M042-066m 1959-04-30 Ann Arbor
Peterson, Ida [Grostick] (50 anniversary) M042-06 Im 1952-02-05 Fowlerville
Peterson, Kathleen [Jones] M042- 138w Gregory
Peterson, Leslie Jacobs (Lorents Frederick) M042- 1 38dr
Peterson, Lorents F. M042-220d 1951-08 Gregory
Peterson, Lorents Frederick M042- 1 38d C Phelps, ???? Anderson (Daniel) M042-OOldr
Phelps, ????? Anderson (Daniel) M042-OOldr 1956-03-06 Millville
Phelps, Anna Mrs. M042-222d 1955-09 Stockbridge C Phelps, Beryl Abigail Gilliam (Elmer) M042-140d 1926-10-20 Millville
Phelps, John (Honor Student) M042-044m 1957 Dansville
Phelps, Josper H. M042-220d 1951-10 Stockbridge
Phillips, Myrtle Long M042-O9Odr 1954-06-30 IN, South Bend
Pickell, Beulah (Lantis] M042-140w Unadilla C
Pickell, Jane Hoard M042-082dr Linden Q Pickell, Louine Hopkins M042-086dr 1952-07-26 Gregory
Pickett, ???? Paul (Warner) M042-138dr 0
Pierce, Francis Johnson [Whitaker] M042- I 93d 1936-05-07 Gregory Q Pierce, Kay (engagement) M042- 140m
Pierce, Marguerite M042-1 12m 1957-03 Albion C
Pierce, Marguerite (Co. dairy princess) (pie) M042-2 12m Albion C
C
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Pike, Carl Patrolman M042-182m 1949-05-28
Pinckney, Spencer (post office safety awardO M042-207m Stockbridge
Pinckney, Spencer (post office) M042-214m 1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Placeway, Frankie [Baker] M042-005d 1955-01-1 1 Gregory
Placeway, Roy Mrs. M042-099dr Pinckney
Plat, Vada Thompson M042-082dr 195 1-02-03 CO, Denver
Pleines, Peter & Eckart M042- 1 62dr CA, Sacramento
Plewis, Dells Stoffer M042-168dr Zeeland
Plumb, C. F. M042-1 12m 1957-03 Hanover
Plummer, ???? Boyce (Will) M042-Ol3dr 1942-06-07 Gregory
Plummer, Adeline [McCorney] M042-137dr Gregory
Plummer, Ida M. [Ovitt] M042-137d Stockbridge
Polites, Louise [Schiefelbein] M042-Ol4dr 1954-12-31 Lincoln Park
Polites, Marie-Louise [Boyce] M042-014d 1954-12-3 1 Ann Arbor
Pollex, Louise Marie [Snide] M042-163d 1959-08-13 CA, Sacremento
Pomrenke, Emma Lou Cobb (Howard E.) M042-030w 1946-02-09 Stockbridge
Pomrenke, Emma Lou Cobb (Howard) M042-O3Odr Stockbridge
Pomrenke, Howard E. M042-030w 1946-02-09 PA, Pittsburg
Pond, Clara Caskey M042-OO4dr 1948-07-2 1 Fowlerville
Pond, Clara Caskey M042-028dr Fowlerville
Pond, Clara Caskey M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Fowlerville
Pond, Clara Caskey M042-196dr Fowlerville
Pond, Clara Caskey M042-197dr Fowlerville
Porath, Royce M042-219d 1954-12 Munith
Porath, Royce (airplane crash) M042-055d 1954-12-05 Stockbridge
Porter, ??fl Banks (Silas) M042-OOSdr 1953-06-03 Jackson
Powell, Bob (Village Trustee) M042-220m 195 1-03 Stockbridge
Powell, Marie M042-220d 195 1-08 Stockbridge
Powell, Marie Mrs. M042-047dr 1943-02-22
Powell, Orrin (Post Office-Dedication) M042-214m 1958-06-19 Stockbridge
Powell, Pearl (Village Treasurer) M042-220m 1951-03 Stockbridge
Powers, Gary E. (air force) (pie) M042-206m Hudson
Prescott, James (President-Food Locker Assoc.) M042-220m 1951-10 Stockbridge
Price Brothers M042-142m 1960-03-29 Stockbridge
Price, 7??? [Lowe] M042-141dr 1952-08-17 IL, Waterman
Price, Maurice (autobiography) M042- 141 m Stockbridge
Price, Maurice and Robert (pic) M042- 141m Stockbridge
Price, Ord M042-141d 1952-08-17 Stockbridge
Price, Richard (tank explosion injuries) M042-221m 1958-06 Stockbridge
Price, Virgina (Smith Principal) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Prince, Vera Mallett M042-1 l4dr OR
Pringle, Bernice Walker M042-182dr 1951-01-30 White Oak Twp.
Pringle, Bernice Walker M042-182dr 1951-04-15 White Oak Twp.
Proctor, 77?? [Smith] M042-143m 1958-07-13
Proctor, Adelle Mrs. M042-220d 195 1-02 Stockbridge
Proctor, Arloa Iva (engagement) M042- 143m Stockbridge
Proctor, Asa (25th anniversary) M042-143m 1958-07-13 Stockbridge
Proctor, Betty Jane Bowen (Roland) M042-0 11w 1941-01-02 Gregory
Proctor, Helen [Townsend] M042-143w 1942-06-17 Stockbridge
Proctor, Ivarene [Brickman] M042- 143w Stockbridge
Proctor, Lillian Robinson (Vernon) M042- 143w Webberville
Proctor, Loa M042- 143w 1942-06-17 Dansville
Proctor, Roland M042-01 1w 1941-01-02 Stockbridge
Proctor, Sarah Wilson M042- 1 97dr 1951-06-23 Stockbridge
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Proctor, Vernon M042- 143w Stockbridge C
Proctor, Vira Fern [Pyper] M042- 144w 1948-07 C Proseus, Arthur H. M042-220w 1951-04 Stockbridge
Proseus, Lorraine Schnabelrauch (Arthur H.) M042-220w 195 1-04 Stockbridge Q
Prudon, Bob (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge C Fryer, Etta Howell M042- I 94dr Lansing
Pulling, ???? [Carr] M042-144dr Webberville C
Pulling, 7??? [Keezer] M042- I 44dr East Lansing
Pulling, Clyde L. M042-144d White Oak Twp.
Pulling, Edna [Osborne] M042-144dr Webberville C
Pulling, Edna B. [Osborne] M042-136dr
Pulling, Minnie [Dyer] M042-045dr White Oak Twp.
Pulling, Ruby Felton M042-OSOdr 1948-11-19 Stockbridge C
Pulman, Leona Kemler M042-l0ldr OH, Paulding
Push, Grace Banks M042-OO5dr 1953-06-03 Stockbridge
Pyper, Vira Fern Proctor (William G.) M042-144w 1948-07 C
Pyper, William G. M042-l44w 1948-07 Unadilla Twp.
Radowski, Frank (E-LS. Teacher) M042-2 17m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Ragan, Caroline Brown M042-022dr Mason C Ragan, Caroline Brown M042-024dr Mason
Rainer, 7??? Paul M042- I 38dr IN, Vedeersburg
Ralston, Pearl Mrs. M042-22ld 1958-09 Munith C Ramdsdell, Marian (H.S. and Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Ramsdell, Guy J. (advertisement) M042-145m Stockbridge C
Ramsdell, Lessie [Farrington] M042-047dr losco Twp. C Ramsdell, Lynn M042-145f 1964-11-Il Tecumseh
Ramsdell, Rosa H. Mrs. M042-145d 1959-04-05 Stockbridge 1
Ramsdill, Irene [Riggs] M042-145dr Stockbridge
Ramsdill, Orson M042-l45d Eagle
Ramsey, ???? Black (Richard) M042-0 lOwr VA, Parnassus (
Ranck, Merle (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 I 7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Randolph, Ella (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 17m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Randolph, Fred (63Ix anniversary) M042-22lm 1958-il Munith C
Raymond, Florence Force M042-054dr 1955-03-23 Aigom Cemter
Raymond, Louella Rennells M042-164wr 195 1-06-03 Marion
Reames, Daisy Cooper M042-033dr 194 1-05-12 Jackson Q Reason, 7??? Holmes (Elmer) M042-124dr 1935-11-29
Reason, Elmer M042-219d 1954-06 Lansing
Reason, Ida [Burden] M042-025dr 1944-04-09 C Reason, Martha M042-2 I 9d 1954-01 Lansing
Reason, Nettie Mrs. M042-220d 1951-02 Stockbridge
Reasoner, Margaret Dyer M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Holt C Redinger, Henry M042- 150w Howell
Redinger, Irene Rockwell (Henry) M042-l 50w Stockbridge 0
Redinger, Junior Lee M042-2 19w 1954-08 Stockbridge C Redinger, Nina l3eauchamp (Junior Lee) M042-2 19w 1954-08 Stockbridge
Reed, Lovine Olds M042-174dr Bay City C
Reeves, Alice [Baker] M042-028dr 1956-10 C Reeves, Alta [Clark, Bowles] M042-0 lId 1940-06-02 Flint
Reeves, Ortance [Mitteer] M042-125dr 1944-05-21 C
Reeves, W. G. M042-145dr
Reid, Adeline Mrs. M042- 188dr Gregory
Reid, Barbara Jean Simpson (Ralph) M042-220w 1951-06 Farmington C)
Reid, Myra (Gregory Elem. Teacher) M042-2 L7m 1959-09 Stockbridge aC
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Reid, Ralph M042-220w 1951-06 Gregory
Reimenschneider, ???? Kruse (P. H.) M042-l2Odr 1940-07-03 Chelsea
Rennells, Louella [Raymond] M042-164wr 195 1-06-03 Marion
Rennells, Mary [Turner, Steffey] M042-l65d IL, Chicago
Rennells, R. [Turner, Steffey] M042-164w 195 1-06-03 Marion
Revold, Emma Marie Elizabeth [King, Howell] M042-087d Webberville
Reynolds, Bessie Cosgray M042-034dr Stockbridge
Reynolds, Bessie Cosgray M042-034dr Stockbridge
Reynolds, Esther Collins M042-03 I dr 1951-09-02 Jackson
Rheims, Betty Dairymple M042-072wr
Rice, Hazel (Sr. play) (pie) M042-210m Stockbridge
Rice, Norton (Honor Student) M042-044m 1957 Dansville
Richard, Garth M042-219w 1954-10 Stockbridge
Richard, Janet Gladstone (Garth) M042-2 19w 1954-10 Stockbridge
Richardson, Marguerite Berry M042-OO9dr 1958-07-27 Hillsdale
Richardson, Myrell V
M042-057dr 1955-02-10
Richison, Nellie Judson M042-095dr 1943-12-30 CA, Reseda
Richmond, ???? [Harley] M042-l29wr Stockbridge
Richmond, Carmi [Webb] M042-l4ódr 1939 Pinckney
Richmond, Carol Ann [Marinich] M042-l 15w 1960-06-18 L’Anse
Richmond, Daisy Elliott M042-046dr 1960-01-23 L’Anse
Richmond, Doris Feldpausch (Jack) M042-146w 1950-06 Stockbridge
Richmond, Earl (loses eye) M042-146m Stockbridge
Richmond, Edith [Holland] M042-085d Fitchburg
Richmond, Edith M. [Holland] M042-085dr 1948-06-21 Stockbridge
Richmond, Hugh M042-146d Gregory
Richmond, Hugh M042-222d 1955-05 Grgory
Richmond, Jack M042-146w 1950-06 Gregory
Richmond, Jennie Susan Miss M042-146d 1939 Gregory
Richmond, Joan (engagement) M042- 146m Stockbridge
Richmond, Joan Ruth [Mullins] M042-l29w Stockbridge
Richmond, Laura (Class of 1918) M042-200m 19 18-06 Stockbridge
Richmond, Stanley (buys lodge in L’Anse) M042-222m 1955-09 L’Anse
Richmond, Stanley (moved to L’Anse) M042-147m L’Anse
Richmond, Susie Hague M042-067dr Ann Arbor
Richmond, Veva Wilson M042-197dr 195 1-06-23 Gregory
Richmond, Virginia Arlene [Harley] M042-147w Stockbridge
Ried, Roy Mrs. M042-148d 1943-09-03 Mason
Ried, Royal M042-148d 1947-02-17 IN, Angola
Rieske, Arleta Wasson M042- 1 86dr 1960-02-27 Detroit
Riethrniller, Emma Miss M042-148d Jackson
Riethmiller, Emma Miss M042-220d 195 1-12 Stockbridge
Riggs, Anna [Norton] M042-OO8dr Stockbridge
Riggs, Elizabeth [Rowe] M042-149d Detroit
Riggs, Emma [Beeman] M042-008d
Riggs, Irene Ramsdill (Herman) M042-145dr Stockbridge
Riley, ???? [Brooks] M042-l7lwr Jackson
Riley, Donald J. M042-171w Jackson
Riley, Dorothy L. Sweet (Donald J.) M042-l7lw Munith
Risch, Carrie A. [Oesterle] M042-047dr Leroy Twp.
Risch, Carrie A. [Oesterle] M042-l35dr 1947-03-13 Leroy Twp.
Risner, Barbara M. Hazell (Wilfred) M042-2 19w 1954-05 Stockbridge
Risner, Bernard
V
M042- 148w Stockbridge
Risner, Bernard M042-22 1w 1958-10 Stockbridge
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Rose, Florence Gallup M042-053dr 1939-07-26 Ann Arbor
Rose, Florence Mrs. M042- 1 72dr Ann Arbor
Rose, Lettie [Beeman] M042-009d Ann Arbor
Rose, Lulu [Sawyer] M042-l5ld 1958-05-29 Stockbridge
Rose, Millie Carter M042-027dr Gregory
Rose, Millie Mae Carter (Fred M.) M042-151d Stockbridge
Rose, Myron H. M042-036dr 1945-11-04 Stockbridge
Rose, Myron H. M042-151d 1958-05-29 Stockbridge
Rose, Myrtie Beeman (Myron) M042- 151 d 1943-06-23 Stockbridge
Rose, Rella [Miller] M042-ISldr 1955-12-03 Millville
Rose, Rita [Wilde] M042-151dr
Rosenthal, Elizabeth Walker (Aaron) M042- 1 90d Dansville
Ross, C. Eldon Supt. (pic) M042-152m 1960-04-03 Webberville
Ross, Janice (I-1.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Rossetter, Gilbert C. M042-065w Fowlerville
Rossetter, Gilbert M/M M042-064m Howell
Rossetter, Thelma June Grostic (Gilbert) M042-065w Fowlerville
Roupp, Frankie Ritter M042-OO5dr 1955-01-11 IL, Jacksonville
Rowe, Elizabeth Riggs (Emery) M042- 149d Detroit
Rowe, Marguerite M042-128d 1935-04-25 Ypsilanti
Rowland, Emma Tisch M042-125dr Stockbridge
Rowland, James Jr. (Boys’ State) M042-219m 1954-06 Stockbridge
Rowland, Jas. (Village Clerk) M042-220m 195 1-03 Stockbridge
Rowland, Jim (Salutatorian) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Rowse, Lynn & Terry <Gale> (pic) M042-203m 1958-07-24 VantownlMilltown
Rubbins, Lucy [Taylor] M042- I 72dr
Ruggles, Jeanne Schubert (Robert) M042-154dr 1954 Chelsea
Ruhl, Aleta Ludden M042-O5ldr 1948-12-Il Williamston
Runciman, ???? [Cooper] M042-153dr 1943-02-19 Waterloo
Runciman, Anna [Walz] M042-184dr 1956-09-13 Chelsea
Runciman, Charles A. M042-l53d 1943-02-19 Gregory
Runciman, Grace Gardner (Charles A.) M042-153dr 1943-02-19 Gregory
Runciman, Grace Mrs. M042-222d 1955-05 Stockbridge
Runciman, Susie May M042-22ld 1958-04 Gregory
Rundel, Fannie Lusk (Judson) M042-024dr
Rundel, Nellie Florence [Brown] M042-024d Charlevoix
Rundell, Nellie [Brown] M042-022dr Mason
Ruper, Cassie (teacher) M042-200m 1907 Stockbridge
Russell, Esther Barton (Thomas) M042-l53w 1958-12-30
Russell, Thomas M042-153w 1958-12-30 Jackson
Russman, Anna Evers M042-046dr
Russman, Anna Evers (John) M042-153d 1951-04-14 Stockbridge
Russman, Esther [Smith] M042-153dr 1951-04-14 Stockbridge
Ruthig, Evelyn Mrs. M042-172m 1958-03-25 Rives Junction
Ryba, Gertrude Bird M042-OO9dr Stockbridge
Sackett, 7??? Milner (Harvey) M042- 1 24dr 1956-07-23 Lansing
Sackett, Gladys Mimer M042-124dr 195 1-05-29 Lansing
Sackrider, Fred C. M042-1 12m 1957-03 Mason
Sadler, ???? Turner (Thomas) M042- 1 65dr Muskegon
Sadler, Ruth A. Steffey (Claude) M042- I 64dr 1959-06-20 Romeo
Salyer, Corbet M042-221d 1958-01 Stockbridge
Sampson, Henry Jr. M042-220w 1951-06 Jackson
Sampson, Nellie Corser (Henry Jr.) M042-220w 195 1-06 Unadilla Twp.
Sands, Daisy Thompson M042-082dr 1951-02-03 Michigan City
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Sanford, Willard M042-1 12m 1957-03 Parma C Sargent, Lillie M042-025dr 1944-04-09 OH, Norwalk
Satterthwaite, Carol Trapp (Darrel) M042-154w Stockbridge
Satterthwaite, Darrel M042-154w Chelsea C Sawdy, Bert M042-154d 1941 Stockbridge
Sawdy, Nora Estella [Bull] M042-024d 1956-08-04
Sawyer, Lulu Mrs. M042-036dr 1945-11-04 FL, St. Petersburg C Sawyer, Lulu Rose M042-151d 1958-05-29 Stockbridge
Saxton, Frank M042-l 12m 1957-03 Springport
Saxton, Keith (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge C Schaeffer, Annette Mrs. (homemaker conference) M042-208m Ingham Co.
Schaible, Mary McKenzie (Michael) M042- 1 04d Ann Arbor C Schamp, ???? Huttenlocker (Clare) M042- 1 SOdr 1939-04-05 Jackson C Scheller, Maude Carter M042-027dr CA
Schertzing, Harold M. (volunteered for draft) M042-200m 194? Stockbridge C Schiefelbein, Louise Polites M042-014dr 1954-12-3 1 Lincoln Park
Schnabelrauch, Lorraine [Proseus] M042-220w 1951-04 Stockbridge
Schnecenburg, Anna B. [Fortman] M042-1 l4dr C Schray, Barbara (Am. Legion Exec. Comm.) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbridge
Schray, Barbara [Vors] M042-222w 1955-06 Munith
Schray, David & Albert M042-042dr 1955-03-21 Munith 0 Schubert, Edward M042-058w Stockbridge
Schubert, Edward (engagement) M042-057m Stockbridge
Schubert, Elizabeth Grosshans (Edward) M042-058w Plainfield C Schubert, George M042-154d 1954 Mt. Clemens
Schubert, George M042-2 I 9d 1954-02 Stockbridge
Schubert, Jeanne [Ruggles] M042-154dr 1954 Chelsea C Schubert, Mary Lou [Miller] M042-219w 1954-09 Stockbridge
Schubert, Rossie [Burbank] M042-154dr 1954 MN, Minneapolis
Schuette, Roy (opens Dry Cleaning Shop) M042-219m 1954-08 Stockbridge C Schultz, Dick (FFA) M042-209m Stockbridge
Schulz, Jessie Mrs. M042-082dr 1954-12-19 Waterloo C Schumacher, ?
fl? Lehman (Louis) M042-l l6wr 1955-1 1 Grass Lake C Schumacher, ???? Lehman (Louis) M042-1 l6wr Grass Lake
Schumacher, Louis (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Schumacher, Louis (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Schumacher, Vera Lehman M042- 1 O6dr Grass Lake
Schwarz, Sam (air force) M042-206m Plymouth C Scott, Ethel [Hardt] M042-154w Lansing
Scott, Helen Gaylord M042-054dr Rochester
Scott, Mae Stoffer M042-168dr Ann Arbor C Scott, Mildred C. (William) M042-154d 1955-07-10 Ann Arbor
Scott, Wm. Mrs. M042-222d 1955-07 Stockbridge
Sdunek, Gertrude [Green] M042-222w 1955-11 Stockbridge C Seefeld, ???? Gibney (August) M042-054dr Royal Oak
Seeley, Martha Brown M042-022dr FL, St. Petersburg
Selby, James (air force) (pie) M042-206m Adrian
- C Sellers, Grace [Brower] M042-02 id 1936-06-06 Stockbridge
Semon, Wiliam (Lions) M042-207m Homer
Sergison, Ainbersine [Robb] M042-149d 1952-08-18 Stockbridge C Sergison, Christene [Morris] M042-l49dr 1952-08-18 Plymouth
Sergison, Marie [Moore] M042-149dr 1952-08-18 Garden City
Seris, Alberta Miller (Louis) M042-221w 1958-02 Stockbridge C Serls, Louis M042-22 1w 195 8-02 Stockbridge
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Shahan, Vernon (Lions) M042-207m Jackson
Shanebeck, William (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Sharland, ?fl? Townsend (William) M042-183wr Dansville
Sharland, Anna [Green] M042-l6ldr 1943-11-10 Dexter
Sharland, Caroline M042-176wr 1958-11-29 Dansville
Sharland, Etha Nott (C. E.) M042-133dr Jackson
Sharland, Etha V. Nott (Clifton E.) M042-155d Jackson
Sharland, Geo. (70’’ anniversary) M042-219m 1954-08 Stockbridge
Sharland, Gladys Heying M042-082dr Mt. Clemens
Sharland, Jennie Carter M042-027dr Clare
Sharland, Lucy Ide (William) M042-155d Williamston
Sharland, Mary [Bradford] M042-l6ldr 1943-1 1-10 Dansville
Sharland, Matilda [Smith] M042-161d 1943-11-10 Stockbridge
Sharland, Pauline (pic) M042-155m Ingham Co.
Sharland, Phyllis Elaine [Shaw] M042-155w Dansville
Sharp, ???? [McNamara] M042-155dr Howell
Sharp, Edna Force M042-054dr 1955-03-23 OH, Sylvania
Sharp, Ethel [Winteroad] M042-155dr Flint
Sharp, Henry M042-220d 195 1-07 Stockbridge
Sharp, Isabelle [Bowen] M042-Ol2dr 1949-06-13
Sharp, John W. M042-155d Stockbridge
Sharp, Lena [Maier] M042-155dr Whitmore Lake
Sharp, Mima Edith [Ellsworth] M042-046dr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Sharp, Myrtie E. [Noyes] M042-134d 1956-08-03 Stockbridge
Sharpe, Ruth Cpl. M042-060m
Sharpe, William M042-060m
Shaver, Duane E. M042-155m 195 1-02-19 Michigan Center
Shaw, Charles E. M042-155d 1959-12-03 Dansville
Shaw, Ellen Welton (Charles E) M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Dansville
Shaw, Eunice [Moore] M042-155dr 1959-12-03
Shaw, Eva Ewers (Charles E.) M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Dansville
Shaw, Iva [Clickner] M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Mason
Shaw, Phyllis Elaine Sharland (Thomas) M042-155w Dansville
Shaw, Thomas M042-155w Dansville
Shaw-Jackson, Laura Marie M042-155d 1939-10-07 Ann Arbor
Shealthelm, Henry Mrs. M042-076m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Sheatheim, Dorwin (tractor contest) (pie) M042-2 I 3m Dansville
Sheathelm, Emma Howell M042-194dr Dansville
Sheathelm, Emma Mrs. M042-088wr 1959-04-23 Dansville
Sheathelin, Ethel Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownfMilltown
Sheatheim, Harold (tractor contest) (pic) M042-213m Dansville
Sheatheim, Harold H. M042-043w 1956-10-20 Dansville
Shcathelm, Joyce [Thompson] M042-174w 1949-12-10 White Oak Twp.
Sheatheim, Joyce Miss (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Sheatheim, Laurene Ruth Dietrich (Harold H.) M042-043w 1956-10-20 Fowlerville
Sheatheim, Orla (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownfMilltown
Sheatheim, Ralph Mrs. (Farm Bureau Bd) (pie) M042-199m 1948-01-15 Leslie
Sheele, Alida Dewey M042-042dr 1955-03-2 1 Jackson
Shehan, ???? Gibney (L) M042-054dr Ann Arbor
Shellenbarger, Helen Mary (Smith ElemTcacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Sheip, ???? Bowles (James) M042-0l ldr 1940-06-02 Lansing
Sheitheim, Henry M042-155m
Sheperd, Martin M042-112m 1957-03 Parma
Shew, Barbara [Ashmore] M042-221w 1958-06 Munith
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M042-Ol6dr
M042-222w
M042-222w
M042-O3ldr
M042-0 l7wr
M042- I
56m
M042-0 19w
M042- 156w
M042-019w
M042- 1
56m
M042- 156w
M042-200m
M042-22 1w
M042-221w
M042-220w
M042-220w
M042-2 lOm
M042-220m
M042- 1
56m
M042-206m
M042- 1
57m
M042-1 l9dr
M042-219d
M042-1 19d
M042-029dr
M042-033dr
M042-056wr
M042- I 68dr
M042-200m
M042-200m
M042-206m
M042-220w
M042-064m
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7m
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M042-210m
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M042-220w
M042- 1
OOdr
M042-lOldr
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M042- 1
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M042- 1
57dr
M042-200w
M042- 1
57d
M042-1 57d
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M042-045dr
M042- I 57d
M042- 1
57d
M042-1 58d
M042-157dr
M042- 1
57dr
1955-02-24
1955-11
1955-07
ID
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Deerfield
Onsted
1956-10-01 Onsted
1957-03-16 Onsted
Onsted
1957-03-16 Onsted
Onsted
Onsted
1918-06 Stockbridge
1958-07 Stockbridge
1958-07 Munith
1951-03 Stockbridge
1951-03 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1951-09 Stockbridge
Dansville
1-li llsdale
Stockbridge
1956-01-24 TX, Dallas
1954-03 Stockbridge
1956-01-24 NY, Rochester
1938-06- 14
1941-05-12
1937-09-11 Mason
Dexter
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Munith
1951-06 Farmington
Detroit
1959-09 Stockbridge
1946-02-10 Detroit
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1954-01-21 Stockbridge
1961-06-15 Lansing
1954-01-21 Ann Arbor
1907-10-06
196 1-06-1
1954-0 1-2 1
1907-10-06
1954-0 1-2 1
194?-01
1936-04-05
1948-05-06
1936-04-05
1948-05-06 Ann Arbor
Shiery, 7??? Bradshaw (Zean)
Shilling, Patricia K. [Carpenter]
Shinevar, Jean [Drown]
Shirley, ???? Coleman (Roscoe)
Shoemaker, 7??? Branch (Charles Jr.)
Shoemaker, Charles (engagement)
Shoemaker, Charles J.
Shoemaker, Deanna K. Standfleld (Sidney John)
Shoemaker, Nancy J. Branch (Charles J.)
Shoemaker, Sidney (engagement)
Shoemaker, Sidney John
Shoenhals, Myma (Class of 1918)
Shortz, Betty Lucille Ashbaugh (Fred Lewis)
Shortz, Fred Lewis
Shouse, Anna Patrick (Shelby]
Shouse, Shelby
Showerman, Melvin (Sr. play) (pic)
Showerman, Melvin (wins shearing contest)
Showers, Grace Louise (engagement)
Shufelt, G. H. (air force) (plc)
Shultz, William (accident)
Sibley, Barbara [Chenoweth]
Sibley, Marguerite Mrs.
Sibley, Patricia [McCue]
Sidell, Ettie N. [Clark]
Siegfried, Cora Burgess
Silsbee, Ralph
Simms, Inez Stoffer
Simonds, Graydon (Mock Congress)
Simonds, Graydon (school play)
Simons, Vaughn (air force) (plc)
Simpson, Barbara Jean [Reid]
Simpson, Frank MJM
Sindell, Derald (Munith Elem. Teacher)
Singer, Adella Ostrander
Singer, Myris (Sr. play) (pic)
Singles, Howard
Singles, Irene Patrick (Howard)
Singleton, ???? Kelley (Grover)
Singleton, ???? Kelly
Singleton, Alena Taylor (Harry)
Singleton, Bernadine [Stowe]
Singleton, Emma [HartsuffJ
Singleton, Grover
Singleton, Grover C.
Singleton, Harry
Singleton, Maggie Kelley Grover
Singleton, Myrna C. [Cooper]
Singleton, Nora Durkee
Skidmore, Allen Burtus
Skidmore, Clinton
Skidmore, Edith Elmina
Skidmore, Ella May Boyce (Allen Burtus)
Skidmore, Elsie [Milner]
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C
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C
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C
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C
C
C
C
1951-03
1951-03
1954-12-18
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Detroit
CA
Ann Arbor
OH, Lima
Waterloo
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Skidmore, Elsie [Mimer] M042-157dr Ann Arbor
Skidniore, Emma Cain M042-026dr 1958-06-14 Stockbridge
Skidmore, Emma Cain (Clinton) M042-157d Stockbridge
Skidmore, Esther [Hires] M042-157dr 1948-05-06 OH, Lima
Skidmore, Esther [Hires] M042-157dr OH, Lima
Skidmore, Eunice E. M042-159d Waterloo
Skidmore, Lucia [Olsen] M042- 157dr 1936-04-05 MT
Skidmore, Mary Ethel [Morrison] M042-157dr 1936-04-05 Ann Arbor
Slauter, ???? [Smith] M042-160d Stockbridge
Slauter, Grace [Bloomfield] M042-l6Odr TN, Knoxville
Sleaford, Minnie Mierndorf M042-123dr Locke Twp.
Slocum, ???? Friermuth (Charles) M042-052dr Cavanaugh Lake
Slusser, ???? Behm (Francis) M042-OO8dr Mason
Sly, Ethel Mrs.(choir) (pie) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Sly, Harlow (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 Vantown/Milltown
Small, W. H. (Ted) (Lions) M042-207m Battle Creek
Smith, 7’??? Comford (Charles) M042-035wr 1955-04 Dansville
Smith, 7??? Green (Arthur) M042-057dr 1955-12 Stockbridge
Smith, ???? Proctor (Mark) M042-143m 1958-07-13
Smith, ???? Slauter (Henry K.) M042-160d Stockbridge
Smith, Agnes McGee M042-1 l9dr 1938-01-02 CA
Smith, Alice [Egeler] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 Pinckney
Smith, Alice [Eggler] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-03 Pinckney
Smith, Anna R. Wason M042-068dr CA, Chatsworth
Smith, Art (Village Trustee) M042-2l9m 1954-03 Stockbridge
Smith, Arthur (Village President) M042-216m 1958-07-20 Stockbridge
Smith, Arthur (Village President) M042-221m 1958-03 Stockbridge
Smith, Audrey [Smith] M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 IL, Kankakee
Smith, Audrey Smith M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 IL, Kankakee
Smith, Beryl (Twp. Board of Review) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Smith, Caroline [Hemingway] M042-072dr 1940-01-10
Smith, Cleo [Hadley] M042-067m 1960-03-16 White Oak Twp.
Smith, Donald LaVern M042-159d 1944-01-14 Stockbridge
Smith, Emma Miss (retires) M042-159m Stockbridge
Smith, Esther Russman M042-153dr 1951-04-14 Stockbridge
Smith, Eva [Lindsley] M042-l6Odr 1948-03-08 IL, Armstrong
Smith, Flossie [Wygant] M042-l6Idr 1957-10-19 Williamston
Smith, Flossie Wygant] M042-l6Idr 1957-10-03 Williamston
Smith, Gene Mrs. M042-198dr 1948-07-31 Jackson
Smith, Gladys lTownsend] M042-l6ldr 1943-1 1-10
Smith, Helen [Wythe] M042-l6Odr 1948-03-08 Charlotte
Smith, Helen [Wythe] M042-l6Odr Grayling
Smith, Henry K. M042-160d 1948-03-08 Stockbridge
Smith, Irene [Cobb] M042-l6Odr 1948-03-08 Stockbridge
Smith, Irene [Cobb] M042-lóOdr Stockbridge
Smith, James L. M042-160d 1946-11-22 Jackson
Smith, Jennie [Grant] M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Smith, Jocille (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Smith, Jocille [Dickinson] M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Smith, Katie Belle Ohis (Lester) M042-161d 1957-10-19 Stockbridge
Smith, Larry Thomas <Clarence> M042-218b 1955-03-19
Smith, Laura [Gourley] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 CA, Gardena
Smith, Laura [Gourley] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-03 CA, Gardena
Smith, Loretta Bristow M042-0 l9dr Jackson
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Smith, Marjory (pie) M042-160m Howell
Smith, Mark I. (engagement) M042-143m Stockbridge
Smith, Mary Bumpus M042-025dr 1959-03-22
Smith, Matilda Sharland (Milo D.) M042-161d 1943-11-10 Stockbridge
Smith, Mattie Grimes M042-042dr St. Clair Shores
Smith, Maxine [Barnard] M042-I6Odr 1948-03-08 Okemos
Smith, Maxine [Barnard] M042-I6Odr Okemos
Smith, May [Wygant] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 Williamston
Smith, May [Wygant] M042-I6ldr 1957-10-03 Williamston
Smith, Myrna [Arnold] M042-l6ldr 1943-1 1-10 Dansville
Smith, Myrta E. [Olds] M042-136d 1959-06-25 Stockbridge
Smith, Myrtal J. Pardee M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Smith, Myrtal J. Pardee (James L.) M042-161d 1950-01-29 Stockbridge
Smith, Neva [Eichhorn] M042-l6ldr 1943-11-10 Ypsilanti
Smith, Olive [Fay] M042-l6Idr 1943-1 1-10 Stockbridge
Smith, Olive B. [Fay] M042-048w Dansville
Smith, Otto D. M042-161d 1957-10-03 CA, Gardena
Smith, Phyllis [Anderson] M042-l6Odr 1946-11-22 Stockbridge
Smith, Ralph M042-072wr
Smith, Richard M042-1 12m 1957-03 Leslie
Smith, Rose Mary [Melton] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-19 CA, Anaheim
Smith, Rose Mary [Melton] M042-l6ldr 1957-10-03 CA, Asham
Smith, Rosemary (engagement) M042- 161 m
Smith, Russell Mrs. M042-lO4dr Ann Arbor
Smock, Vivian West M042-l9Odr Webberville
Snide, Louis M.Mrs. M042-162d CA, Sacramento
Snide, Louise Marie Pollex (John) ,
M042-163d 1959-08-13 CA, Sacremento
Snider, Lloyd (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Snow, Inez Standish M042-163dr IL, Manteno
Snowberger, Robert (air force) (pie) M042-206m Grass Lake
Sober, Charles M042-162d OH, Portsmouth
Sober, Doris V. Klein (Charles) M042-162dr Stockbridge
Sockow, Beverly [Bowman] M042-014w Pinckney
Soderberg, Cleo Patricia (Elnar Hilmer) M042-162w IL, Decatur
Soderberg, E. H. Rev. (new Methodist pastor) M042-220m 1951-06 Stockbridge
Soderberg, Elnar Hiliner Rev. M042-162w Stockbridge
Solomon, ???? Lowe (Karl) M042- 109th 1944-03-25 TX, Houston
Solomon, Bonnie Lowe M042-068dr 1962-09 TX
Sommer, ???? [Chipman] M042- 1
62dr Stockbridge
Sommer, ???? [Whitney] M042- 1
62dr Stockbridge
Sommer, A. W. M042-219d 1954-02 Stockbridge
Sommer, Emil M042-162d Stockbridge
Sommer, Evelyn [Banks] M042-162dr Litchfield
Sommer, Marion [Clark] M042-162dr Stockbridge
Sommer, Ruth [Meerman] M042- 1
62dr Williamston
Sommers, ???? Townsend (Don) M042-1 83wr Stockbridge
Sommers, Albert boy M042-200b 19 18-05-28 Stockbridge
Sorenson, ???? Peterson (Carl) M042-138dr IN, Ft. Wayne
Southwell, Joe (Twp. Constable) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge
Sowers, ???? [Vranek] M042-162wr Jackson
Sowers, Earlene Howe M042- 162w Stockbridge
Sowers, Paul M042- 162w St. Louis
Speed, Emily McClinchey M042- 11 8dr Dearborn
Speer, Dorothy Ann [Sweet] M042-17 1w Gregory
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Speer, Dorothy Ann [Sweet] M042-2 19w 1954-11 Stockbridge
Spencer, A. J. Dr. (Mem. State Vet. Board) M042-221m 1958-10 Stockbridge
Spencer, Dr. A. J. (plc) M042-163m Stockbridge
Spencer, John M042-221w 1958-09 Stockbridge
Spencer, Manly Liebeck (John) M042-221w 1958-09 Stockbridge
Springman, George M042-072dr 1926-08-26
Sprout, 7Th [Gardener] M042- 163dr Stanton
Sprout, Ethel Cantiell M042-027dr 1942-01-11 Pinckney
Sprout, R Sidney M042-163d Leslie
Spry, Vivian Maicho M042-l l3dr 1962-10-29 Jackson
Stadel, Ester Hatt M042-OOldr 1944-09-14
Standfield, Deanna Kay [Shoemaker] M042-156w Onsted
Standfield, Lydia Mrs. M042-122dr
Standish, Anson M042- 1 63d Stockbridge
Standish, Anson M042-219d 1954-09 Stockbridge
Standish, Hugh M042-220d 195 1-02 Stockbridge
Standish, lnez [Snow] M042-163dr IL, Manteno
Standish, Lucille [Thompson] M042-163dr Stockbridge
Stanfield, ???? Jacobs (Richard) M042-092dr Stockbridge
Stanfield, Beverly Jean [Basore] M042-221m 1958-06 Stockbridge
Stanfield, Byron M042-219w 1954-01 Munith
Stanfield, Clara Neithammer M042-05 ldr Stockbridge
Stanfield, David (Mock Congress) M042-200m Stockbridge
Stanfield, David (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Stanfield, Deanna (engagement) M042-156m Onsted
Stanfield, Doris Elma Walz (Kenneth) M042-184w 1935-11 Waterloo
Stanfield, Doris Waltz • M042-184dr 1956-09-13 Stockbridge
Stanfield, Genevieve Jacobs (Richard) M042-093w Gregory
Stanfield, Gladys Harr (Byron) M042-219w 1954-01 Munith
Stanfield, Kenneth M042-184w 1935-1 1 Stockbridge
Stanfield, Minnie (Munith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Stan field, Minnie Frinkle M042-OO4dr Munith
Stanfield, Myrtle Frinkle M042-OO4dr Munith
Stanfield, Richard M042-093w Stockbridge
Staninger, Bertha Sweet (Ross) M042-054d 1953-12-02 Gregory
Staninger, Helen Janette [Geer] M042-054dr 1953-12-02 OH, Toledo
Staninger, Opal Elizabeth [Lantis] M042-054dr 1953-12-02 Stockbridge
Starr, Irene Fink M042-O5ldr Okemos
Steffey, Carrie [Galligan] M042-053d 1945-02-08
Steffey, Dan M042-220w 1951-06 Stockbridge
Steffey, Dan, Don & Irvin (pic) M042-164m 1958-01-14 Stockbridge
Steffey, Daniel M042-164w 1951-06-03 Stockbridge
Steffey, Frank H. M042-164d 1959-06-20 Ann Arbor
Steffey, Glenn (O.E.S., A.P.) M042-222m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Steffey, Jean Arthur Strickrodt (Steffey) M042- 165w Stockbridge
Steffey, John Edward M042-165w Stockbridge
Steffey, Katherine Vinnis (Charles H.) M042-164dr 1959-06-20
Steffey, Lulu May [Walz] M042- 164dr 1959-06-20 Waterloo
Steffey, Mary E. i-Tans (Frank H.) M042-164dr 1959-06-20 Ann Arbor
Steffey, Mary Rennells (Daniel) M042-165d IL, Chicago
Steffey, Norma Robb M042-149dr 1952-08-18 Stoekbridge
Steffey, R. Rennells (Daniel) M042-164w 195 1-06-03 Marion
Steffey, R Turner (Dan) M042-220w 1951-06 Marion
Steffey, Ruth A. [Sadler] M042-164dr 1959-06-20 Romeo
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Steiner, ???? [Estleman]
Steiner, ???? [Hadley]
Steiner, ???? [Hedican]
Steiner, ???? [Lamoreaux]
Steiner, ???? [Wimbles]
Steiner, J. Frederick
Steiner, Josephine Hadley (J. Frederick)
Stephens, Chris Winterrowd (Marvin)
Stephens, Edwin Rev.
Stephens, Ethel M. Deford (Edwin)
Stephens, Jeane Felton
Stephens, Marvin
Stephens, Marvin (tennis team)
Stephens, Mary Mrs.
Stephens, Nellie (l-l.S. Teacher)
Stephens, Olin Mrs.
Stephens, Paul (Am. Legion Chaplain)
Stephens, Paul (tennis team)
Stephens, Paul (Village President)
Stephens, Paul (Village President)
Stephens, W. G. Rev. (pic)
Stetler, Mamie Lea Harris (Wilbur A.)
Stetler, Wilbur A.
Stevens, ‘1??? Mackinder (Clinton)
Stevens, Dick
Stevens, Doris [Muiholland]
Stevens, Ella [Anderson]
Stevens, Ella [Warvel]
Stevens, Gladys [Whitney]
Stevens, LeAnn Sue <Clinton>
Stevens, Margaret [Gowing]
Stilson, Clara Ella Miss
Stitt, Cora L. Dr.
Stitt, Edith [Waterstradt]
Stitt, George D.
StiLt, Marie [Switzenberg]
StiLt, Pearl E. Townsend (George D.)
Stitt, Pearl Townsend
Stockhouse, Lila Gaylord
Stocking Hiram (held first town meeting)
Stockwell, Grace Galligan
Stoddard, Bessie Maine
Stoddard, Margaret Briggs
Stoddard, Raymond(injured/motorcycle accident)
Stoffer, 9??? [McVey]
Stoffer, Caroline [Weber]
Stoffer, Della [Plewis]
Stoffer, Dora
Stoffer, Evelyn [Bowdish]
Stoffer, Frank
Stoffer, Guneth MeVay (Harold)
Stoffer, Inez [Simms]
Stoffer, Mae [Scott]
Stoffer, Peggy (Lègionette Vice President)
Ann Arbor
Gregory
Fowlerville
South Lyon
Fowlerville
South Lyon
Stockbridge
Jackson
Stockbridge
1948-1 1-19 Stockbridge
1958-07 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Lansing
Stockbridge
Lansing
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
NM, Albuquerque
ZA, Kingman
1941-01-28 Stockbridge
MilIville
Williamston
CO. Canan City
Dansville
Lansing
1941-01-28 Stockbridge
Eagle
1952-09 Stockbridge
1940-12-22 Lansing
1949-05-25
1949-05-25 Stockbridge
1949-05-25
1949-05-25 Stockbridge
1941-01 Stockbridge
Rochester
Stockbridge
1945-02-08 Manchester
Jackson
Jackson
1951-12 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Ypsilanti
Zeeland
1954-12-19 Stockbridge
Gregory
Jackson
1939-03-06 Stockbridge
Dexter
Ann Arbor
1955-12 Stockbridge
1946-01-29
1946-01-29
1946-01-29
1946-01-29
1946-01-29
1946-01-29
1946-01-29
1958-07
1959-09
:1945-1 1-04
1955-06
1954-03
195 1-03
M042-164dr
M042- I 64dr
M042- 1 64dr
M042-164dr
M042-l64dr
M042- 1 64d
M042- 1 64dr
M042-22 1w
M042- 1 66d
M042-166dr
M042-O5Odr
M042-22 1w
M042-206m
M042. I 66d
M042-217m
M042-036dr
M042-222m
M042-206m
M042-2 I 9m
M042-220m
M042-167m
M042- I 67dr
M042- I 67dr
M042-l67dr
M042- I 67d
M042-167dr
M042-167dr
M042- I ó7dr
M042-167dr
M042-167d
M042- 1 67dr
M042- I 67d
M042- I 68d
M042-168dr
M042- 1 68d
M042-168dr
M042-168dr
M042- l2Odr
M042-054dr
M042-2 1 6m
M042-053dr
M042-1 l3dr
M042-0 1 8dr
M042-220m
M042- 1 68dr
M042-168dr
M042-1 6Sdr
M042-082dr
M042- I 68dr
M042-168d
M042-l2ldr
M042-168dr
M042- 1 68dr
M042-222m
66
a
a
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Ca
C
C
C
C
C
C
‘3
Ca
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
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Stoner, Adelia Cole (Henry) M042-137dr 1944-07-06
Stoner, Fannie [Hunt] M042-137dr 1944-07-06 IL, Chicago
Stoner, Luella [Ostrander] M042-137dr 1946-02-10 Stockbridge
Stoner, Luella Maude [Ostrander] M042-137d 1944-07-06 Gregory
Stoop,s Nina Mrs. M042-lO5dr 1955-10-06
Stowe, Bernadine Singleton M042-157dr 1961-06-15 Lansing
Stowe, Clara Maicho M042-1 l3dr Stockbridge
Stowe, Clara Maleho M042-l l3dr Stockbridge
Stowe, Doris Mayer (R. C.) M042-1 17w 1945-1 1-08 Munith
Stowe, Juanita Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownfMilltown
Stowe, Phyllis Maleho M042-1 l3dr 1962-10-29 Stockbridge
Stowe, R. C. M042-1 17w 1945-11-08 Munith
Stowe, P.. C. Mrs. (pie) M042-170m 1960 Stockbridge
Stowe, R. C. Mrs. (Teen Center director) M042-169m 1960 Stockbridge
Strait, Elizabeth Mrs. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownfMilltown
Strait, Luren Rev. (choir) (pie) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Strayer, James (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Streets, 7??? Nelson (Eugene) M042-l3 ldr 1937-12-10
Streets, Erma (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Streets, Glenda Marlene [McKinney] M042-219w 1954-12 Stockbridge
Strickrodt, Alice [Job] M042-165wr Stockbridge
Strickrodt, Jean Arthur [Steffey] M042-165w Stockbridge
Strobel, Blanche Lewis M042-lO6dr Webberville
Strobel, Grace Lewis M042-lO6dr Webberville
Stroud, A. J. Supt. (pie) M042-170m Stockbridge
Stroud, Barbara Lee (engagement) M042-170m Stockbridge
Stroud, Barbara Lee [Bradley] M042-015w Mason
Stuhrbery, Helen Mrs. M042-138dr 1951-03-24 Howell
Suey, lnez (injured) M042-098m 1937-10-07 Stockbridge
Summer, Don (pie) M042-163m Stockbridge
Summers, Martha [Frinkle] M042-OO4dr
Susjaner, Virginia Boyce M042-Ol4dr 1954-12-31 Wayne
Sutton, 7??? Hudkins (William) M042-O9Odr 1947-12-08 Jackson
Swadling, Carrie (school play) M042-200m Stockbridge
Swalley, Grace M042-221d 1958-12 Stockbridge
Swan, Catherine A. Parish M042-138dr Dansville
Swanson, Alfred V. M042-221d 1958-11 Stockbridge
Swanson, Donald James M042-005w Millville
Swanson, Helen Marie Baker (Donald James) M042-005w Miliville
Swanson, Roma A. French (Alfred V.) M042-171d Stockbridge
Swartout, 7??? Miteer (David) M042- 1
25dr TX, Houston
Swartout, Alpha (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Swartzell, Susanna [Kochel] M042-lO4dr Stockbridge
Sweet, 7??? Barton (Clarence) M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Fitchburg
Sweet, Anna M. [Camburn] M042-026d 1958-12-24
Sweet, Anna M. [Camburn] M042-026dr Monroe
Sweet, Bertha [Staninger, Gauss] M042-054d 1953-12-02 Gregory
Sweet, Dorothy Ann Speer (Robert Dale) M042- 171w Gregory
Sweet, Dorothy Ann Speer (Robert Dale) M042-2 19w 1954-11 Stockbridge
Sweet, Dorothy L. [Riley] M042-171w Munith
Sweet, Inez Cobb M042-O3Odr 1944-01 Stockbridge
Sweet, Marie Brogan M042-Ol9dr Battle Creek
Sweet, Marie Brogan M042-Ol9dr 1944-08-16 Battle Creek
Sweet, Maxine (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-2 I
7m 1959-09 Stockbridge
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Sweet, Millicent (Smith Elem. Teacher)
Sweet, Robert Dale
Sweet, Robert Dale
Switzenberg, Marie Stitt
Taylor Clara Ann
Taylor, 7??? [Allen]
Taylor, ???? [Widmayer]
Taylor, Alena [Singleton]
Taylor, Christopher
Taylor, Clara Ann Lewis
Taylor, Ella Miss
Taylor, Flora [Gallup]
Taylor, Flora [Gallup]
Taylor, Grace [Blauvelt]
Taylor, John (FFA)
Taylor, John (wins FFF state award)
Taylor, June (elected to school board)
Taylor, Lawrence A. (air force) (pic)
Taylor, Lucy Rubbins (Alfred)
Taylor, Marica
Taylor, Mary Backus (Christopher)
Taylor, Sylvia Votes
Teachout, ???? [Wood]
Teachout, Clarence (50th anniversary)
Teachout, Clarence F.
Teachout, Diane [Jacobs]
Teachout, Edna [Palmer]
Teachout, Edna [Palmer]
Teachout, Edna Mae Daniels (Ralph W.)
Teachout, Gertrude J. Webb (Clarence F.)
Teachout, Gertrude Webb (Clarence)
Teachout, Jeness
Teachout, Luah Nichol (Oliver)
Teachout, Mary E. Christian
Teachout, Oliver (
5Oth anniversary)
Teachout, Ralph W.
Thayer, James Mrs.
Thelen, Ruth Mrs.
Thigpin, 7??? Hadley (A. M.)
Thome, Helen Mrs.
Thompson, ???? [Barker]
Thompson, Blanche [Hile]
Thompson, Clara Eaton
Thompson, Daisy [Sands]
Thompson, Fern [Mills]
Thompson, Jennie E. [Boyce]
Thompson, Joyce Sheathehn (Robert)
Thompson, Lucille Standish
Thompson, Mabel [Eames]
Thompson, Marie Dyer
Thompson, Nancy (H.S. Teacher)
Thompson, Robert
Thompson, Suzanne (pic)
Thompson, Vada [Plat]
Obitinx42.sor
M042-2l7m
M042-l7lw
M042-2 19w
M042-168dr
M042-222d
M042-172dr
M042- I
72dr
M042- 1
57dr
M042- 1
72d
M042- I
72d
M042-172d
M042-053d
M042-172dr
M042-172dr
M042-209m
M042-221m
M042-22 1
m
M042-206m
M042- 1
72dr
M042-OO2wr
M042-172dr
M042-l8 ldr
M042-172m
M042-173m
M042-l89w
M042-221w
M042- I
73dr
M042- 1
74dr
M042- I
72d
M042-l 89w
M042- 1
73m
M042-094wr
M042-172m
M042-l74d
M042-l72m
M042-173d
M042-043wr
M042-0 l4dr
M042-067m
M042- 1
36dr
M042-0 1
4dr
M042-082d
M042-046dr
M042-082dr
M042-174dr
M042-0 14d
M042- 174w
M042- 1
63dr
M042- I
74dr
M042-045dr
M042-2 17m
M042- 174w
M042-185m
M042-082dr
1959-09 Stockbridge
Gregory
1954-Il Stockbridge
1949-05-25
1955-03 Gregory
Detroit
Dexter
1954-01-21 Stockbridge
Jackson
1955-03-12 Flint
1939-07-26 Stockbridge
1955-03-12 Flint
Stockbridge
1958-03 Stockbridge
1958-06 Stockbridge
Hudson
1956-10-27
Stockbridge
Rives Junction
Lansing
losco Twp.
Stockbridge
Eaton Rapids
Eaton Rapids
Unadilla Twp.
Lyndon Twp.
1956-03-08 Lansing
Rives Junction
Concord
Rives Junction
Stockbridge
Williamston
Jackson
1960-03-16 FL, Groveland
Mt. Clemons
Munith
1951-02-03 Gregory
1952-07 OK, Bartlesvitle
1951-02-03 Michigan City
AZ, Tucson
Okemos
1949-12-10 White Oak Twp.
Stockbridge
Mason
1952-12-20 Ann Arbor
1959-09 Stockbridge
1949-12-10 Dansville
Dansville
1951-02-03 CO. Denver
1943-02- 17
1958-03-25
1956-03-08
1958-09
1959-12-26
1959- 12-18
1947-06-24
C
C
C
C
C
C
Ga
g
C
C
C
Ca
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
0
0
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Ca
C
0
C
C
C
1958-03-25
1959-12-18
1958-03-25
1959- 12-26
1956-10-20
68
Thompson, Vesta Mariah Howe (Byron E.) M042-174d 1937-03-11 Stockbridge
Thompson, Wirt M042-174d AZ, Tucson
Thompson, Wirt M042-219d 1954-07 AZ, Tucson
Tice, Anna McClinchey M042-l I 8dr Clare
Tisch, Emma [Rowland] M042-125dr Stockbridge
Tisch, Lenora [Mimer] M042-124w
Tisch, Lenora [Mimer] M042-125dr Stockbridge
Tisch, Luella [Milliken] M042-125d Stockbridge
Tisch, Wilbur (escorts Russians at MSU) M042-221m 1958-08 Stockbridge
Titus, Ada Clark M042-082dr 1945-03 Stockbridge
Titus, Ethel Louise [Marshall] M042-1 14d Stockbridge
Titus, Evelyn Mrs. M042-OO3dr 1950-04-27
Titus, Evelyn Robeson M042- 1 6Odr 1948-03-08 Stockbridge
Titus, Jean [McClinchey] M042-220w 1951-12 Stockbridge
Topping, Gary Gordon, Louise & Judy Ann (pic) M042-202m 1958-07-10 VantownlMilltown
Topping, Hester (engagement) M042-175m Stockbridge
Topping, Hester [Fillmore] M042-219w 1954-06 Stockbridge
Topping, Judy, Linda, & Gary <Gordon> (pic) M042-202m 1958-01-16 Stockbridge
Topping, Linda Deane <Gordon> (pic) M042-202m 1958-07-10 Vantown/Militown
Torrey, Irene Craig M042-036dr Flint
Townsend Gladys Smith M042-l6ldr 1943-11-10
Townsend, ???? [Battige] M042-183wr Dansville
Townsend, ???? [Boyce] M042-183wr Stockbridge
Townsend, ???? [Humrich] M042-183wr Webberville
Townsend, ???? [Sharland] M042-183wr Dansville
Townsend, 7??? [Sommers] M042-183wr Stockbridge
Townsend, 7??? Jacobs (Leland) M042-092dr Stockbridge
Townsend, Elizabeth Ann Jacobs (Leland) M042-176w 1958-11-29 Plainfield
Townsend, Ella M. VanBuren (William H.) M042-175dr 1953-07-09 Grand Ledge
Townsend, Evadine (pic) M042-155m Jngham Co.
Townsend, Evelyn M042-OO2wr 1956-10-27
Townsend, Evelyn (Honor Student) M042-044m 1957 Dansvi)le
Townsend, Fay (pic) M042-175m 1959 Dansville
Townsend, Flora [McKenzie] M042-120d 1941-01 OH, Shaker Hts.
Townsend, George boy M042-200b 1918-06-06 Stockbridge
Townsend, Hazel Dell [Congdon] M042-175dr 1953-07-09 Grand Ledge
Townsend, Helen Proctor (Loa) M042-143w 1942-06-17 Stockbridge
Townsend, Howard (pic) M042-175m 1959 Dansville
Townsend, Jeffery (pic) M042-175m 1959 Millville
Townsend, Leland M042-176w 1958-11-29 Dansville
Townsend, Leland (pic) M042-175m 1959 Millville
Townsend, Lillian Jane (George W.) M042-175d Jackson
Townsend, Lucille M042-089dr Lansing
Townsend, Lyle C. M042-177m Okinawa
Townsend, Mae Marie [Waltz] M042-183w Dansville
Townsend, Ned (pic) M042-175m 1959 Springport
Townsend, Pearl [Stittj M042-l2Odr 1941-01 Stockbridge
Townsend, Pearl E. [Stilt] M042-168dr 1949-05-25 Stockbridge
Townsend, Rolland R. (engagement) M042-020m Dansville
Townsend, William H. M042-175d 1953-07-09 Stockbridge
Trapp, ???? [Collins] M042- 154 Stockbridge
Trapp, Carol [Satterthwaite] M042- 154w Stockbridge
Trapp, Howard (barn burned down) M042-220m 1951-12 Stockbridge
Trapp, Jeanette Carolyn [Collins] M042-177w 1950-06-24 Stockbridge
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Q
C
C
Trapp, Jeannette Carolyn [Collins] M042-03 1w Q
Trask, Hazel (Sr. play) (pic) M042-2 I
Om Stockbridge
Tripp, Eva Galligan M042-053dr 1945-02-08 Jackson
Tucker, Laura Gaylord M042-054dr Rochester C Tunnard, J. William M042-177d 1944-07-14 WA, Tacoma
Turner, ???? [Sadler] M042-165dr Muskegon G
Turner, Mary Rennells (Ervin L.) M042-165d IL, Chicago
Turner, P.. Mrs. [Steffey] M042-220w 1951-06 Marion
Turner, R. Rennells M042-164w 195 1-06-03 Marion
Turney, Nellie Mrs. M042-177m CA, Redlands G Tuttle, Nellie Olds M042-174dr Munith
Tyrrell, Marian Brown M042-022dr Charlevoix Q
Tyrrell, Marian Brown M042-024dr Charlevoix
Underwood, Dennis (Farm Buruea Bd.) (plc) M042-199m 1948-01-15 Onondaga
Usher, G. (Twp. Constable) M042-222m 1955-04 Stockbridge C
Usher, Guerdon J. M042-178d 1956-10 Stockbridge
Usher, Lizzie Mrs. M042-135dr 1944-10-28 Stockbridge
Usher, Lizzie Mrs. M042-178d Stockbridge
Usher, Lottie [Oakley] M042-178dr Stockbridge
Utter, Bernice Foster M042-052m Dansville
Valentine, Dora [Dewey] M042-042dr Gregory C Valentine, William (H.S. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Valleau, Margaret M042-157dr 1954-01-21 Lansing
VanBuren, ???? Drown (Cleve) M042-044dr TX, Irwen C VanBuren, Ella M. [Townsend] M042-175dr 1953-07-09 Grand Ledge
VanBuren, Elmer (60th anniversary) M042-179m C
VanBuren, Emily [Oakley] M042-135dr 1953-08-10 C VanGilder, F. 0. M042-180m
VanSyckel, Ada Gauss M042-179d Jackson G
VanSyckel, Eugenia [Delamater] M042-179dr Okemos C VanSyckel, Louisa [Lange] M042- 1
79dr Jackson
VanSyckel, Marjorie [Greenbaugh] M042- I
79dr AZ, Tucson C
VanSyckle, Ada Gauss M042-054dr Okemos
Vender, M. R. Rev (plc) M042-181m Croswell
Verdenburgh, Minnie Lewis M042-lO6dr Farrnington C
Verl-loeven, Anna Louise (engagement) M042-181m 1941 Pinckney
Vicary, Ward Mrs. (homemaker conference) M042-208m Leslie
Videto, Max M042-1 12m 1957-03 Jackson
Vine, Susie Brearley M042- 1
79dr 1947-09-29
Vinnis, Katherine [Steffey] M042-164c1r 1959-06-20
Voegts, Frank Mrs. (auction bill) M042- 1
79m Gregory C Voegts, Jennie Louise Brearley (Frank J.) M042-179d 1947-09-29 Gregory
Voegts, Mirnavieve (Class of 1918) M042-200m 1918-06 Stockbridge
Vogt, Elizabeth [Ludtke] M042-1 lOdr 1949-06-16 Gregory a Vorce, Doris Mrs. (choir) (pic) M042-204m 1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
Vors, Barbara Schray (Keith) M042-222w 1955-06 Munith
Vors, Keith M042-222w 1955-06 Dansville C Vors, Keith (Am. Legion Exec. Comm.) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbridge
Voss, Ella Mae Hoffiuieyer M042-085dr 1957-06-19 Lansing C
Voss, Roylyn (Salutatorian) M042-044rn 1957 Dansville C Votes, Edgar M042-181d 1943-02-17 White Oak Twp.
Votes, Janette Cameron M042- 181 d 1945-03-10 C]
Votes, Nettle Cameron (Edgar) M042-l8ldr 1943-02-17 White Oak Twp. C Votes, Sylvia [Taylor] M042- 181 dr 1943-02-17 Stockbridge
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M042-2 I 7m
M042-162wr
M042-OO6dr
M042-182dr 1951-01-30
M042-182dr 1951-04-15
M042-182dr 1951-01-30
M042-182dr 1951-04-15
M042-204m 1949-04-07
M042-182d 1951-01-30
M042-190d
M042-047dr
M042-135dr
M042-0 I 2dr
M042-182dr
M042- 1 82dr
M042-072dr
M042-072d
M042-047dr
M042-135dr 1947-03-13
M042-182d 1951-04-15
M042- 1 82m 1949-05-28
M042-050m 1950-01-05
M042-1 83w
M042-2 I 3m
M042- 1 84dr
M042-1 83w
M042- I 84dr 1956-09-13
M042-1 84d 1956-09-13
M042- 1 84dr 1956-09-13
M042-184w 1935-11
M042-164dr 1959-06-20
M042- I 84dr 1956-09-13
M042- 1 O6dr 1952-08-04
M042-098m
M042-184m
M042- 184w 1957-05-04
M042-2 I 9m 1954-06 Stockbridge
M042- 1 94m Stockbridge
M042- 184w 1957-05-04
M042-OO6dr 1953-09-14 Leslie
M042-153wr 1958-12-30
M042- 1 85m
M042- I 86m
M042- I 23d
M042-088w
M042-Ol2dr
M042- 1 86d
M042-2 1 9d
M042- 1 86d
M042-057d
M042-0 1 6dr
M042- I 67dr
M042-220m
M042- 1 07m
1959-09 Stockbridge
Jackson
1953-09-14 Fowlerville
White Oak Twp.
White Oak Twp.
White Oak Twp.
White Oak Twp.
Milltown
Stockbridge
Dansville
LeRoy Twp.
1947-03-13 Leroy Twp.
Dansville
1951-01-30 White Oak Twp.
195 1-04-15 White Oak Twp.
Eaton Rapids
Mason
Dansville
Dansville
Miliville
Votes, Theims (Munith Elem. Teacher)
Vranek, ???? Sowers (William)
Wagner, ?fl? Barton (Harry)
Walker, Bernice [Pringle]
Walker, Bernice [Pringle]
Walker, Dora Mae [Howlett)
Walker, Dora Mae [I-lowlett]
Walker, Dortha Mrs. (choir) (pie)
Walker, Earl C.
Walker, Elizabeth [Rosenthal, Collum, West]
Walker, Faye [Ocsterle]
Walker, Faye [Oesterle]
Walker, Gertrude M. [Bohnet]
Walker, Helen [Curtis]
Walker, Helen [Curtis]
Walker, Josie [Artz]
Walker, Mabel [Hedglen]
Walker, Maxine [Laxton]
Walker, Maxine [Laxton]
Walker, Olive Ida Carpenter (Earl)
Walker, Sarah (pic)
Walter, Leo (engagement)
Waltz, Daniel V.
Waltz, Danny (tractor contest) (pic)
Waltz, Doris [Stanlield]
Waltz, Mae Marie Townsend (Daniel V.)
Walz, Anna Runciman (Arthur J.)
Walz, Arthur J.
Walz, Delia [Maute]
Walz, Doris Elma [Stanfield]
Walz, Lulu May Steffey (Leo)
Walz, Martha [Glenn]
Ward, Bess Lewis
Ward, Howard F. (engagement)
Ward, Joan C. (engagement)
Ward, Phyllis Ann Wilde (Terry J.)
Ward, Terry (Boys’ State)
Ward, Terry (engagement)
Ward, Terry J.
Wardowski, ???? Barton
Wardowski, ???? Barton (Alfred)
Wardowski, Wilfred (pie)
Wardowski, Wilfred (pic)
Warfie, ida Mierndorf(Wesley)
Warfie, Marlene Mary [[lowlett]
Warfie, Martha Bohnet
Warfie, Martha Mrs.
Warfie, Martha Mrs.
Warfie, Wesley
Warner, Edna Jane [Glynn]
Warnes, 7??? Bradshaw (Kenneth)
Warvel, Ella Stevens
Washburn, A. J. (buys elevator)
Washburn, RGeorge (engagement)
Dansville
Mason
Mason
1956-09-13 Stockbridge
Dansville
Chelsea
Chelsea
Grass Lake
Waterloo
Waterloo
Jackson
Webberville
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Leslie
Leslie
Leroy Twp.
1959-04-23 Dansville
Stockbridge
Stoekbridge
1954-07 Stockbridge
Mason
1962-04-26 Dansville
1958-01-25 MN, Minneapolis
Dansville
1951-02 Stockbridge
Briinley
Obitinx42.sor 71
C
C
C
Wason, Mary Ann Roberts (Homer) M042-149d 1943-04-14 C Wasson, ???? Boyce (Orla) M042-Ol4dr Atlanta
Wasson, Anna R. [Smith] M042-068dr CA, Chatsworth
Wasson, Arleta [Rieske] M042- I 86dr 1960-02-27 Detroit Q Wasson, Elizabeth [Cameron] M042-068dr WA, Bremerton
Wasson, Homer A. M042- I 86d 1960-02-27 South Lyon
Wasson, Katy M. [Hardt] M042-068d CA, Auburn C Wasson, Lorna (Robert) M042-1 87d 1956-03-06 Jackson
Wasson, Noreen [Roberts] M042- 1 49d 1954-04-29 Grand Rapids C
Wasson, Norene [Roberts] M042-2 I 9d 1954-05 Grand Rapids C Wasson, Norrene [Roberts] M042- 186w Detroit
Wasson, Robert (in hospital) M042-186m 1956-09-13 Jackson Q Wasson, Robert (pic) M042- 11 8m Stockbridge
Wasson, Robert (post office carrier) M042- 1 87m 1957-04-30 Stockbridge
Wasson, Robert (post office safety awardO M042-207m Stockbridge C Wasson, Shirley Boyce (Arlo) M042-053dr 1954-06-11 Stockbridge
Wasson, T. Josephine [Dyer] M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Stockbridge
Waterhouse, Agnes R. Parish M042-138dr Lansing C Waters, ???? [Isham] M042-09 1 dr
Waters, ???? [Isham] M042- I X7dr losco Twp.
Waters, Amy M. [Isham] M042-187dr 1952-11-02 losco Twp. C Waters, Bertha [Zick] M042-187dr 1954-12-30 Clinton
Waters, Flossie Dell White (Guy) M042-l87d 1942-08-27 Ann Arbor
Waters, Frank M042-187d 1954-12-30 Gregory C Waters, James H. M042-09 I d
Waters, James H. M042-187d 1952-11-02 losco Twp. C
Waters, Jennie [Canfield] M042-187dr Fowlerville C Waters, Lucille [Miller] M042-187dr 1942-08-27 Jackson
Waters, Marietta Grover M042-l87d losco Twp. C
Waters, Maudie [Lator] M042-187dr 1942-08-27 Brighton C Waterstradt, Edith (Smith Elem. Teacher) M042-217m 1959-09 Stockbridge
Waterstradt, Edith Stitt (Ed) M042- I 68dr 1949-05-25 C Watson, 7??? [Chipman] M042-l88dr 1942-01 Gregory
Watson, ???? [ChipmanJ M042-1 88dr Gregory
Watson, Harvey E. M042-188d 1942-01 CA, Pomona C Watson, Stewart M042- I 88d Jackson
Watt, Sherry <Robert> (pic) M042-201m 1957-12-19 Stockbridge
Watters, Bertha [Zick] M042-188dr 1954-12-25 Clintont C Watters, Frank M042-2l9d 1954-12 Gregory
Watters, Frank 0. M042-l88d 1954-12-25 losco Twp.
Watters, Frank 0. M042-222d 1955-01 Gregory (3 Watters, Jean Marie Marshall (Ted) M042- 188w Plainfield
Watters, Luanne <Ted> (pic) M042-202m 1958-01-16 Gregory
Watters, Margaret Falkerson (Joseph) M042- I 88dr 1954-12-25 0 Watters, Orpha (Frank) M042-188d 1959-06-24 losco Twp.
Watters, Orpha Isham (Frank 0.) M042-188dr 1954-12-25 losco Twp.
Watters, Pearl D. Jacobs (William H.) M042-l88d 1950-01-04 Plainfield C Watters, Ted M042- 188w Plain field
Weaver, Keith (engagement) M042- 1 50m Stockbridge C
Webb, Carmi Richmond M042-146dr 1939 Pinckney C Webb, Gertrude [Teachout] M042-173m 1956-03-08 Lansing
Webb, Gertrude J. [Teachout] M042- 189w Lyndon Twp.
Weber, Caroline Stoffer M042-168dr Ypsilanti Webster, 7??? Gaylord (Glenn) M042-OOld 1959-09-20 Mason CD
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Weddon, Dr. (elected to school board) M042-221m 1958-06 Stockbridge
Weddon, E. R. Mrs. M042-189m Jackson
Weddon, Patrice (at County Fair) M042-205m 1962-08-16 Stockbridge
Weddon, Todd E. (Boys’ State) M042-205m 1960-06-16 Stockbridge
Weeks, Alice (teacher) M042-200m 1907 Stockbridge
Weidmen, Carlie Dyer M042-045dr 1952-12-20 Dexter
Weippert, Anna Mrs. M042-052dr 1939-12-04
Weiss, Bernice Heying M042-082dr lmlay City
Welch, ???? Brower (Gordon) M042-O2Odr Jackson
Wellsworth, Rachel M042- 1
55dr Williamston
Welton, Clara [Jones] M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Howell
Welton, Ellen [Shaw] M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Dansville
Welton, Iva [Deloy] M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Cheboygan
Welton, Lulu [Wolcott] M042-I5Sdr 1959-12-03 Wayne
Welton, Olive [Auge] M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Pontiac
Wemple, ???? Behm (Arthur) M042-OO8dr Dansville
Wemple, Bertha L. [Howe] M042-087d 1957-06-16 Lansing
Wemple, Lina Howell M042-194dr Williamston
Wessinger, John A. Dr. M042-189d 1954-11-Il Ann Arbor
West, ???? [Clayton] M042-190m 1962-11-11 Jackson
West, ???? [Rockwell] M042-190m 1962-11-Il
West, Bertha (Eugene) M042- 1
90d Mason
West, Claude (Married Iongerst) M042- 191 m
1962-08 Jackson
West, Claude F. (65’ anniversary) M042-190m 1962-11-Il Jackson
West, E. JoAnne [Nelson] M042-191w 1956 Webberville
West, Elizabeth Walker (Claud) M042-190d Dansville
West, Eugene (
55th anniversary) M042-190m 1945-11-16 Webberville
West, Hattie M. Fox (Claude E.) M042-190m 1962-1 I-Il Jackson
West, Helen Rae Menovske (Roy G.) M042- 192w Mason
West, Mabel [Dean] M042-190m 1945-11-16 Lansing
West, Mable [Dean] M042-l9Odr Lansing
West, Norma [Ballard] M042-l9Odr Lansing
West, Norma [Ballard] M042-l9Om 1945-11-16 Perry
West, Roy G. M042-192w Webberville
West, Ruth Crandall M042-036dr Webberville
West, Sadie [Behm] M042-OO8dr White Oak Twp.
West, Velma [Heinrich] M042-l9Odr Fowlerville
West, Velma [Heinrich] M042-190m 1945-11-16 Webberville
West, Vivian [Rogers] M042-190m 1945-11-16 Webberville
West, Vivian [Smock] M042-l9Odr Webberville
West,???? [Hammond] M042-190m 1962-11-11
Westfall, Emma Owen (Guy) M042-193dr Stockbridge
Westfall, Georgia [Mitteer] M042-125dr 1944-05-21 Stockbridge
Westfall, Guy M042-193d Stockbridge
Westfall, Myrtie Beeman M042-151d 1943-06-23 Stockbridge
Westfall, Paul M042- 151 dr 1943-06-23
Westphal, May [Crouse, Dancer] M042-04 I
dr 1942-03-07 Stockbridge
Wheaton, Pearl Mae (Frank A.) M042-193d 1940 CA, Fort Baker
Wheeler, Joanne [Byerly] M042-220w 1951-11 Stockbridge
Whipple, Dorothy Foster M042-052m Mason
Whitaker, Francis Johnson Pierce (Geo. Byron) M042-193d 1936-05-07 Gregory
Whitaker, George Byron M042-193d 1936-05-07 Gregory
Whitaker, Nettie E. [Caskey] M042-028dr 1959-11-18 Gregory
Whitaker, Nettie Elsie [Caskey] M042-193dr 1936-05-07 Gregory
Obitinx42.sor 73
Wilson, ???? [Burgess]
Wilson, ???? [Cochran]
Wilson, 7??? [Gething]
Wilson, 7??? [Gething]
Wilson, ???? [Gething]
Wilson, ???? [Hayden]
Wilson, 7??? [Hayden]
Obitinx42.sor
M042-187d
M042-Ol2dr
M042-085m
M042-l 56m
M042-l62dr
M042- 1 67dr
M042-200m
M042-219d
M042-055d
M042-059dr
M042- 1 72dr
M042- I 94dr
M042-194dr
M042-194dr
M042- I 94dr
M042-l94d
M042-194m
M042-OOldr
M042-029dr
M042-0 l4dr
M042-204m
M042-154wr
M042-OOldr
M042-2 19w
M042-2 I 6m
M042- I 84wr
M042- I 94m
M042- 184w
M042-l5ldr
M042-2 I 7m
M042-OO9dr
M042-206m
M042-1 l3dr
M042-194dr
M042-2 19w
M042-056m
M042-222d
M042-194d
M042-204m
M042-2 19w
M042-194dr
M042-194dr
M042- 1 94dr
M042-194dr
M042-194dr
M042-022m
M042- I 94d
M042-197dr
M042-032wr
M042-1 96dr
M042- 1 96dr
M042-197dr
M042-196dr
M042-l9ódr
1942-08-27 Ann Arbor
CA, French Camp
Fowlerville
Grass Lake
Stockbridge
Lansing
Stockbridge
Munith
Stockbridge
IL, Barrington
Dexter
Williamston
St. Charles
OH, Cincinnati
Kalamazoo
Mason
1950-03-01
1944-09-14
1938-06-14
1956-03-06
1949-04-07
1944-09- 14
1954-09
1958-07-20
1957-05-04
1957-05-04
195 1-02-02
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Jackson
1955-02-14 Stockbridge
1954-10 Plainfield
Webberville
1955-02 Stockbridge
1955-02-14 Stockbridge
1949-04-07 VantownlMilltown
1954-10 Howell
1955-02-14 Stockbridge
Stockbridge
Detroit
Pontiac
Jackson
Stockbridge
Stockbridge
1951-06-23 Northville
Gregory
Jackson
1957-06-13 Jackson
Jackson
Lansing
1957-06-13 Lansing
1918-06
1954-12
1954-12-05
1997-04- 16
White, Flossie Dell [Waters]
Whited, Hallie [Bouck]
Whitehead, William (engagement)
Whitman, Bruce S. (engagement)
Whitney, 7??? Sommer
Whitney, Gladys Stevens
Whittaker, Nettie (Class of 1918)
Whittaker, Thomas
Whittaker, Thomas (airplane crash)
Wickert, Melissa [Grostick]
Widmayer, 7??? Taylor (Edgar)
Wiegman, 7??? [Bickert]
Wiegman, ???? [Dibley]
Wiegman, ???? [Kessen]
Wiegman, ???? [Nelson]
Wiegman, Jennie F. Howell (Wesley H.)
Wilcox, Addie (legal notice)
Wilcox, Alta Ackley
Wilcox, Blanche Clark
Wilcox, Frances Boyce
Wilcox, Joyce Miss (choir) (pie)
Wild, Donald Mrs.
Wild, Muriel Ackley
Wild, Vesta Pauline [Ford]
Wilde Arthur (Village Trustee)
Wilde, ???? [Harland]
Wilde, Phyllis Ann (engagement)
Wilde, Phyllis Ann [Ward]
Wilde, Rita Rose
Wilde, Suzanne (Melodette)
Wilhelme, Eleanor Berry (Francis)
William, David (air force) (pie)
Williams, ???? [MacKinder]
Williams, Cerita [Hoyt]
Williams, Donna Leach (Melvin)
Williams, Dorwin (engagement)
Williams, Gerald
Williams, Gerald John
Williams, Maxine Mrs (choi (pic)r).
Williams, Melvin
Williams, Virginia Mae Dixon (Gerald John)
Wilimore, ???? [Brown]
Willmore, 7??? [Carpenter]
Willmore, ???? [Fitch]
Wilimore, ???? [Green]
Wilhnore, John
Willmore, William T.
White Oak Twp.
Stockbridge
Vantown!Milltown
Munith
Stockbridge
C
a
-C
C
Ca
C
C
CCCC
C
CC
C
CCCCC a
CC
C
C
ci
Cci
CC
C
CC
Ca
Ca
C
Ca
C
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Wilson, ???? [Hayden] M042-197dr Lansing
Wilson, ???? [Nowlin] M042-196dr MN, Minneapolis
Wilson, ???? [Nowlini M042-196dr 1957-06-13 MN, Minneapolis
Wilson, ???? [Nowlin] M042-l97dr MN, Minneapolis
Wilson, ?fl? Frinkle (Clarence) M042-004d
Wilson, Abbie [Force] M042-054dr 1955-03-23
Wilson, Andrew J. M042-195d 1947-07-19 White Oak Twp.
Wilson, Blanch Dorthy [Keichen] M042-099w
Wilson, Elizabeth (Warren) M042-197d Stockbridge
Wilson, Frank N. Dr. M042-l95d 1952-09-18 Stockbridge
Wilson, Gladys [Burgess] M042-196dr 1944-06-20 Northville
Wilson, Harold (Farm Buruea Bd.) (pic) M042-199m 1948-01-15 Holt
Wilson, Helen D. Caskey (N. D.) M042- I 96d Jackson
Wilson, Helen D. Caskey (N. D.) M042-197d Jackson
Wilson, Julie [LePeschkim] M042- I 95dr 1952-09-18
Wilson, Laura [Haulett] M042-196dr 1957-06-13 Howell
Wilson, Laura [Howlett] M042-196dr 1955-11-28 Howell
Wilson, Lewis family M042-195m Mason
Wilson, Mary A. Harvey (Andrew J.) M042-195dr 1947-07-19 White Oak Twp.
Wilson, Mary J. Leaich (Richard) M042-196d 1944-06-20 Parkers Corners
Wilson, May Leaich (Richard) . M042-197dr 195 1-06-23 losco Twp.
Wilson, Mollie E. Miss M042-196d 1955-11-28 Jackson
Wilson, Norma D. Dr. M042-196d 1957-06-13 Jackson
Wilson, Richard M042-197d 195 1-06-23 losco Twp.
Wilson, Sarah [Proctor] M042-197dr 195 1-06-23 Stockbridge
Wilson, Veva [Richmond] M042-197dr 195 1-06-23 Gregory
Wilson, Warren M042-197d Fitchburg
Wilson, William <Wm.> M042-197d
Wimbles, ???? Steiner (Clyde) M042-164dr 1946-01-29 Fowlerville
Wing, Agnes Craig M042-036dr 195 1-06-23 MN, Minneapolis
Winslow, Bessie French M042-l7ldr WI, Webster
Winslow, Emogene Bangs (Robert) M042-197d Ann Arbor
Winteroad, Ethel Sharp M042-155dr Flint
Winterrowd, Chris [Stephens] M042-221w 1958-07 Stockbridge
Winters, Effie [Brown] M042-022dr
Winters, Katherine [Brogan] M042-0 I 8dr Bunker Hill
Winters, Rose Miss M042-l97d
Wireman, Jarvey M042-073m 1955-09 Stockbridge
Witmore, Bertha Mrs. M042-024dr Sherwood
Witt, Susan and Dale M042-197d 1950-07-02 Howell
Wohlgamuth, Eva Craig M042-036dr Petersburg
Wolcott, Lulu Welton M042-155dr 1959-12-03 Wayne
Wolf Grace Martenies M042-1 l4dr TX
Wolf, Ida Lantis M042-lO5dr 194 1-07-1 1 Jackson
Wood, ???? Teachout (Laurence) M042-172m 1958-03-25 Rives Junction
Wood, C. E. M042-OO9wr Leslie
Wood, Francis [Dyer] M042-045dr 1952-12-20
Wood, Persis [Braley] M042-Ol8d Highland Park
Wood,Wm. M042-OOSdr 1955-01-11 NJ
Woodman, Bob (H.S. Teacher) M042-217rn 1959-09 Stockbridge
Woodman, Robert (Village Trustee) M042-219m 1954-03 Stockbridge
Woods, ???? Bristow (D. E.) M042-Ol9dr Ann Arbor
Woods, Grace [Lambert] M042-105d 1955-10-06 IA, Council Bluffs
Woolcock, Geo. Rev. M042-220d 1951-09 Gregory
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C
C
C
Wool fitt, Vera Boyce M042-Ol4dr Flint ( Worden, Fern Oesterle M042-047dr Stockbridge
Worden, Fern Oesterle M042-135dr 1947-03-13 Stockbridge
Worden, Francis Anna M042-221d 1958-12 Munith
Worthington, Sarah [Caskey] M042-028dr 1959-1 1-18
Wright, ‘1??? Coleman (Charles) M042-03 1
dr Stockbridge
Wright, ???? Gauss (James) M042-054m Lansing Q Wright, ???? Huttenlocker (Arch) M042-lSOdr 1939-04-05 St. Clair
Wright, Amanda Huttenlocher M042-OI9dr St. Clair C
Wright, Charles girl M042-219d 1954-10 Stockbridge C Wright, Edna Osborn M042- I
36dr Detroit
Wright, Emma J. Braley (Frank L.) M042-l98d 1945-02-09 Stockbridge C
Wright, Frank L. M042-198d 1944- Stockbridge
Wright, Janice M042-1 12m 1957-03 Grass Lake
Wright, Janice (Co. dairy princess) (pic) M042-2 12m Grass Lake C
Wright, Mary [Gundry] M042-198dr 1945-02-09 NY, Rochester
Wright, Mary E. [Gundry] M042-198dr 1944 TX, Corsicana
Wygant, Bertha Coleman M042-03 I
dr 1942-01-08 C Wygant, Flossie Smith M042-l6Idr 1957-10-19 Williamston
Wygant, Flossie Smith M042-Ióldr 1957-10-03 Williamston
Wygant, Hazel Coleman M042-O3Idr 1942-01-08 C Wygant, May Smith M042-161dr 1957-10-19 Williamston
Wygant, May Smith M042-l6ldr 1957-10-03 Williamston
Wylie, Lillian Evers M042-046dr Dexter C Wythe, Helen Smith (Canton) M042-l6Odr 1948-03-08 Charlotte
Wythe, Helen Smith (Canton) M042-l6Odr Grayling C
Yago, Dora Mierndorf M042-l23dr Conway Twp. C Yocum, Ray mrs. M042-198dr
Young, Abbie [Kohout] M042-128dr 1952-10-30 Detroit C
Young, Dave (Am. Legion Sgt. At Arms) M042-222m 1955-06 Stockbnidge
Young, Eileen Marie Comford (George M.) M042-035w 1955-04 Stockbnidge
Young, Gale Jeanette Marvin (James H.) M042-2 19w 1954-06 Stockbridge C
Young, George M042-OOldr 1956-03-06 Clawson
Young, George (Sr. play) (pie) M042-210m Stockbridge
Young, George Mitchell M042-035w 1955-04 Dansville C
Young, James H. M042-2 19w 1954-06 Stockbridge
Young, Opal May [Moyer] M042-l28d 1952-10-30 Ann Arbor
Young, Orrin (40t anniversary) M042-219m 1954-10 Stockbridge
Young, Ruth Ann [Keiser] M042-099w Gregory
Young, W. Harry Rev (leaves Methodist church) M042-220m 1951-06 Stockbridge
Younglove, Janean McEwing (Richard) M042-222w 1955-12 Stockbridge C Younglove, Lyle G. Mrs. (pie) M042-198m Detroit
Younglove, Richard M042-222w 1955-12 Stockbridge
Younkin, Etta L. (William H.) M042-198d 1948-07-3 1
0 Zeigenfliss, Emily A. Canfield (Henry) M042-198d
Zick, Bertha Waters M042-187dr 1954-12-30 Clinton
Zick, Bertha Watters M042-188dr 1954-12-25 Clintont C Zoeller, Florence Bacon M042-OO4dr 1953-11 CA, Downey
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Grostick Collection
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obituary
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Firemen and Townspeople Helping Fight the Fire
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Firemen and Townspeople Helping Fight the Fire
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Firemen and Townspeople Helping Fight the Fire
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Firemen and Townspeople Helping Fight the Fire
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Firemen and Townspeople Helping Fight the Fire. Fireman using a Champion Fire Extinguisher.
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The Only Building Left Standing After Fire. The Ed K. Johnson Drugs and Henry C. Briggs Jeweler Building.
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Building Rubble After Fire. From looking at 1892 Sanborn maps in the archives (see both Image 2 and Image3 at the Library of Congress) the building with the tower is Eng. Ho. and little building next to it is a Library.
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Building Rubble After Fire
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Building Rubble After Fire. View to the west of the block that burned down.
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Published by the
American Revolution
Bicentennial Committee,
City of Howell, Michigan
The Howell
Bicentennial
History
1776-1976
Written and prepared by Howell
residents past and present
The Howell
Bicentennial History
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The Howell
Bicentennial History
David L. Jaehn ig, Executive Ed itor
Arlene Lamoreaux , Coord i nating Editor , Co-Cha i rman
Mike Hagman , Co-Cha irman
Dennis Mowry , Bus i ness Manager
Cliff Heller , Consulting Editor
Janet Rohrbacher , Consulting Editor
Duane Zemper , Consulting Editor of Photography
Published by The American Revolution Bicentennial Committee , City of Howell, Mich igan
Picking water lillies in t he Shiawassee .
RECOGNIZED BY
AMERICAN REVO LUTION
BICENTENNIAL
ADMINISTRATION
Bicentennial
Chairman
David L. Jaehnig is a Michigan State
University graduate, B.A., M.A . and
advanced graduate work. He is married
and has two children, and has lived in
Howell for more than three years, serving
as the editor of the Livingston County
Press . He is a former college professor
and magazine editor , and a Michigan
native . He is the manager and president
of the board of the 5th Michigan Regiment
Band .
Bicentennial
Secretary
Arlene Burdick Lamoreaux was born in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, she married
Richard Lamoreaux in 1951 and they have
seven children, Michael, Timothy, Anne,
Kathleen, Amy, Daniel and David . She
moved to Howell in 1972. Richard has
been employed in radio and television and
works for Paperworks Systems.
Printed in the United States of America .
Inquiries concerning this work should be addressed to the Howell
Bicentennial Committee , 402 S. Michigan, Howell, Michigan 48843.
Published First Edition , November, 1975 by The American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee , City of Howell, Michigan.
Mike Hagman was born June 4th, 19H
in Howell, Mich . He attended the South
Mich . Ave. School, kindergarten thru
twelfth grade . He served thirty three
months in the U.S . Army. He bought the
Service Station at 202 N . Mich . Ave .
January 1, 1946. He married the former
Ruby Dennis in May , 1947, has three
children, Sheryl Underwood, Daryl and
Michael.
Bicentennial
Vice Chairman
Dennis 0. Mowrey was born 1941,
raised and schooled in Lincoln Nebraska .
He married Celesta Criswell, has two
children, Danette and Darren . In business
with his father till 1966, joined H .
Kohnstomm Co . Inc. in 1972, transfered to
Michigan . Wanting to be involved in his
new community he joined the Howell
Jaycees , of which he has the pleasure of
being President this year . Still furthering
his community interest, he joined with the
Howell Bicentennial Commission to help
celebrate our country ' s 200th Birthday .
Bicentennial
Treasurer
INTERVIEWERS
Mrs. George Gregory
Mrs. John Kelly
Mr . and Mrs . Edward Repik
Forward
The Howell Bicentennial History is a personal history of Howell, Michigan and
its surrounding area.
The key to that statement is the word "personal," and in that word lies the story
of this outstanding work. For this is the work of hundreds of individuals, either
present Howell area residents, or folks who have moved away, but still maintain
close ties to their hometown.
The history you are about to read is written by amateurs, with not a professional
historical writer in sight. But that's not an apology. These hundreds of amateurs
have produced a work of historical significance that no historian could even
attempt . These writers have told their personal stories of the history of Howell, as
they saw it, as it was told to them by their grandfathers and grandmothers, as
they recall it from diaries and letters.
The major pivot for the coordination of the book has been Arlene Lamoreaux, a
dedicated, relatively-newcomer to the Howell area. She began the idea, with
strong support from her co-worker and Howell native Mike Hagman . But the two
of them are the first to say it would all have been impossible without three key
natives of the Howell area ... former mayor and local historian Cliff Heller,
American Revolution and D.A.R . researcher and writer Mrs. Albert Rohrabacher,
and photographic archivist and local historian Duane Zemper.
Around these five people grew a honeycomb of facts and anecdotes,
photographs and diaries, family histories and fabulous tales.
Several dozen other local enthusiasts joined together to head up various
chapters or segments of the history book, and we have noted their contributions on
the first text page of those sections.
The book is published under the direction of the American Revolution
Bicentennial Committee of the City of Howell, as a 200th Birthday project.
It is to the credit of that farseeing committee that this most important work
appears in your hands today.
The sharp set in Howell , 1895.
DAVID L. JAEHNI-G
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
A Message from President Gerald Ford
u..s_s_
Congratulations to Howell and
Livingston County on your Bicentennial
celebration .
Kerry Kammer
State Senator
17th District
My congratulations to Howell and to Livingston County as you
celebrate our Bicentennial year . It is a time for each of us to
reexamine and reaffirm the best of our traditions and to move
forward in the great American spirit to plan the third century of our
existence as a nation . We have much to offer and much to gain as a
people if we work together . Livingston County represents the main
strength of our system and I am hopeful that your Bicentennial
celebration in 1976 will be a most fruitful experience. I am proud to be
serving as your Congressman during this important year .
Warm regards,
M. Robert Carr
Member of Congress
Congratulations on your fine
effort to bring back Howell of
yesterday .
Senator Philip Hart
As a member of the Michigan
Bicentennial Commission I ex -
tend my warmest wishes to
Howell and Livingston County
and that the spirit of '76 remain
strong in this area and the
coming years .
Gilbert Bursley
State Senator
18th District
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Contents
The Beginnings ..... .
The Revolution
... 12
... 28
Howell's Early Settlers .............•.......•..........•.......... 36
Howell in the 1800's . . .. 62
Howell's Centennial Farms ..
What We Wore . .. the 1800's .
I Remember When .
. . . . • . . • . . . . 72
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.. 110
One Room Schools ............•..•..•.... . .. . .......... ..... ... .. 130
Howell's Schools .
Howell's Notables
Woman of the 1800' s .
That was Entertainment .
Amusements .
The Opera House
The Civil War .
Cemeteries ....
Music through the Years .
City Government
Business and Industry
. . . . 134
.. 154
.. .. 155
. 160
. . .. ... . . . . . ...... . ... . 168
. 178
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Chamber of Commerce .............. . ... .
. 189
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. . 229
The Early 1900's . . . . . 231
World War I .
Howell in the 1900's
Law Enforcement
. ... . .. . .. . .. . .. . . ... .... 238
... . 252
.... 260
Organizations . .. .. . ...... . .. 261
And We Went to War Again . . .. 285
Churches .........................•........•........•............ 293
Fashions of the 1900' s .... . . ... 306
County Government . . . . . . .. 308
Hospitals . . . ..•.........•.. ...... 321
Tragedy Struck Too Often . . ... 336
The F i re Department
Currency .....
. . ........ .... .......... . ...... . ..... 344
.... . 356
And the Distance Grew Less .360
Transportation .... .. .. ...........•................. 366
Newspapers and Radio . • . .. . . . . . . . . . . . • . . ... 389
The Howell Post Office . ..... . . . ... .. . ... •. . .. ... . . .. . 394
Howell Map of 1910 ........ . .. . .
The Library ...
The Garlands-A Nation's Tailor .
And We Took to the Air .
. .. . .............. 396
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Inventions . . . . . . . . . . . .406
Main Street of Michigan ... .. ... .............. ........ .......... . 414
The Sunday Ball Game ..
Sports ...
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The Howell Armory ............ .. .......• . ..... . .. . ..•.. .. . .. .... 437
Howell ls Where We Live .. . . .. ... .. •.. .. . .. . . .. .. . 438
Michigan Bicentennial Executive Director Howard Lancour
displayed the Michigan Bicentennial Medallion and national Bicentennial
symbols . Two of the medals were presented during the
evening ... one to Howell Mayor Robert Parker, and the other to
Howell Bicentennial Committee Chairman Dave Jaehnig, as a part of
the ceremonies honoring Howell as a National Bicentennial
Community.
Introduction
In Howell, as in virtually all small cities, a great many folks wear more than one
hat. The local banker or attorney is also the president of the school board, a county
official heads the community charity drives, a salesman helps direct a local civic
group, and the newspaper editor directs the American Revolution Bicentennial
activities.
Having already stacked my tricorn Bicentennial hat atop my Livingston County
Press editor's visor several years ago, I now find myself devising a unique book
editor's cap to balance at the top of the personal totem pole.
It is certainly a cap, however, that I cherish deeply, especially after viewing the
unique and outstanding work committed to my hands by these hundreds of local
writers .
As you begin to read this work of your neighbors and friends, we offer several
explanations to assist you comfortably through the book.
We have made no attempt to rewrite or heavily edit any of the contributors to
the history book. A major part of the charm and flavor of the book is in the
personal writing of the contributors, a fact that will add value to the work as the
years pass . This may occasionally lead the reader to question the flow of a certain
article or the grammar of another .
Also, many of the accounts are as folks remember them, and so occasionally a
date or a name spelling may disagree with your memory or appear to be
inaccurate . Coordinators of the various sections of the book have read the articles
and the captions for the pictures to assure accuracy wherever possible. Still it is
true that errors undoubtedly will occur in a work of this magnitude, especially
when written by so many contributors.
Finally, we have made no attempt to shorten stories or articles. We included
what the author considered to be important, relying on their background and
research to determine the length and style of any given article.
We have, on the other hand, searched out misspellings, embarrassing
grammatical problems, and given the book organization and direction. With the
assistance of photography expert Duane Zemper , we have selected the most
representative and entertaining of hundreds upon hundreds of pictures, weeding
out those which were close duplicates, out of the Howell area, and of poor quality
and composition .
The result is The Howell Bicentennial History, a work the American Revolution
Bicentennial Committee proudly presents as we enter the year of our 200th
Birthday across the United States.
We are proud to be an American, and we are proud that Howell is where we live.
DAVID L. JAEHNIG, CHAIRMAN
AMERICAN REVOLUTION BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
CITY OF HOWELL, MICHIGAN
Howell Mayor Robert Parker, left , and Michigan
Amer ican Revolution Bicentennial Commission Executive
Director Howard Lancour show off Howell's new
Bicentenn ial flag. The flag was presented to the city March
26, 1975 by Lancour, following the official national
designation of Howell as a National Bicentennial
community .
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Old cabin on Marr Road north of Howell. The old timers told of the
scratches on the door from bear claws.
The Beginnings. . .
By DUANE ZEMPER
The bear was a big one and it was coming straight toward
him . Slowly, Bill Lewis raised his rifle, carefully he aimed ,
shot, and wounded the bear. The second bear was coming
now. It took a while to reload-powder, wadding, shot, more
wadding. The bear was close-he shot again , wounding the
second bear. The third bear watched while the first bear
started toward Lewis again . Another shot rang out but this
time from the rifle of Francis Monroe, Lewis' neighbor , that
he had planned to visit. Between them they killed one bear,
but the others got away into the forest.
Not an ordinary day in the life of a pioneer , but an example
The Beginnings.
Coo rdinator
Duane L. Zemper, E.M.U. '42, Yale
Univ. '43. On 4 All-American teams as a
distance runner . Taught and coached
high school, instructor of Physics.
E.M . U., Metalurgica! Engineer. Married
Tillie Reiner, daughter of Eric Reiner of
Howell, '43. Europe WWI I as Photo
Officer . He bought Nelson Studio in
Howell, Jan . 1946. Three times top state
photographer. State President of
Professional Photography of Michigan 60.
Named top Portrait Photographer in
United States '66. State President of
Michigan Society of Photographers, '70.
of what it was like at times in Howell Township. William
Lewis was considered the champion hunter in the area and is
said to have killed five deer in onP.d av. three with one shot.
At one time he killed five wild turkeys with two shots from a
single barreled rifle.
What attracted men to this area and would make them
leave comfortable homes in the East to come here? The
government had decided that any soldier who had served in
the late war (1812) should be given 160 acres in the territory
of Michigan if he cared to claim it and settle . A group of
surveyors were sent out from the village of Detroit to get an
idea of the type of land that was available. Unfortunately
they spent four days south and west of where Pontiac is now.
It was lakes and marshy land covered with tall reeds and
mud where they sank sometimes to their knees . They were
very disenchanted and returned to Detroit with a report that
the territory of Michigan was not suitable , that not one acre
in a hundred , if one acre in a thousand would be able to be
cultivated.
When word of this report reached the veterans, they
changed their minds about coming here for free land . This
irritated Governor Cass and he took his own expedition out to
see for himself . Going in a different direction , he found
rolling hills rather sparsely wooded, clearings burned off by
old fires and generally a very habitable area.
By this time , the government had arranged to give land to
the old soldiers in the Missouri territory , so Michigan land
was put up for sale in 160 acre lots for $2 to $3 an acre .
Probably , the first settler in Livingston County was
Stephen Lee, who came from Western New York state and
settled in Green Oak Township in September , 1830. Others
What do you do on Sunday afternoon when you w ork from 6 to 6 for 6
days a week? One thing to do was hunt f rogs,
soon came to Hamburg , Putnam and other areas most of
them from Salem in Washtenaw County.
The settlers found a few Indians and many wild animals
and fish. The Indians were primarily Chippewas from the
Saginaw Bay area where they made their permanent homes .
The Indians in the western part of the county were
Pottawatamies whose permanent homes were in what is now
the Lansing area .
These tribes were once a very warlike group , but their
spirit had been broken after their alliance with the English
and subsequent defeat. The English had always paid the
Indians about two shillings (50 cents ) per head per year and
when the Americans took over , they kept the same practice
and paid the Indians 50 cents per head regardless of age when
they presented themselves in Detroit.
Every year long lines of them would wander their way
along the old trails , squaws carrying babies on their backs , to
get their money. This got very disturbing to the people of
Detroit and later the money was distributed at Saginaw and
other points so that they weren't all in Detroit at once.
The Indians spent most of their money on whisky which
was about thirty cents a gallon in those days . This made for a
lot of drunk Indians after their payday. Usually two or three
were assigned to stay sober and watch the horses and rifles
while the rest really lived it up.
When the whisky ran out, they would often come to the
settlers ' cabins demanding liquor. They seemed to enjoy the
frightened faces of the women, but would usually go away
without trouble .
The only story of violence which I have come across
happened in Cohoctah. A white man had a cabin there . He
was not a settler , but a trapper and the first man in that area .
He traded with the Indians for furs . For their furs, they
demanded silver coins which was a carryback from their old
dealings with the French in this territory . The trader found
that they would take silver colored coins (probably pewter)
and not know the difference.
This worked for a while to his advantage until the Indians
found they could not buy whisky with the coins and became
very upset. They gathered to start for the trapper's cabin but
he got wind of it and ran. They burned his cabin to the ground
and surely would have burned him too, if they had caught
him.
We should pause here for a moment to determine town
names , because many were not the same as we have now,
just as many of the streets in Howell have had different
names.
In the early days, Howell was called Livingston Center,
Brighton was called Ore Creek , Milford was called
Rugglesville , Oak Grove was called Chemungville , Owosso
was called Shiawassee Town.
Some say it was 1835w hen the first settlers came here , but
I believe this was corrected to be May, 1834, when James and
George Sage came . They were followed by David Austin and
John D. Pinckney . Their nearest neighbors were eighteen
miles away .
In most cases the men came first and built their log cabin,
then returned to bring their wives . As more people came,
they would help each other. They would fell the trees to build
the cabin with dirt floor, no windows and using the bark from
the logs to make a roof. Sometimes before the sawmills got
started they would hang a blanket for a door and keep a fire
going at night in front of the door to keep away the wolves.
Deer, turkeys and other wild animals were plentiful for
game and the streams and lakes were full of fish. Usually
they could break about 25 acres of ground a year and get their
grain started .
The plat of the Village of Howell was made in 1835b y F .J.B .
Crane and Brooks of Detroit. John Pinckney had built his
cabin at the south end of the lake east of where the viaduct
crosses Grand River. People coming from the East would
stop and stay in his cabin until they could get theirs erected .
This got to be quite a nuisance for him and he finally got to
Crane and Brooks and convinced them to build a hotel in the
Old Union School.
Parade scene in 1892.
village. Moses Thompson had come and built a mill on the
north end of the lake . He had picked the site because there
were three ponds in the area , with tamarack swamps
between. He felt that a dam here would make a lake and be a
good site for his mill. The hotel was built before he got his
mill going and the lumber for the first frame building in
Howell was hauled from Green Oak Township .The hotel wa~
a two-story frame building and was called the Eagle Tavern.
The hotel or Eagle Tavern was on the northeast part of the
area that had been platted as a village . It was on the spot
Original Courthouse .
where Sutton 's Hardware is now. The village went west and
south from there covering about a four-block area part of
which is where the Presbyterian Church now stands .
As the tavern was the only building in town, other than the
settlers' cabins, all manner of business was conducted there .
In 1836t he post office was there , court was held there , church
groups met and the first store started in a second floor room.
When the first courts were held , people came from all over
the county to hear . There were not nearly enough rooms for
them , so they brought blankets and slept on the bar-room
it
When it was difficu lt t o get t o t own f or gro ceries, the gr ocery wagon
w ould come to you with sugar, salt, fl our, ker osene for your lamps and
many other things.
floor, and were ready for court the next day . That is, some of
them were ready . For when court adjourned for the day, the
bottles were brought back out on the bar and the evening
began.
For many of these men it was the first time away from
their cabin in a long while and to say they slept on the floor
might be better described as "passed out" on the floor.
The settlers in the earliest days had to take the trip to
Detroit, with a wagon and team of oxen to pick up supplies
and get their mail. The trip on the old trail usually took about
four days with the establishment of a post office in Howell,
the mail was brought by a horse and rider , who was Lewis
Thompson. Later another route was set up between Howell
and Grand Rapids, and James Sage, a 17-year-old boy rode
the route which took about seven days for the round trip. This
was our local "Pony Express. "
The hardships the early settlers had to endure are difficult
to imagine , now that we have come so far. One letter I read
told of a trip the man was making from Ann Arbor to
Shiawassee Town (Owoss) on foot. He set out and walked
until he came to the Huron River . At this point he went right
and left a quarter mile before finding a spot where he could
take off his shoes, roll up his pants , and wade.across . There
were no bridges. Fearful of Indians , he hid in the trees when
he heard voices ahead waiting to see if they were friendly.
When they approached he talked with them and told them he
had been informed at a cabin that he would find aplace to
stay at Livingston Center about nine miles north, and he felt
he had gone about nine miles. They assured him he was in the
right direction, but that it was still about another nine miles .
By the time he reached Howell, it was dark , he missed
Pinckney 's cabin and stumbled around the east side of the
lake. Dead tired , he was ready to quit but the sound of the
wolves howling in the distance kept him going. Finally he
saw a light and came to the cabin of Moses Thompson .
Thompson told him how to get to town and fainally he saw the
Eagle Tavern . He felt it was the most beautiful building he
had ever seen . Later , he recalled the door hung on a piece of
wire and swung back and forth because they still didn 't have
their hinges nor latches . The next day he went on to Owosso.
Some of the settlers , such as Pinckney , who had been a
successful butcher in New York State, had enough money to
get a good start. Many others who came just because they
wanted land of their own, but had no experience with farming
or the wilderness , finally gave up and went back .
One instance like this was two brothers who came to
Howell, built their cabin and were having a miserable time .
One day , Moses Thompson found them in their home almost
dead. They had been living on boiled grass for more than a
week.
With the expansion of the village to the east and north , the
area began to prosper . As frame houses were built, so
outhouses were also built. It is hard for us to imagine how it
would be to have an outhouse now, but the first ones were a
luxury to these people, and a status symbol. This eliminated
the drudger y of emptying the pan under the bed every
morning .
I well remember outhouses when working on a farm as a
boy, but the young people of today cannot conceive of what it
was like in there on a hot July afternoon , or running out
through the snow to a two-haler when it's 14 below.
The kids in later years pushed over outhouses on
Halloween just as they did everywhere , but I remember my
dad telling of how they didn't tip them over . In the dark , they
just moved them back about six feet.
With the coming of the plank roads and the railroads , the
town began to prosper . There were more mills, a cloth
factory , foundries to make plows and other implements,
carriage shops, tailor shops, and many other businesses.
The Howell Manufacturing Co. in the 1850's started making
the Howell Hand Car . This was a tiny car to run on the
railroad by manpower ; one man on each side who pumped a
All decked out for the Street F air parade in 1899.
handle up and down to make the car go. They were shipped to
many parts of the world.
The condensed milk factory was a boon to Howell, shipping
milk all over the state until it burned in 1906. A man named
Brown and later one named Papworth, found they could grow
vegetables inside under glass , during the winter . These were
shipped state-wide.
Many others , The Garland Tailoring Co. once hired more
people than any other industry in Howell. The Spencer
Machine Shop, later called Arrowhead , and now called Gould
Electric , the Howell Electric Motors, now called Electric
Apparatus and others have contributed much to the growth of
the town.
The old settlers had a difficult time . It was much better
later , and very much better now. It is hard just to look back
even to thirty years ago and notice how things have changed .
What will happen in the future should be very interesting .
Half the people living in America today cannot remember
times when they didn't have a television set. Ninety percent
cannot remember not having a radio or a washing machine ,
or a car or a refrigerator . Times change , people change , but
the future is before us to make the most of it.
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Hotel and stores .
Outside of Young's Meat Market and carriage shop.
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Homer Peavy bringing his spring lambs to market in a f ine
snowstorm.
The Revolution
By MRS. ALBERT ROHRABACHER
In reading the personal statements made by Revolutionary
War soldiers in order to obtain a pension, it should be
remembered that under the first Pension Act of 1818, they
had to prove that they were bankrupt and take a pauper 's
oath in front of a magistrate to obtain the pension.
The pension act of 1832 was not as exacting , but they
usually had to prove need. There were also requirements
about the length of time served. The pension act of 1845,
requirements were considerable relaxed and also widows
could obtain benefits, but most of the soldiers were dead by
this time.
Thus, if a man died by 1832 or sooner, there would usually
be no pension record in the National Archives in Washington.
Also, if he was reasonably prosperous it would be impossible
for him to get a pension legally . Probably some claimants
were more affluent than they appeared to be in their
statements . Also it was hard to prove length of time served.
However, if National records are lacking, there may be
provincial or colonial (now state) records, usually for
Militia. But such records are rather meager . Thus, it will be
seen that many men who served in the Revolutionary War do
not have records in the National Archives .
In as much as it is possible, direct quotes from the records
that the soldiers wrote themselves about their services in the
war are given here.
This is because original source material for history is
always preferable, and also to retain the flavor of the
language and the life of the past.
The Philip Livingston Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, of Howell were very helpful with material.
JONATHAN COOKE
VITAL STATISTICS: He is buried in the Lakeview cemetery,
Howell, in Section C, Lot 157, grave 5, with an old slab stone
marking his grave . His body was removed from the old
cemetery . It was marked as a grave of a Revolutionary War
soldier in 1922.
He was born August 17, 1754 at Southampton, Suffolk Co.,
Long Island , New York. He died October 5, 1837 in Genoa
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The Revolution
Coordinator
Janet Rohrabacher . Western Michigan
State University, L . P . N. McPherson
Hospital; husband, Albert Rohrabacher;
daughter, Mrs . William Brigham; three
grandchildren . Member Methodist
Church, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Howell Women's Club,
Detroit Society for Genealogical
Research, Wisconsin State Genealogical
Society, Connecticut Society of
Genealogists. Charter member of
Livingston County Historical Society and
Mid-Michigan Genealogical Society .
Author of historical articles for Michigan,
Wisconsin and New York publications and
of Lane and Rohrabacher family
genealogies.
Twp., Livingston Co., Mich. Hi : wife was Eunice Chapel,
born October, 1757,d ied April 8, 1842.S he is buried beside her
husbnad .
Their children were: Sarah, wife of Norman Wolcott,
David, Willie, Nathan, John, Mary, Eunice, wife of Caleb
Curtis, Mehitabell, wife of David Hight, Anna, wife of
Amariah Hammond, Hannah, wife of John Brodrick .
SERVICES: (Direct quote from pension)
"State of New York, Steuben County-On this 16th day of
October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the
Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas of the said County of
Steuben , now sitting , Jonathan Cook, a resident of the Town
of Wayne in the said County of Steuben and State of New York
aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefits of this act of
Congress passed June 7, 1832.
"That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as herein stated, viz;
"That in the latter part of the month of May in the year 1775
he volunteered for six months in the company commanded by
Captain Hollenbeck in the Third Regiment of New York State
troops commanded by Colonel Clinton, the men in Captain
Hulbert's company furnished their own arms and clothingthat
the regiment was first stationed at the City of New York
where they remained a few weeks and then Captain Hulbert's
company, together with another company commanded by
one Captain Griffin were ordered to go to Albany, and from
thence they proceeded to Lake George where they remained
a few days, and then crossed the Lake to Ticonderoga and
from there they went by water to Crown Point and that while
they were at Crown Point the enemy's posts at Chamblee and
St. Johns surrendered to the Americans and the prisoners
were marched to Crown Point and Captain Hulbert's company
and Captain Griffin's company were ordered to guard
the prisoners on their march-that they conducted the
prisoners to the Town of Canaan in the State of New York
where the prisoners were quartered upon the inhabitantsthat
he then marched with his company together with Captain
Griffin's to a place called fort Constitution on the North
river where he remained in garrison until about the first of
November when he was taken sick and obtained leave of
absence and did not recover so as to return to the fort until
the time expired for which he volunteered-that he had
permission by his furlough to return home in case he did not
recover in time to return to the fort-that his term of service
expired on the first of December in the year 1775-and that
sometime in the month of February following, he received a
written discharge from his Captain-that during the time he
was at Lake George or Ticonderoga he remembers of
standing Sentry before General Schuyler 's Markee who he
believes was commander in Chief on that Station .
" That sometime in the month of May in the year 1776 he
enlisted as a Corporal for the term of six months in the New
York State troops (and he found his own cloths and arms ) in
the company commanded by Captain Zephaniah Rogers and
Lieutenant Edward Toppin and Ensign Paul Jones but he
cannot recollect the name of the Colonel who commanded the
regiment to which Captain Rogers company was attached .
That the company was stationed first at Brooklin on the East
river where they remained until the Enemy landed over Long
Island where he went with the company to Flatbush and he
was in the battle at that place-he cannot recollect the name
of the field officers who commanded in the engagement but
he remembers that General Putnam commanded that part of
the Army to which Captain Rogers company was attached
during the retreat-that the enemy had advanced so far as
nearly to cut off the retreat of the troops under General
Putnam . When the enemy were met by Lord Sterling and
General Sullivan until General Putnam retreated across the
creek, at what was called the Tide-Mill to his own lines-that
Lord Sterling and General Sullivan were taken prisonerstha
t the Army remained on the Lines (? ) a few days after the
battle and then retreated from the Island under the Command
of General Washington and crossed over to the City of
New York-that while the Army was in New York Captain
Rogers company had permission to return to the Town of
Southampton and were employed in removing such of the
inhabitants as chose to leave the place, and such property as
they could find, across to the Town of Seabrook in the State of
Connecticut-and while he resided at that place he received
orders from Captain Rogers to join a Seargent's guard of
twelve men which was stationed at New Haven to guard the
public stores at that place where he continued until the first
of December when his term of service expired and he was
discharged from that service that he then volunteered under
Colonel Livingston and crossed over to Long Island where
they captured a company of Tories and brought them over to
New Haven-that he was two days on this expedition-the
Tories were commanded by one Smith and they had been
very troublesome in that neighborhood-he then returned
home to the said Town of Seabrook-he does not know what
troops this was before or after or recollect discharge fromtha
t during the rest of the war he belonged to what were
called the " Minute Men" but was not called into actual
service .
" At the expiration of his first term of service he recieved a
written discharge as above stated , but that it has been lost or
destroyed , and he cannot now produce it.
" He was born in the town of Southampton in the County of
Suffolk in the State of New York on the 17th day of August in
the year 1754."
" He had no record of his age , but he had often seen it in his
father 's family Bible."
" When he first went into the service he lived in the said
Town of Southampton , and he continued to reside there until
the island was taken by the enemy , when he removed to the
Town of Seabrook in the State of Connecticut and then he
removed to the town of Black river in the County of Morris , in
the State of New Jersey-where he lived until after the
conclusion of peace. He then moved to the city of New York
where he lived until the year-when he removed to the Town
of Lindleytown in the County of Ontario (now Steuben ) where
he remained a short time and then removed to the Town of
Painted Post in the said County where he lived about three
years-he then removed to the town of Bath in the said
county at which place and at the town of Wayne in the said
County, has continued to reside , living a part of the year in
Bath and the rest of the time in Wayne until about five years
ago when he removed to the said Town of Wayne and has
resided there permanently until the present time- "
" He does not know of any person by whom he can prove his
last term of service- "
" That Joseph Crawford , Norman Woolcott and Lyon
Gardner have known him a number of years in his present
The search for the American Revol -
utionary War veterans and descendents
who lived and died and were buried in the
Howell area during the earliest years of
settlement was conducted by Janet Rohr -
bacher of the Howell Bicentennial Committee,
under the official sanction and
funding of the Howell Bicentennial Commission.
This is one of the more than a
dozen major and minor Bicentennial
projects authorized and often funded by
the Howell Bicentennial Committee.
neighborhood and will testify as to his character for veracity
of their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution-
" He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present, and declares that him name is
not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. "
Jonathan Cook
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid , M.S.
Rumsey,
Dep. Clk.
This statement was followed by letters by David Higgens
and Robert Campbell , both of Wayne supporting his claims
which are here omitted. His pension was granted.
Two accounts for Jonathan Cook were found in the State
Archives of New York, as follows:
"Saybrook, Conn. Sept. 26, 1776R eceived of Jonathan Cook
three dollars . It being for the freight of two loads of corn and
Household Goods and 3 passengers from Long Island to
Saybrook. Rece'd Capt. James Harris." and
" Middletown (Conn.) Feb . 19, 1777 Rec'd and Ex 'd the
above account and think there is Justly due to Jonathan
Cook, eighteen shillings Lawful money of Connecticut. pr .
Thomas Dering , John Foster , Thomas Wickham ."
ADDITIONAL DATA:
His commander was Col. James Clinton. The North River
he mentions was what is now known as the Hudson River.
Ensign Paul Jones under whom he served was John Paul
Jones who was then on Long Island (See " Refugees of 1776
From Long Island to Connecticut ") . Lord Sterling was
William Alexander on the American side . The "Minute Men"
Regiment to which he belonged was the First Regt. of Suffolk
County Militia, commanded by Col. Josiah Smith .
In 1837, he and his wife came to Michigan to be with their
children. He bought a team of young horses , thinking to sell
them and purchase a home in Ann Arbor and live in a
cultured society . As he reached his daughter, Eunice Curtis '
home in Genoa Twp., his horses became frightened , ran the
tongue through him. He lived five days afterward . He was
buried in the old Howell cemetery and later removed to
Lakeview.
LEMUEL MONROE
VITAL STATISTICS: His grave is in Lakeside cemetery ,
Marion Twp. Section 5. He has a large granite replacement
headstone. His grave was marked in 1922 by Philip
Livingston Chapter DAR
He was born March 1, 1759 at Lexington , Mass . He died
April 29, 1854 at Howell, Michigan . He was married three
times and had six children by each wife.
He married first Anna Towser on June 13, 1782 at North -
ridge , Mass . His six children by her are unknown. He
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married second Anna Potter and their children were:
Elizabeth, wife of Ambrose Beach, Archibald, Freedom
(son), Benjamin and Frederick. He married third, about
1810-1812M, artha Rawlings of Mendon, Monroe Co., N.Y.
Their children were: Francis, Almira, wife of Henry
Dusenbury, Nancy, wife of Jonathan Totman, Abigail, wife of
Benjamin Joyner and then Ward Rice, Alexander and James
Monroe.
SERVICES: (direct quote from pension)
"State of New York, Ontatio County-On this twenty
seventh day of August 1832p ersonally appeared in open court
before the Judges of the County court now sitting Lemuel
Monroe a resident of the town of Bloomfield, County and
State aforesaid aged seventy four years, who being duly
sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
"That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers, and served as herein stated .
"1st-At the town of Upton in the County of Worchester and
State of Massachusetts, on or about the first of November ,
the year 1776h e was called out in the Militia and served three
months and went first to Dorchester , the names of the officers
does not now recollect and was employed to keep
guard .
"2nd-At Upton aforesaid early in the spring of 1777 was
called out again and served in Captain Ammidon's Company
and was marched through Mendon to Providence (R.I.) and
stationed in the Brick College, and was there employed to
keep guard for three months and was then dismissed and
went home.
"3rd-At Templeton 11. the County aforesaid was again
mustered in Capt. Wilder's Company in Colonel
Sparkhawk 's Regiment and was marched through Deerfield
and Charlemont to Bennington, Vermont and from thence
was marched to Tuels (?) Mills and halted some days and
then to Battenskill opposite to Saratoga Flatts . Saw Generals
Lincoln, Arnold and Gates . This was at the taking of General
Burgoyne. I was not in the Battle but was in several skirmishes
on the out posts and took several prisoners. 18 at one
time. Was then ordered back and was part of the guard that
went with the prisoners to Winter Hill, near Boston. This tour
was two months. I was discharged at Northbury in Worchester
County.
"4th-In August 1778I was drafted to go to Rhode Island in
Capt. Thomas Baker 's Company in Colonel Ammidon's
Regiment went to Tiverton and was engaged in building
breast works and mounting guard. General Sullivan was in
Command. Saw Generals Sullivan, Greene and LaFayette
almost every day, and did duty with the regular troops. Was
with the army when it retreated into Warren (R.I.), and was
out two months, and then returned to Upton.
"5-At Upton as aforesaid in 1779 was drafted and was
marched to Providence (R.I.) and after a few days was
marched to Quanset point to keep guard, the British Ships
being in sight and at anchor. This was in the winter. Was out
three months. The Captains name I do not remember. The
Regiment was extended on the shore for many miles, and
never mustered together.
"6-At Barrie in the County 01 Worcester aforesaid I
volunteered on the request of the Selectmen of the town, the
year I do not remember . T l ,e Captains name I do not
remember. Lieutenant Mills, Ensign Rand. Enlisted to go to
King's Ferry in New York. Was marched to Danbury in
Connecticut and was then ordered to West Point and arrived
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there . General Mac Dougall was in Command . I saw him
almost daily. I was in Colonel Drury 's Regiment. Was
engaged in Repairing the Fort (?) and mounting guard. I was
discharged late in the fall; and was out five months. Was sick
was the reason for my discharge .
"I had a discharge from the Hospital Surgeon, which I have
lost, do not remember his name. I think this was the year
0781) Cornwallis was taken and near the close of the War.
"Besides this tour, I was not called out again and did not
serve afterward. I was born in Lexington, in Massachusetts
on the 1st March 1759 have no record of my age. Never
received a written discharge.
"At the close of the war lived in Northbury State of
Massachusetts; and for forty years or more past has lived in
the County of Ontario ( N .Y.). He has no documentary
evidence and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he
can procure who can testify to his service.
"He knows David Stout and Jonathan Mason of the town of
Richmond in the County of Ontario and State of New York.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on
the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Lemuel Monroe
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open
court."
There were letters from David Stout and Jonathan Mason,
both of Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y. supporting his claims,
which are omitted here.
Later, certifying evidence was given by Capt. Thomas
Baker, that he was one month and eighteen days in service
1779 at Claverack, N.Y.
He also served in the War of 1812 from Monroe Co., N.Y.
ADDITIONAL DATA:
The Brick College is Brown University at Providence, R.I.
After he resided at Upton, Mass., he probably lived at Northboro,
Barre and possibly Templeton, Mass ., and in the
1790's in Dutchess County, N.Y.
He was granted a pension in 1832 at Bloomfield, Ontario
Co., N.Y. In 1834 Lemuel Monroe resided with a son in
Macomb Co., Mich. He stated in 1837 that he had children in
New York State. In 1839 he moved back to West Bloomfield,
New York. He returned to Michigan and made his home with
his son Francis Monroe who resided in Howell Township,
Livingston County.
EPHRAIM SMITH
VITAL STATISTICS:
He is buried in Lakeview cemetery, Howell, Livingston
County, Mich., Section B, Lot 203, grave 5. He is buried on the
Smith plot with his son, Waitstill Smith, a veteran of the War
of 1812. Both graves were marked in 1930 by the S.A.R. and
DAR.
He was born September 24, 1740, at Hebron, Conn. He died
October 7, 1839 in Marion Twp., Livingston County, Mich. He
married in 1770M iss Abigail Higgens. She died in 1819b efore
he came to Michigan.
His children were : Waitstill (Waity) Smith and probably
others. Henry H. Smith was a grandson, buried same lot.
SERVICES: Unfortunately this segment <R&S) of the
Revolutionary War records in the National Archives,
Washington, D.C. is closed to the public temporarily . The
records are bein.: microfilmed and access to these records
will not be pc,,,sible for at least six months .
However, from the Provincial Archives of New York the
following records were gathered:
"Ephraim Smith was in the 6th Company of New York,
under Capt. Noble Benedict of Danbury , Conn. He enlisted
May 12, 1775. Discharged October 23, 1775.
" Empraim Smith was in Capt. Nathaniel Johnson's
Company, Col. William Douglas Regt. raised 1776 to reinforce
Washington 's Army at New York. Served in the City
and on the Brooklyn front, being at the right of the line of
works during the Battle of Long Island, August 27. Engaged
in the retreat to New York, August 29-30. Stationed with
Militia Brigade under Col. Douglas at Kip's Bay on the East
River at time of the enemy's attack on New York, September
15, and forced to retreat. At Battle of White Plains ,
October 28. Term expired December 25, 1776.
"An Ephraim Smith was in the Short Term Levies of the
5th Regt., 1781 under Lt. Col. Isaac Sherman, Wadsworth's
Brigade . Service commenced July 5, 1781. His time in this
service was 5 months and 13 days ."
His descendants believe all these services refer to him.
ADDITIONAL DATA:
He was one of seven brothers in the Revolutionary War,
died in 1839 aged 99 years and 13 days. He was probably born
the earliest , 1740, of any resident of Livingston County. His
son, Waitstill had a son Henry H. Smith and four daughters.
MARSHALL TUBBS
He is given in DAR records as buried in Lakeside
cemetery, Marion Twp., Livingston County. Marked 1922 by
Philip Livingston Chapter DAR. No record of any headstone
for him has been found in this cemetery. Also no record for a
man by this name has been found in Mass ., Conn., Vt., or
N.Y. war records. There is no record of a man by this name
ever residing in Livingston County.
CALEB CURTIS
This man is in a class by himself because he is a son of a
French and Indian War soldier.
VITAL STATISTICS: He is buried in Lakeview cemetery,
Howell, Mich., Section C, Lot 157, grave 3, with an old style
headstone. His body was removed from the old cemetery.
He was born May 15, 1781 in Conn., died March 21, 1864,
Howell, Mich. He married 1808 Eunice Cook born April 8,
1788, died May 12, 1881, Howell, Mich.
His children were : Harriet, Sophronia, Mary wife of J.C.
Mason, Benjamin C., Philo and Henry Curtis .
SON OF: Daniel Curtis born 1735 Conn., died 1817 and
buried Wayne, N.Y. who married Abial Hanchett born June
15, 1740; died July 18, 1822, Steuben Co., N.Y.
FATHER'S SERVICES: Daniel Curtis served in the
French and Indian War with Capt. Samuel : 1mo · of Sharon,
Conn. This man 's grave and his father 's se1 vices were
discovered through the Howell Bicentennial project.
JOHN B. BRITTIN
VITAL STATISTICS: He is buried in the Chilson cemetery,
Section 28, Genoa Twp., with a very old headstone. (The
name is also spelled Britten and Britton j.
He was born November 28, 1801 in New Jersey . He died
1878, Genoa Twp., Livingston Co., He married about 1825,
Margaret Snyder , born May 15, 1803; died March 22, 1861. He
resided Seneca and Steuben Cos., N.Y. and Wayne Co., Mich.
His children were: Zachariah , John I., William S., Henry
V., Martinus S., Lydia C., wife of Vine C. Dawley, Alfred
Moore, Thomas Crandall, Nicholas S., and Mary wife of
Alfred Cater.
SON OF: John Britten , 2nd, born 1758, died 1834 and Hannah
Lott born 1769, died 1845.
FATHER'S SERVICES: He was a private in New Jersey
lines. Pension granted May 18, 1821. Richard, his brother of
Seneca Co., N.Y. signed an affidavit in 1820i n his behalf . This
man 'g grave and his father 's war service was discovered
through the Howell Bicentennial project.
NATHAN COOK
VITAL STATISTICS: He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery ,
Howell, Mich., Section C, Lot 157, grave 2. He has an old
headstone.
He was born July 3, 1782i n New York state. He died July 11,
1871a t Howell, Livingston Co., Mich. He married first Sarah
Hunt and second Chloe Cobb. It is unknown if he had children .
SON OF: Jonathan Cook born August 17, 1754, Southampton ,
Long Island, N. Y.; died October 5, 1837 Genoa Twp.,
Livingston Co., Mich. He married Eunice Chapel born
October 1757, died April 8, 1842.
FATHER'S SERVICES: See Jonathan Cook, Revolutionary
soldier . This man's grave and father's war service was
discovered through the Howell Bicentennial project .
DAVID HIGHT
VITAL STATISTICS: He is huried in the Chilson cemetery,
Section 28, Genoa Twp., with an old headstone. He is buried
beside his wife and son, Nathan .
He was born June 21, 1781i n New Jersey . He died March 9,
1880 (family records ) and April 29, 1885 (in County records ),
in Genoa Twp., Livingston Co., Mich. He was married March
15, 1804 to Mehetabell Cook, born July 15, 1780, died July 8,
1864.
His children were : Sally Ann wife of Reuben Haight ,
Hannah wife of James Stewart, John D., Nathan C., William
S., Harriet, and Deborah Hight.
SON OF: John N. Hight born January 9, 1756 New Jersey,
died supposedly 1832 in New York, married Hannah Savage .
FATHER'S SERVICES: John N. Hight was an Orderly
Sergeant, New Jersey troops. He lost his home and valuable
library when Princeton, N.J . was burned 1776 by the British .
He removed to Steuben County, N.Y.
This man's grave and his father 's services were discovered
through the Howell Bicentennial project.
FRANCIS MONROE
VITAL STATIS'l'lC~ . He is buried at Lakeview Cemetery ,
Howell, Mich. bt:::,J,e his wife, Section E, Lot 24, grave 4 or 6.
He was born August 8, 1813 at Mendon, Monroe Co., N.Y.
He died March 6, 1892, Howell, Mich. He married first September
8, 1834L uana Hicks born 1815, died February 17, 1868,
Howell, Mich. He married second Mrs. Sarah Brininstoole .
His children were (by first wife): Henry 0 ., Francis N.,
Jam es 1\1., Norton M., George W., Mary L. wife of William
Bezan. Luana Amelia, Margaret Helen, William H., Lucinda
M. \\ 1fv of Benjamin B. Morgan .
SO"IIO F : Lemuel Monroe born March 1, 1759a t Lexington ,
Mass ., died April 29, 1854, Howell, Mich. and his third wife,
Martha Rawlings , born 1782.
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FATHER'S SERVICES: See Lemuel Monroe, Revolutionary
soldier. This son's grave and father's record was discovered
by the Howell Bicentennial project.
JAMES MONROE
VITAL STATISTICS : He is buried in Lakeview cemetery ,
Howell, Mich., Section H, Lot 137, grave, beside his wife.
He was born April 'l:/, 1827 at East Bloomfield or Richmond ,
Ontario Co., N.Y. He died May 'l:I, 1898, Howell, Mich. He
married 1857 Nancy Garmer , born October 3, 18'2:I, died May
1, 1894, Howell, Mich.
His children were: Libby B. wife of Charles Warren,
Dwight D., George L., Addie M., wife of Arthur Garland ,
Arthur L., Cora M., wife of Wells Bennett .
SON OF: Lemuel Monroe, see Francis Monroe.
FATHER'S SERVICES: See Lemuel Monroe, Revolutionary
soldier . His grave and father 's services were discovered
through the Howell Bicentennial project.
WAITSTILL SMITH
VITAL STATISTICS: He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery,
Howell, Mich., Section B, Lot 203, grave 6. His grave was
marked with a S.A.R. Bronze medallion , both as a son of a
Revolutionary War soldier and as a soldier of the War of 1812.
He was called Waity Smith .
He was born July 14, 1773 at Hebron, Connecticut. He died
December 14, 1845 (cemetery record ) or died September 14,
1845 (monumen t) at Handy Twp., Livingston Co., Mich. He
married 1796 Susannah Bull Bratt who died 1838. He married
second Mrs . Mary G. Sage .
His children , all by first wife were: Eliza wife of Elnathan
Botsford , Lucy S. wife of David Dickerson , Olivia Fedelia
wife of John L. Wing, and Henry H. Smith , also another
daughter .
SON OF: Ephraim Smith born September 24, 1740 Hebron,
Conn.; died October 7, 1839 Marion Twp., Livingston Co.,
Mich ; married 1770 Abigail Higgens , died 1819.
FATHER 'S SERVICES: See Ephraim Smith, Revolutionary
soldier .
CHARLES VAN WINKLE
VITAL STATISTICS: He is buried in the Gilkes cemetery,
Section 5, Putnam Twp., Livingston Co., Mich. He is buried
beside his wife.
He was born August 27, 1785 in Pa . or New Jersey . He died
February 27, 1850, Marion or Putnam Twp., Livingston Co.,
Mich. He married 1806 Jane Locke, born 1783, died October
13, 1850, Marion or Putnam Twp., Livingston Co., Mich.
His children were : Jacob Locke, Margaret , Susan wife of
Dana Morse, Mary Ann wife of Payne Fitch , Naomi wife of
Ephraim Martin , Peter , Harriet wife of Chauncey Smith,
John , Jane L. wife of Thomas Ross and Charles D. V.1n-
Winkle.
SON OF: Johannes VanWinkle born December 6, 1733; dieu
August 13, 1839 and his wife, Naomi Dickerson whom he
married February 21, 1768.
FATHER's services: Johannes Van Winkle was an Ensign in
Pa . troops . He also served in 1777 as an Ensign in the Continental
Army under Capt. John Marshall , Col. William
Stewart 's Regiment. This grave and his father 's services
were discovered by the Howell Bicentennial project.
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Widow and Daughters
of Revolutionary War Soldien
EUNICE (CHAPEL) COOK
This woman is the only widow of a Revolutionary War
soldier in the Howell area ; the others are all daughters of
soldiers .
VITAL STATISTICS: She is buried in Lakeview Cemetery ,
Howell, Mich., Section C., Lot 157, grave 4. She is buried near
her husband. Her body was removed from the old cemetery .
Her grave was marked by Philip Livingston Chapter DAR.
She was born October , 1757, Long Island , N.Y., the
daughter of Benjamin Chapel and Eunice Kruger. She died
April 8, 1842, Genoa Twp., Livingston Co., Mich. She married
before 1775 Jonathan Cook born August 17, 1754, Southampton,
N.Y.; died October 5, 1837 Genoa Twp., Livingston Co.,
Mich.
Her children were : See Jonathan Cook, Revolutaionary
soldier .
WIFE OF: See Jonathan Cook.
HUSBAND'S SERVICES: See Jonathan Cook.
NANCY(DEARBORN)BROOKS
VITAL STATISTICS: She is buried in Lakeview Cemetery ,
Howell, Mich., Section C, Lot 5. Her grave was located by
Philip Livingston Chapter DAR.
She was born December 30, 1783 at Chester , New Hampshire.
She died January 30, 1881 at Howell, Mich. She married
Joseph Brooks .
It is unknown if she had children .
DUAGHTER OF: Asa Dearborn , born July 25, 1756, Chester ,
New Hampshire ; died October 16, 1831 Chelsea , Vermont. He
married Anna Emerson , born November 14, 1763 Chester ,
New Hampshire, died August 10, 1852.
FATHER'S SERVICES: Asa Dearborn , Pvt. , enlisted
August 5, 1778. Discharged August 28, 1778. Time in service 28
days. In Capt. Joseph Dearborn 's company , Col. Moses
Nichol's Regt. of Volunteers which marched from the state of
Ne,, Hampshire and joined the Continental Army at Rhode
ls1ci1al, August 1778. Two days allowed for travel. Also in
Capt. Joseph Dearborn 's company in Continental Service
against Canada as mustered and paid by John Dudley, Esq .,
Paymaster. His widow received a pension .
MISS MARY COOK
VITAL STATISTICS : She is buried in Lakeview Cemetery ,
Howell, Mich., Section C, Lot 157, grave 1. The old headstone
is here , but broken . Her grave was marked by Philip
Livingston Chapter DAR.
She was born October , 1794 at Corning, N.Y. She died
September 10, 1874 at Howell, Mich. She was unmarried .
DAUGHTER OF: Jonathan Cook. See this in Eunice (Cook)
Curtis.
FATHER'S SERVICES: See Jonathan Cook, Revolutionary
soldier .
EUNICE (COOK) CURTICE
VITAL STATISTICS: She is buried in Lakeview cemetery ,
Howell, Mich., Section C, Lot 157, grave 6. She is buried
beside her husband . Her grave was marked by Philip
Livingston Chapter DAR.
She was born April 8, 1788 in New York City, N.Y . She died
May 12, 1881, at Howell, Mich. She married 1808 Caleb Curtis,
born May 15, 1781, died 1864 Howell, Mich.
Her children : See Caleb Curtis .
DAUGHTER OF: Jonathan Cook. See Jonathan Cook,
Revolutionary soldier .
FATHER'S SERVICES : See Jonathan Cook.
METHABELL (COOK) HIGHT
VITAL STATISTICS: She is buried in the Chilson cemetery ,
Section 28, Genoa Twp., Livingston Co., Mich., beside her
husband and son, Nathan .
She was born July 15, 1780, Saybrook , Conn. She died July 8,
1864, Genoa Twp., Livingston Co., Michigan. She married
March 15, 1804 David Hight. He was born June 21, 1781; died
March 9, 1880.
Her children: See David Hight , son of Revolutionary
soldier .
FATHER'S SERVICES: See Jonathan Cook.
Her records were discovered through the Howell Bicentennial
project.
LUCINDA (WAKEMAN) NORTON
VITAL STATISTICS: She is buried in Lakeside Cemetery,
Section 5, Marion Twp., Livingston Co., Mich. Her grave was
marked by Philip Livingston Chapter DAR.
She was born March 2, 1810 at Ballston Spa, New York . She
died February 26, 1868 at Howell, Mich. She married April 19,
1838 to Henry Hazard Norton , born November 15, 1808; died
Jul y 22, 1874.
Her children were : Helen Sarah , Henry G. Henry H.,
Francis A. wife of Henry F . Lake , and possibly Malcom D.
Norton .
DAUGHTER OF: Stephen Wakeman , Jr ., born September
19, 1761, Greenfarms, Conn., died September 16, 1852 at Lockport
, N.Y. He married June 29, 1789 Sarah Whitehead , born
August 24, 1764 Greenfarms, Conn.; died May 11, 1844.
FATHER'S SERVICES : Stephen Wakeman, Jr. enlisted
Fairfield, Conn., a Private. Served 19 months, part of time
under Capt . Nash . He received pension 1832. Buried Cold
Spring cemetery, Lockport, N. Y. His father , Stephen, Sr. was
also in the war.
MARY ANN (DEARBORN ) SKILBECK
VITAL STATISTICS : She is buried in Lakeview Cemeter y,
Howell, Mich., Section C, Lot 6, grave 3. Her grave was
marked by Philip Livingston Chapter DAR.
She was born March 4, 1807 at Chelsea , Vermont. She died
March 25, 1877 at Howell, Mich. She married Joseph B.
Skilbeck , born England , died April 23, 1894, Howell, Mich.
Her children were: John E ., Frances A., Parle y, and
Elizabeth wife of Andrew D. Waddell , possibly others .
DAUGHTER OF: Asa Dearborn , see her sister , Nancy
(Dearborn ) Brooks.
FATHER'S SERVICES: See Nancy (Dearborn ) Brooks .
MARGARET (MORRIS ) THOMPSON
VITAL STATISTICS: She is buried in Lakeview cemeter y,
Howell, Mich., Section B, Lot 157, grave 2. She is buried with
her husband . Her grave was marked by Philip Livingston
Chapter DAR.
She was born August 11, 1780 in New York state . She died
April 11, 1866, Howell, Mich. She married before 1800, Moses
Thompson. He was born February 2, 1775; died December 2,
1841a t Howell, Mich. In 1804h e moved to Herkimer Co., N.Y.
Her children were : Lewis , Rachel wife of Garre t
Houghtaling and then wife of Alva Preston , Morris , Edward ,
Joseph Randall , Lucinda wife of Ezra Frisb y, Jane wife of
Alva Crittenden , Elizabeth wife of Amos S. Slader and Maria
wife of Charles Clark.
DAUGHTER OF: (by tradition ) Lewis Morris , born April 8,
1726, January 22, 1798 Morrisania , N.Y. He married September24
, 1749 Mary Beekman Walton , born February , 1727,
died March 11, 1794.
FATHER 'S SERVICES: Lewis Morr is was a Signer of the
Declaration of Independence ; Major-General in
Revolutionary War ; Delegate to Continental Congress ;
member of Board of Regents of the Universit y of New York .
Barbara Pettibone stands by the Centennial flag which will be on
display on a rotating basis during this Bicentennial year . Mike
Hagman, vice -chairman of the Howell Bicentennial Committee , made
arrangements to have the flag framed and enclosed in glass to
preserve it. Vincent White made the wood frame for it . At the end of
the Bicentennial year , the flag will be returned to Mrs . Luc i lle Taylor
of Howell who discovered it and other early antiques when she was
cleaning out the attic of her father , Edward Guzman of Detroit .
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Year 1833-year of exploration for Howell Township,
prospectors and settlers followed.
On May 14, 1834M r. George S. Sage and his father, James
Sage came with families and settled upon land selected by
George T. Sage.
James Sage's log house was on the site across from where
the Recreation Center is now. Geo. T. Sage's house was
across the Grand River Trail to the south nearly in the center
of what is now Grand River.
In 1835: Moses Thompson with son, Lewis and daughters,
Rachel (after Mrs . Houghtaling , later Mrs. Preston and
Lucina (Mrs. Ezra Frisbee ) left Herkimer County, N.Y.
traveled through Canada in a double buggy drawn by a
second team of horses brought to Howell reached Detroit,
May 25.
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In 1835F lavius J . B. Crane and Edward Brooks platted 120
acres into village of Howell. It is told in Crittenden 's Histor y
of Howell, that Mr. Crane gave as reason for his idea of the
name Howell, his friend , Thomas Howell, son of Judge
Howell of Canandaigua, N.Y.; but his intimate friends were
sure that Mr. Howell's pretty sister was the real person
whose name the town bore . For many years , however, the
town was called Livingston Center .
1835 settlers: Joseph Porter , Sec. 7; Samuel Waddel, Sec.
17; Whitely Woodruff, Sec. 17; David H. Austin , Sec. 21;
Elisha H. Smith , Sec. 21; Nathaniel Johnson, Sec. 23; Alvin
Crittenden, Sec. 23; Merrit S. Havens, wife, Sally T. Austin,
Sec. 23; Francis Field, Sec. 23; Moses Thompson , wife,
Margaret, Sec. 25, children Randolph , Lucinda , Jane ; Lewis
Thompson, Sec. 25; Morris Thompson , Sec. 25; Edward
Thompson , Sec. 25; Amos Adams , Sec. 36; F. J. B. Crane ,
Sec. 36; Alexander Fraser, (father of Mrs. John D. Pinckney
), Sec. 36; Andrew Riddle, Sept. , wife, Isabel Taylor ,
children: James , Elizabeth, Isabel, Andrew , William,
Margaret, Alexander. Sec. 36.
1836 settlers: William McPherson, wife, Elizabeth Riddle,
children : Isabella , William, Jr. , Alexander, Elizabeth ,
Martin John , Edw a rd Gregory, Mary Lenore, Ella ; Joseph
H. Steel ; Giles Tucker ; Enos B. Taylor ; John Russell ; Peter
Johnson ; Sherburn Crane; Joseph Tucker.
1837 settlers: Edward F. Gay, Richard Fishbeck; John T.
Watson; James White, started cabinet shop ; George W.
Jewett ; Almon Whipple , wife, Mary Curtis ; 0 . J. Field;
Josiah P. Jewett ; George W. Jewett ; Huram Bristol ; Sardis
Davis ; Conrad Wool; Adam Rohrabacher ; Ebenezer and
Matthew West.
1838 settlers: Dr . Wellington A. Glover ; Dr. Gardner
Wheeler ; Dr. Gardner Mason; Rev. Henry Root ; Rev .
Thomas Baker .
1839 settlers: Dr . Charles A. Jeffries ; John Curtis; Rev .
Edward E. Gregory ; Joseph B. Skilbeck ; John R. Neely ;
Joseph Rowe; Hon. Judge Josiah Turner ; Shubel B. Sliter ;
Nelson G. Isbell.
1840 settlers: At this time Judge Turner said only 13
families lived at Livingston Center. He added: Allen C.
Weston, Orrin J . Field.
1840-1844se ttlers: L. H. and L. K. Hewett ; Richard B. Hall ;
Dr . William Huntington; Dr. E. F. Olds; Harrington and
Mulloy; Andrew L. Hill; Eli Carpenter ; Hickey and
Galloway; Nicholas Sullivan ; George Greenaway and Son;
William R. Melvin ; Chester Hazard; George and Fred Lee ;
Leander C. Smith ; Elijah Coffren ; "Cuff" Simons ; Hezekiah
Gates ; Marvin Gaston .
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Family scene with their brick house about 1884. The centennial parade in 1876.
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William McPherson I and his family.
Early Settlers
The McPherson Family
By ROBERT H. McPHERSON
On September 17, 1836, William McPherson, his wife,
Elizabeth Riddle McPherson , and their three children,
Isabella , William Jr ., and Alexander arrived in Howell, then
known as Livingston Centre, from Scotland. William
Early Settlen
Coordinator
William McPherson, IV. Born Howell,
Michigan, August 2, 1912. Son of William
McPherson, 111 and Marguerite Mills
McPherson . Grandson of Edward G .
McPherson and Rosalie Lee McPherson .
Great grandson of William McPherson
and Elizabeth Riddle McPherson .
Educated Howell Public Schools through
Grade 10. Graduated Asheville School for
Boys, Asheville, N .C., 1930. Graduated
University of Michigan, 1934. Employed
McPherson State Bank, 1935-73. Served in
various officer capacities, and retired as
president . Civic activities: Boy Scouts of
America, Howell Area Community Chest ,
American Red Cross , American Cancer
Society , Livingston County Republican
Committee, Howell City Investment
Commission, Howell Rotary Club,
Chemung Hills Country Club , Howell Elks
Lodge, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
American Legion, First Presbyterian
Church, Army of U .S. 1942-1945 in W .W . 11.
McPherson was a blacksmith , having learned and practiced
his trade in Scotland . Mrs . McPherson 's father, Andrew
Riddle, also a blacksmith, had arrived in Howell in the spring
of that year and built a log blacksmith shop. So after building
a log house for his family 's home, William was ready to start
his business in his father-in-law 's shop. His first day's
business consisted of repairing a sight on a musket and
making a clapper for a cow bell. During the following year,
Andrew Riddle moved to Oceola Township, and William
McPherson continued in the blacksmith business until 1843.
William and Elizabeth McPherson were instrumental in
organizing the First Presbyterian Church in Howell. William
also served on a committee to establish the first school. He
was elected a director and treasurer of a company that was
organized to build a railroad from Detroit to Howell. After
several years of work and an eventual reorganization of the
company, the railroad was completed to Lansing , and was
known as the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad . It
later became part of the Pere Marquette System .
Four sons and four daughters were born to William and
Elizabeth McPherson . Besides Isabella, William Jr . and
Alexander , who were born in Scotland , there were Martin J.,
Edward G., Elizabeth (Mrs. E. P . Gregory) , Mary (Mrs. H.
T. Browning), and Ella (Mrs . F . A. Smith ). Isabella became
Mrs. H. H. Mills. All of the eight children were married , and
all except Alexander and Martin J . raised families of
children . Their descendants , now numbering more than
ninety , are scattered across the country from New England
to California and from Michigan to Florida . Those living in
Howell with their families are William McPherson IV,
Alexander M. McPherson, Edward G. McPherson , W.
McPherson Smith, Jr ., Alan R. McPherson and Robert H.
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The women's club celebrate the completion of the R.B. McPherson
home, 1915.
McPherson. Robert T. McPherson, although not living in
Howell, is active in business here.
After going out of the blacksmith business in 1843, William
McPherson embarked on a long career with the retail store
business, first in two successive ventures with partners, then
with three of his sons as they grew to manhood and were
taken into the business. In 1864 the firm name was changed to
William McPherson and Sons. William remained active in
the business until his retirement in 1887 at the age of 83. The
business was continued by his son, Martin J . and others into
the 1920's. The McPherson Store occupied three store
buildings on the north side of the first block of West Grand
River Avenue. It was the 19th century, small town version of
the department store. The east side featured men's and
women's clothing, dry goods, notions, etc. A grocery store
was in the middle, and the west side was occupied by a shoe
department. A carpet department was on the second floor
where there were big rolls of carpeting. As a small boy, I
especially remember the grocery store with the big red
coffee grinder standing in the center of the floor. Sometimes I
was allowed the thrill of turning the crank .
In April, 1865, Alexander McPherson established a bank
under the name of Alex McPherson and Company, Bankers,
located in a small building at 105 West Grand River Avenue.
The site of this building is now the west side of the D. and C.
Store. The banking business grew steadily under his
management for twenty five years. He was then asked to
become president of the First and Old Detroit National Bank,
an honor which he accepted, and he and his wife moved to
Detroit in 1890. While serving in this capacity in Detroit, he
was a co-founder of the Detroit Trust Company, which later
merged with the Detroit Bank to form what is now the Detroit
Bank and Trust Company. The management of the Alex
McPherson and Company Bank in Howell was taken over by
his brother, William McPherson, Jr., who continued as
manager until his death in 1915.B usiness conditions were bad
in 1893, and people began to lose confidence in banks . In order
to reassure his depositors, William McPherson, Jr. bought
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some gold in Detroit, and put it on display in the front window
of the bank. The public could see at a glance that the bank
was in sound financial condition, and there was no unusual
withdrawal of deposits.
The bank was incorporated in 1915, and the name was
changed to McPherson State Bank. Also at about that time,
the bank moved across the street into the building now occupied
by the Itsell Clothing Store, where it remained until
1959, when it moved into the present building at 207 North
Michigan. Since its incorporation, the following men have
served as president: Martin J. McPherson, 1915-1931, R.
Bruce McPherson, 1931-1955W, illiam McPherson III, 1955-
1965,R obert H. McPherson 1965-1968W, illiam McPherson IV,
1968-1973,A lexander M. McPherson, 1973 to the present.
Hugh A. McPherson, a cousin of William McPherson, Sr.,
served as manager of the bank under president Martin J.
McPherson from 1915 until his appointment as State Banking
Commissioner by Governor Groesbeck in 1921. At that time,
William McPherson III assumed the management position as
executive vice president, serving under presidents Martin J.
McPherson and R. Bruce McPherson until his own election
as president in 1955. Other family members serving in top
management at the present time are W. McPherson Smith,
Jr., executive vice president, and Edward G. McPherson,
senior vice president.
For many years, the McPherson brothers and R. Bruce
McPherson, son of William, Jr., were interested in farming.
At one time, various members of the family owned farms
near Howell, Hartland, Fowlerville, Webberville , and
Lansing . About 1870, William McPherson , Jr. bought a tract
of land in the eastern edge of Ingham County. Part of this he
platted and subdivided into town lots, and founded the Village
of Webberville. The rest was sold as farm land, mostly to
people immigrating from Europe . When these people cut the
trees to clear their land for farming they were able to earn
some money by selling the wood to the railroad to be used in
the wood burning locomotives. In the early 1900's Livingston
County ranked second in the nation in the number of
registered Holstein cattle in the county. Martin J .
McPherson and R. Bruce McPherson each had herds of
registered Holsteins, and we still have the trophies and
ribbons that were won by these fine cattle at fairs and shows.
The farm west of Lansing, since subdivided and sold, was
used once a year as the circus grounds for the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus . One of my
childhood thrills was the annual trip to Lansing with my
father to see the circus. We left early in the morning to be
there in time to see the wagons loaded with equipment come
in, and watch the raising of the big tents . One year there had
been a lot of rain before circus day, and the wheels of the
heavy wagons cut through the soft ground so the horses
couldn't pull them . Then they brought out the elephants and
had them push the wagons through the mud. This was quite a
sight to see, and made an impression on one small boy.
Beginning about 1870, the U.S. Government was selling
tracts of timberlands to supply lumber for the building needs
of the growing nation . The loggers who cut the timber and
sold the logs wanted to buy these lands on an installment
basis to avoid tying up their capital. This meant that
someone had to buy the lands from the government and sell
them to the loggers on timber contracts so they could pay for
each forty acres as they cut the timber from it. A number of
Michigan families, including the McPherson brothers began
their timber dealings in northern Michigan. They were later
joined by R. Bruce McPherson and extended their dealings to
Louisiana and Mississippi , and later to Oregon and
Washington . The Louisiana land was purchased in 1890.
William McPherson , Jr. , returning from a convention in St.
Louis, met a man on the train who told him about a tract of
timberland in Louisiana that was about to be offered for sale
by the government. It was said to be a beautiful stand of
southern pine, on level ground, free of underbrush and easy
to log.
After talking with his brothers about it, it was decided that
he and his son, R. Bruce McPherson , then twenty years old,
and Martin J . McPherson should go to Louisia_na to look at
this tract , and to buy it if they decided it was a good investment.
While they were out in the middle of the Louisiana
forest , they were surprised to meet a group of men from
Jackson , Michigan. It was obvious to each group why the
others were there . After a little conversation, it was also
obvious that both groups wanted to buy it. So they talked it
over and decided that instead of racing to the land office to
try to get it first , they would divide it up. So they went to the
land office together , and each group took half of it. Eventually
this proved to be the most successful of the timberland
investments . Many years later, William McPherson, Jr .
went to that land office again, and was very surprised when
the man in charge greeted him and called him by name .
" How did you know my name? " he asked . The man replied ,
" Because you came into this office many years ago and
bought a tract of land, and I thought you were the ------est fool
in the United States. " The timberlands are long since gone,
but the mineral rights , reserved when the lands were sold,
are still held and administered by members of the family .
Before Michigan had a Public Service Commission,
William McPherson , Jr . served for a number of years as
State Railway Commissioner. During his administration , a
railroad yard workman was killed when his foot was caught
between the rails of a switch , and he was unable to free
himself before being run down by a locomotive that couldn't
stop in time . After this tragic accident , William McPherson,
Jr . conceived the idea of installing wooden blocks in the
spaces between the rails of switches so that this kind of accident
could not occur again. He ordered these safety blocks
to be installed in the switches in all railroad yards and
sidings in Michigan. These blocks are still in use, and have
undoubtedly prevented other similar accidents from happening
since that time .
In 1915, Howell Electric Motors Company was established
by R. Bruce McPherson and his nephew, McPherson
Spencer , to manufacture electric motors . About the same
time the Spencer-Smith Machine Company was organized by
W. McPherson Smith, Sr., and Henry N. Spencer . This
company manufactured pistons and other parts for the
automobile industry . Both of these businesses, now under
different ownerships and different names , continue to
operate in Howell, serving the needs of industry and
providing employment for local people.
A more recent family business is McPherson Oil Company,
established in 1928b y R. Bruce and Robert H. McPherson . It
is a petroleum products distributing business with
headquarters in Howell, and branches in Fowlerville ,
Milford, South Lyon, Whitmore Lake, Pinckney and Chelsea .
The company supplies nineteen service stations as well as
fuel oil customers , farms and businesses in four counties.
Robert T. McPherson , son of Robert H., has served as
president since 1965, with general management in the hands
of Ernst W. Riemann, executive vice president.
No story of the McPherson family in Howell would be
complete without a tribute to Paul H. Uber . After graduating
from Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie , New York,
Paul Uber came to Howell to work for my grandfather ,
William McPherson, Jr ., as accountant and secretary of the
family business interests . For the next sixty four years he
worked with four generations of McPhersons until his
retirement in 1972. In addition to his accounting work he was
also active in management , serving as an officer and
director of the family corporations. At the same time, during
many of these years , he was also serving as managing
partner of the McPherson and Uber Insurance Agency. He
continued his active career long after the usual retirement
age by his own choice. The capable work, loyalty and
devotion of Paul Uber has made a very important contribution
to whatever success the McPherson family has had
in business in Howell. He now makes his home in El Cajon,
California . Once a year he returns to Howell for a visit , and
always comes to our office when he is here. We pay tribute to
a fine friend and associate , Paul H. Uber .
Home of William McPherson 11.
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Start of the great snow, 1947. This car sat downtown in the middle of
Grand River for 4 days.
The ltsell Family
By RUTH CATHERINE ITSELL
AND BARBARA ANN ITSELL
In 1845, Andrew J. Itsell, Sr. (then spelled ITZELL), his
wife, Christina F ., and their five small children moved from
Detroit into the wilds of Marion Township. There they
pioneered a homestead amidst deer, bear, and game birds on
the 50 acres of land that they had purchased three years
earlier from Horatio Foster.
Only an occasional settler had preceeded them into this
section of the country. Records show that additional land
purchases were made by Andrew J. and Christina F . during
the next several years: two 40-acre parcels by United States
Land Patents which were signed by the Assistant Secretary
to President James K. Polk in 1847 and 1849; and adjacent
farmland purchased from John Loree and Adam Schmeik in
1849 and 1853 respectively. Four sons and one daughter were
born of their marriage .
They were Paul C., Andrew J ., Stephen W., Charles E., and
Mary R. All five of the children attended academy and
normal schools. Although their father died in 1858 at the age
of 55, in 1861 the boys set about building a large, two-story
house for a home.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, however, they felt the
country needed their services, and they left the house
standing unfinished until after peace was declared . Paul C.,
the first to enlist , did so in 1861. He served in the battles
before Richmond with the infamous I Company of the 5th
Michigan Infantry. He was captured, imprisoned in Libby
Prison , and released in 1861 in poor health.
Andrew J ., newly graduated from normal school, enlisted
with the Michigan Sharpshooters in December of 1862. He
was later commissioned by Michigan Governor Blair to
recruit Company K of the 10th Cavalry . He did so, serving as
its Captain. Within two months, his brothers Stephen W. (who
left his studies at an academy), and Paul C. (who had partially
regained his health) , enlisted . The three brothers
served together in the 10th Cavalry, Company K from September
of 1863 until mustering out at the end of the war in
November, 1865. Their mother, Christina F., died at the age
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of 74 in October of 1873. Both she and her husband are buried
in what is now known as The Lakeside Cemetery in Marion
Township.
It would be twenty-six years before all five children would
be re-united again . The occasion was a gala two-day family
reunion in 1887.T he festivities were held at the homes of Paul
C., in Marion Township, and Charles E. , in Genoa Township.
Both Paul C. and Charles E . remained life-long residents of
the area. Their two brothers and sister , who no longer
resided locally, returned for the reunion . Brother Andrew J.,
a professor of education , came from San Francisco
California. '
He later married, had two daughters and one son and
established permanent residence in California. Br'other
Stephen W. and his wife, Frances, were in attendance from
Detroit, where they owned and operated a hardware
business . Their sister, Mary R. , attended the reunion with
her husband , U. S. Hackett, journeying from their home in
Groten in the Dakota territory .
In later years, however, the Hacketts returned from the
Dakota Territory and lived in Howell. Paul C. and his wife,
Sarah J . resided in Marion Township. They had four
children : Manley J., May N., Paul, and Buelah B. The
parents and four children are buried in The Lakeside
Cemetery in Marion Township.
Charles E. and his wife, Catherine Redinger Itsell lived for
several years in Marion Township before purchasing a farm
in 1882 one mile east of the village of Howell on Grand River
Road in Genoa Township. Situated on the crest of a hill, it
offered a sweeping view of the village and surrounding
farmland .
Additions were made to the original structure of the house,
and a second barn was built in 1883. It was here that they
raised their two sons and two daughters: Charles, Lillian C.,
Mary R., and Henry J. Charles E. and Catherine farmed this
land until their retirement in 1904, when they moved into the
village of Howell, residing on West Washington Street. It was
then that their eldest son, Charles , and his bride , Sarah Ann
Finley Itsell, took over farm operations and became the
second generation to raise a family on the homesite.
The two daughters of Charles E . and Catherine went on to
establish careers for themselves in the field of education.
Lillian C., who taught in Lansing, retires as Principal of Oak
Park School in 1938. When she died in July of 1947, Lillian C.
was living with her sister, Mary R., in Detroit. Mary R. , who
had taught in the Jackson area before moving to Detroit,
continued to teach about thirty-five years before her
retirement as Assistant Principal of Condon Intermediate
School in 1944. She died in December of 1957.
Old municipal heat and electric plant .
Henry J . and his wife, Effie L. McGrain Itsell , were united
in marriage in 1917. They purchased a 140-acre farm located
on the southwest corner of Grand River and Latson Roads ,
where they lived their entire lives . For many years they were
primarily dairy farmers. In about 1928, Henry J. was elected
to his first Genoa Township office. For the next forty-five
years he remained active in township affairs , serving in
every office except clerk . He was Genoa Township Supervisor
for fourteen years , and resigned as elected official in
1972.
Henry J. and Effie L. had four children : Charles J. , Mary
E ., Mildred L. and Barbara C. Charles J : and his wife,
Shirley Fettig Itsell , and their son, James M., reside on the
original farm land adjacent to the home of his parents .
Charles J . is a farmer and has continued to farm the original
140 acres , plus additional acreage. He is a member of the
Howell Rotar y, the Farm Bureau , a Director on the Board of
the Howell Co-operative Association , and the Soil Conservation
District , and a past member of the Zoning Board of
Genoa Township.
Mary E . is marr ied to Charles E . Wilkinson, Jr. , and they
reside on Bowen Road in Howell. Charles E . is sales manager
at Hilltop Ford , Incorporated in Howell. Mary E. is Secretary
to the Superintendent of the Hillcres t Center . They have a
son, Charles E . III , and a daughter , Mary Ann. Both are
graduates of the Interlochen Arts Academy and attended the
Cleveland Institute of Music. Mildred L. is a licensed practical
nurse who is employed and resides in Ann Arbor .
Barbara C. is a secretar y with the Michigan Department of
State Highways and Transportation. She resides in Lansing .
Henry J ., their father , died in September of 1974. His wife,
Effie L., preceded him in death in September of 1973. Both
are buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Howell, as are Henry
J. 's sisters , Lillian C. and Mary R.
Charles and Sarah Ann Finley Itsell were united in
marriage in 1904, the year that Charles ' parents , Charles E .
and Catherine, had retired from farming and had moved into
the village of Howell. Charles and Sarah A. made their home
on the farm and worked the 160 acres which had been tilled
by his father before him .
This was to be the only home in which Charles and Sarah A.
would reside during their forty-three years of marriage .
Charles continued farming even after he was elected to the
office of Superintendent of the Poor , an office which he held
for some 20 years . This was a County Agency designated to
offer assistance to those residents of the area whose financial
circumstances did not cover the necessities of life. When the
county discontinued this office, Charles was appointed to the
Board of Social Welfare. At that time he also did investigative
work locally for the Michigan Crippled Children's
Commission in Lansing .
When he died in October of 1952, Charles was still activel y
serving on both the Board of Social Welfare and the Michigan
Crippled Children 's Commission . Sarah A., his wife, had
preceded him in death in March of 1947. Both are buried in
Mount Olivet Cemeter y in Howell.
Charles and Sarah A. had six children : Steven W., Ruth C.,
Charles W., and Robert H. Two daughters, Alice E . and
Lucille E . both died in early childhood.
Their eldest son, Steven W., and his wife, Katherine M.
Whalen Itsell , built a home on land adjacent to the home of
Steven W.'s parents . After graduation from Cleary College in
Ypsilanti , Steven W. began working at the First National
Bank in Howell in 1925. He was with the First National Bank
for forty-seven years , and at the time of his retirement in 1972
was the President of that institution . During his banking
career , Steven W. had seen the First National Bank grow
from a small countr y bank employing three employees and
the president , to a spacious , attractive , well-organized
banking institution with 47 employees . The Michigan House
and Senate jointly passed a resolution honoring Steven W. on
the occasion of his retirement.
Through the years , Steven W. has been acti ve in communit
y affairs , is a charter member and past president of the
Lions Club in Howell, a member of the Howell Elks Club, and
a member of the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce . In 1970
Steven W. was named " Boss of the Year " by the Howell
Ja ycees . Steven W. and Katherine M. have two children :
David Q. and Judith A. David Q. and his wife, Barbara Ann
McDonald Itsell , reside on Burns Drive in Howell. They have
three children : Michael J ., John D., and Mary Katherine .
David Q. has been actively involved in business in the
community since 1954 when he owned and operated a bulk
fuel oil distributorship in the Howell area .
From 1957 to 1959 he owned Itsells Restaurant on Grand
River Avenue and Main Street in Brighton . In 1959 he built
the A&W Root Beer Drive In on East Grand River in Howell.
The A&W was the first franchised fast -food operation to be
established in Howell. In 1968 he sold the A&W Drive In and
established the Ditch Witch Trencher Sales of Michigan,
Incorporated . The business facility is located three miles
west of Howell on Grand River Avenue.
Judith A. and her husband , James P . Elliott reside in
Howell. Judith A. was employed many year s locally and with
the University of Michigan Dental School as a Certified
Dental Assistant. James P . holds a Masters Degree in
History .
Ruth C. is a graduate of Clear y College of Ypsilant i. She
worked several years as a secretary in the Register of Deeds
Office of Livingston County. She was confined as a patient at
the Michigan State Sanitorium for Tuberculosis where she
spent 3½ years . Upon resuming employment , Ruth C.
becam e a legal secretar y in both county and private offices.
She later worked for her brother , Charles , owner of Itsell 's
Men's Store, until her retirement. Ruth C. was among a
small group of ladies who organized and established the
Michigan State Sanitorium Auxiliary in about 1950.
Robert H. and his wife, Anne Marie Treves Itsell , live on
Tompkins Street in Howell. Robert H. spent two years in the
militar y during World War II . He is a graduate of the
Universit y of Michigan and The Kirksville College of
Osteopathy . After his internship at the Detroi t Osteopath ic
Hospital in Highland Park , he became associated in the
medical practice of Dr . Boyd N. Shertzer in Howell in 1955.
He is a member of the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce ,
the Elk s Club, and is a past president of the Howell Rotar y
Club. Robert H. is past Chief of Staff of McPherson Communit
y Health Center , a member of the American College of
General Practitioners in Osteopathic Medicine, and an
Associate Clinical Professor in Family Practice in the
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Robert H. and Anne Marie have eight children. The eldest
son, Finle y J. , and his wife, Janet Sue Parke Itsell , reside in
Howell. Finley J . is employed at Precision Stamping
Incorporated of Brighton , and attends Washtenaw Communit
y College in Ann Arbor. The other children , all residing
at home are : Matthew R. , Keith M., Mark Q., Stephanie A.,
Sarah A., Alice M., and Treves V. They either work or attend
school in the Howell area .
Charle s W. and his wife, Frances Jean Waddell Itsell , are
the present residents of the family homestead on Grand
River Avenue one mile east of the City of Howell. Charles W.,
a Technical Sargeant in World War II, served four years in
the militar y. When he returned home from the service , he
helped activate the Michigan National Guard in Howell, and
was assistant executive officer to that unit for eight years. He
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worked for the Michigan Shade Tree Company, and Citizens
Mutual Insurance Company before purchasing and operating
Itsell 's Men's Store in Howell. In 1973h e sold the business and
became associated with the L. H. Crandall Realty of Howell.
Charles has devoted much time to community affairs. He is
past president of both the Rotary Club and the Lions Club, a
member of the Elks Club in Howell, and a member of the
Howell Area Chamber of Commerce . Charles W. was also
chosen Howell's Citizen of the Year in 1961. Charles W. and
Frances Jean are the parents of three sons and one daughter:
Thomas C., Gary M., Dennis J ., and Debra JoAnne. Thomas
C. and his wife, Gloria Jean Leslie Itsell, live in Scottsdale,
Arizona with their son, Christopher T. Thomas C., who
served three years in the United States Air Force, is employed
as an electrician. Gary M. is a carpenter and resides
in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dennis J . owns a home in Grand Rapids , and is employed
as a salesman in western Michigan for Ditch Witch of Northern
Indiana, Incorporated. Debra J . is married to William
E. Widmayer , and lives in Howell. William E. works in
masonry construction. The children of Charles W. and
Frances Jean Waddell Itsell represent the fourth generation
of the Itsell family to reside at the family homestead .
At the time of this writing, five generations of the family
have been members of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Howell,
and have actively participated in parish affairs. All children
of the family have attended the St. Joseph Elementary
School since its founding in 1940. Four generations of family
members are buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Howell.
In 1982t he homestead on the crest of the hill will be eligible
to be designated as a Centennial Farm by the Michigan
Historical Society. Times and surroundings have changed,
but the home stands basically the same as when first occupied
by the Itsell family in the mid-1800's. Structural
changes which have been made are in keeping with the
original character of the house. Treelings planted on the
grounds four generations ago stand now as mighty symbols
of the passing of time .
Grace Jubb Goodnow.
The Huntington Family
By FRANCES HUNTINGTON
William Huntington was born January 15, 1817 in Sullivan
County, New York. In 1844 he married Rhobe Tibbits. In 1843
he moved to Howell. He was a physician here until his death
in 1900.
In 1854h e took part in the birth of the Republican Party at
Jackson .
In 1872 he took into partnership his son, William C. Huntington
who had graduated from the Medical Department of
the University of Michigan in that year. In 1876 he married
Adaline Lamb.
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William C. Huntington selected the grounds for the
Michigan State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Howell and after
a strenuous contest between competing sites in different
parts of the state, his selection was adopted.
In 1889 he was president of Howell, "but declined
renomination after placing the town in a sanitary condition."
William C. Huntington died in 1927.
His son, Harry G. Huntington was born in 1884, graduated
from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1912.
In 1914h e married Mary C. Hyde. In 1919h e and his family
moved to the " gingerbread " house on the corner of
Washington and Walnut.
This house was probably built soon after 1858, by Mr. Van
Deusen who was a carpenter and millwright. It was known as
the Van Deusen house.
Dr . Harry Huntington passed away in this house in 1955.
At his passing, one of his friends told his widow that he was
the most conscientious doctor he had ever known.
The Rohrabacher Family
By JANET ROHRABACHER
The Fishbeck and the Rohrabacher family were the only
Palatine German families who came to Howell very early.
They were Germans from the Rhine Valley who came to New
York between 1710 and 1724. They were related through the
Quackenbush family which was an old Holland Dutch family
of New York City.
Adam Rohrabacher , like the Sages, Smiths, Pinckneys and
Austins came from Salem in Washtenaw County. This Salem
settlement then had 2500 inhabitants and was the metropolis
of Washtenaw County, when Ann Arbor had only a few
hundred people.
Adam's father was John C. Rohrabacher, a veteran of the
War of 1812 from Auburn, N.Y. , who settled at Salem and
took up land in Green Oak Township, Livingston County in
1834.
John C. was a grandson of Christian Rohrabacher who had
worked at the Philip Livingston iron forge , now a New York
State Historical Site. It is situated at Ancram in Columbia
County, N.Y.
Adam Rohrabacher came to Howell in March , 1837 and in
1840h e bought the house on the library square, facing Clinton
Street , which had been built by James White. Later, he
bought a house at 310 North Michigan Avenue, one of the
oldest brick houses in town and sold his former home to John
D. Pinckney as a retirement home. Mr. Pinckney's farm was
in the neighborhood of North National Street. Mrs. Pinckney
survived her husband for many years and this house became
known as the Widow Pinckney house.
Adam was Howell's pioneer blacksmith, taking over when
Mr. McPherson left off in 1837 and continued his work until
1850, when he moved to Pinckney and then Mr. Melvin took
over blacksmithing in Howell.
The story told about the horning-bee given to Adam
Rohrabacher and his second wife, Martha Walter, is told by
A. Riley Crittenden in his History of Howell. According to Dr.
Harry Huntington this story is correct. He said his grandfather,
Dr . William Huntington had been a member of the
horning party. By this wife Adam had two children, Ella and
Edward. After her death he married Mrs. Eliza Abel Bennett.
While he lived in Howell, Adam Rohrabacher had three
daughters, Sarah, Jane and Gabriella by his first wife, Nancy
Ann Smith. One of these daughters, Jane, married her second
cousin, Peter Rohrabacher of Cohoctah Township, and
continued to live in Howell. Peter 's brother, Freeman
Rohrabacher also became a resident of Howell.
These two brothers were both three year veterans of the
Civil War, serving in the 22nd Michigan Infantry. They
served at the Battle of Chickamauga when they were
charged three times by the Confederates . Their ammunition
gave out and they had only bayonets to withstand the third
charge . Two-thirds of their regiment were killed, but both
brothers survived . Freeman made the march from Atlanta to
the sea with Sherman 's troops.
Freeman was also Constable of Howell in the early 1900's
and the only law officer.
Howell's present Rohrabachers are from Peter 's three
sons. One of Peter 's grandsons, Kenneth Rohrabacher was
killed in the second World War at Waldorf, Germany while in
the Engineers.
Taking kitty for a ride in Oak Grove .
The Rohrabacher-WheeleHr ome
The Albert Rohrabacher home at 201 Byron Road is one of
the oldest houses in Howell, if not the very oldest still used as
a habitation . And like most old houses it has an interesting
history and succession of owners.
It is unknown when it was built but its first owner came to
Howell in 1838a nd in 1840h is home was on the Howell tax list.
He was Dr. Gardner Wheeler the first medic in town. The
village then consisted of a little cluster of 13 houses centered
around the old Public Square of the Crane and Brooks plat ,
which was bounded by Grand River , Walnut, Sibley and
Center, but the Wheeler home was well within the present
bounds of Howell.
According to the late Judge Josiah Turner, the 13 buildings
in Howell at this time belonged to Messrs . Wheeler, Jewett ,
McPherson , Skilbeck, Jeffries, Fishbeck. Field , Glover,
Curtis , Gregory, Root, Taylor and Weston. Mr. Whipple and
Mr. Rohrabacher arrived during the year .
There were several families at a little distance and outside
the village but who might be said to belong to Howell, as they
were within easy walking distance . They were the Sage,
Austin, Thompson, Pinckney, Sliter and West families.
BUILT ON GRAND RIVER
Dr. Gardner Wheeler's house was west of town, on the
south side of Grand River , at the southwest corner where it
meets Isbell Street, although it may have been set back from
the road . The street was then Wheeler Street.
Like most of the early settlers ' homes it was very small
and low, about one story or a story and a half high. It was a
typical salt-box style , 18 by 30 feet, with the door on the long
side, and had returning eaves and small-paned windows.
These earl y settlers ' homes were much different from the
tall and imposing homes which were built around Howell in
the 1860, 1870a nd 1880's. Some of these are on S. Walnut and
N. Court and have beautiful gingerbread trim . By this time
people could relax and spend time on the nicities , but the
early homes were strictly utilitarian.
Dr. Gardner Wheeler was a ver y important man in
Howell's early history . Besides being the first doctor , he was
the first worshipful master of the Masonic lodge, was many
times supervisor of the township, was interested in education
and several times was school inspector. He practiced
medicine over 20 years and was a highly respected citizen.
He was a nephew of Villeroy E. , John W., and Elisha H.
Smith. Elisha was the author of Howell's first history .
To quote from Crittenden 's History of Howell: "His (Dr .
Wheeler's ) office stood where the Sabin block now stands,
was moved in later years and is now a part of the first house
south of Parshall 's mill. His residence , which occupied the
site of M. J . McPherson 's home, was moved up the Byron
Road and is now 0911 ) owned by John Owen. " Old settlers
say that his office was moved a second time and became the
home of the late Tressie Cameron on W. Clinton Street.
MILITIA TRAINED HERE
There was an early militia company in Howell and Dr.
Wheeler's farm was used as the training grounds . Again
from Crittenden: "- the 40 acres sold to M. J . and Alexander
McPherson by Mrs. A. L. Crittenden soon after her husband 's
death was prepared for training purposes ."
After this home was moved to Byron Road, it had a succession
of owners besides Jesse Owen. It is not known when it
was moved to Byron Road but it was there in 1875. A 10 foot
addition was built for a kitchen , the old trap door to the cellar
was closed, the fireplace was torn out, and new chimneys
built.
Cockrane's , who owned it for a time , remodeled it greatly .
The old entrance on the long side was changed to the gable
end or west side facing Byron Road. During this time the old
clapboards were covered with pebble-dash and a two-sided
porch was added to the front .
About 10 years ago, the porch was enclosed and the house
covered with aluminum siding. In the course of his
remodeling , an old window which had been closed up was
discovered to have been boarded up with the business sign of
the Fishbeck Bros., a firm which has been out of existence for
many years .
This home, which is situated on the northeast corner of W.
Clinton and Byron Road, has some unusual features of
construction: the four corner posts of the home protrude on
the inside of the house as in barn construction . Also the under
structure is not beams and joists but beams in both directions;
the smaller beams, which are four inches square , are
mortised at right angles into the large beams which are eight
inches square . The large beams are all hand adzed, and some
of the baseboards have beadings formed by hand with a
chisel. Beams under the addition are logs. This is the Albert
Rohrabacher home, 201 Byron Road.
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The FishbeckF amily
By WILLIAM A. PLESS
Somewhere in the Howell History Book being prepared
there surely will be a reference to Richard Fishbeck , his
being the first shoemaker, building the third frame house,
etc., and there should be. But, I also submit that his brother ,
Freeman Fishbeck should also be mentioned . Freeman came
to Michigan in 1833, a full three years before any other Fishbeck,
and walked for days and months through the wilderness,
looking for just the right land to settle on, as soon as he
could save enough to pay the government for it. He worked on
building the dam at Woodruff Mills in 1834, and on the Kensington
dam and mill, and in addition at any farm or land
clearing work he could get to do. My grandfather was born in
1836, in the loghouse his father, Freeman, built on land he
selected on the north shore of Crooked Lake. Grandfather
told of his father and his Uncle Joseph Rider telling about
being where Howell is now in 1833, and that it was a
wilderness no different than the surrounding area .
Freeman and Joseph Rider had a good start clearing and
improving their farms before Freeman 's father, Jacob , his
several sons, including Richard , came about September ,
1836.
Freeman retired to move to Howell in a house on W. Grand
River which is shown on the attached pages , one of which is a
summary of the Fishbeck family story , before and after they
came to Livingston County.
The writer and other Fishbeck and Rider descendants , now
living in several parts of the state and the U.S.A., will appreciate
any mention that space will permit, to include the
very first of the Fishbeck and Rider families to come to
Michigan. Freeman and Joseph were married to each other's
sister. Freeman lived his last 15 years in Howell, and they all
lived their adult lives a few miles southeast of Howell, and
were well known in agriculture , livestock, and pioneer circles.
The Livingston County history is also available to furnish
more facts about the Fishbecks and Riders . I hope that their
not living in the town won't exclude them , after all, Howell
would have been a small place had it not been for the
producing farmers who used the services of the tradesmen
and patronized the businesses established . The producers
always come first, and the middlemen, and servicemen will
follow.
The home shown above, located at 1325 West Grand River
Road , in Howell, Michigan was about eight years old at the
time it was purchased by my great grandparents in 1867.
When they moved to Howell from their farm in Genoa
Township my grandparents , William Alvira (Rogers ) Fishbeck,
came from their farm near Portland , Michigan and
moved into the house shown on the opposite page .
Freeman and Jemima, age 23 and 20 respectively , had
immigrated from New York State in 1833 and were married
in Milford Township which is now in Oakland County. In 1835
they moved to land they " took-up" from the U.S. Government
in Genoa Township, Livingston County. There they
built a loghouse in the wilderness near the site of the frame
house on what is now Crooked Lake Road .
In the 34 years between 1833 and 1867 Freeman and
Jemima raised five children to help accumulate and clear
land which was divided so each of their sons, William,
Charles, and John each had over 200 acres of farm land and
each had a good set of farm buildings and stock .
Freeman died 15 years after they moved to Howell and
Jemima lived there 10 years longer, then their heirs sold the
property in 1892.
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The Fishbeck home near A .A . Depot . Third frame house built in
Howell.
Freeman Fishbeck was the first of the family to come to
Michigan, and to what is now Genoa Township, Livingston
County. He came early in 1833 from Oswego County, N.Y.,
with Joseph Rider , and his son, Joseph , Jr ., and daughter ,
Jemima , their Uncle David B. Pierce . They all settled for
about two years in what is now Milford Township, Oakland
County. Freeman and Jemima were married in 1833, and in
1835, they, Uncle David and Joseph , Jr ., all located government
land in Genoa Township, which at that time was a part
of Hamburg Township. The organization of Livingston
County was not approved until March 24, 1836. The township
of Genoa was organized , March 11, 1837, and Freeman and
Uncle David were among those elected as officers, Joseph ,
Jr ., was not of age .
In November , 1835, Freeman and Jemima were living in
their loghouse, just north of Crooked Lake , the site was
selected because the land was high and dry , and the lake was
nearby to make fresh, pure water immediately available.
The following year, 1836, Freeman 's father and mother ,
Jacob and Elsie Fishbeck came from St. Lawrence County,
N.Y. They were accompanied by their sons : Jacob, Jr.,
Nicholas , Philip, Levi, and Elsey , and a daughter , Isabella
who later married Joseph Rider, Jr. Jacob and his sons each
filed claims on land in the area , some of the land was in
adjacent Marion Township. Jacob, Sr., died early in 1839, and
was among the very first to be buried in what is now called
the Chilson Cemetery; Elsie survived for 26 years.
That same summer of 1836, Jacob and Elsie 's son, Richard
sold his shoemaking shop on Manhatten Island , New York
City, and made his way with a wagon drawn by oxen to
Albion, Orleans County, N.Y., there he married Nancy
Quackenbush . They then made the long journey overland to
join Richard 's family in Livingston County. In September,
1836, Richard started the first shoemaking business in
Livingston Centre, became one of the first 13 families , and
the third to build a frame house in the area . It stood, and was
occupied by Richard 's family , on the northeast corner of N.
Walnut and W. Clinton for more than 100 years .
Jacob Fishbeck , his wife, Elsie (Storrin ) Fishbeck , and
Joseph Rider, Sr., and his wife, Sarah (Peck ) Rider, were all
descendants of early colonial pioneers , and they themselves
were an average of ten years old when George Washington
became the first president of the U.S.A. The Fishbecks had
migrated through the Mohawk Valley in N.Y., to N. E.
Pennsylvania, and to St. Lawrence County, N.Y. The Riders
and Pecks had lived in New York City, Rockland and St.
Lawrence counties , N.Y., and had moved to Oswego County,
N.Y. where Sarah died just before they came to Michigan,
where as previously mentioned they were reunited with the
Fishbecks.
The Fishbeck 's ancestors had had many difficulties from
the ver y beginning in this country . An ancestor had been
tricked and cheated by a sea captain , and had to work in
bondage for year s to get free . His descendants had trouble
getting clear title to the land they had purchased and paid for
in eastern N.Y., and they migrated to Pennsylvania where
they found more honest people to deal with. It was here Jacob
married Elsie Storrin , and most of their fourteen children
were born . All but one boy and four girls came to Livingston
County. One-hundred-forty years have gone by and there are ,
few if any descendants of the Fishbeck and Riders in the
Livingston County area who have their names .
The Eager Family
By DOROTHY EAGER BELLEAU
We Eagers who were born and raised in Oceola Township
have a right to be proud of our heritage of pioneer ancestors
who came from New York State in the 1830's, clearing the
land by hand and erecting buildings under adverse conditions.
They were thrifty , energetic and religious .
Francis Emmett Eager (Frank ) was one of five children
born (1853) to Jacob Moore and Emily Comfort Eager in a log
cabin at what is now a Centennial Farm located on Eager
Road near Clyde Road , written up in The Centennial Farms
section .
Frank went to New York State to visit relatives where he
met Sarah Wait, whose father had a large prosperous farm
near the town of Montgomery, New York. Sarah came back
as his bride in 1877. They purchased 200 acres of virgin
timber located at what is now Eager Road and M-59. There
was a log house on 20 acres of already cleared land. Mother
Emily Eager would not let Sarah and Frank live in the log
house knowing the difficulties it would present , so they lived
with Franks parents until 1881 when a large square house
was built to accommodate a growing family Jacob , and Mary
with Emil y, Grace , Thomas , Mable and Orla following.
The land had to be cleared before any farming could be
done so Frank and his brother , James erected a sawmill ,
sawing lumber for the community and railroad ties from the
huge trees for the Ann Arbor Railroad which ran through
Howell.
Frank and his sons built up a large herd of registered
Holstein-Fresian cattle and thoroughbred Rambouillet sheep
and horses . They took sheep and cattle to the county and
state fairs, winning many ribbons and prizes . Frank took
several cans of milk, with a team and wagon, every day to
the Borden Creamery located in Howell. Tom took a
veterinary course at Michigan State , going to Illinois as
herdsman for a large dairy farm . Returning when his father
wanted to retire to help Orla run the farm . After a time the
boys found they were not too compatible so Tom went back to
Illinois. Orla moved to a farm near Brown City, Michigan ,
where he and his son Charles have a large dairy and experimental
farm of over 500 acres milking 125 cows.
The only building , of several large barns, remaining is the
pig house built in 1915. After the farm was sold in 1938 the
buildings were allowed to deteriorate . The house burned in
the early 1960's. Another large beautiful farm gone, like
several others around Oceola.
Jacob or Jake as he was called , married Louisa P . Reed in
1903, daughter of R. Clark and Etta M. Howard Reed . Jake
purchased a farm of 80 acres a mile from the homestead ,
eventually acquiring more land until Jake was farming 200
acres .
Jake started taking sheep to the Fowlerville Fair at the age
of 14, showing either sheep or Registered Holstein-Fresian
cattle for fifty years . During his later years he concentrated
on sheep , having five different breeds of sheep at the time of
his death in 1945. Loa passed on in 1969 at the age of 89 years .
Jake and Loa were the parents of six children , Ada L.,
Dorothy J ., Ford C., Howard , Harriet S., and Franci s
Emmett (Frank ).
Ada L. an RN and Raymond G. Walker , DDS, have a dental
office at Kokomo, Ind. , parents of three children : Nancy an
RN, and husband Clayton Farrar have a helicopter service
near Indianapolis , Indiana . They have three children ,
William, Mark and Andrea . Linda and husband , Terr y
Thompson have a business dealing with underwater
equipment in West Vancouver , B.C. They have two
daughters , Crystal and Stacey. R. Gary and Patt y Walker
have thre e sons, Brian , Todd and Chad.
Dorothy J . married to Wilfred L. Belleau , a pressman at
Detroit News for 41 years . Now retired . One son, Wilfred died
of leukemia at 13 years .
Ford C. Eager married to Dorothy Hughes . Owned Eagers
Cleaner s of Howell for over 35 years , now retired . Parents of
Rebecca who is married to Ronald B. Kennedy , parents of
Loretta, Amy, Ted and Jeffery. James Wilford Eager is the
father of Debora and Julie. Mary Ann Eager is an elemen -
tary teacher .
Howard Eager (deceased ) owned the Lansing Battery
Company until his death in 1954. One daughter, Barbara Ann,
married Harold Galka of Holt, Mich., have four daughters ,
Linda, Jill , Joanne and Lori.
Harriet an RN later attending University of Michigan
getting a degree i1n Public Health, worked as Howell Public
School Nurse and School Social Worker for several years .
Married S. Wright Bellinger , DDS, a dentist of Detroit and
Howell. Two daughters, Carol Gann a teacher of Oklahoma
and Suzanne Feetham , Assistant Professor of the College of
Nursing at Wayne University . Harriet now married to
Lyman E . Fay.
Francis Emmett Eager (Frank ) married Helen Semes .
Three children , Jacob Paul , a chemical engineer lives in
California with wife, Barbara and children , Brennen and
Robin. Michael, an electrical engineer and wife, Marlene live
in Owosso, Michigan . Pamala and Tom Ingram have one
William Blake Eager . Susan Moore .
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daughter , Tammy , and live in Lansing . Frank married to
Lorna Ross.
Jake and Loa lived for 40 years in the house where they
met. He was active in Oceola Township politics for a great
many years , being treasurer and supervisor . Also Jake was
Superintendent of the Poor for Livingston County for several
years .
Mary or Mayme Eager taught country school before
marrying Lewis Walker in 1902, living on the farm until
moving into Howell in the early 1950's. Mayme lost her
partner of over 65 years and a son in 1968. Ralph helped his
father on the farm and was a mechanic at the Chevrolet
garage. Married Blanche Beattie , three children, Jane ,
William and Dorothy. Frances married Lamar Thumm of
Ann Arbor, a large sand and gravel business . Two sons, John
Thumm a dentist and Lewis a lawyer.
Emily married Hale Crosby of New Buffalo, Mich. A
farmer , later raising cultivated blueberries . The berry farm
is now being run by a grandson. Emily and Hale had one
daughter, Eleanor married to Robert Leiberger , they have
two sons, Donald and John.
Grace , also a country teacher , married Milton Sprague of
Vermontville in a double wedding with Emily and Hale.
Besides farming the Spragues made several hundred gallons
of maple syrup every spring. Grace and Milton had two
children , Marion a teacher in Lansing , and Theodore a
chemist in Oak Ridge, Tennessee . Theodore and Johnanna
have two children , Evelyn and John .
Tom was married to Helen Wells of Mundelein, Ill. Two
daughters Naomi married Robert Vavya , and Juanita
married to Joseph August.
Mable a high school teacher married Ernest Klumpp , a
druggist , now living at Sarasota , Fla . Two daughters , Ann
K., married Otto Lill a banker , four children, Gregory ,
Michael, Jerry and Joanne . Mary Jane married Vern
Howard, three daughters , Sue, Janet and Christine .
Orla married Flora Gates of Sandusky, Mich. Two
children , Alice and Edward Farris of Semsburg , Conn., have
three children , Sandra , Pamala and Lawrence Scott. Charles
F . and Aileen Eager have three children , William Charles,
killed in a farm accident at 12 years, Suzette M. and Jeffery.
Although the Eager 's are scattered from the east to the
west coast we are still an industrious , energetic and talented
group of people.
The Linus Reed Family
By DOROTHY EAGER BELLEAU
Linus Reed was born in Cortland County, New York,
October 1, 1821a nd passed away December 29, 1917a t the age
of 96 years .
In the year 1865, just after the close of the Civil War, Linus
Reed cam e with his wife, Hulda and four children, Edwin ,
Laura , Ruben Clark and Clara to Michigan , buying a farm of
260 acres , contracting a debt of $3,000, with interest of 10
percent. A railroad (Pere Marquette) was built through his
propert y which increased the value of the land , but a wave of
reverse circum stances swept the country and unpaid loans
due him again put him into debt and he was obliged to sell the
farm . After the death of Mrs. Reed , Linus made his home
with his son, R. C. Reed and daughter, Clara Bucknell. Early
in life he became a member of the Baptist Church, was
Sabbath School superintendent and for nearly 50 years a
bible class teacher . Daughter , Clara married a blind man ,
Fred Bucknell who drove a horse and buggy or rode the horse
either tuning pianos or giving lessons on the piano. He also
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was a good wood carver, making reproductions from the feel
of an article.
RUBEN CLARK REED,
SON OF LINUS REED
R. Clark Reed was born in Cortland County, New York,
came with his parents to Michigan when nine years old,
settling on a farm south of Howell. As a young man Clark
taught in the public school for several years. In 1878 Clark
married Etta M. Howard , to which five children were born,
Howard , Louisa, Rex, Ray and Jay Kerr . Choosing farming
as a profession he purchased a farm in Oceola Township, on
Argentine Road, south of M-59. R. Clark found there was a
good sized cranberry marsh on the farm which they harvested
and sold, also they grew strawberries for marketing.
R. C. Reed was one of the leading livestock growers in
Michigan having one of the largest herds of Holstein-Fresian
cattle , shipping and exporting these cattle to all parts of the
world. He was president of the Holstein-Fresian Association
of Michigan and secretary of the Livingston County Breeders
Association . R. C. Reed was one of the founders of the
Michigan Milk Producers Association. Holding the position of
secretary of MMP A for many years .
Fairlawn Farm , owned by Reed and Knowles supported a
large dairy herd of Holstein-Fresian cattle and was known
throughout the states. It was located northeast of Howell
where the Diamond Dot Market is. Rex Reed supervised the
farm for his father .
R. C. Reed was earl y identified with a Christian upbringing
. In 1893 his church council (without his knowledge )
commissioned him to preach and since that time he was
actively engaged in all types of religious works . R. C. Reed
was candidate for Governor of Michigan (1906) on the
Prohibition ticket , also was a candidate for Secretary of
State of Michigan for the principles of prohibition. The family
attended The Hardy Church which was near home, and The
Methodist Episcopal Church after moving to Howell. Linus
Reed who was pastor of the Marr Bible Church is a grandson
of R. C. Reed , and great-grandson of Linus Reed .
Family - Howard C. married Mary Alta Curdy , two
children , Willard and Louise Cook. Louisa P. married Jacob
M. Eager , children Ada L. Walker , Dorothy J . Belleau , Ford
C. Eager , Howard Eager , Harriet S. Fay and Francis E.
Eager . Rex Allen married Margaret Wakeman, children Zur
R. Reed , Tazona L. Reed , Mahlon E. , Loretta Critchfield ,
and Nellie Cochran . Ray John married Jennie M. Wilcox,
children Alta M., Hazel Virginia Spikerman , Linus Reed and
Mildred. Ja y Kerr Reed married Myrtle Nichols, children
Melvin C. and Walter N. Reed .
The Thomas Devereaux Family
By THOMAS HOWARD DEVEREAUX
My father was Thomas Devereaux , born 11-11-1850 in
Oceola Township. He married Julia Wines and operated a
farm on Eager Rd. in that township until his death in June
1918. They had eight children : Stephen. a dentist in Grand
Rapids . He married Sara Carlin . Mary Evelyn , a teacher ,
who married Howard McDonough. They had five children ,
Thomas , Agnes, Robert , Ruth , Julia .
Lena Belle, a teacher , who married Charles Berg in. They
had five children , Claude, Dorothy , Irene , Bernice , Charles .
Ella , a teacher , who married John Walsh. They had five
children , Robert , Betty, James , Patrick , Sally .
Claude, who managed the A&P store and afterwards
worked at the Michigan State Sanatorium. He married Ruth
Smith and they had two children, Mary and Wilford.
Veronica , who worked at Citizens' Mutual Auto Insurance
Co.
Thomas, married Mary Murphy. They had four children,
Thomas Jr ., Margaret, Rosemary, Stephen . He worked for
Standard Oil Co., McPherson Oil Co., and was on the Board of
Review in Oceola Township.
Gertrude , a teacher , married Gerald Mccloskey , a
dentist. They had five children , Mary , Richard, John,
Thomas, and Patrick.
I have many happy memories of growing up on the farm.
Ice fishing and skating on Earl Lake in the winter and
swimming in Howell Lake in the summer were several
favorites . When younger, my brother Claude and I would
work hours damming up the creek that ran back of our home.
We would just have a short swim when the dam would go out
and we would have to start over again.
One of our favorite pasttimes was hitching up the calves to
a cart, but when one of them kicked my brother in the head
the fun ended.
My parents liked to play cards with the McGuires , our good
neighbors across the road. They also had house parties when
they would roll up the rugs and dance to the violin and banjo.
My father was quite expert in doing the Irish jigs and step
dances .
Many Sundays we entertained relatives for dinner or
friends such as the McQuillans and the Staffords who lived
where the Henry Itsell farm is now.
There was a large apple orchard on the farm as well as
peches , cherries, and strawberries . My mother canned many
jars of them as well as drying apples for pies.
I remember the good sausage that was made and packed in
cloth salt bags which were hung outdoors to freeze as well as
the hams that were fried down and stored in crocks.
One of the jobs I hated was churning the butter in a barrel
churn , but I did like a drink of the good buttermilk
afterwards .
I walked the two and one-half miles into Howell to the high
school or in bad weather drove a horse and buggy which I left
at the Ten Cent Barn on the corner of Clinton and Walnut.
After my marriage we lived on Jewett St. in Howell for 25
years. When my mother sold the farm we bought 70 acres of it
that faces Golf Club Rd. We built a home there and moved in
1955. It was a busy time as our daughter , Margaret , was
crowned Miss Michigan that summer and we went to Atlantic
City where she was in the Miss America contest, plus moving
into our new home at the same time . So now we are enjoying
life back in the same area where I was born.
The Hutchings Family
By RUAHMAH J . HUTCHINGS
Around the year 1885 Cordelia Hutchings stood alone in the
little log cabin the family had called home for some time. Her
husband , Andrew and the children Govenor, Gardner, and
little Maud were already in the oxen drawn wagon which
would take them from their present home in Petoskey ,
Michigan to the new home down state in the Holstein-
Friesian country. What was the name of the town? Oh, Yes!
HOWELL.
Cordelia, 'Dee' as she was affectionately called by family
and friends, stood and looked around the bare cabin, and then
wiped a tear or two from her eyes . After all two of her babies
lay over in the churchyard cemetery. Would she ever see
their resting places again? True , the family though very,
very poor had been happy in Petoskey . However, a pioneer
woman must lookahead , and not back . So, with one last
glance she gently closed the door, straightened her sunbonnet,
lifted her ankle-length skirt a bit, and climbed into
the wagon beside her husband .
evertheless Dee knew she would always remember the
Petoskey home because carefully packed among her things
was a fungus growth she had broken from a tree , and upon
which she had carefully traced a picture of the cabin using a
pin for a pencil. The climbing red rosebush by the door had
been tinted with the juice of red berries from the near-by
forest. This little momento of the days before cameras is one
of my treasured keepsakes.
In due time the family arrived in Howell where a new life
awaited them for Andrew had purchased a water-powered
mill just north of town. It was located on the northwest side of
Thompson Lake ( now called Howell Lake ) where the Millsite
Factory is at this time .
Soon the firm of A. 0 . Hutchings and Sons were busy
grinding grists for Livingston County farmers . The firm also
sold white and graham flour for the farmer's wives to use .
However, customers from south, east , and west of Howell
found it a long trip to the mill with horses and a wagon. So,
"The Exchange Station," as it was called, was set up in the
back of a building on the southeast corner of Walnut and West
Grand River streets. The building is presently occupied by
the Pro-Sutton Hardware. Farmers could now leave their
grain and pick up grists and flour when they came to town for
needed supplies. In those days the Hutchings ' team of two
coal black horses was a familiar sight as they hauled grists
and flour back and forth from the Millsite location to the
uptown station.
As the business flourished the two sons built and operated
another mill on the southwest corner of Walnut and Clinton
streets. Their father , "Andy, " as he was called continued to
operate the "Home Mill" with the family residence on the
same acreage .
Andrew Hutchings had unique ways of advertising his
products . He was an earnest reader of the Bible and the
Almanac. He was especially fond of the story of "Joseph and
His Brothers ." So one Christmas purchasers of his 'White
Lily' flour found a tin cup in each sack and a printed card that
read , "Not Joseph's cup in Benjamin 's sack, but YOUR cup
with Season's Greetings from A. 0. Hutchings and Sons.
Later the " uptown mill" was sold to A. F. Peavy and Sons
(Homer and Calvin). They carried on a coal and feed
business there for many years. The lakeside mill burned on
April 15, 1915.
Around the year 1881 the Stephens family came to Howell
from western New York State. With them came four year old
Georgia who received all her 'schooling' (as education was
then called) in the Howell system. Her first and second
grades were in a little white schoolhouse that stood where the
Schnackenberg-Lamb Funeral Home is on South Michigan
Avenue. Her third grade and chapel room were on the third
floor of a building now replaced by the Michigan A venue
Middle School. The gateway to the fenced in grounds consisted
of staggered posts diagonally set. Georgia graduated
from the Howell Public Schools in 1895, one of a class of
seventeen.
In those days it was the custom for young people to attend
Sunday evening services at the church of their choice. After
the service it was also the custom for any bachelor who
wished, to wait outside until the girl of his choice came
through the door. Then he would ask to walk the young lady
home. One night when Georgia came through the door with
her cousin and the cousin's escort the miller 's son, Govenor
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stepped up and asked to walk the lively auburn-haired girl
home. Out of the corner of her eye Georgia was watching for
a certain someone from Fowlerville who drove a sleek horse,
and had a shining buggy. So she replied , "Sir, you must have
made a mistake. " He smiled and said , "No, I haven 't made a
mistake. Have you?" Thus began a friendship that a little
more than two years later culminated in marriage .
After graduation from Howell High, Georgia took the
Teacher 's Examination, passed, and during those two years
taught in the Livingston County one room schools.
Georgia and Govenor were married on February 3, 1897.
The story goes that at their wedding gelatin was served for
the first time in Howell. If a second serving was desired
guests were heard to say, "Please pass the quiver." Another
story told about the wedding was that six year old Glen
Hutchings (born after the family left Petoskey) kept saying ,
" I want to get Govenor and Georgia a wedding present,
something real expensive, something that costs about 10
cents." The gift was a silver-coated toothpick holder, which
also is among my souvenirs. Father's name was spelled
Govenor, but pronounced 'governor' so now he enjoyed
laughingly saying , "By my marriage I have become
governor of Georgia. Right? "
Some thirteen years later a son, Stephen was born into this
home. He died in infancy. Around two years after his birth a
daughter, Ruahmah was born to this couple.
These are the facts about my parents and grandparents
and their lives in Howell. All four are now resting in Howell's
Lakeview Cemetery where the markers read-Andrew 0.
Hutchings, 1848-191a7n d Cordelia J., 1853-1927a; lso Govenor
0., 1871-1917a nd Georgia S., 1877-196.9 They were all Godfearing
people who did their best to build a better tomorrow
for all of us. So, how better to close this account of their lives
than with thoughts from a clipping found in Mother's
scrapbook?
WE ARE YOUR ANCESTORS
We are your ancestors.
We may be forgotten-but we are ever present.
We are unknown-but inescapable.
We are the men and women who long ago
labored to shape the civilization of our
time, not even aware that we were also
shaping yours.
By a multitude of invisible but potent
hands we reach out and change you.
WE ARE YOUR ANCESTORS
By P.R. Hayward
Cranking a Model " T" was nothing to smile about.
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The Latson Family
The Latson family began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
where James lived from 1778 to 1863. He had ten children.
Some of them came to Michigan to settle. Joel went to Eaton
Rapids, William to Washtenaw County and Edward who
married Miriam Stedman settled in Genoa Township in 1837.
They began their life there on Beck Road, on the southeast
side of the Ann Arbor Railroad tracks . They chose this spot
because there was a spring near-by.
Edward and Miriam had seven children, all lived most of
their lives around Howell. Charles died in infancy ; Mary
married Archibald Beattie; Loraine and Eugene married in
a double wedding ceremony with another brother-sister
family, Charles and Maryette Lounsbery in 1866; Sarah
married James Beattie (mother and father of Sarah V.
Beattie Allen of Howell); Albert married Frances Stedman
(parents of Alice and Hazen Latson of Howell, Varah Curtis
of Plainwell, and Bernice Bushman of Corunna); and Lewis
married Elizabeth Yelland.
Edward and Miriam were much respected in the community
and were also very loving parents. It was they who
originally started the Latson family reunions in 1861 when
their first daughter Mary was married. Edward said that he
wanted all his children to come home for New Years and
Easter. Easter to him was "Pax Sunday" (which means
peace) . It was then that everyone in the family met and made
peace with each other, forgave any misgivings and started
another year off with happiness and contentment.
The reunions have gone on more or less ever since. This
August 24 will make 62 years of consecutive reunions in this
century .
The farm where Edward Latson first settled became a
Centennial Farm in 1937, and the cement block house which
Albert Latson built is still standing . It was finished in 1908,
and Albert was killed on the Ann Arbor Railroad track before
it was completed .
There are many families in Livingston County who are
direct descendants of the Latson line. Some are Roy and
Robert Latsons , Donald and Clifford Perkins , Everett
Toncray and Arloa Toncray Dean , Ernest and Fred
Lounsbery , Charles and Robert Leverett and the Beatties.
HISTORY OF HAZEL WRIGHT LATSON
Interviewed by Vicki Repik
My great-grandfather, Jacob Belfry, Sr. was born on the
ocean, near the Banks of Newfoundland, May 28, 1777. He
married Susan Rose. They had nine children. One of their
daughters, Hester , married George Washington Wright.
My grandmother, Hester , married George Washington
Wright in Toronto, Canada in the year of 1865. George
Washington Wright was born on the Atlantic Ocean on the
ship " George Washington " on its voyage from England to
America. He was born when the ship was entering the New
York City Harbor October 21, 1839. He grew up in Marion
Township in Livingston County where he continued to live
and prosper with his family .
The following is taken from an article in the local paper
which followed his death: "November 12, 1923: George
Washington Wright, while sitting in his pew at the Howell
Presbyterian Church was taken with a fainting spell and was
carried to the vestibule of the church and there recovered
consciousness and wanted to return to his place in the church
but instead walked down the steps to the coat room below
without help but there a second sinking spell proved fatal. On
recovering from the first attack , Mr. Wright, looked around
and remarked , " I did not know that I had so many friends. "
The habit of church attendance was indicative of Mr.
Wright 's whole life. A man of integrity, honest and upright
and kindly disposed toward his neighbors Mr. Wright had a
large circle of friends who learned to appreciate his real
worth . His life is an inspiration to all who knew and
associated with him . Such men are the strength of any nation
and especially of a self governing people."
One of his children, Arthur C. Wright married Josephine
(Josie ) Maycock. Josie taught school before her marriage
and was very mild natured and well liked by everyone who
knew her. She was especially known by all her grandchildren
to be the best sugar cookie maker around. After her husband
died , she needed something to keep her busy so she lied about
her age giving it as 60 instead of 70 as it really was , in order to
obtain a job at a Sears store. Arthur and Josephine were my
parents whom I dearly loved.
I remember when we had a telephone connected between
my parents and grandparents farm homes which junctioned .
Now this was most unusual because at this time no one had a
telephone. The lines went along the fence and trees in the
woods because we did not want to waste valuable farmland
by putting up posts . Many times the wind would blow our
lines down, but we would just put them back up again . It was
absolutel y thrilling to communicate with grandfather and
grandmother with them in their own home and we in ours .
HISTORY OF STANLEY LATSON FARM
The Latson farm formally was taken up by the government
by John Ellis from New York the year of 1835. He sold to a
brother-in-law, William Burrill the year of 1853. They built
the house (which still stands ) of timber cut from the farm,
even the doors and window frames which took two years.
Then he sold to a son-in-law, James Barnard the year of 1883.
William Latson from Webster Township purchased the farm
in 1888 for a son, George H. Latson and a brother Alvin, also a
sister , Ada, who only stayed a year and then returned to the
homestead in Webster Township .
George later married May E . Leslie from Dexter and they
had two sons , Leslie and Stanley who both attended the
Tooley School on the corner of Latson and East Grand River
Road , which later his daughter , Virginia, also attended .
Leslie married Gladys Wehnes the year of January 20,
1912. They purchased the Wehnes farm on Beck Road . They
had a son, Charles, who lives on their farm and a daughter,
Ruth , who lives on a farm near Perry .
Stanley married Hazel Hester Wright September 29, 1917
and we lived with Stanley 's folks for three years. Then they
built a home on Clinton Street in Howell. We rented this farm
for 26 years and bought the farm in 1943. We adopted a
daughter , Virginia the year of 1923 at three months old. We
remodeled the house for water , bath and kitchen also put in
picture windows in the living and dining rooms also the
kitchen in the year of 1947. My kitchen window was a mirror
glass and people would often ask , "Hazel when are you going
to put a piece of glass in that window?"
We strived and worked together on this farm which we so
enjoyed for fifty years , then due to high taxation were forced
to sell. We had an auction on September 16, 1967 and bought a
new home at Earl Lake Heights, September 19, 1967.
Patrick Devereaux
By FRANK L. DEVEREAUX
Paternal grandparents , settled in Livingston County.
Patrick Devereaux , born West Meath Co., Ireland.
Mary Conklin, born Kings Co., Ireland .
Children , Michael , Catherine , John , Thomas , Mary , Anna
Maternal grandparents settled in Livingston County .
Patrick Lyons born County Cork, Ireland , veteran of
Mexican War.
Nora O'Connel born County Cork, Ireland .
Children , Ellen, Anna, Mary, Frances , Cornelius .
Parents : John Devereaux , born 11-2-1846, Oceola Twp.,
died 8-27-1934,H owell; Ellen Lyons , born 3-4-1852,T yrone
Twp., died 10-27-194,0 Howell. Married 11-24-1874in St. John 's
Church , Fenton , Mich. Operated a farm in Hartland
Township from 1874 to 1918, when they moved to Howell .
They had nine children .
James P ., born 9-21-1875, Hartland Township . Taught
school in Tyrone and Hartland Townships , Livingston
County, White Lake Township , Oakland County and in Texas.
Was a railroad fireman in Texas . Graduated from U. of M.
Law College in 1905 and practiced law in Saginaw . Was
Prosecuting Attorney at the time of his death , 10-31-191.7
Married Anna M. Ormond on 2-17-1909in St. Mary 's Church,
Milford, Mich. 4 children , Mary Jo Pauli, James 0. , John and
Margaret O'Kane .
Thomas Mark , born 11-29-1876, Hartland Township . Spanish
American War Co. F. 31st, Mich. Volunteers , 1 year .
Served in Cuba, Co. B. 30th Infantry , 3 years . Served 2 years
in the Philippines . Died : Los Angeles , Calif. 7-31-72. Single.
Mary N., born 12-1-187,8 Hartland Township . Taught school
in Livingston and Isabella Counties. Was with Citizens '
Mutual from 1920u ntil her death , 11-28-1924S. ingle .
A. Genevieve , born 9-2-1880, Hartland Township. Taught
school in Livingston County, Ypsilanti and Hurley , Wisc. Was
with Citizens ' Mutual from 1919 to 1949. Lives with her
brother Frank and his wife in Detroit. Single.
John F ., born 6-6-1884, Hartland Township . Taught school
in Livingston County. Operated threshing machine and saw
mill in Hartland Township. Worked for the Livingston County
Road Commission after WWI. Served in France 10 months.
Mechanic Co. B 137 Engr. Died 6-5-1944, Howell.
Cornelius J ., born 6-10-1886, Hartland Township . Entered
service Detroit 11-21-191.7 Cpl. Co. B 30th Engr . Wounded
8-9-1918. Died 8-11-1918 in Evacuation Hospital. Buried in
France . The Devereaux Post of the American Legion in
Howell was named to honor the first man from Livingston
County to give his life for his country in WWI. Single.
Philip S., born 5-13-1889, Hartland Township. Entered
service 4-29-18f rom Howell. 338 Inf. Transferred to 64th Inf .
Prvt. 1st. Cl. Co. A 64th Inf. 7th Div. Discharged 6-26-1919.
Overseas 9 months. Married Mary Eleanor Brecker 5-18-51i n
St. Rita 's Church , Holly, Mich. Died 6-25-62.N o children.
Henry C., born 3-31-1891, Hartland Township . Taught
school in Livingston and Isabella counties . Entered service
4-29-18, Howell Cpl. Hdqrs . Det. No. 10th Engrs.a 5th Corps
Overseas 11 mo. Married Grace M. Gallet in St. Mary's
Cathedral , Boise , Idaho 8-28-22. Died in Santa Barbara,
California 3-5-49. No children .
Frank L. born 1-31-93, Hartland Township. Entered service
11-20-191,7 Howell, Mich. Sgt. Co. D 338th Inf. 85th Div.
Overseas 9 months. Married Collette C. Carbert 6-9-25 in
Immaculate Conception Church , Stratford , Ontario, Canada.
Celebrated 50th Wedding Anniversary at St. John 's Church ,
Oceola, where the "groom had been baptized 82 years ago. A
reception followed at Chemung Hills Country Club, Howell on
6-7-1975. They had 6 children , and 29 grandchildren , and one
great-grandchild .
Children: Robert J ., Edina , Minn.; Patricia M. Kelly ,
Howell; Thomas H., Farmington Hills, Mich. ; Margaret E .
Ambrozy, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. ; Collette F. Dooley,
Northville , Mich.; Philip J ., Northville, Mich.
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The Stapleton-EuleFr amilies
By DORIS E. FRYKMAN
As a descendant of two families going back more than 100
years in this area I have several recollections of stories
handed down through the years. My great-grandparents,
John and Mary Ann Stapleton came from Lincolnshire,
England, one in 1851 and the other soon after. My greatgrandmother
came from the same town and on the same ship
as William "Billy " Jubb and the first of the Wright families
to settle here. After her first husband's death in 1854, she
married John Stapleton and they built their home and raised
their family at 321 West Sibley Street in Howell. The house
still stands and is presently owned and occupied by Mrs.
Lavern Wenk.
We often heard the story of the Wrights becoming the
parents of a baby son born aboard ship, and since the name of
the ship was George Washington, the Wrights named their
new son George Washington Wright. There are a great many
descendants of these families who are still in and around
Howell.
John Stapleton, for many years drove stagecoach between
Detroit and Lansing, and after McPherson Bank opened, he
carried money between the bank in Howell and banks in
Detroit. His daughter, Ella, (my grandmother ) often told us
about his long white beard which was usually frozen stiff and
covered with ice and snow when he returned home from a
coach run in winter . One of her interesting stories told of her
trip in 1880,a t age 11, to England with her parents to visit her
grandparents. On their way home they were shipwrecked
and all had to take to lifeboats. In accordance with the
custom of women and children first, my grandmother and
her mother were first to board a lifeboat and be lowered to
the sea below. It was a horrible experience but after
sometime they were picked up and brought to New York
aboard a coal boat and the family was reunited.
Ella Stapleton married Fred Euler in 1887. He was a great
grandson of John Euler who came to this area from Darmstadt
, Germany sometime around 1840. The Euler families
settled in Genoa Township, along what is now Euler Road
and on the shores of Euler Lake . Some of the families moved
ontoShiawassee County but most of them stayed here and
there are many descendants of the various branches of the
family . My grandfather, Fred Euler, was a building contractor
in Howell for many years, and constructed some of
the finest homes here. His favorite was the beautiful big
home on North Michigan Avenue which he built for Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. McPherson .
Fred and Ella Euler were parents of five children, one of
whom was Mary Isabelle who married Otto Frykman . They
were the parents of myself and my only sister, Betty Frykman
Noll of Ann Arbor. Dad was in the electrical business in
Howell for many years .
I have many pleasant memories of my early days in
Howell-going to kindergarten in the temporary school,
sliding down " Mutter's Hill" on our sleds , catching a ride on
George Mercer 's bobsled, the big parades and celebrations
on Decoration Day and Fourth of July and of course the
County Fair . Trips to Detroit on the old gravel road
usually took about three hours and resulted in a flat tire or
some other catastrophe . One time our car broke down and
my folks and I had to stay overnight at the old inn in New
Hudson.
How many of you recall watching for the ice man? Also for
Logan Papworth and Wilbur Arnold with their horse-drawn
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wagons filled with home grown produce? All the ladies took
their pots and pans out to fill with fresh vegetables and fruit .
Saturday was the big night of the week when everyone
came downtown to shop and visit with their friends . The
stores stayed open as long as there were any potential
customers still on the street.
Space does not permit my going on further . As I look back
over the years, I'm glad I grew up at a time when life in
Howell was more leisurely and everyone knew practically
everyone else . Sometimes I find myself wishing for the
" Good Old Days "-and they say that's a sure sign of growing
older.
The Van Winkle Family
By ANNABEL VanWINKLE
Charles Vanwinkle, born in 1785, and his wife, Jane Locke,
settled early in the Triangle Lake area of Livingston County,
taking up land from the United States government in the year
1837. He was the son of Revolutionary War soldier, Johannis
VanWinkle and wife, Naomi Dickenson. Both Charles and
Jane are buried in the Gilkes cemetery . John VanWinkle, son
of Charles Vanwinkle , was a member of the first Gilkes
Cemetery Association .
Another son of Charles VanWinkle was Charles D. who
married Caroline M. Sigler. Their children who grew to
maturity were Carey V., who married Clara S. Allison, and
later Georgia Reeves, Nellie, who married William Wright,
and William Peter .
William Peter VanWinkle married Hattie Placeway and
became an attorney and banker prominent in Howell, and
Livingston County. His children were Madge, Don W.,
Charles D., Helen and Harriet. The old VanWinkle home was
at 417 North Court Street. This home was originally built in
1885b y Governor Winans for his son. Sons, Don and Charles
milked and tended the family cow which was tethered at the
north end of Court Street.
Don W. Van Winkle was a well known attorney and banker,
married to Annabel Kellogg. Of their five children, one son,
Charles K. and grandson , Peter B., are practicing attorneys
and active in banking in the city and county.
Emil Bode
By ROBERT L. WATSON
I have been visiting Howell since the early 1940's when we
came to visit my great grand uncle Emil Ernst Bode. It
wasn 't until March 9, 1952 that I came to Howell for good to
take care of him .
Emil Bode spent almost his entire lifetime in Howell. After
moving from the mill at the north end of Thompson Lake he
came to town with his mother, Elizabeth Louise Hienretta
Buck Bode to 716 N. Michigan Avenue which was to become
the Bode home until it was sold in 1963. Her father was the
first resident pastor of St. George Lutheran Church in
Brighton then Genoa. Her husband was Edward Bode a
prominent miller . Emil soon found that his skills at math was
in great demand . For a period of over ten years he was
comptroller at Borden 's Milk factory (Howell) later
becoming the first bookkeeper at Citizens Mutual. His keen
knowledge of math again paid off as he remained here for a
period of over 25 years retiring as comptroller. He set up
their first bookkeeping system thus eliminating the process
of putting unpaid bills on a spindle.
Hisl iterartya lentgsa inehdi me mploymfeonra t short
perioodn t hee dito'sr stafof ft hec ounptayp aesrw ealls
generously contributing as secretaryt o seye~al
organizations among them being secretary of the build~ng
committee of the original building of the Presby~er~an
Church in Howell. He was instrumental in estabhshmg
Chemung Hills Golf Club and the park for what is now Howell
City Park.
When I first came to Howell in 1959 I was told that Howell
was a farm community and the city was made up o~ r1;any
retirees. I remember a few years later being at a M1ch1gan
Week Banquet at the Masonic Temple d!ni~g room on the
third floor of the First National Bank Bmldmg on the S?~th
corner of Grand River and S. Michigan Avenue. It wa~ a JO~nt
meeting of all service clubs . A lady sitting on my nght finding
out that I was a new comer asked m~ my im~ression of
Howell. I remarked if this was a commumty of retirees there
must be quite a few change of life babies born in Howell the
way they were beginning to outgrow the school system . But
all kidding aside I told her I felt Howell had great possibility
for the future. It did then and it still has today .
(Editor 's note: Except for adding a paragraph regarding
the death and another about the funeral service, this obituary
was prepared by Mr. Bode prior to his death ).
A son of Eduard Nicolaus Heinrich and Elizabeth Louise
Bode, Emil Bode was born in Howell, Michigan , October 26,
1872, and with the exception of two years spent in th_e east ,
lived his entire life in the town where he was born. Until early
manhood , he lived with his parents at the small farm home
out by the mill , a mile north of town, but , a few years
following the death of his father, in 1890, he and his mother
moved into town and bought the home on North Michigan
Avenue, which place he made his home until his death , which
occurred at the Bonnie View Convalescent Home, Howell,
Michigan on January 19, 1962.
As a youngster , he attended the Crittenden district school
and later , the Howell Public School, from which, after a
break of five years , he was graduated with the class of '95.
His life's activities embraced those of a tailor's apprentice,
post office clerk, stenographer , bookkeeper and paymaster
at the local Borden Condensed Milk plant for 10 years, news
editor of the Livingston Republican for a period, and finally ,
auditor and , later, comptroller of the Citizens' Mutual
Automobile Insurance Company, which latter positions he
held for a period of 28 years , retiring in May, 1944. For many
years, he had been a frequent contributor to the local
newspapers , with news items and occasional obituaries , and
offering historic and reminiscent sketches of people and
events of a bygone day . Several of these monographs were
made up into attractively printed, illustrated and bound
booklets , to be given to friends and others who might enjoy
them .
In his youth , an expert skater and a strong swimmer , he
will be remembered by his few living contemporaries as an
ardent and successful sportsman and a year-round lover of
the great outdoors .
Emil Bode knew his own America well and had , during the
years , visited every state in the Union but four, and had seen
or had crossed every large and nearly every small, historic
river in the United States and nearly all of the great streams
of Canada. In 1913, returning from an extended trip through
the west, an enthusiastic, novice golfer, his interested sports
loving friends in the game, the ultimate result being the
expert-built , attractively located Chemung Hills Country
Club.
He spent his last years in occasional short vacation trips
and with often read favorites from his well stocked library ,
itsw allgsr acewdi tfho ufrr amefda mi~coya tosf .a rmtsh, ree
oft hesbee aritnhge h eraldidce vicde enotmrgem ~te
Crusadaenrc estrHye.a lsok eput ph isc orrespondwen~cteh
distant relatives and friends and , during the waryears with
army and navy boys battling in far off lands and distant seas .
Never married he furnished a home or meals for a steady
procession of rur~l and other lads, attending school in town,
for a term, a year or more, a whole high school and , in
several cases , for a period after their schooldays were over.
Any lad , homeless , friendless or merely hungry, could be
sure of a welcome at the Bode home .
The youngest and the last of 11 brothers and sis~ers, he is
survived only by widely scattered nephews, meces and
cousins, their children and grandchildren.
The funeral services were conducted by the Reverend A.
Dale Stewart at the First Presbyterian Church in Howell on
Sunday , January 21. His body was cremated , with _ashes
being interred in the family burial lot at the early , p10neer
day established St. George Lutheran Cemetery in Genoa
Township near Brighton.
Edward J. Browning
By FRED HENRY BROWNING
Edward J . Browning, age 71 in 1975, resides on part of the
farm taken up from the government in 1836 in the township of
Byron. The township was renamed Oceola in 1838. Peter Y.
Browning was a sixth generation Browning in America . The
Brownings arriv ed from England in 1640. His father ,
Jeremiah 2nd was a Quaker who married Sally Morey,
daughter of Robert Morey who built the constitution . (Olrl
Ironsides ). There were 450 acres in 1836 and 840 when Peter
Y. passed awa y in 1873, at the age of 78.
They lived in a log cabin for almost 20 years , then built the
house (of 19 rooms which still stands ), about 1856. Peter Y.
had seven children , six boys and one girl. The oldest was
Edward and the youngest was Joseph . They were both
farm ers . The other four boys all went to California during the
gold rush and only one returned . The rest became very well
off in business in San Franci sco.
The first Methodist church met at first in the Browning
school on the farm.
Pet er Y. and his son Edward both held the position of post
mast er , Edward under President Buchanan , and Peter Y.
preceding that.
Edward 's son, John , in 1878 bought fro $10,000, along with
Tom Walker , The Parshallville Mill, and around 1900 he was
a partner in what is now the Co-op Mill in Howell.
John 's son, Fred E. , worked in the mill before he married
Georgia Burton , and then obtained a position as railway mail
clerk and moved to Detroit until 1919. Then he moved back to
the Browning farm and farmed a few years . They had three
girls and two boys. Later he went into the well drilling
business with son Edward J .
Fred passed away in 1964 at the age of 89, after running a
gas station and store for 30 years.
Edward J. , who married Edna Mae Jackson , was a
machinist and then car hauler before retiring at age 60. His
son Fred Henry lives in San Diego, California with his wife
and two daughters . He is making a career of the Navy and
expects to retire in about five years . Edward and Edna also
have three girls living in Livingston County: Elizabeth
Smith , with four boys ; Carolyn Dunlap , with one girl ; and
Virginia Alchin, with four girls.
Fr ed Henry and his wife Elaine ha ve two daughters , a nd he
is the last of this Browning line .
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The LounsberyF amily
By VOLA LOUNSBERY HUTSON
The family of Lounsbery got its start in Livingston County
when Allen (1800-189)3 came from New York State in 1832
over the Old Indian Trail driving a circus wagon. He loved
horses and spent his entire life around them. Proof of this
shows, since he drove a stagecoach from Detroit to Lansing
for many years over the old plank road . On these trips he
often encountered many Indian troubles, especially with the
Okemus Indians .
Allen was married in 1837t o Laura Mathers (1816-189)2 and
they had eight children. Two of their sons, Charles and Clark
were in the Civil War. Both were in the Battle of Shiloh in the
same company of men, and Clark was killed. When the war
was over, Charles was discharged and since there was no
transportation , he walked all the way home from Pittsburg
Landing, near Shiloh, Tennessee. Charles returned and
married Clark 's sweetheart Loraine Latson in a double
ceremony with his sister , Maryette and Loraine 's brother,
Eugene Latson in 1866.
Charles (1839-191)8 and Loraine (1842-1912)h ad four sons,
two of them Fred and Ernest lived their entire life in
Livingston County. Ernest lived on the Pinckney Road and
Fred on the Chilson Road . Fred married Harriett (Hattie )
Sharp in 1904 and they bought the farm on Chilson Road !n
1912 and lived there from then on. Mrs. Fred Lounsbery still
lives on the same farm.
Fred and Ernest 's mother, Loraine taught school at the
Barnard School on Chilson Road where both boys attended as
well as both of Fred 's daughters , Audrey and Vola. Loraine
The Jubbs .
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told about when she moved to Genoa with her parents that
they chose a spot on Beck Road by the Ann Arbor Railroad
near a spring . The house had no glass in the windows and it
was not an unusual sight to have Indians pull back the gunny
sack curtains and peek through them at night.
When the courthouse at Howell was dedicated and all the
articles were placed in the cornerstone , it is said that they
went around through the crowd collecting different things
that anyone wanted to give. Charles had a county newspaper
in his hip pocket which he contributed to the collection.
The Lounsbery family has been in Michigan for one hundred
and forty-three years and all have contributed their
share to the history of Livingston County.
The Pool Family
By VOLA HUTSON
The Pool family of Livingston County has been traced back
to John Pool who was born about 1720. He and his family lived
in New Jersey. John 's great grandson Jeremiah Pool (1820-
1886) and his wife, Clarissa (Hart) Pool (1827-1912w) ere both
born in Hackettstown, New Jersey . They came to Michigan
to live in 1852 by way of Detroit, then settled in Iosco
Township, and later bought the Pool farm near Coon Lake in
Genoa Township. That house is still standing.
Jeremiah and Clarissa had seven children , the only girl
was Mary Elizabeth (1858-1945). She married George Sharp
in 1879. Their daughter Mrs. Fred Lounsbery (1884) lives in
Genoa Township on the same farm where she has lived since
April 1912. Mrs. Hattie Lounsbery remembers when the
schools began to adopt report cards . Also she relates how
there were no grades of any kind or any graded books. In fact
there were no first grade books or even a suitable book for
beginners when she started to school at five years old. She
says that if any child was caught drawing a picture , he was
punished . The schools were greatly overcrowded as one
teacher would have a great many students ranging in age
from five to twenty-one. The schools were used in many
ways in fact Nathan Pool's funeral was held in the Barnard
Scho~l on Chilson Road. Nathan was the father of Fred and
Irwin Pool.
Ina Drew married Marcellus Poole (parents of Howard
Poole of Howell) and she added the "e" to the family name
because she thought it seemed more like a family name that
way. Some of the families followed that spelling and some did
not.
The Pool family was a very respected family and always
did their part in the settlement of Genoa Township and
Livingston County.
Peter Brewer
Printed December 1, 1879
One of the earliest settlers and oldest pioneers of
Livingston County now in his eighty-fifth year is entitled to
special mention in this local history.
He was born in Otsego County, New York, January 27, 1795.
When he was seven years old his father moved to the then
remote wilderness of Genesee County, N.Y. where he grew
to manhood .
In the War of 1812 he was drafted and served a short time .
He adopted the vocation of a farmer and purchased some
land in Niagara County where he was married to Miss
Dorcas West on May 10, 1821. In 1835 he came to Howell,
Michigan and located one-hundred acres of land and
returned to New York. In 1836h e came on with his family and
commenced the improvement of the land . Peter and his wife
were members of the M.E. Church in New York and assisted
to organize the M.E. Church in Howell. He hued the timber
for the first house of worship of that church . In 1837 he was
assessor and highway commissioner.
His wife died in 1863. On March 1, 1865 he was married to
Mrs. Abigal Munger with whom he lived in Shiawassee
County for thirteen years. When she died he returned to his
home in Howell to live with his son, Almon who was by his
first wife. Mr. Brewer had six children, one died a baby. A
daughter , Mary , married William L. Jones and they both
died in 1848 leaving two children . Orlando S. married
Mary Pane Moore in 1847. Almon married Olive Whitbeck
and lives on the old homestead. Eben is a farmer in
Shiawassee County. All are respected citizens and well
settled in life.
Peter Brewer was the great, great grandfather of William,
Leonard , and Lyle Musson.
The Brady Family
I was born in Pinckney , Michigan, July 5, 1902. Parents
were Matthew B. Brady and Blanche Moran Brady . We
moved to Howell when I was four weeks old and lived in an
apartment of what was known as the Hadden house now a
part of the Lamb funeral home. After about three years we
moved about a block away to the double house known as the
Fannie Huntington house. Miss Huntington, sister of the late
Dr. Harry Huntington owned three houses at the southeast
corner of Michigan A venue and Crane Street (Michigan
Avenue was then called Division Street) .
Mr. and Mrs. Albert (Allie Smith lived in the house exactly
on the corner , our house was to the east and the other tenants
were the George Brigham family next to the Smith house
south was rented by the George Snedicor family parents of
Marshall Snedicor. Allie Smith was long an officer of the
First State and Savings Bank , later merged into the First
National. George Brigham owned the Brigham Livery Stable
(located on part of the now South Michigan Avenue parking
lot) George Snedicor was a partner with his father, W. N. and
brother Bert in the Snedicor Egg and Poultry Plant . My
father was an area sales supervisor for the International
Hawley Company working out of the Jackson Michigan
Branch
When we moved to the Huntington house I was the only
child. My brother, Edmund was born there on March 11, 1906.
The Smiths had no children. The Brighams first child Clare
was born at about the time of my brother . The Snedicors had
one son, Marshall . He and I were childhood playmates and
have been lifelong friends .
At that time there were two telephone systems in Howellthe
Bell and the Homes. These later were consolidated. Most
businesses had both phones. I remember Snedicors had the
Home and we had the Bell. One time I talked to Marshall on
the phone. He called the Snedicor store where his uncle Bert
phoned me. Bert placed the receiver of the one phone to the
transmitter of the other and vice versa . Marshall and I were
able to talk to each other that way.
The Peavy Family
By MRS. GEORGE A. HEEG
Adelbert F . Peavy was born June 22, 1845 at Belfast , New
York State . He came to Michigan as a small boy with his
pioneer parents, Ichabod Wood Peavy and Sally Potter
Peavy . They settled at DeWitt.
He enlisted in the Civil War Sept. 3, 1863 at Hamburg ,
served as bugler and messenger carrier two years and three
months in Co.K, 10th Mich. Cavalry. At the close of the war
he was mustered out at Memphis, Tenn., November 11, 1865.
Came to Howell and soon after was married to Rosette
Wilcox July 31, 1866. She was born at LaFayette, Onandago
Co., State of New York.
They settled on the old farm five miles north of Howell on
Byron Road, where their six children were born and reared .
They lived in the old log house while building their new home .
The four boys were born there. Wm. H. Farmer ,George W.,
Dean of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon State College, Homer B.,
farmer and Peav y Mill; ·calvin A., oil and gas interests in
Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. Moved to their new home
in 1876, where Edith M. and Ethel R. were born, both were
school teachers.
In 1904 they sold the farm to William and moved to Howell
and after a yea r bought the mill where he was associated
with two sons, Homer and Calvin.
Pictures of log house with Grandpa and Grandma Peavy
sitting in front also the A. F. Peav y mill are at Zempers
studio.
They were married 55 years .
W.D . Adams with John Adams Vanwinkle and Nancy LaFlamme .
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Noted Howell Homes
By JANET ROHRABACHER
TWO HOUSES ON W. CLINTON STREET
These two houses, one of which was number 637 and was
owned for sometime by Will Vaughn and the tenant house
just west of it, number 641, were both parts of the old Rubert
Hotel. This hotel was in the southeast part of Howell. These
sections of the hotel were moved to the south side of West
Clinton Street when the hotel was razed .
DR . GARDNER WHEELER'S OFFICE
The house at number 652 West Clinton Street was once the
office of Dr. Gardner Wheeler . It was originally situated
north of the intersection of West Grand River and North
Walnut on the east side of the street. It had to be built very
early because Dr. Wheeler started to practice in Howell in
1838. Then the house was moved to just south of Parshall's
mill. Mrs. Emma Houghtaling said that it was again moved
to the north side of West Clinton Street. For many years it
was owned by Mrs . Cameron.
658 WEST CLINTON STREET
Number 658 West Clinton on the north side of the street
which was owned for a number of years by Mrs. Brayton was
originally a barn .
EDWARD HOUGHTALING HOUSE
This house, 122 Byron Road , is at the southeast corner of
Byron Road and Spring Street intersection and is a very old
house. It originally stood a block away on the northwest
corner of Grand River and Byron Road , and was moved to
the present location. A gas station was built where it stood
and now the station is demolished. During the last ten years
an apartment has been added to the west side of this house
and the house itself has been remodeled.
ROHRABACHER-SKILBECK HOUSE
The house at 310 North Michigan Avenue (formerly Mill
Street ) which is the first house on the west side of the street
after crossing the railroad overpass was originally the home
of Adam Rohrabacher . His daughter , Jane Rohrabacher who
Prize fowl at the County Fair . The queen of the fair watches from
the right.
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The Spencer house on W . Grand River .
died in 1929 said she well remembered playing in the yard of
this house, and that her sister, Gabriella was born there in
1846. About 1850 her family moved to the Pinckney area and
Joseph Skilbeck bought the house and for years it was known
as the Skilbeck house. It was intended originally for a parsonage
and a Rev . Root who was an in-law relative of the
Rohrabachers did reside with them , but there is no indication
that any church ever bought it. They must have decided to
rent or build elsewhere. A barn which stood in back was torn
down about 15 years ago.
By ISABEL SMITH KARUS
Truesdel House-The house at 205 South Elm Street was
built in the early 1800's by a Mr. Truesdel.
It was known as the Galloway house, the house having been
built for Mr. Galloway. The Galloway family lived in the
house for a number of years.
In about 1864 the house was sold to Lewis M. Smith .
Mr. Smith with his brother Harmon , was owner and
publisher of the Livingston County Republican .
The Smith brothers , five in number, were early Michigan
settlers from the state of New York . Their parents had been
massacred by the Indians at Penn Yan, New York.
Mr. Lewis Smith related many tales of his childhood in
New York to his young grandson, tales of having lived and
played with Indian boys. He was a man of rather small
stature, but reputed to be a superb athlete. It was reported
that from standing position he could leap into a barrel, more
commonly known as a hogshead. Mr. Smith said that he had
learned this feat from his Indian playmates.
Lewis Smith died at the Elm Street residence at the age of
66. The house was purchased by his younger son, Fred G.
Smith .
The Fred Smith family lived in the house until his death in
1954 at the age of 90 years.
Whipple House-at 715 E . Grand River was built in Almon
Whipple's second subdivision, dated 1871. Almon Whipple
moved to Howell from Handy Township in 1839. He engaged
in mercantile business, with John Curtis, later engaged in
real estate, held office of County Clerk and also was postmaster
of Howell. This house is the home of Mrs. Gladys
Whipple.
Galloway House-John Galloway, who came to Howell in
1844 built the house on the northwest corner at Higgins and
Court. The gracious home with its high ceilings, beautiful
hallway and stair , was the home of John Galloway, an early
state senator from Livingston County. The house is now
owned by the Herbert F. Schotts, who have generously entertained
with their gracious hospitality.
The Galloway house, now Alma Young.
Written by Miss Alma Young and Mrs. Fromilda Young
Wilson, granddaughters of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weimeister,
Sr., and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Young.
The Weimeister-Young house at 227 N. Court Street is well
over 100 years old, and is now owned by Miss Alma Young
and her sister, Mrs. Russell Wilson (Fromilda Young
Wilson).
Edward Thompson deeded the property in 1844 to William
Melvin. It was thereafter owned by different Howell
residents until it was deeded to John Weimeister in 1869, and
then in 1880 deeded to his brother , Henry Weimeister, Sr.,
whose wife was Matilda Buek Weimeister .
The Weimeisters then moved to Howell from their farm
which was about five miles out on East Grand River Avenue.
The farm is now owned by History Town, but the house is not
the same . The original house which burned in the 1920's was a
large farm house on the same site, which is about half-way
between Lansing and Detroit . It would often accommodate
teamsters for meals and lodging. Their horses would be
taken care of in the large red barns across the road .
Not long after the Weimeisters took possession of the
property at 227 N. Court Street , part of the north side of the
lot and part of the adjoining property of Fred Hubbell were
taken over by the Ann Arbor Railroad. Both the Weimeisters
and the Hubbells protested but the railroad won out. The
Weimeister 's large barn, then on the north side of their
property, had to be moved to the south side where it now
stands .
In 1898 the property was deeded to their daughter , Nellie
Weimeister Young, who with her husband, Edward F.
Young, and family of three children, had been residing with
Mrs. Young's parents , Henry and Matilda Weimeister, who
passed away in 1891 and 1904 respectively. The Edward
Youngs lived in the house until Mr. Young's death in 1944a nd
Mrs. Young's death in 1946.
The Youngs liked to entertain. Many church functions for
both adults and young people, as well as family dinners and
gatherings were held in the house.
A few changes were made in the home by the Youngs. A
small apartment downstairs was made out of the north-side
rooms, but the small porch in that side still remains . A
similar porch on the south side was enclosed and converted
into a sun room. The southeast end of the long back porch was
used to convert a small southeast room into a bedroom . The
long porch across the entire front of the house still remains
the same.
OLD METHODIST CHURCH PARSONAGE
By DORIS E . FRYKMAN
One of the older homes in Howell dating back more than 100
years having an interesting history is V. E. Tucker's home at
323 S. Walnut. The house has been extensively remodeled.
Mrs. Charles P . Adams (nee Pauline Griffith ) tells us that for
many years in the old days this was the local Methodist
church parsonage. Mrs. Adams is now 95 years old and is the
granddaughter of the late Rev. Jesse Kilpatrick who served
as pastor of the First Methodist Church. The Kilpatricks
lived there during his ministry and it was in this house in 1878
that their daughter , Sarah was united in marriage to Will F .
Griffith. In 1880t he Griffiths became the parents of their only
daughter , Pauline who is now Mrs. Charles P . Adams.
Another old home which Mrs. Adams told us about is the
white frame house located on the southwest corner of State
and Madison Streets. This house was built by her paternal
grandparents , Mr. and Mrs. Will R. Griffith and until about
1890 it sat on the northeast corner of East Grand River and
Barnard Street. It was then moved to the present location in
the north part of town. After it was moved, Mrs. Adams '
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will F . Griffith built the large home on
the Grand River site and it is now occupied by the Chamber
of Commerce . The Adams family made their home there for
many years.
Halloween at the football field for the little ones.
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Moving a barn-quite a project .
William McPherson-Deyo Home-William McPherson and
his wife, Elizabeth Riddle arrived in Howell in 1836. With
them they brought from Scotland their children Alexander ,
William Jr ., and Isabella. Their family was growing in age
and number , thus needing a larger house, when around 1850
they built the two story brick house with Greek Revival
cornices , on the site now between Michigan Avenue and State
bordered on the north by Lake Street.
The house was a McPherson home until 1965, when after
the death of William McPherson III , the house was sold.
Marguerite and Bill III had made changes in the house,
adding the sun parlor , with the sleeping porch above , painting
the red bricks white . Marguerite had made of the yard a
rose garden , after the sons Bill IV, Sandy , and Ed no longer
needed the big front lawn for a ball field. She had roses, of
showy pink and rosy red bushes growing all along the long
walk from Michigan Avenue to the front door. She also had a
small garden of tea roses , and she knew all their names. At
the State Street entrance , roses bordered the drive , and a
rose trellis arched over the entrance way .
On every national holiday, American flags on poles were in
their places along Michigan A venue in front of their home.
The Cecil Niriders bought the house in 1965, improved its
condition, and redecorated , sold the house to the present
owners, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Deyo. Mr. Deyo is an architect
and his wife, Jo shares his interest in historic houses.
Frederick J. Lee House-Now the home of Miriam and
William McPherson , IV. Mr. McPherson is a great grandson
of Fred Lee, whose daughter , Rosalie married E. G.
McPherson , in the formal parlor of the house, August 14,
1867. The parlor was used only for special occasions.
The three stor y house with mansard roof, built later by E .
G. McPherson and Rosalie, in the location where the
McPherson State Bank now stands , was for many years used
as Howell's hospital.
The Lee home was first a working farm with large barns
south and to the back of the house.
Dr. William Wells House-Mr . and Mrs. David Holtkamp
now own the house located at 321 N. Court. It was built by Dr .
William Wells, who was one of the early physicians in Howell
and his wife. Dr . Wells came to Howell in 1849 and built the
home in 1852.
Mrs. Nellie Glenn, of Fowlerville, recently deceased told
Mrs. Holtkamp she played in the house with the grandchild of
Dr . Wells when she was very young. Dr . Wells sold seed for
one of the large seed companies .
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William A. Mayberry Home--404 S. Walnut, was built by
Leander Smith who came to Howell sometime between 1840
and 1844. Mr. Smith was a brother-in-law of Frederick J . Lee,
whose house was just north on Walnut Street. The
Mayberry 's bought the house from descendants of Leander
Smith . The grill on the porch is the original. The house has
been unchanged in style , but the interior is beautifully
renovated for comfort.
Milford Home-219 S. Walnut. A man named Andrews is
believed to have built this house, now the home of the Harvey
Milfords. Mr. Andrews was a shrewd business man , and
owned a hardware business with Edward B. Winans.
Edward , Alfred , Jepson , and Albert Garland .
By MRS. WAYNE A. BLANCHARD
A Greek Revival home on South Center Street now occupied
by the Wayne A. Blanchard family is one of the earl y
homes of Howell.
George L. Sage, the first white child born in Howell on
January 23, 1835 grew to manhood, married and lived in the
house when it occupied the site where Mr. and Mrs. William
Cook now live on South Walnut Street. The house was known
as the Sage home, but in the 1874 Atlas it was listed as the
property of Mrs . Jenks (the widow of George T. Sage ,
remarried ).
The house was moved to South Center in the early 1920's,
and was purchased by Mr. and Mrs . Galen A. Phillips, Sr.,
Mrs. Blanchard 's parents . A front porch and dining ell were
added to the two story upright at this time, but all the original
woodwork was preserved in the living room. The grooved
baseboards are eleven inches high, four large windows
predominate the room and are believed to hold the original
glass because of their imperfect quality . The window casings
are eight inches wide with grecian squares in each corner at
the ceiling and woodwork from sill to floor.
The house is now stucco exterior but looking to the roof one
sees the original Greek Revival molded eaves which are
walnut.
Mr. and Mrs . Phillips lived in the house until 1957. Mrs.
Phillips recalls that her mother Martha Grostick Risch (1870-
1948) came to Howell from Genoa when she was a young girl
about 18, and lived with the Sages a short while on Walnut
Street to learn dressmaking .
The Margaret Hoover family.
By ISABEL SMITH KARUS,
A Descendant
205 South Elm
The house at 205 South Elm Street was built in the early
1800's by a Mr. Truesdel.
It was known as the Galloway house, the house having been
built for Mr. Galloway. The Galloway family lived in the
house for a number of years .
In about .1864 the house was sold to Lewis M. Smith.
Mr. Smith with his brother , Harmon was owner and
publisher of the Livingston County Republican .
The Smith brothers , five in number , were early Michigan
settlers from the state of New York. Their parents had been
massacred by the Indians at Penn Yan , New York.
Mr. Lewis Smith related many tales of his childhood in
New York to his young grandson, tales of having lived and
played with Indian boys. He was a man of rather small
stature , but reputed to be a superb athlete . It was reported
that from standing position he could leap into a barrel, more
commonly known as a hogshead. Mr. Smith said that he had
learned this feat from his Indian playmates .
Lewis Smith died at the Elm Street residence at the age of
66. The house was purchased by his younger son, Fred G.
Smith.
The Fred Smith family lived in the house until his death in
1954 at the age of 90 years .
THE MUSSON HOUSE
The Musson home on West Clinton was built in 1864 by
Gerald Musson's grandfather , William W. Musson. He
purchased two lots from Frederick J . and Martha Lee for $60.
This home has been owned and lived in continuously since
then by the Musson family. Both Gerald and his father ,
William E. were born in this house.
CliffordK ellogg
By BETHEL DA VIS KELLOGG
Wife of Clifford Kellogg
In the early days of our Federal Government , a party was
sent to explore what is now the Michigan area and bring back
a report.
"Mostly swamp unfit for habitation " was the report
brought to Washington.
Many people must have decided otherwise . In 1832, a man
by the name of Kellogg came into this area and took up a
section (640 acres ) of land from the government. During the
years this land was passed from father to son. Some of this
land remains in the original Kellogg families.
One su~h parcel is on the northeast corner of Golf Club and
Kellogg Roads in Oceola township. This is owned by the
Clifford Kellogg family .
Clifford received his land from his Uncle Elijah , who with
Clifford's father , Loren , owned two hundred acres at this
location.
The first log cabin was on the exact sight of Clifford's
house. The log cabin burned but the cellar had been filled in
with stone and Clifford put up the first section of his house
exactly over it.
On this land is the pioneer cemetery . It was started when
the wife of the first settler died. Since then members of the
Kellogg families have ben buried there . Names like Stark ,
Whitehead and Hardy appear on headstones , but they are all
Kellogg related.
The Kellogg School was located on the southwest corner of
Golf Club and Kellogg Roads . Clifford's grandfather ,
Ebenezer , taught the school at one time and his father ,
Loren, was on the school board for many years . Clifford and
his brothers , Carlton and Kern went through the eighth grade
there . Also his three children Charles , Boyden and Elma ,
started in this school but progress took over and the Kellogg
District was taken into the Hartland area .
The school building was sold and moved to Woodland Lake
on Grand River and turned into a general store. It is now
Jim's Market . They have covered it over but the nucleus is
the old Kellogg school. The school was lined with corrugated
metal and I think this can still be seen inside the store.
The school must have been built before 1849 because
Erastus Kellogg would be 126 years old if he were alive today ,
and he started school there at the age of five.
On the southeast corner of Golf Club and Kellogg was a
huge oak tree . Erastus said the oak tree looked just the same
when he started school. This tree had a notch on it that had
marked it as part of an old Indian trail. That too, gave way to
progress when the road was widened.
When the Kelloggs went to live on " Kellogg Korners " in
1932, Erastus Kellogg was their next door neighbor to the
west. He was a fine, intelligent gentleman in his eighties and
he would tell the younger people stories of pioneer days .
One was about the roads . Early settlers on Kellogg Road
could only get to Howell by going south to Grand River or
north to Highland Road . Golf Club did not go through west
because of a swamp . Erastus told how periodically the
farmers would get to betting about who could get their teams
through the swamp , but the horses would get mired and other
teams would pull them out. Finally , a corduroy road was
built by laying logs crosswise and filling in with stones and
dirt.
The Clifford Kelloggs had three children , Charles Davis
Kellogg, Boyden Alton Kellogg and Elma Grace Kellogg
Hopponen Faulkenbury .
Charlee has two children , Cindy and Joseph Patrick.
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Boyden has two children, Deborah Lynn and Danny Lee and
Elma has two daughters , Lucinda Kay Hopponen and Cheryl
Anne Hopponen and a son, Michael Boyden Faulkenbury.
The newest twig on the family tree is Jennifer Anne Mead,
daughter of David and Deborah (Kellogg) Mead of Phoenix ,
Arizona.
Clifford Kellogg passed away on December 29th, 1967, but
his family still has the property.
Charles Brockway
By MRS. EDNA B. PEACH
Charles Frederick Brockway was born in Fulton, Oswego
County, New York in 1843, one of six brothers . He arrived in
Howell in 1857.
He married Estette Hines in 1867. To them was born one
son, Bert Hines Brockway. He was married again in 1885 to
Carrie Harriett Boothy of Howell.
They had five (5) children, Florence , Ford, Ruth (Mrs .
Herman Nevereth ), Edna (Mrs. Truman Peach) and Helen
(Mrs. George Richards ).
Mr. Brockway was a builder and carpenter and built many
fine homes in Howell. He built our family home on Sibley
Street which is still owned by the Ford Brockway family.
All five of Fred and Carrie Brockway's children were born
in that home. We had a happy childhood with a wonderful
mother and father . The family attended the Methodist
Church.
All five of the Charles and Carrie Brockways children were
born at the home on Sibley Street.
Louise Lockitt Williams,
mother of Harry Williams.
Harry L. Williams
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Harry Williams
Harry Lockitt Williams was born in the beautiful Cotswold'
Hills of England on May 15, 1869.
In 1888,w hen Harry was 19, a cousin, who had been visiting
the Williams family in England, persuaded Harry to return
with him to his home in Marshall, Michigan. The cousin was
extensively engaged in the commission business and it was
from him that Harry learned the business that was to become
his life's work.
After traveling for the Horlick Malted Milk Company and
the Case Implement Company, Harry came to Howell in 1898
where he started his own commission business, specializing
in eggs and poultry. The first modest plant was located in the
basement of the old K. S. B. Holt Elevator but the flourishing
business soon outgrew those quarters and Harry constructed
a modern plant, with a huge refrigerated storage capacity,
on the property now occupied by the Cole Elevator. During
peak seasons, about twenty men were employed in this
strictly wholesale business . The increasing volume soon
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required that the Pere Marquette Railroad install a direct
siding to the plant to speed shipments to New York City,
Springfield, Massachusetts and other metropolitan centers in
the east. In the 1920's, Harry formed, with Mr. Lester
Garlock, a Detroit branch known as the Garlock-Williams
Company.
Harry's second vocation was real estate and a number of
buildings in the Howell area were built by him. Among these
were the U.S. Post Office Building on the corner of Michigan
and Sibley Streets, which was built in the 1920's and is now
occupied by the Village Billiard Center ; and the building on
East Grand River now occupied by the Livingston County
Press, which, with Russell Woodruff, Harry built for the
Kroger Company in the 1940's.
He was active in many church and civic affairs . He was a
member of St. John's Episcopal Church, the town council, the
school board and the Howell Music Club. He was a Knight
Templar, Mayor of Howell, and a director of the First State
Bank . After that bank 's merger with the First National Bank ,
he continued in that capacity for a total of more than fifty
years.
In his early years , he worked with young men in the
Y.M.C.A. as he was a great lover of the out-of-doors and of
nature study . He actively participated in the operation of his
farms located southwest of Howell and greatly enjoyed the
hours spent there .
Though proud of his birthplace, Harry became a
naturalized citizen of the United States, which he loved more
than any other. He became totally Americanized, even to the
extent of losing his English accent, which he accomplished at
considerable effort.
Harry predicted that Howell would one day show a great
growth and, were he alive today, there is no doubt that he
would feel that a dream had come true .
The Riddle Family
By JOY BIGELOW
Andrew Riddle, Sr. and Isabel Taylor were married in
Scotland in 1831.T hey came to Howell in 1836. He brought his
blacksmith tools with him from Scotland and they were the
first blacksmiths in Howell. He worked at his trade with his
son-in-law, William McPherson, Sr. The next year Andrew
Riddle, Sr. came out and settled on a farm in Oceola
Township which they had taken up from the government. He
also built a blacksmith shop there. In 1938 his great, great
grandson , William Riddle Bigelow, married and lived in the
same house.
Andrew and Isabel Riddle, Sr., had seven children. Two of
the children were Elizabeth and Andrew, Jr., Riddle.
Elizabeth Riddle, daughter of Andrew Riddle, Sr. married
William McPherson, Sr., in Scotland and they also had seven
children. One of their children was Edward Gregory (E.G .)
McPherson and he was the father of William McPherson III.
Andrew Riddle, Jr. and Margaret Stewart were married in
Scotland. They had eight children , William, Isabella and
Maria Riddle.
A. William Riddle, Jr. and Margaret Stewart were married
in Scotland.
A. William Riddle was born in Fordyce, Scotland and came
to this country at the age of nine years. He married Cynthia
Miller. They lived in a log house on the west side of North
Eager Road. The Indians used to come to their door with
their kettles and beg for food. They seemed to know when
they were cooking meat, which was very seldom . An old
apple tree still stands where the loghouse was and bears
fruit. Later they built the new frame house and barns . The
oak timbers were taken from the farm , but all the pine
lumber was cut by William Riddle near Vassar and Bay City
during the winter time and hauled down by a team of oxen to
his farm on Eager Road . Barn building was his trade .
William Riddle Bigelow and Mary Cynthia Bigelow were
their grandchildren . William Bigelow lives on his parents
farm in Oceola Township . Mary Bigelow Ladnew lives in the
city of Howell.
William and Cynthia Riddle also had three children: Elsie
Mae, Mary Belle and Frederick Riddle, who died in infancy .
Elsie Mae Riddle married Emerson N. Bigelow and they had
two children : Mary Cynthia Bigelow married William R.
Ladyer and they have one son, Robert William Ladnew ;
William Riddle Bigelow married Joy Schmidt. Mary Belle
Riddle or Aunt Mar y never was married and always lived on
the old homestead on North Eager Road until her death in
1966.
Isabella Riddle , daughter of Andrew and Margaret Riddle ,
Jr ., never married . Maria Riddle, daughter of Andrew and
Margaret Riddle, Jr . married Frank Parker . He was killed
by lightning not far from the Riddle farm . One of their sons,
Andrew Parker would be the father of Robert and William
Parker now residing in Howell, (who established the firm
which is now XLO Parker ). One daughter, Isabella, also lives
in Howell.
Andrew Schmidt
In about 1864 Andrew Schmidt (1839-191)8 took up land
from the Government in Howell Township. Clearing the land
for farming Andrew and his wife, Mary 0843-1923) lived in a
log cabin on what is now known as Marr Road . Total acreage
is not known.
To this union five children were born, Frank F . (1869-195)1;
Louise F . (1870-194)5; Rose (1872-195)7; Elizabeth 0875-1960)
and John A. (1884-1959).
It is belived that their first three children were born in the
log cabin befor e they moved into the large red brick home
constructed across the road .
The brick home at 3336 Marr Road is now occupied by Mr.
and Mrs . Carl Ott who are still engaged in farming . The
house is now painted white and an enclosed porch as been
added . Mr . Ott's parents , Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ott purchased
the farm in 1928. The log cabin was still standing at this time
but has since been torn down.
Immediate descendants still living in the area are Mrs.
William (Jo y) Bigelow, daughter of Frank ; Mrs . Irene
Conely, daughter of Elizabeth and Glane A. Phillips , Sr., son
of Rose .
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodnow
By MRS. R .S. CLARK
Mr. Charles A. Goodnow was born in Pultneyville , New
York, December 21, 1851. He was 24 years old when he came
to Howell. He began his business career as a clerk in the
general stor e of Jewett and Crossman and remained there
until Januar y 1, 1877, when the store Hickey and Goodnow
was founded . This store flourished until October 5, 1892, when
Mrs. Hickey burned to death in a disastro us fire which struc k
the city , and burned an entire block of brick buildings. Mr .
Darwin Wines also lost his life in the fire . Two of the brick
buildings were occupied at the time by H.C. Briggs J ewelry
Store and E.K. Johnson Drug Store .
In 1899, Mr . Homer N. Beach , brother-in-law of Mr. Hickey ,
bought out the Hickey partnership , this continued until 1913,
when the firm became known as Goodnow, Satterla , Scully
until Mr. Chas . Goodnow's death in November 1914.
Don W. Goodnow, born February 23, 1879, worked in his
father 's store for 10 years , starting at the age of 13. After 10
years , he and Henry T. Jubb established the hardware firm
of Goodnow and Jubb , which was located next door.
This was known as the Goodnow Block and is now the
location of the First National Bank.
In 1914, Mr. Charles Goodnow passed away , and imediately
Don Goodnow sold the hardware and became president of the
Goodnow, Satterla and Scully store . This stock was sold in
1915, soon after the store became known as the Goodnow,
Gartrell Dry Goods with an entirely new stock of goods. After
two years Mr . Goodnow bought out Mr . Gartrell 's interest
and the store was known as the Don W. Goodnow store . At
this time Mr. Goodnow was elected treasurer of the City of
Howell. Mrs . Goodnow (Grace Jubb ) went in the store to
collect tax money , and becoming very familiar with the store
took over responsibility of the office work and the buyer of
Women's apparel. Mr. and Mrs . Goodnow gave up full time
duties in 1939, turning over the management to Lyle
Wessinger , who had been in their employ for 17 years , and to
Mrs. Elizabeth Stoddard , sister of Mr . Goodnow, who was
bookkeeper and buyer . In 1956, Mr . Wessinger bought the
Goodnow Store and continued the Goodnow name . For health
reasons , Mr. Wessinger sold the store to Mr . James Turner in
1973 and the store is still operating under the name
Goodnow's.
This story covers nearly 100 years , Jan . 1, 1877 to Sept. 15,
1975.
A sa Carp ent er w as one of the earl iest pion eers , sett lin g j ust east of
How ell. Ther e was no poss i bil it y of picture s of them as the young men
t hey w ere wh en t hey came , becau se photography had not ye t been
dev el oped . Th is is a pictu re taken as a retired fa r mer abou t 1878-80
w hen he lived in town on E . Grand R iver .
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(\)(press wagon.
The camera counter in the corner drug store 1920.
__________________________________ .T1.:h.::e:._o~:l~d.,.H~ o.t:e,~:l~in Oak Grove north of Howell.
The McPherson Bus in front of the old bank on the south side of
Grand River with the McPherson Bros . Left, is Frank Lansing,
secretary to William McPherson 11.
Drawing logs to the Bogue Mill in Oak Grove .
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This was thought to b e the apple drying factory on N · M,·ch·, gan.
18R98a.c ing on th e 1a ke. Scene of cutter racing on H owe II Lake about
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Snedicor ' s butter and egg store , south side of W . Grand River about
turn of the century .
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This picture was taken from the Court House tower looking North
East to the lake . The East Ward school in the center and the lumber
yard by the railroad at the left with the stockyard on the otherside .
Howell' S· Centennial F arn1s • Harvest time , 1895.
The very latest in mass farming equipment .
A ride with a team of oxen.
The blue ribbon winner in the Team and Gig Contest in the 1915 County Fair .
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Thomas and Alice Brown, 1915.
Centennial Farms
The Allbright Farm
By JANET MIESLE
The Centennial Farm owned by Harold and Ila Brown
Allbright is located on the old Indian Trail that twisted and
turned between Dexter and Owosso. In this area it is called
Byron Road . The original farm consisted of 62½ acres , "East
½ of NW ¼ of section 22 laying south of the Shiawassee
River " was purchased by Mrs . Allbright's great-grandfather
Joseph B. Brown on March 14, 1876.J oseph B. sold the land to
his son Thomas G. Brown in 1881.
On August 1, 1885 a son was born to William and Emma
Centennial Farms
Coordinator
Andrew Jackson was born on a farm
near Wayland in Allegan County. Claudine
Burkhart was born on the centennial
farm in Cohoctah Township . They both
graduated with B .S. degrees from Michigan
State University , Andrew in Agricul -
ture, and Claudine in Home Economics .
They were married in 1941 and are
farmers. Andrew has served agriculture
as a member of Michigan Milk Producers
State Board of Directors, President of
American Dairy Association of Michigan,
Farm Bureau State Board of Directors,
and President of Howell Cooperative
Company. Claudine taught Home Economics
at Kellogg Consolidated School ,
Lansing Public Schools, Hartland and
Fowlerville. She has served Farm Bureau
in many capacities including vice-chair -
man of Michigan Farm Bureau Women .
Both are active in their church , community,
and political party .
Listerman Brown. He was named Joseph B. Brown after his
grandfather . Emma passed away just a few days after the
birth of her baby. She was just 18 when she died as a result of
complications during the delivery of her son. William took his
baby to his brother 's home , Thomas G. and Alice Goldsmith
Brown. They had no children and raised Joseph as their own
son.
The original house and barn were located about 500 feet
north of the present buildings. The story is told that
Steinacker Road was not built and Thomas G. did not want
the road to be built. He moved his house so that the south wall
sat on the section line that was to be the center of Steinacker
Road. He lost his battle and the road went around the house .
The original house consisted of three rooms. A dugout
basement , 1st and 2nd floor all 15x16 ft. The family climbed a
ladder to the sleeping room on the 2nd floor . In the late 1800's
an addition of dining room and kitchen were added on the
first floor and two bedrooms on the second floor . The original
15x16f oot dugout basement still remains and the family use it
as a root cellar or Michigan cellar.
A second addition was added in 1915. This time the
entryway to the back also enclosed the windmill. Lat er the
Delco Plant was in this room. The Delco Plant provided the
family with electricity.
Site of Indian Dance
The present house sits on the site of the Indian Dance
Ground. To quote the Livingston County History 1880 Edition
page 439 "On section 22, in the S.E . corner of the NW¼, was a
piece of ground containing about a quarter of an acre, which
had been leveled and trod down until the surface was hard
and smooth as a floor. It was circular in form , about eight
rods in diameter, and surrounded by a ring of earth which
was elevated a little above the general surface , and appeared
to have been formed from the earth removed in the process of
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leveling. It was a subject of great curiosity to the early
settlers , and they only learned its use when they made
inquiries regarding it of the Indians whom they met. Here the
stalwart savages celebrated their "war-dances " before
departing on some bloody errand of conquest or revenge ; or
when returning successful with bloody trophies of their
prowess they celebrated the occasion with the riotous
"scalp -dance; " or being unsuccessful, mourned with blackened
faces and shrouded forms , and slowly trod the
melancholy measure of the "death dance ." This is the reason
the farm is called "Dancing Acres Centennial Farm ."
People who have studied the Indians of the area tell the
Allbrights that one of the largest Indian settlements in the
county was located on their farm, on the sandy south bank of
the Shiawassee River . Every spring after the fields are
plowed a couple from the Lansing Rock and Mineral Society
come out to walk over the fields and look for artifacts. They
are usually not disappointed.
The Allbrights tell about a family in their neighborhood
that was out of work during the depression years . With time
to spare they took many walks along the Shiawassee River
and collected a 10 quart pail full of arrowheads.
Joseph B. married Lulu Antcliff on October 23, 1903. That
same day their future son-in-law was born to Oliver and
Sarah Larsen Allbright. Joseph and Lulu lived with Thomas
and Alice and in 1913 they purchased part of the land . In 1929
they became sole owners of the farm and added 80 acres of
adjoining land. A daughter Ila was born March 14, 1907. Ila
married Harold Allbright June 11, 1927. They became part
owners of the farm in 1943. By 1950 they owned the entire
farm and its size had grown to 271 acres .
This farm , as others has made many changes. As most
farms in the early 1900's it had a flock of sheep , a few hogs,
two teams of horses and 7 or 8 cows. A flock of chickens , some
ducks and a few geese were cared for by the women. The men
worked part of the time building roads in the township. They
used their teams to haul gravel and sand .
Electricity Comes to Area
Harold Allbright passed petitions and talked to other
farmers to get the first electricity into the area. The contract
was signed with the Consumers Power Company the night of
June 5th, 1936. That same night Mr. and Mrs. Allbright 's
daughter, Jan et, was born . The electricity was turned on
about 6 months later .
With the coming of electric power and tractors , farming
began to change . The first tractor was purchased in the 20's
but horses were used until about 1943.
In 1940 a second barn was built to house the young stock
and sheep. The farm was becoming more specialized and
moving toward dairy farming. The old barn was modernized
in 1945. The horse stalls were torn out to build a bigger cow
stable and a new milk house was added .
In 1957 another modernization program was undertaken
after the Allbrights ' daughter married Joe Miesle and went
into partnership with them . At that time a new milking parlor
was installed and a free stall barn to house 60 cows was built.
This was outgrown and in 1971a new 5-on-a-side herringbone
milk parlor and the free stall barn was changed to
accomodate 100 dairy cows. Now cows are the only animals
on the farm .
The Allbrights now have two grandchildren who help with
the farm work and enjoy the land and its history . They are
the 5th generation to live on the farm and 6th generation to
have been associated with it.
The Allbrights tell many interesting stories of their farm
experiences from runaway horses hooked to a wagon full of
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hay ; to threshing gangs that came for breakfast , stayed for
lunch, supper , and all night too. They recall when the
neighbors depended on each other for labor , financial ,
religious and recreational needs. House parties were
highlights of the year . The neighbors gathered at someone's
home to play cards and dance . Usually someone in the group
played musical instruments for the dancing .
This farm was a part of the Russell School District , and no
one ever missed the last day of school picnic or the Christmas
program put on by the children . Everyone in the District
attended these functions if they had children in school or not.
Going to Howell was a real project and until the late 1940's
was about a once a week experience . The mail was picked up
in Oak Grove during the early days of the farm then later
delivered by horse and buggy . Ila drove her pony to school
in Oak Grove for the 9th and 10th grades leaving it in a
friend's barn during the day and driving home at night.
The family love their land and enjoy telling of its history.
They have seen many changes in the surrounding area as
well as in agriculture . Now with all the building and people
moving into the area they think they know exactly how the
old Indian felt when he rode along the trail, came to a place
where a fence had been built across it, stopped , looked- and
after a time rode away with his head down. They wonder
what the future will hold for their land .
Cutting w ood for the kit chen st ove.
The Brown Farm
The Olive Brown farm at 1600E ast Cohoctah Road , Howell,
was purchased by Wolfgang Stelzer in 1850. He and his wife,
Margaret lived there until their death. Henry bought out the
heirs and with his wife, Margaret Greener , lived there until
his death in 1925. His widow stayed on the farm until 1944.
Their daughter , Olive, and her husband , Dell Newberry ,
came to the farm. Mr . Newberry died in 1949. Olive married
Melvin Brown, who died in 1965. Mrs . Brown became
crippled with arthritis , and had to leave the farm home, but
her granddaughter , Onalee Newberry Kobiska lives on an
acreage of the original Stelzer farm.
The Clark Farm
Marion Township
3850J ewell Road
By CHESTER CLARK
Four generations of farm children , all named Clark , have
lived and grown on our centennial farm since 1849. The farm
has the original eighty acres on the south side of the road,
section 16 of Marion Township, and the 55 acres with
buildings on the north side of the road in section 9.
The first house and barn on the south side of the road were
of rather short duration - but let us start back with Lyman
and Lydia Clark , natives of Oneida County, N.Y . Lyman, a
33-year-old carpenter and joiner , came with his family in 1836
to Michigan and took up 80 acres of government land in
Lyndon Township in Washtenaw County, south of Unadilla.
He built a Jog cabin , moved into it on October 1st with only
a bed quilt for a door, boards for windows, and native soil for
the floor until January . A Dutch oven was put to good use .
From Lyman 's obituar y we read "no church , no school
house, naught save the noble forest and heaven 's blue
canopy- the thud of the woodman 's axe , music to the
civilized ear but devastation to the redman 's hunting ground ,
soon changed things - dvilization and Christianity (coworkers
) laid the foundation of our society. "
Baptist Church Organized
Lyman organized 13 Baptists into a church in Unadilla. In
1846h e sold his Lyndon farm and came to Marion Township,
lived in a log house on the (now) Bruce Love farm , and in
March of 1849t alked with two men who inquired about "that
80 acres in section 16," a piece of land Lyman had already
been interested in. After they left , Lyman asked Lydia to
pack him a lunch , and though it was late in the day, he set out
on horseback , rode all night to the State Capitol, then at
Detroit , and was there when that office opened the next
morning. Lyman had to pay a dollar an acre down, and a
dollar an acre each year for three more years , or a total of
four dollars an acre . On his way home that morning , Lyman
met the same two men , about where Redford now is, on their
way in to Detroit.
The eighty has been a Clark eighty ever since . The eighty
across the road is equally as interesting and was acquired by
Lyman soon after . This eighty was originally in the name of
Millard Fillmore "and his good wife Abigail" before
Fillmore was President , then in the name of Fillmore 's
brother and others . Then , as recorded in Livingston County's
Register of Deed 's Office on Januar y 27, 1837, the whole
eighty was platted to be the Village of Schenectady ,
Michigan, including 310 lots , the grist mill , the sawmill, and
the " publick " square. About this time was the national Panic
of 1837. The town never got on any map , and it is not known
whether or not any buildings were built , even though some
Jots were sold. A Sheriff 's Deed in 1846 turned the whole
eighty back to Mr . Fillmore. The buildings are now all on this
55 acres . The back 25 acres were sold off the 80 many years
ago .
The large horsebarn and large cowbarn were built about
1859, then the " 22-room house" as we used to call it, soon
ther ea fter. Of course some of the rooms were actually closets
and hallways, but they were as large as many modern rooms .
The "West Wing" was actually a separate side of the house
for the hired man 's family . Clippings from Howell papers tell
of the many social events , sometimes over 100 persons at a
time , who gathered in that old house.
Old log cabins were used as hideouts by the young men.
Walter A., the youngest of the 10 children of Lyman and
Lydia , and the only one born here , was the one to take over
the home farm. Markers in the family plot in the Green
Cemeter y near here tell more of Lyman 's family . One older
brother was named Lewis Cass Clark , died at 18 months .
Another , Mansell , at 23 was a teacher in the Howell School
District. We have his contract of 1857.
Adventure Calls Mansell
In April of 1859a dventure called him to start for California
with others. When they reached Independence , Missouri ,
" the outskirts of civilization " he contracted the "continuous
fever " and was left with a kind family there. Mansell knew
he would die, and wanted to return home to Michigan first,
but three weeks later was buried there . Lyman reached there
the day after the funeral , paid the expenses, and a sermon
was given at the Marion Townhall in July by Baptist
minister , Rev . Dayfoot. The sermon , five full columns on the
front page of the Howell paper we have , tells the story . The
marker is here in Green Cemetery but we know not whether
the body was ever brought back .
Another brother , Gilbert , then 17, died the same year , in
November of 1859. His cause of death we do not know, and
recent inquiry at the County Clerk 's Office gave us
information that all such records were destroyed by fire in
1865.
Walter was a good farmer too. He married neighbor girl
Margarette Twilley in 1872, was prominent in neighborhood
affairs , politics , and farming . His mowing machine was one
of the first. His crops and livestock and driving horses were
good according to clippings and pictures . He served as
township supervisor .
Their six children all became prominent. Ethel and
Gertrude were teachers , then married locally and resided in
Livingston County. Lawrence graduated from M.A.C.,
became head bacteriologist for Parke , Davis & Co., wrote a
farmer 's bulletin while in college , and later was president of
M.S.U. Alumni. Briggs became head of all traffic lights and
power in Portland, Oregon. Burr took over the home farm ,
was elected township supervisor and served 37 years , was
prominent in Howell Co-Ops, Farm Bureau , and livestock
groups. Wallace graduated from Howell High, then moved to
California with his parents , becoming an osteopathic surgeon
with his own hospital , and ranked high in Masonry and Boy
Scouts.
Burr Clark Takes Over Farm
Dad was Walter Burr , but always known as Burr or W.B.
He and Mother were married in 1913. Mother was Hazel
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Ferguson. They worked hard, and we six children also
worked hard . One baby died of leukemia in infancy, but six of
us grew up, went to the Andersen School, and all graduated
from Howell. Dad was a good farmer. We never worked on
Sunday. Dad raised good cattle , sheep, hogs, and chickens,
but not necessarily purebred animals. We six kids were all
active in 4-H Club work. Dad helped promote the annual rural
township school play day .
Dad was good to his work horses. I well recall driving them
on the hayloader , then on the slings to unload the loose hay in
the mow. Wf:c. ut our own wood, buzzed it, and burned it solely
for our heat. One or two times we had a sawmill come in and
cut rough lumber for us. Dad was one of the early farmers to
buy his own livestock truck, always a Ford, and over the
years had 3 0r 4 of them. Our first passenger cars were
usually Fords, but later we got used Studebakers or Olds. We
did not have our first farm tractor until 1941, but years before
that had purchased our threshing machine jointly with three
neighbor farmers . Dad and Arza, my older brother, took
three horses and a buggy to Lansing to bring it home by
team .
We had an earlier battery radio with earphones , but did not
get electricity until 1937. Before that we always carried a
lamp upstairs to bed, and a lantern to the barn to care for the
spring lambs . Our inside bathroom and running water wasn't
put in until after 1937. We always had a good deep well,
wooden windmill by the house, and running water to the stock
tanks. But our telephone was different. Dad said they had the
first telephone before 1908. We helped cut ice every winter
from Sanatorium Lake , drew and stored it in the Andersen's
ice house with them , and made ice cream with it nearly every
Sunday in the summer .
Arza now owns a neighboring farm, and also is a good
farmer . I live in Twilley Hills Subdivision (where Grandmother
lived when she was a girl). Frances has her home in
Ohio, and summer home at Unadilla. Burr Jr. owns the home
farm now, but resides in Worthington, Ohio. Burr Jr. took
over the farm several years ago, modernized the dairy barn,
had a large Holstein herd , then went back to school until he
got his doctorate. Now in 1975h e is subdividing the 55 acres
and selling one parcel with the buildings. Dorothe is married
to farmer Arthur Maschke and lives near Gregory. Donald
had his heating and plumbing business on a small farm near
Fowlerville , sold out, and now lives near Howell.
Burr Jr. married Mary Margaret Chubb of Howell. They
have three children , Carol, Janet and Brian . Carol became
the fourth generation to live on the farm.
The original eighty on the south side of the road is still
intact , is still good farm land , but now has a farm pond plus
one house where stepmother Bereneice lives. Our mother
died in 1943, Dad remarried in 1945, and Dad celebrated two
Silver Wedding Anniversaries during his life on the farm
Dad died in 1972.
William B. Eager farm, 1895.
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The Eager Farm
4865 Eager Road
In June of 1836,W illiam Blake Eager accompanied Charles
Van Keuren from Montgomery, New York to Livingston
County, Michigan where they secured patents on several
tracts of land in what is now known as Oceola Township.
William Blake was the great-grandson of William Eager who
sailed to America from Monaghan , Ireland around 1728 and
settled in Orange County, New York, where he and his family
farmed for several generations.
In the mid-1830's, stories of the newly opened Northwest
Territory prompted William Blake to seek new land in the
West. Arriving in Livingston County, he looked for land with
numerous springs and marsh grass so that livestock could be'
supported immediately . He also sought fertile ground and
gently rolling hills to insure proper drainage for cultivation
after the land was cleared. Among the tracts he chose was
the present day Eager farm located at the corner of Clyde
and Eager Roads. William Blake then returned to New York
and eventually brought his wife Susan Moore back to
Livingston County.
In 1849, William Blake's son, Jacob Moore Eager, aged
twenty-three , accompanied by his wife Emily Comfort and
their year-old son Samuel, journeyed to take up residence on
what is now the family farm . On November 6th of that first
year, a second son was born. They named him William Blake
after his grandfather. Shortly after the arrival of the child,
Jacob returned to New York to bring back many of the things
they had not been able to transport on the first trip. Emily
remained with the two babies in the log cabin her husband
had built. This first home had only greased paper windows
and a blanket to cover the doorway and was a quarter-mile
from the nearest spring.
Before the land could be farmed, several improvements
had to be made. Therefore , when Jacob returned, he set
about clearing the land . Oxen were used during the early
years because their yoke, unlike the whippletree for a horse
harness, would not catch on the tree stumps . In exchange for1
having rails split for fencing, Jacob made boots for neighbors
with leather he had brought from New York. In addition, he
erected a log barn .
Jacob Builds Home
To accommodate his growing family (by this time, he and
Emily had three more children-Mary Jane, Francis and
James) Jacob built a large home , a portion of which still
remains as part of the present day farmhouse. In this section
of the building, the squared timbers joined by wooden pegs
that Jacob used can still be seen . In 1859, he planted two pine
seedlings near his home which now tower over the house and
dominate the landscape .
Eventually, Jacob built two more barns, one north of the
house and one east, across the road, on the site of the original
log barn which had been burned by young Sam and William
Blake while they were playing with matches. Jacob also dug
three deep wells by hand and stoned them up himself.
In order to make things for the farm, Jacob operated his
own blacksmith shop, where , among other items, he
constructed an entire wagon. He also built a windmill system
which pumped water to the house from the well across the
road. The water ran through pipes to a cistern in the pantry ,
where the overflow was piped to the livestock in the barn to
the north .
In all, Jacob owned and worked the farm for forty-four
years. In 1892, he deeded the land to his second son, William
Robert J. Eager farm, 1909.
Blake , who had married Laura Phoebe Walker in 1873.
During the early years of their marriage they worked a
nearby farm , but in 1881 they moved back to the Eager
homestead with their sons Lyman Ernest , age four, and
Robert Jacob who was three . Later , three more children
(James Lewis , Perry Arthur, and Emily Fidelia ) were born.
During this period , some areas of the farm were still being
cleared . However , to make the job easier , dynamite was now
available , although it was dangerous to use. While working
behind the house one day , Laura stopped to watch the blast as
William removed another stump. To her horror, she saw the
stump arch through the air directly at her young son Lewis .
Luckily, the boy ran just in time and was not hit.
In 1897W illiam built a new basement barn southwest of the
house . It cost him five hundred dollars . His Aunt Mary, an
ardent member of a religous sect, warned that it was foolish
to spend so much money and effort on a new building since
she believed that the end of the world was eminent. It is
interesting to note that Aunt Mary , William , and most of the
other people present that day have Jong since passed away,
but the barn is still standing .
William Blake also owned and operated a threshing
machine. During the harvest season , he and a large crew of
men would work on neighboring farms. They used a large
steam engine to power a separator which would remove he
grain from the straw and chaff . The first engine William
owned needed to be moved from one location to another by
horses. Later engines were self-propelled and resembled
huge modern tractors.
Although William and Laura spent the rest of their lives on
the farm , their son Robert gradually took over its operation .
He bought the land from his parents in 1907, four years after
he had married Bertha Boutell , who had been a teacher at the
nearby Parker and Hale Schools.
Builds Dairy Herd
In the early years of the farm , and during much of Robert 's
lifetime , horses were utilized to do much of the work . The
first tractor to be used on the homestead was the Fordson
that Robert purchased. He also built up a large herd of
registered dairy cattle and was one of the first members of
the Oceola Chapter of the Holstein-Friesian Association. In
addition , he served as Oceola Township Clerk and was a
treasurer for the Parker School.
Bertha and Robert had three sons . Robert Wells and his
wife Marie now reside in Farmington. Arthur Russel , who
continued to farm , remained with his parents on the
homestead until their deaths in the 1960's. He still lives in the
farmhouse with his wife Pauline . Roscoe, who married
Berne ta Hetchler , built a home on a portion of the farm
facing Clyde Rd. He utilized some of the marshland behind
this house to make a Jake fed by one of the springs that first
attracted William Blake Eager to the property in 1836.
Although Roscoe worked the farm as a youth, he later went
into sales and was one of the founders of Howell Town and
Country , Inc.
He and Berneta have two children , Carol and Robert. Carol
lives with her husband Capt. Gerald Blomquist in a home
they recently built on the farm. They have two daughters,
Cindy and Sandra. Robert and his wife Kathleen prepared
this article and would especially like to thank Russel Eager
for all his assistance .
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The Earl Farm
By ANNA EARL
In 1964t he Oliver Harold Earl farm , 3107O ak Grove Road,
Howell Township, Livingston County marked its Centennial
year.
In the year 1835 the farm was taken up from the
government by George W. Teeple and wife. In 1841 it was
resold to Morris Bennett and wife. Later in July , 1864 the
grandfather , Oliver Earl purchased the farm.
Grandfather Oliver Earl's parents were Oliver and Lydia
Fergeson Earl of New York City. The grandfather's father
died when young Oliver was 10 years old. The grandmother
decided she could bring up and support her six boys more
easily in the new west. So she came to Michigan and settled in
Oceola Township, Livingston County.
Search For Gold
At the age of 12 young Oliver started working for neighbors
on farms until 1852 when the Western fever settled in his
veins. He started on horseback in the company of six men
from this county across the plains for California, in search of
the gold mines. One of the party became ill on the way only to
return . One was scalped for he had killed the first Indian
whom he saw and two fell along the way so only Oliver and
another companion made it to California .
The grandfather , Oliver remained for 12 years in the
western land around Nevada City, California , east of the city
of Sacramento. After mining for eighteen months and
farming for one year he purchased a team and engaged in
sprinkling the streets of Nevada City. This business he
carried on for six years and then did team work in the city.
In the meantime he had married Wales born , Elizabeth
Davies , daughter of John and Elizabeth Campbell Davies at
Santa Clara Court House in Santa Clara County, California .
Three children were born in California-William Earl , father
of Ollie Earl Delaney of Florida and Clarence Earl who
farms in Howell Township, Livingston County. Also two
daughters , Margaret and Elizabeth who passed away very
young.
Grandfather Earl Comes to Michigan
In October , 1863 the couple with their family started for
New York City by way of Panama . They all became sick
along the Sacramento River and had to suspend their journey
until the next Spring . Counting the expense of their journey
and their sickness , it cost them $500 in gold. After reaching
New York City, the father left his family and came back to
Livingston County, Michigan where he purchased the
acreage in Howell Township which is in part still in the Earl
name . During that year his wife and family were able to join
him.
Another son, John J. Earl was born on this farm. John Earl
married Julia Risch of Howell Township and they became
the parents of Oliver Harold Earl and Elizabeth Earl Rigney.
Both children being born in the same house as their father.
Later John and Julia Earl became owners of the farm .
John Earl became a very prosperous farmer in the
community .
In 1934 the grandson , Oliver Harold Earl married Anna
Dillingham of Handy Township and lived on the same farm.
In 1952 at the death of his mother , Julia Earl , Oliver and
Anna became the owners of the Centennial Farm. In 1974
Oliver Harold Earl was deceased and his widow Anna Earl
still lives on an acreage of the farm which is slated as a
Centennial Farm .
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Old Eager farm on Eager Road.
The Fawcett Farm
By RUTH FAWCETT
During the administration of President Martin Van Buren
in May of 1836, the W½ of the NW¼ of Sec. 33 and the E ½ and
the NE ¼ of Sec. 32 (Township 4 North, Range 5 East ) were
located.
One year later in May of 1837, President Van Buren
granted the two 80 acres to Henry Fawcett of Steuben, New
York. The grant may have been a "pension" for Revolutionary
War or War of 1812m ilitary service commonly granted at
that time .
The property was adjacent to a small Indian settlement
called Yellow River at the corner of the present Faussett and
Latson Roads in Deerfield Township .
Among the arrowheads and skinning tools, the Indians left
a few small plowed plots , making the great job of clearing the
land somewhat easier for the settler. With the advantage of
fertile soil, farming became a way of successful living on this
property .
On January 8, 1840 Henry J. was born in the family log
cabin. At the age of 26 (year of 1866) he married Elizabeth
Gibson. The present generation on this centennial farm
remembers the Golden Wedding Celebration of this couple in
1916.A t the time of this marriage Henry Sr. was in a position
to build a frame house for the newlyweds to replace the
family log cabin.
Home 110 Years Old
The original house is presently occupied by the Fawcett
family. The house was built by father and son and has grown
in the 110 years with descendents and additions to three sides
of the original frame . The floor joints are hand hewn logs,
still covered with bark . Underneath the original section of the
house is a small dirt floor cellar (Michigan basement)
surrounded by huge boulders with just enough mortar to
make the foundation hold.
The first son of Henry J . and Elizabeth was born on
January 1, 1867. His name was Henry Arthur. He had two
brothers by the names of Edwin and George; and one sister ,
Fanny who died at the age of seven of diphtheria . (This was a
dreaded disease at that time in history).
As time passed on, Edwin married and moved slightly
north and across the road (present home of Robert and
family ). George married and settled south and west of his
original home .
The legacy in the original house was continued by Henry
Arthur. Just after his twenty-seventh birthday he was
married.
An only child, Bruce , was born to Henry A. (and his wife
the former Rose Etta Jackson ), on August 21, 1897.B ruce and
his wife Ruth (the former Ruth Wessinger ) are still residing
in the homestead .
Fifth Generation
Bruce and Ruth were married on January 10, 1929,m oving
into the house and starting the fifth generation . Their oldest
son, William resides nearby . Their second son, Robert
manages and works the farm which has grown to nearly a
section . Their daughters are Evelyn and Shirley. Evelyn
Granger lies in St. Clair Shores and Shirley Wood in Portage.
Bruce and Ruth are proud of their four children, nine
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren .
Time has marched on since 1837; but, the present
generation remembers many changes which have occurred
in farming in their lifetime . Ruth remembers in her
husband 's father 's time they raised beef cattle, hogs and
sheep . They drove them (walked them ) down Faussett Road
to the Oak Grove railroad station and shipped them to Detroit
for sale . Today the farm supports a large herd of grade A
dair y cows, a small Black Angus herd and cash crops of
wheat , oats and hay .
Electricity came to this farm in the fall of 1939-a welcome
sight on a crisp November morning as this family looked out
their north windows and watched a team of black horses
stretch the wires. Charles Slider (an electrician ) with the
help of his brother-in -law, Hugh Brown soon converted from
the Delco System to the power line. Change is ever constant ;
but, as this family views their centennial farm the arrival of
electricity provided the single greatest progress .
The F auuett Farm
4273 Faussett Road
By WALKER F AUSSETT
In the spring of 1836, my great-grandfather , Thomas
Faussett , and his brother , George Faussett , along with their
cousin, Thomas Sharp, came from Lodi, Seneca County, New
York through Pennsylvania and Ohio to Oceola Township,
Livingston County where they hired Asa Parker for their
guide in their search for land.
On May 12, 1836, Thomas and George took up 240 acres in
Section 33, Deerfield Township from the United States
The Faussett farm.
Government , as entered in the Livingston County Tract book.
They worked on the Michigan Central Railroad that spring
and summer when all but George returned to New York . In
September , Thomas Faussett and his widowed mother ,
Nancy Carter Faussett , along with Thomas Sharp and his
wife, Henry Fawcett with his wife and one child, and Henry 's
brother , William, made up the party to come to their new
lands .
They camped in the woods on the homestead while a log
house was being built. The site selected was a little north of
the Yellow River , which runs through our farm , and near the
center of the northeast quarter of Section 33. An adequate
supply of drinking water was available in the form of a large
bubbling spring nearb y. This area was always known by our
family as the "House Lot."
Sharp Cemetery
Nine hearty pioneers lived in that log house through the
winter . Sharp and Henry Fawcett built houses on their own
land. Nancy Carter Faussett discussed with Thomas Sharp
the need for a community cemetery . Mr . Sharp told her he
would donate an acre of land if she would select the site. This
she lost no time in doing. She died March 6, 1838, a little over
60 years of age and was the first burial in the Sharp
Cemetery , as it was known for years.
September 16, 1841, Thomas Faussett married Miss Mary
A. Marvin of New Hudson, Oakland County. She was a direct
descendant of Samuel Huntington , a signer of the Declaration
of Independence . They lived in the old Jog house until
1846w hen they built a better and larger house near the N.E.
corner of Section 33. Born in this new house was daughter ,
Betsey Gurnwrick Faussett , on Nov mber 3, 1846 and my
grandfather , James Robert Faussett was born January 14,
1848. The next house was a large beautiful home with a
ballroom on the third floor. This was later destroyed by fire .
The third house was a modest wood frame construction
located on the site of the present large stone house now owned
and occupied by Tholan and Lois Wiles.
This house was the first in the neighborhood to have
running fresh water in the kitchen , supplied by a windmill
that filled a storage tank on the second floor. When the tank
was filled the excess water was piped to the barnyard to fill
the livestock watering tank . When the wind failed , someone
was delegated to pump water by hand . Later the luxury of a
one cylinder gasoline engine was experienced .
James Robert Faussett was married to Miss Harriett Olive
Pettis , a direct descendant of Experience Jefferson Webb, a
cousin of Thomas Jefferson . They had four children , Nancy ,
Elizabeth (Bessie), Mary and the youngest was my father ,
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James Robert Fawcett.
Thomas James. Grandmother Harriett passed away when
Dad was five years old. Grandfather married Annie E . Perry
in May of 1896.H is second family consisted of three boys and
one girl- George, James , Edward and Henrietta . Grandfather
died on March 5, 1939h aving lived most of his 91 years
on the homestead .
1920's House Enlarged
In the early 1920's this house was enlarged, modernized
and stone veneered by my father , Thomas James Faussett .
Most of the stones came from the stone piles and hedge rows
in the immediate vicinity, using the natural face of the stones
for their natural beauty .
My father , Thomas J ., always wanted to be an auctioneer .
As a boy, when sent to bring the cows from the pasture , he
was often late in getting them to the barn for he auctioneered
each one of them several times. As a young man he
purchased and brought western horses by the carload , selling
them at auction to Michigan and Wisconsin farmers . He was
sure of a good crowd at these sales as some of these wild
horses would rival the best of today 's rodeos.
After a short time of farm auctions , he entered the jewelry
auction field. For a few years he was associated with
Herman G. Briggs , a native of Howell in the jewelry auction
business and they were known as Briggs and Faussett. For
many years , Dad was nationally advertised as America's
Foremost Jewelry Auctioneer , having conducted sales in 46
of the 50 States. Dad was on his way home , after a Jong winter
sale , closing out the Middleton's Jewelry Store in Fort
Lauderdale , Florida. He and mother stopped in Chester,
South Carolina for a small sale when he passed away in his
hotel room April 12, 1961.
On October 11, 1871, Grandfather James gave his sister ,
Betsey, forty acres when she married Thomas James Webb.
In 1882, she was given 80 acres by the will of George Faussett ,
who had never married . This comprised the 120 acres where
we now live. Betsey Webb deeded the farm to her son,
Thomas J . Webb, on February 18, 1911. For many years the
Webbs hauled milk to the Borden Condensory of Howell,
loading the farmer 's milk cans into their horsedrawn
wagons. Along the route , a favorite stopping place was the
Hosley farm , where the horses and men could drink from a
spring-fed watering tank alongside the Fisher Road .
On September 12, 1936, 100 years after the land was taken
up from the government , Thomas J. and Goldie E. (Walker )
Faussett deeded the farm to Walker and Henrietta (Hosley)
Faussett. In 1942, we built our present home on the old Webb
house site , which had burned in 1930.H ere we have raised our
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family of three-Nancy , Sally and Thomas .
Build Dam
The Yellow River , mentioned earlier , ambled diagonally
from the southeast corner through the farm and out the
northwest corner . There was a natural narrowing where the
southeast marsh was separated from the northwest marsh
with high hardground coming to within a few feet of the river .
Mr . Chas. E.S . Eddie and Mary , who owned the old Lant
Blackburn farm ; Edwin and Marjorie Bartel , who had
purchased part of the original farm containing the " House
Lot" from Mary Faussett Salmon ; Alden and Vera Merrill, a
Centennial farm owner of 160 acres and Henrietta and I
agreed to the construction of a dam at this site .
For eight years the four landowners cut brush and trees
and worked on the construction of the dam . It was a joint
undertaking with cooperation worthy of the pioneer spirit. In
1962o ur Jake was born and we share forty acres of blue clear
water , where we all enjoy fishing, swimming and boating .
Henrietta and I were engaged only in parttime farming .
My main occupation was testing automobiles at the General
Motors Proving Grounds . I retired from General Motors on
March 1, 1969, after more than twenty-five years of service.
Henrietta and I are planning and hoping to continue
ownership of this farm by our family .
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The Hooker Farm
The 15-acre farm located at 6420 Clyde Road now owned by
Helen Hooker Deaton and Ernestine Hooker Hunter of
Walled Lake was purchased by Charles and Mela ta Hooker in
1859.T his is a portion of a 120-acre parcel purchased from the
United States in 1836.
This land was inherited by two of their sons Charles J. and
Lewis Cass in 1879. They first built a house on Argentine and
Dunn Road in which Cass and Nellie Hooker lived .
Later Charles J . and wife Amanda built the house on Clyde
Road and resided there. A daughter Bessie died at the age of
five during a scarlet fever epidemic .
Later a son Clare W. and a daughter Mae were adopted .
Clare W. brought his bride Blanche to the farm in 1914. Two
daughters were born to this union. By inheritance Clare W.
became the owner in 1924.
Many arrow heads were found on the farm. It was believed
that this was a meeting place for Indian tribes when on their
way to Fort Detroit.
Two portions of land were sold over the years, leaving the
remaining fifteen acres.
Clare W. died in 1953 and Blanche in 1974, thereby leaving
the farm to their two daughters .
Claude Burkhart family .
The Andrew Jackson Farm
6436 North Burkhart Road
By CLAUDINE JACKSON
The original farm of 160 acres was purchased by Henry
Burkhart on September 30, 1871, and on April 6, 1874, his son
Frank Augustus , purchased the north 50 acres .
Frank continued to purchase surrounding land as it
became available-the 80 to the north in 1879, the back 40 in
1882, land in Howell township in 1886, and the south forty in
Howell township in 1899, the Hitchin's place in 1900, and the
last of the 640 acres was purchased in 1901.
Some of the land was paid for by cutting wood during the
winter , and selling it in Howell. Frank had one customer who
had a large stove ; he liked the "big knots " that were hard to
split. This arrangement pleased both men as the knots
burned longer .
His spirited horses with their Belgium sleigh bells could be
heard for a couple of miles in the clear winter air . Frank and
Claude also used the horses for a milk route , taking the cans
to the Borden's Condensery in Howell.
The white oak lumber for the first barn came from the
north 80. According to the neighbors , the barn was " too
large " for the size of the farm - it was 36'x50'. The horse
stalls were across one end, the cow stalls across the other,
and the sheep were kept in the center of the barn .
Paid $1 Per Day
Frank was a man of many interests, and for a time he left
the farm to operate a grocery store and a cigar factory in
Howell. When his son, Claude Allison. was old enough to
operate the farm , he did so, receiving one dollar a day for his
labor and management.
Claude recalled being sent to pick up stones to build the
wall for the addition to the house. He came back with a stone
boat full, and told his father that was all of the stone in the
field. Fifty years later he was still picking stones from the
same field, and would laugh about his boyhood experience .
Frank had a Merry-go-round , and an Ocean-wave that he
operated for fairs and carnivals .
In 1911C laude married Alene Ivah Rudolph, and they lived
on the farm , working it on shares . Frank and Carile had
moved to Redmond , Wash.
The first fifty feet of the cow barn was built in 1893. The
Tamarack lumber came from the back 40. The labor for
building the barn cost $100. In 1913, an addition was built to
this barn making it 36'x70'. A Hinman milking machine was
installed , and operated by a gasoline engine . That September
, Claude was seriously injured when he jumped from a
load of beans onto a pitch fork handle . He survived the
kitchen table surgery under the scalpel of a Detroit surgeon .
In November of 1917, he met with a corn husker accident and
lost his right hand . These were difficult years for the family ,
but he continued to farm , and his wife was a full working
partner in the business.
The first registered Holstein calf was purchased in the
early 1900's from Dr . William Huntington . She only produced
one heifer calf during her life on the farm. The herd was
gradually developed into a registered herd , and presently all
of the animals on the farm have been bred and raised there .
Engine starts Fire
During the early days of milking with the gas engine , it
backfired , and started a blaze just under the haymow .
Claude ran to the water tank for a pail of water , but Ivah , who
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was milking, picked up a pail of milk and threw it on the
blaze . When Claude returned with the water, the fire was
out- he said the pail of milk used to extinguish that blaze was
the most valuable one ever produced on the farm.
A Delco system was installed about 1919 and the family
used the electricity to operate the farm until Consumers
Power came through in 1936.
Frank Augustus Burkhart died on July 28, 1921, and his
wife Carile Genevieve , owned the farm until her death
January 1, 1925. At that time Claude Burkhart , and his wife
Alene Ivah , purchased the home farm from the heirs . In 1920
Claude and Ivah bought 80 acres that adjoined the farm-it
was known as the Brigham place .
Claude had one of the first silo fillers in the neighborhood .
In the fall he would fill about 18 silos in Conway and Cohoctah
Townships. At first it was operated by a stationary gasoline
engine . He purchased a Titan tractor which was used on the
farm and for silo filling .
In 1928 Claude and Ivah did extensive remodeling to the
farm house resulting in its present appearance.
Andrew Jackson came to the farm in the summer of 1940
following his graduation from Michigan State College . The
following summer , he and Claudine Burkhart were married,
and joined into a family partnership to continue operating the
farm . The partnership continued until Claude 's death in 1955,
and then with Ivah , his widow. In 1957 Andrew and Claudine
purchased the farm from Ivah .
During the years of the partnership , the farm made several
improvements . It was one of the early farms enrolled in the
North West Soil Conservation District ; the Goodyear award
was received for " Outstanding Achievement." A corn crib
was added to the cow barn in 1943. In 1955 a pipeline milking
system was installed in the stanchion barn , and a bulk tank
was purchased. The 20'x55' silo with roto feed bunk was put
up in 1958, and in 1959 the 40'x70' pole loafing barn was
built- later a 16' addition was added to this barn . A milking
parlor was built into the cow barn in 1961 with a double four
herringbone DeLaval milking system . The barn was
remodeled for a holding area , and individual calf pens for the
youngest calves. A 24'x80' bunker silo was built in 1969 and a
tool shed in 1970.
The original barn at the home farm , was remodeled into a
calf barn , and in 1973 an addition was built with free stalls
and a maternity stall . The same year a 40'x42' free stall pole
heifer barn was built at the north 80. These facilities were
necessary due to the loss , by fire, of the large barn in Howell
township .
Thrashing Time
Thrashing time was always a neighborhood event with the
men exchanging work , and taking their team and wagon .
Grain was cut with the binder . Claude always used an extra
horse on the hitch and would change teams at noon so as not
to overwork the horses until he purchased a tractor drawn
power-take -off ten foot binder. Usually the grain was drawn
from the shocks to the separator .
When Andy first came into the partnership , they purchased
a thrashing machine of their own, and did just their own
grain . Shortly after this the first combine was purchased and
grain has been combined ever since .
Haying has been done by a number of methods . In the first
part of the 20th century , the hay loader was used behind the
horse drawn wagon. This required someone to drive the
team , and a man to load . The hay was put in the mow with
either hay forks set into the load, or slings . Horses hitched to
the ropes would pull the hay to the top of the barn , and then
into the mow .
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In the late 1940's we started chopping hay . At first it was
chopped through the silo filler and blown into the mow.
Chutes were built into the mow so hay could be pushed down
to the cows more easily-one was placed at either end of the
barn . Then a field chopper was purchased and a blower used .
In 1960 the mower with hay conditioner was used , and soon
the baler with a thrower attachment was added . Conveyers
were installed in the barns for carrying the hay into the mow
and dumping it.
During the late 1940's a labor saving device added to the
corn binder was the loader. It was a conveyor system that
moved the bundles from the binder to the wagon . The next
change came when the corn was field chopped , and blown
into the silo.
The Jacksons have one daughter , Coralene Allison . She
married Basil Bloss and they live in Swartz Creek . In 1973
Christopher Andrew Bloss was born. Basil , Coralene and
Christopher all enjoy nature and trips to the farm are
important events. These range from going to the woods in the
spring to see nature unfold its beauty to deer hunting in the
fall . Christopher looks forward to coming and " petting the
cows .''
Each generation of ownership felt the responsibility of the
stewardship of the land , and tried to improve the soil with
good conservation practices , and improvements in the
productivity of the land . Livestock has always been a part of
the farming program , and the by-products have been used to
build the land . Each generation has loved the land , and felt
the challenge of producing food for the world 's people. As a
result the farm is producing more food today , than at any
time in its history .
Lee Jackson farm .
The Lee Jackson Farm
3163 Faussett Road
By EDNA JACKSON BROWNING
s In the year of 1837 Lyman Lee , son of Eli Lee of Hartland
Township , purchased 170 acres for $200 from Douglas and
Mary Le Grante . He and Smith were the first to settle in
Hartland Township in 1833, arriving from Monroe County in
New York State.
Lyman Lee brought his childhood sweetheart , who was
now his bride , the pretty Elizabeth Andrus of Hartland
Township , to live in the log cabin in beautiful Deerfield
Township , two miles east of Oak Grove . It was then called the
Boga Chemung . The ground was sandy loam , free of rocks .
There were oak and maple woods with a creek running
through it and enough marsh land so the stock always had
food and water all summer . There was marsh hay to provide
topping for stacks that had to be left out in winter. In front of
the log cabin they planted a lilac tree and yellow rose bush
that lived and bloomed for four generations . The rose lives on
in our sixth generation.
There was wood to provide fuel, lumber , rail fences, fence
posts , and shade . Hickory , walnut , and Hazel Nut trees
provided nuts for food, while the huckleberry swamp never
failed and asparagus , black and yellow cap and blackberries ,
wild plums , cherries , peaches , and pears guaranteed a good
living. A flock of sheep gave wool for clothing, meat , and
taxes .
A driving horse and work horses followed the oxen age.
They also had a double buggy, called a surrey , with fringe
around the top, and a sulkey , a little one seater for muddy
roads , a cutter , sleigh , and wagons . One wagon had sides and
one was a flat rack . Iron rims over wood with wood spokes
made the wheels . They had to have hand pumped water
thrown on them or drive in a creek on the Fisher Road for a
mile on each trip to Howell.
The farm was neatly laid out with a lane running from the
barn yard north , and with fields opening off it to the west and
east. There were rail fences separating the fields . The farm
was nearly self-supporting. In the fall the wheat and
buckwheat and corn was ground into flour over at Highland .
The basement was filled with crocks and food dried ready for
the winter .
Lyman and Elizabeth were hard -working, thrifty , and
conservative. They attended church in Parshallville . They
had two sons who died in infancy , and Maria and Etta . Etta
passed away at age 14 of galloping consumption.
House and Barn Built
When Maria was ten years old the carpenters came and
built the house, T-shaped barn , and all of the out-buildings . It
took them two years of steady work to finish. Four rooms in
the new house were each larger than the log cabin . It also had
a full cellar and three small bedrooms . Elizabeth and Maria
were busy sewing rags for rugs to cover the new house floors.
The day came when the wagon was heaped high with burlap
bagsful of large balls and they were taken to Highland to be
loomed.
The 208 panes of glass were brought from Detroit. The old
wagon road ran a half mile south of the Faucett Road and
joined the old Plank Road near Brighton . They started very
earl y and reached Botsford Inn late that night. My
great-grandparents were up early the next day and went to
the Detroit City Hall to tie up and do their business , then go
back to the Inn for the second night. They started early the
next morning so they could be home by midnight of the third
day. They usually planned two trips a year .
The parlor carpet and furniture and curtains came from
the east.
They had barely moved into the new house when Elizabeth
was stricken and passed away within hours of diabetic coma .
Maria kept house for her father until his second marriage .
In 1869 Maria married John Jackson from Kendal ,
England. He arrived on a sailing ship with only a sea chest
painted black and his fortune of twenty $100 gold pieces ,
which were sewed into a belt and worn under his clothes
about his waist. He loved America and became a U.S. citizen
upstairs on the corner of Grand River and State Street ,
known to old timers as Peanut Row.
Lyman Lee and his wife gave Maria the farm as a wedding
gift and moved back to Eli Lee's farm in Hartland Township.
Maria and John were blessed with four sons : Evrid , Issac,
Elisha , and Lee, and two daughters : Rose and Lillie. Evrid
married Grace Hougaling when he was 45 years of age , and
they lived in Middleville, Michigan and farmed . Issac and
Elisha never married . Rose married Henry Fawcett and
lived one mile east and south on Latson Road . Lillie married
Elijah Jubb and lived her 99 years in Oak Grove. They were
all home often. Lillie and Elijah had two daughters : Pauline
Whitmore, who has one daughter , Mary Holcomb, and
Marion Goodchild, who had three daughters: Ardus Foust,
who has one girl and five boys; Linda Bartell , who has a son
and a daughter ; and Ellen Hill, who has a son. Rose and
Henry Fawcett have one son, Bruce .
John Jackson passed away in 1903 and Maria in 1923.
It has been said that Maria never spent a night away from
her home.
Lee and Jennie Marry
After Lee, her youngest son, married Jennie Kirkby , the
house, with the addition of a kitchen , became a double house.
The door was never shut , Grandma Maria was always
consulted , and was Jennie 's best friend . There was never a
word of disagreement between them.
Maria 's children were delivered by Sarah Tuttle , who was
a midwife and delivered over 800 babies . She lost three
children of diptheria in one week leaving them one son, Fred
Tuttle , and Dolly Simbles, who was born later.
Maria was 48 years old when my father, Lee, was born .
Grandma Maria thought all children were a blessing and
showed it with her love. She wore three petticoats and a white
apron over her dark dress , and when going to her daughters
she added a white petticoat and a fresh apron and lace edged
cap and a shawl.
Lee and Jennie Jackson had four daughters and two sons.
Naomi Sutfin Fox has four sons and three daughters . Edna
Browning has one son and three daughters . Lillian Knoop has
two sons and two daughters . Beatrice Wells has two sons.
Orval Jackson has four daughters and one son, and three
sons and three daughters by his second marriage . John
Jackson has two daughters.
Lee was a machinist by trade and worked at Spencer
Smith's and Howell Motors. His hobbies were farming and
the band . He played several instruments , but mostly his slide
trombone , in the community band and church. He played 64
of his 80 years . He was 16 when a scout of John Phillip Sousa's
wanted him and several other Oak Grove band boys to go
with him , but Grandma Maria wouldn't believe there would
be born the "best band in the land ," so Papa stayed home .
Sousa's band remained his favorite band .
Married 60 Years
Lee and Jennie Jackson were married 60 years in July. Lee
passed away Decmeber 18, 1967, and Jennie in 1971 on
November 12.
Four generations walked to the Jubb school.
After church on a winter Sunday and a bountiful dinner ,
Lee would hitch Topsie to the cutter with the bells on her and
we would all be bundled and snuggled with the buffalo robe
and the soap stone under our feet, then we would be off
through the snow. The Christmas tree had real candles on it
and the wax and pine was a smell to remember . Papa had a
pail of water and a dipper ready for fire .
The dinner bell was a part of every day living . It was used
for gathering the family from the fields , neighbors , and all
emergencies , such as illness and fire . One ring was for
children , two for grownups and meals , and three or more
meant help, and all neighbors responded.
Soap making is a work of art and soft soap and hard soap
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were always made at home. First was the leach, in which all
wood ashes were put, and the water was poured over and the
lye ran off into a bucket. The iron kettle was used for hot
water at butchering time , for rendering lard, for beans , and
for apple butter .
The Saturday night bath with the tub in the kitchen ...n d
copper boiler hot and ready is still remembered. The clean
ones were first and the dirty ones last, with the water
replenished as needed.
We were never spanked , although the boys may have been
more than warned about the shingle and behind the wood
shed was a peach tree that remained small as someone went
to fetch a switch while the bad one pondered and repented .
A small lamp lighted our way up the stairs and in winter all
had a warm iron or soap stone. The bed had a straw tick and
was emptied and filled with fresh yellow straw each year,
and the feather tick was on top. After prayers we were all
tucked in by our mother .
Important books in the house were the Bible, a book on how
to make and do it, a doctor book, the Michigan Farmer and
Almanac , and the Sinking of the Titanic.
My uncle Evrid bought one of the first automobiles in
Livingston County, a 1910 Buick. It cost $1200. Lee drove a
Model T for 35 years.
Papa ordered from Sutton's Hardware a Maytag washer
about 1915a nd ran the engine with a pipe going outdoors for
the exhaust. This made wash day more bearable, especially
since there were ten to wash for.
Four of us were delivered by Dr. Erwin of Oak Grove. My
father delivered the two sons and one granddaughter
himself.
Lee and Jennie passed the Centennial farm on to Orval and
Doris Jackson.
Lee and Jennie left as their descendents six children ,
twenty-nine grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren ,
and thrP.e great-great-grandchildren.
The Keller's log farm house on Cohoctah Road .
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The Keller Farm
In 1850J acob Keller and wife, Matilda, bought 200a cres of
land in Cohoctah Township, Livingston County. For a few
months they lived in a cabin , near a spring , located about 20
rds . from the present buildings . Then they built the log house .
It was built on the location of the present buildings . Here they
raised their family of three girls and a boy, who had traveled
with them from Ontario County, New York, their previous
home.
Death claimed Jacob Keller in 1851, but his wife and family
stayed on continuing to clear the land.
Oscar Keller, Jacob 's son, was very interested in the
growth and development of the community and was
supervisor of Cohoctah Township. Again death stopped their
plans as he died at the early age of forty-three . But he left a
wife and three children who stayed on the farm.
In the picture you see his wife, one son and the daughter .
In the late 1890's a dream was realized and the log house
was replaced by a typical three-wing frame house. This
house is still in use , but has been moved from the present
sight and replaced by a ranch-type home .
All the material for the frame house was brought in by
horses and wagon from Saginaw going one day , loading
lumber and supplies the next day , then returning the third
day .
Bert Keller lived a long and active life on the farm
continuing to clear and improve the land . There was nothing
he enjoyed more than spending hours in the woods close to
the sights and sounds of nature .
With the death of his son Oscar, the Keller home was lost .
There are three generations living on the farm , his daughter ,
Elda , her husband , Arlie Brown, their son, Harry with his
wife, Eva , and their sons, Warren and Brian . The little boys
ar e just as thrilled to find an arrow head or part of an Indian
spear , and to listen to the wonderful sounds of nature as their
great -great-great grandfather was 125 years ago.
The Kellogg Farm
By MARY KELLOGG
If houses could talk the one at 310 Kellogg Road, would no
doubt have quite a story to tell , one of much happiness , a lot
of love and sadness as well.
This farm was taken up from the government in 1837 by
Erastus Kellogg, great-grandfather of present owner Kern
Kellogg.
Erastus bought the farm for Ebenizer , his son, who was
married in 1849 to Rachel Goewey. She died in 1853 when
their three children, Wealthy , Spencer and Frances were
very small . Spencer died at age 17.
In 1854, he was married to Fanny Bradley. They had nine
children , Celinda who died at age four, Edward , Linnie who
died at age 11, Ire died at age 2, Elizabeth died at age 21, she
was a schoolteacher . There was Cora, Elijah , Loren, and
Baldwin.
Purebred Merino Sheep
In 1873 Ebenizer decided to raise American fine wool
Merino purebred sheep, so bought 15 ewes from William Ball
of Hamburg , Mich. The following year he added 21 more to
his small flock ; he also bought these of Mr. Ball. In 1875 he
bought 10 more ewes from H.W. Jones . There was a great
demand for these purebred sheep he raised . In 1880 he went
to Vermont and bought 20 more ewes of F . and L.E . Moore
and Q.C. Rich . Grandfather loved working with his sheep , but
because of failing health he sold them in 1900.
In 1899 Loren Kellogg was married to Clara Meabon and
they lived here on the family farm too. They had three sons
Clifford (deceased ), Carl , who Jives in Louisville, Kentucky ,
and Kern , who still lives on the old homestead .
Elijah was never married and he lived here and worked
too, until his death in 1937.
The first log cabin was on the corner of Golf Club and
Kellogg Road . Later, another cabin was built back of the
present dwelling. It was in this Jog cabin that grandmother
was mending one day , when she dropped a piece of cloth and
leaned over to pick it up, saw a rattle snake under the rocking
chair in which she sat.
The Indians used to come from the Flint area here to hunt
deer , because there wasn 't any deer there . They had trails all
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. Getting cooled off at the inlet pipe to the old mill.
through the farm. They all seemed to be very friendly
indians. There have been many Indian arrowheads found
over the years while working the land .
At first a cradle was used to harvest the grain , and of
course corn was husked by hand . Before 1900a Royce Reaper
was used and this was still in good shape and used to harvest
clover seed in 1910. Then a 4-foot McCormick Deering binder
was used . In 1912 a Johnson binder was bought.
The first tractor was a John Deere G.P. bought in 1932. In
1941K ern bought a new John Deere A. This tractor is still in
good condition and being used yet.
Help Build Hardy Church
Ebenizer died May 8, 1904 and Fanny in 1918. They were
great Christians and their children got this training. He
helped to build the present Hardy Methodist Church and they
were members .
This farm became a dairy farm around 1912 and continues
to be at the present time .
In 1938K ern Kellogg was married to Mary Purd y and they
have four children , Shirley who lives in Tennessee , Carol Sue
in Flint and David and Randy at home .
Our grandson Jived with us when he was very small for 4½
years , so there have been five generations living in our house
which is 95 years old.
Loren died November 11, 1942 and Clara , April 19, 1966.
The Latson Farm
By NELLIE LATSON
Hazen Latson, Latest Owner
In the year 1835 Edward Latson of western New York State
traveled to Michigan in search of a home . His brother Wm.
Latson had settled in the Dexter area a few years earlier so
Edward made this his base and traveled north into
Livingston County. He followed the road as far as Chilson
where the farthest settler was located at that time. He
continued on the Indian trail to the small creek and followed
down this creek a short distance , where he chose the land on
which he decided to settle.
There was stronger land on either side but it was heavily
wooded largely with oaks and maples . As he must feed his
family and stock independently of any help , he chose a lower
piece near this stream where the forest was not very dense so
he could immediately get crops to growing for the family
sustenance.
In the spring of 1836 he again came with two loaded ox
wagons drawn by oxen, and with his young wife and
five-month-old son Charles. It was spring so the land was
undoubtedly flooded but he built his cabin not far from the
stream . He immediately went out and paced the distance to a
spring of sparkling pure mineral water and as soon as
opportunity presented itself he posted this to his wife's
mother who had wept to see her daughter go so far into the
wilderness for others whom she had known had gone West
and suffered for the Jack of good water .
Indians Camp
This was spring , spring and autumn brought the Indian
tribe which used this route twice yearly to go from winter
quarters farther south to their summer campgrounds near
Saginaw. They camped on the beautiful bank of the creek .
This creek is a feeder of the Shiawassee River so was the
natural trail for the trip to the Saginaw camp grounds. This
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place was one of their favorite camp-sites; they lingered
while the season warmed, and hunted venison in the forests.
These Indians were peaceful and friendly and the family
never had any real trouble with them.
This first summer in the wilderness, with no stores
available , the cabin was finished with blankets hung over the
window spaces until Edward could get time from his planting
and clearing to get into Detroit and buy glass . This first fall ,
Miriam , the young wife, was disturbed by the Indian women
who came and pulled the blankets aside to peek in. Edward
protested to the Indian leaders . "Oh, " they said, "they
won't hurt her . Our squaws want to see the little white
papoose."
One thrilling experience of the young mother was to see
her baby easing his teething gums by gnawing on something
as he sat on the cabin floor. Approaching she discovered that
it was a black snake . She dared not move nearer but just then
the snake straightened out its loop and pulled away from the
baby's grip and over the cabin sill. Imagine the horror!
Trade with Indians
They had no real trouble with the Indians but there were
problems . The settlers had to go far to get their wheat ground
into flour. I believe it was to Stockbridge and with ox teams
and forest trails for roads this was a long trip. Also their salt
was obtained at the mill . The Indians liked the white man's
bread and needed his salt so they traded venison for it. But
here was the problem . It was more than they could do to keep
the Indians supplied and there was a limit to the amount of
venison they wanted in return . This caused some argument
with the red men .
Even making the bread must have been quite a problem for
the settlers wife while busy helping raise their food and feed
her family . Another experience Miriam told about was
during this summer while having makeshift doors and
windows to get up to find Indians sitting before her kitchen
fire warming their hands.
One unfortunate circumstance did develop. As roads were
usually built on the course of the Indian trails so they
assumed that it would follow the stream on to Howell as the
Killing a beef . Meat for the winter .
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trail did. Instead when the road was built it turned to the
north at the creek and was built ¼ mile farther east.
The land was purchased during the Van Buren administration
so the papers of ownership were signed by him and they
are dated in 1837, one year later, but this is understandable
for the only means of communication was carried by oxteam
or horses and Washington was many miles away .
One of the interesting experiences on this farm was the
finding of Indian arrowheads many years later . In the
summer of 1901 and 1902 one of his grandsons, Fred
Lounsbery , a bright -eyed 18-year-old picked up scores of
them of many shapes and sizes . Later when he also was old
enough to work the land Hazen Latson , the owner still turned
them up occasionally with the plow. Many were found in the
area across the little creek on whose bank the Indians
camped . This is understandable for in the autumn on their
way south to winter camping ground they planned to stop
here and gather their winter supply of meat. In November
the usual Indian summer was their food gathering time. They
camped here and dressed and dried their venison and in the
occasional year when there was no temperate Indian-summer
the tribes suffered in winter for lack of food. From here
they traveled south for the mid-winter season .
Plant Apple Trees
Life was hard for the settlers ; those who made a success of
it and stayed were a hardy lot. Edward had a heavy plow and
well trained oxen and pulled stumps for much of the land
around him . He sent to New York State for apple trees and
planted them all around him, and his family-and hired
workers spent many winter evenings with popcorn and
apples to keep them busy . There were no papers then or
electric lights to read them by. Most things necessary for life
came from the farm or were home made. An old cheese press
stood near the house until the beginning of the next century
witnessing to the source of their cheddar cheese . Spinning
wheels and cord bedsprings were stored in the attic and
several candlemolds and candle lanterns showed how their
buildings were lighted .
Buying household furniture or building hardware meant
long two or three-day trips to Detroit over poor roads with ox
or horse-teams though much of the building hardware was
hammered out by the village blacksmith . To get grist
supplies as aforementioned meant a trip of many miles to
grist mills over little more than forest trails and took a long
day at best and if many loads were ahead of them it was a
long dark trip home through the woods late at night. The wife
thus was at home hoping that he would make it safely but
knowing of the hazards .
Country schools were established as children were old
enough and at this district the first one was on the S.W.
c0rner of Chilson and Beck Roads, but later this was replaced
by one in the corner of a woodlot on the N .W. corner of the
same location. When children reached high school age the
only school available was one in Howell which was on the
present S. Michigan Street and was a private school.
Edward 's three oldest children attended this school at one
time .
The Lannen Farm
By GRACE LANNEN
Eighty acres of what is known as the Lannen farm in
Cohoctah was purchased by Mr. and Mrs . Jesse Morey from
her brother , Marcus Burkhart in 1862. Later, one of their
sons-in-law, Lawrence Lannen , and his wife, Estella , became
the owners and much later , it came into the possession of Roy
Lannen . Thus, this portion of the farm became a Centennial
Farm in 1962.
An interesting anecdote connected with this farm is
fecounted in the Livingston County History by Ellis-1872.
John Sanford was the first permanent settler in the township.
He arrived with his family in the summer of 1834. A year
later , in July , 1835, his brother , Ezra Sanford, arrived with
his famil y. With him came his son-in-law, Ziba Stone. The
house which John Sanford built became the first public house
in the township. Here , lodging and food could be had and
liquor was also served . The first town meeting was held there
in 1838. The second town meeting , however , was held at the
home of Ziba Stone. This was for two reasons. It was nearer
the center of population and no liquor would be served . Most
of the settlers were temperate men and preferred an election
without liquor .
As nearly as can be ascertained , this was on or very near
the site of the Roy Lannen home .
The Lawson Farm
By RICHARD LAWSON
On August 16 and 21, 1837, a territorial agent and recorder
in the land office at Detroit signed in the name of President
Martin Van Buren two parchments in order to deed the land
in Genoa Township to John F . Lawson, a New York
shipbuilder (the family having plied the same trade in
London, England before emigrating to America ). The family
moved to the new land in 1837 and found that it was
practically all forest which had to be cleared.
Indians had a camp ground on the north 40 acres of the
farm . It would be a pattern for the family to find relics of the
Indians ' existence as they farmed the land over the years .
During the early years the log cabin and barns were built.
Later , as more land was cleared, the first frame house was
built east of the current grape vines .
John and his wife, Margaret , had four daughters, Sarah
dying in infancy , Margaret , Levena , and Catherine , and
three sons, George A., Howard , and John W. Dr . B. Howard
Lawson lived for a time in Howell, operating a hardware
store . He owned a banking house of B.H. Lawson & Company
in Brighton before moving to Detroit to establish the Union
Trust Company. Later he practiced medicine at Grace
Hospital in Detroit. He and his wife, Maria Holling, had three
children, George, Charles F. , and a daughter . John W.
Lawson took over the farm from his father and cleared
additional land.
A second house to replace the log cabin was built on the
north side of the barns and a third house was built on the
present site of Ernest Lawson's home. John and his wife,
Adelaide Barnard had five children, Herbert, Edith , Arthur ,
Ernest , and Bertha .
Ernest Bought Farm
When John W. died in 1918, Ernest bought out the heirs ,
provided for his mother , and worked the farm . Edith took
care of her mother until her death , then moved to Howell to
live out the remainder of her life. Herbert had his own farm
three miles east of Howell. Arthur became a dentist and
moved to Marion , Ohio, establishing his line there , a son,
Howar d, and later two grandchildren , John and Rebecca .
Bertha married Thorwald Larsen of Lansing , Michigan ,
having a son, Gerald and a daughter , Esther . Ernest married
Kathryn Smith of Cohoctah in 1905a nd they had two children,
Marjorie and Harold .
Kathryn Lawson and Ernest Lawson .
T.he farm having been cleared and in good operating shape
offered time for other pursuits , a time of great energy in the
family 's histor y. Kathryn served for 14 years as president of
the Women's Society in the Methodist Church , was a director
in the County Red Cross, was a secretary of the McPherson
Hospital Auxiliary , and was president of the Howell and of
the Livingston County King's Daughters , also on the Library
Board .
Off Farm Activities
Ernest and J .G. Hays formed the Howell Co-Operative in
1917, later having a Co-Op building constructed in 1918.
Ernest served as manager , secretary , president , and on the
board as a director over a space of 34 years. He originated
the First National Bank of Howell. He worked from 1930 to
the 1950's on the Production Credit Association, and from
1932-1946h e served as a member of the Michigan Milk
Producers Association.
In 1921h e laid out three-quarters of a mile at the west end
of Lake Chemung into the Sunrise Park subdivision . It was
platted in 1923. He built the roads , set out 1,000 trees , and
built 95 cottages.
A series of hardships fell to Ernest and Kathryn . The first
frame house burned shortly after their marriage. In 1941 the
third house burned , Ernest 's present house being rebuilt on
the site of the fire . Marjorie Lawson died suddenly of pleural
pneumonia in 1930 at the age of 22. Harold , after several
years of ill health died in 1953.I n 1959K athryn was struck by
a semi-steel carrier trailer breaking her elbow, wrist and
nose. Her health declined following the accident and she died
in 1964.
Harold married Harriet Cave and they had two children,
Richard and Kathleen . Harold worked at Mack's Store in Ann
Arbor, Barrie Dry Goods in Saginaw before returning to
operate the farm with Ernest. After World War II, Harold
had a truck garden business. Then he formed the Lawson
Candy Company in Brighton , which he and Harriet ran until
1952.
Richard married Carole Baskin of Rock Hill, S.C.
They have two sons, Gavin and David . Richard is a professor
at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale , Illinois and
Carole is an instructor at John A. Logan College in
Carterville , Illinois. Kathleen resides and works near
Jackson, Michigan.
In the late 1930's Ernest and Harold built a house next to
the old family home (it is now owned by a real estate
company). In 1965 Harriet moved from this house , having
built her current home on the west end of the property .
Ernest during the late 1950's to 1967h ad sold portions of the 95
acre tr act until five acres remain . He now resides at
Greenbriar in Howell, Michigan .
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The Marr Farm
By CLIFFORD AND BEATRICE MARR
The Marr family settled in Howell Township in 1839. They
came from Pennsylvania through Markham, Ontario . John
Marr came from Canada to Howell in 1839. He first located on
Section 17, but in 1841m oved to the N .E. quarter of Section 8,
which he purchased from Henry Hubbard , a New Hampshire
speculator . (History of Livingston County. Page 195)
The Clifford Marr farm contains 80 acres . The front 40
acres , at 4201N . Burkhart Road, was bought by Harlem Marr
(the present occupant's grandfather ) from Henry Lake in
1857.M r. Lake purchased this land from William and Isaac
Townsend who were the original land patent owners.
The back forty , on Fleming Road , was purchased by
Harlem Marr in 1899f rom Henry Hubbard, a speculator who
had owned it since 1838. Danial Webster owned this land in
1838.
Steam Engine Powers Cider & Saw Mills
The Marr farm was known for many miles around for its
large steam engine, which produced power for a busy
sawmill and cider mill . Families came with their teams and
wagons loaded with apples to get their supply of cider for the
year.
The mill retained a portion of each mans ' cider for its
costs, thus insuring their profit. The cider purchased at the
mill cost 5 cents a gallon .
The Marr family , being very patriotic , heard the urgent
call for scrap metal during World War I, and dismantled and
sold the sawmill and cider mill .
The barn was totally destroyed by windstorm on Memorial
Day in 1942. The present barn was erected soon afterwards
from our own timber cut by Herb Geer 's sawmill on Geer
Road.
A granar y and woodshed on the place now were part of the
original farmstead .
The present home replaced a large frame house that was
destroyed by fire in 1946.
This has been "home " for five generations of Marrs .
W.E . Cleavy , former Howell Photographer.
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The Mason Farm
9525 Wiggins Road
"The Historical Commission of the State of Michigan does
hereby certify that in recognition of the ownership of this
farm by the family of Carl D. Mason since 1868 and the
contribution to its members have made the development of
Michigan , the Michigan Historical Commission does hereby
certify that this land is to be a centennial farm and the
present owner thereof to be a centennial farmer ."
This certificate seal was signed by the present Governor ,
William G. Milliken, President , Historical Commission ,
three commissioners as well as the secretary of the
Historical Commission .
Earl Mason's grandfather , Dudley F. Mason , homesteaded
the farm in 1868.N oted as one of the best farmers of his time ,
he was married to Mary Harrington and had one son, Carl
Dudley. During the time she lived on the Mason farm , Mary
was both a public school and Sunday school teacher in
Deerfield .
Carl married Eva M. Wolverton in 1916. She died in
December of 1946. Carl was a state electrical inspector for
the states of Michigan and New York during the time he
owned the Mason farm . In his last years he was a local
electrician . He died in an auto crash in 1969.
The farm was divided between Carl 's two sons , Charles
and Earl. Earl now lives on the original forty acres .
The Maycock Farm
5591 West Coon Lake Road
By HAROLD and LOREENE MAYCOCK
James Maycock and his wife, Mary Ann, came from
Woodstock, Ontario , Canada , in 1865 and bought land in
Section 19 of Marion Township. James was born in
Buckinghamshire , England in 1825. As a young man he was
indentured to Canada . He and Mary Ann Graham , who was
born in Canada in 1836, were married in 1850. They lived in
the Woodstock area until coming to Michigan in February of
1865. With them were their three daughters , Susan 10, Fanny
5, and Mary Ann 3.
James first bought 50 acres on the south corners of Coon
Lake and Pingree Roads. The house on the southeast corner
was already built. It first faced on Pingree Road but later the
inside was changed to face on Coon Lake Road . It is not .
known how old the house is.
In 1871 Susan married Arthur Wimbles and lived across
from her parents . In March of 1873 a son Harry , was born to
James and Mary Ann and in September of 1873a son, George ,
was born to Susan , making her brother only six months older
than her son.
Susan and Arthur Wimbles had five children . George
married Eva Brockway of Howell; George was at one time
sheriff of Livingston County. Ella married Plin Henry , a
barber in Howell. Clyde, a barber in Fowlerville , married
Edwinna Steiner . Bessie married Bert Tooley of Oceola
Township, who later played baseball with Brooklyn . Clark ,
married Eleanor Lowry of Pennsylvania ; they now live in
Miami, Florida . Clark is the last living member of the
Wimbles family .
After Arthur Wimbles' death in 1899 Susan moved to
Howell and earned the living for her family by sewing vests
Bringing in small logs for split rail fences .
for the Garland Bros ., Tailormade suits . She was thus
employed long after her family were gone from home.
Fanny Maycock married Will Dutcher in 1879,a nd they had
three sons, Roy, Claude, and Guy. After farming a short time
in this area they moved to a farm at St. Johns where they
always lived. The family are all gone except Mrs . Guy
Dutcher , her <laugher Geraldine Whyman, and the daughter
of Roy Dutcher .
Mary Ann Maycock married Albert Drewry in 1884. He was
a native of Marion Township, and they lived their entire
married life on the Drewry Farm on Bentley Lake Road .
They had one daughter, Gertrude. In 1920s he married Wilbur
Warner of Howell. They both were graduates of Howell High
School. They went to live in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They had
one daughter , Gratia . Both Gertrude and Gratia and her
family still live in Fort Wayne.
Harry as a young man of sixteen was sent to St. Helen,
Michigan to buy the lumber for a big bank barn. The barn
still stands across Pingree Road to the west of the house. The
barn has served for these many years of farming by James
and Harry as they acquired more land.
Harry married Carrie Mitchell in 1894. Carrie lived on
Coon Lake Road but attended the Marion Center School while
Harry attended the Green School on Pingree Road. After
their marriage they were both members of the West Marion
Church which was across the road from the Maycock home
where the couple made their home with his parents.
Harry and Carrie had three sons, Donald, Leslie and
Harold . None of the sons stayed on the farm with their father.
Don went into business in Howell, Leslie joined the Michigan
State Police and Harold was employed in Howell.
James passed away in 1902. Mary Ann, although in poor
health in the fall of 1918, wished to live until she knew that
grandson , Don, was back in the States after World War I. She
died in November of 1918 knowing Don was back safely .
Harry continued farming until 1933, when he built a gas
station on the corner by the house, and rented out the fields .
Carrie passed away in December of 1938 and Harold and
his wife, Loreene, moved to the farm with his father . Harry
was not well for several years and passed away just five
years to the day as that of his wife.
After Harr y's death a will left the farm divided up with the
three sons. Harold and Loreene were left the 50 acres
containing the house and barn . Donald and Leslie sold their
acreage later .
Harold and Loreene are the parents of two daughters ,
Susan Alice Brooks and Sarah Mitchell Coselman , and have
two grandsons , Mark and Robert Dickins.
In 1970, the acreage was divided into lots and some was
sold so that now Harold and Loreene still own 25 acres of the
original farm bought by James in 1865.
Interesting highlights recalled by Harry Maycock were
when his cousins, the three Dutcher boys, rode their bicycles
all the way from St. Johns to visit , some fete in those days!
"Pingree" Post Office
At one time , there was to be a post office across the corner
in the store. Harry Maycock was asked to name it. He
suggested "Pingree" after a former Michigan governor. The
post office wasn't in existence long but the name of
"Pingree " has always designated this area .
Over the years there have been three serious fires around
the corners . A machine shop burned on the corner but the big
barn was saved. The gas station burned but the house was
saved. In March of 1958 the West Marion Church burned. A
great loss to this area .
The spacious front lawn at the Maycock farm has always
been a favorite meeting place . From ice cream socials held
there in the past , to ball games for three generations, games
of croquet played by young men in the area before World War
II, or for just relaxing by the family under the large, old
catalpa tree.
Harold and Loreene are members of Trinity United
Methodist Church in Iosco, along with other members from
the area who were former members of the West Marion
Church, who joined to build the Trinity Church.
Of the James Maycock family there are three living first
cousins, Clark Wimbles of Miami, Gertrude Warner of Fort
Wayne, Indiana , and Harold of the farm. There are two
others , Mrs . Guy Dutcher of St. Johns and Bert Tooley of
Marshall, Michigan.
Of the Harr y and Carrie Maycock's three sons, Donald was
the only one to have a son. James Maycock, named for his
great-grandfather , was born in 1941. He is a lawyer in
California, and he now has a young son to carry on the
Maycock name for this branch of the family .
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The McKinleyF arm
By MR. AND MRS . ALDEN MERRILL
The present George McKinley, now 83 yrs. of age, lives on
the old homestead which was taken up in 1833.
His grandfather, Thomas McKinley, at the age of 12 left
Killarney , Ireland , with his father, Robert McKinley, and
came by boat to New York. They drove horses , pulling boats
on the Erie Barge Canal. Land was too high to buy in New
York State , so they came west to Michigan where land was
$3.00 per acre , after a settler had established residence of 3
years , here.
They took up land in Livingston County, Deerfield
Township, site of the present homestead , in 1830. It took
Grandfather Tom three walking trips from Detroit (all his
worldly goods in a handkerchief on a stick ) to get the deed
settled . They cleared the land and kept 350 sheep . His father ,
Robert , was killed during a stampede of the sheep .
Grandfather Tom married Sarah Patterson and they had a
family of five boys and one girl. He died in 1891. A highly
respected man in the community , he bled to death from
cancer , with the surrounding neighbors deeply concerned .
Sarah 's parents had also left Ireland for N.Y. , and she had
been born on the ship three days before it landed .
The Fawcetts , Sharps, and Marbles , all neighbors in
Deerfield , all came from Ireland .
Grandmother Baked for Indians
Near the early family home were many Indians around the
present Indian Lakes. The tribe was called Portago .
George's grandmother used to make cookies for the Indian
children. Early settlers could look out of the windows and see
Indians many times . There was no feeling of hostility on
either side, although the Indians would pick up anything they
felt would be useful to them . But this did not happen often
enough to cause any trouble or resentment.
There were many burial mounds around the lakes.
Everything the Indian had owned was put on top as he was
buried ; thus the mounds .
Grandfather would walk to Byron with a bag of wheat on
his shoulder to trade for flour.
Grandmother Sarah used to take several dozen eggs , which
she had saved up, to Brighton to shop. She followed an old
Indian trail , thru the woods, that met Grand River trail-road
at Brighton . This would take a day going (more than 20
miles), then stay a day or so with friends , then return .
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Grandfather built the present house near where the log
house stood. The old open well was used until 1935. The
present George used oil lamps until two or three years ago.
(His Christmas tree from last Christmas is still up).
Many hardships must have accompanied this early life as
several of the boys died of rheumatism at an early age , and
several more suffered much with it.
The present George , living alone , never having married ,
and a cousin, 95, are the remnants of the early family that
remember these early days .
Stalls in the barn of the Mc Phers on farms .
The MerrillF arm
By MR. AND MRS. ALDEN MERRILL
This ownership started with the Merrill brothers Benjamin,
Ezell , Horace , and Hiram who located in Deerfield
Township, Sec. 33. Benjamin , and Ezell came in 1836,
securing their land by land patents . Hiram and Horace in
1837, all grants from President VanBuren .
The brothers worked their way out from Detroit on the old
Grand River Plank Road . Each took up a portion of what is
the present 160 acres . Each built a log house on his part. One
of the interesting names on the deeds was Bolisti Merrill.
Benjamin was Alden Merrill's great-grandfather . He had
previously bought supplies from the famous TenEycke
Tavern before leaving Detroit.
Benjamin 's son, Hiram , married Charlotte Taft , daughter
of Noah Taft of Oceola Township. This family was related to
Wm. Howard Taft.
Hiram Returns From Civil War
After returning from Civil War duty , Hiram consolidated
the holdings to the present area, plus about a hundred more
acres . He built the family home on Allen Rd. in 1890. This
landmark home burned in 1928 and the present stone
residence of Alden Merrill was the final home of Ira Merrill ,
son of Hiram . This is where the Centennial marker is
displayed in a stone setting.
Ira Merrill was married to Alice Grelling of Detroit , who
came to Livingston County to teach school. They were
married in St. John 's Episcopal Church in Detroit.
Alden remembers the "hired men " who wandered in at fall
time to work for board and room or "found;" and tobacco,
some spending money for fair and circus , etc., would be
added as needed . They would keep busy in chores, odd jobs ,
and wood cutting. They would stay the following summer and
sometimes longer .
An invitation to Noah Taft and wife from Hiram Merrill
shows some of the formality often used.
AN EVENING PARTY
The company of Mr. Noah Taft and lady are respectfully
solicited at the house of H. Merrill in Deerfield, on Thursday,
February 24th, at 6 o'clock p.m. , 1848.
HIRAM
All written in fancy shaded script.
The Lawn Locust Farm
By HELEN M. MILLER
In the early 1850's Leander Douglas Purdy , a carpenter by
trade , left his wife and two children in the state of New York
and came to Michigan, seeking work. He found a sight on
which to establish a home in section 19 of Marion Township,
Livingston . After purchasing the sight from Sylvester
Rounds, who had obtained it from the government in 1836,
Mr. Purdy went back to New York for his family.
During his absence his wife and daughter had died of a
fever , leaving a two-year-old son, Augustus . He brought his
son back to Michigan with him , putting him in the care of his
sister , Jane King, who lived near Pinckney , until he could
establish a home .
In a short time he met and married Jane Topping Proctor ,
who had a four-year-old daughter, Mandanie. They settled on
the farm Leander Purdy had purchased, living in a log house
until 1858, when the present house was built-now occupied
by a grandson , Lloyd D. Miller. The frame house was built
from timber from the land , and was an impressive structure
because it had so many windows.
Build Barn
In 1860a basement barn was built, using native timber for
the frame . The lumber for finishing the barn was brought
from a mill in Chesaning , a town near Flint and a long
journey from Marion Township. It was a mild day when Mr.
Purdy and two of his neighbors left to pick up the lumber.
They started back home on New Years Day , which was one of
Sunday afternoon in the sun .
the coldest known. The men had to walk to keep warm. Their
boots froze to their feet, making it difficult to remove them .
Their feet were so frozen that they were unable to walk for
days . One of the men , a Mr. Basford , suffered so from the
exposure that he contracted pneumonia and died.
The only heat in the house was a big fireplace built in the
center. The children huddled around this in winter, with
quilts spread around on chairs , to keep out the cold.
A granary was built in 1870 and is still in use . Other
buildings added later were a second barn built in 1944, a tool
shed, pole barn, milking parlor . All buildings are still
standing anrl in use today. The original fence was made of
worm rail. Wire fences were established in 1902. Over the
years five different wells have been dug or drilled . The first
had a chain bucket on it. The third well had a windmill , which
still stands as a symbol of by-gone days .
Early crops were corn and wheat , later alfalfa and oats.
Alfalfa has been the main forage crop for the past fifty years.
Harvesting of crops has progressed from the cradle scythe to
combining of wheat or oats ; hay first loaded by hand or hay
loader is now baled or chopped for haylage .
Mr. Purdy lived on this farm until 1874, when he purchased
a farm in Parker 's Corners . There he built another house for
his family , which still stands. His son Augustus took over the
farm in Marion Township but soon gave it up. Mr. Purdy then
sold the farm to his daughter Emma and her husband ,
George E. Miller, a wagon maker , who had been living in
Plainfield. The Millers lived on the farm until their deaths in
1924a nd 1934,w hen it was purchased by their youngest son,
Lloyd. He and his wife, Mary Alice Stevens , continued to
farm the land.
In 1884 a piece of land from the farm bordering on Coon
Lake and Pingree Roads was given by Augustus Purdy for a
Methodist Protestant Church, called the West Marion
Church. It was in continuous use until it burned in the spring
of 1958; the land then was returned to the farm owners .
Lloyd Miller bought his first registered Holstein-Friesian
cow in the early 1920's and soon had the name "Lawn Locust"
registered nationally as the farm name and herd prefix.
From that first cow, a dairy herd was established that was in
continuous operation for nearly fifty years. All dairy
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replacements were raised on the farm and most of the feed
for the cattle.
Although electricity was not brought to the farm until 1930,
Mr. Miller had a gasoline-powered milking machine-an
Empire , bought in 1920. When electricity arrived he
converted to an electric machine . Over the years the milking
job graduated from stanchion barn to milking parlor, with
pipe line and bulk tank, eliminating the need of carrying milk
to cans and cooler. The cows were eventually kept in free
stalls and fed year round in the barn yard, instead of being
pastured . Milk hauling was first done in cans by horse and
wagon to the condensory in Howell. Later can trucks hauled
it to receiving stations. Then that gave way to bulk tank
trucks .
First Rubber Tired Tractor
In 1938 Mr. Miller bought the first rubber-tired tractor in
the township, a John Deere-B. Later the farm was to boast
the first Harvestore in this part of the county.
Sixty acres of the original purchase remain. Some land has
been sold; other acreage added. The sight where Bruce and
wife Helen Cooley Miller and sons now live was part of the
Walter Gorton place. The old house stood near where their
house now stands . Timber for the roof of their house came off
the farm . Bruce helped his dad , Lloyd D. with the dairy
operation for many years.
After Lloyd's retirement , Bruce bought the farm and
continued the operation until ill health forced him to sell the
herd. Bruce 's sons Michael and Samuel now care for a small
Hereford beef herd and operate the farm . Another son,
Daniel, is married and works at Hickory Ridge Dairy , owned
by Norman and Gordon Topping, descendants of a brother of
Jane Topping Purdy .
These young men represent the fifth successive generation
on this farm and hopefully one of them will continue on with
the business .
The William Hosley Family, 1880.
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The Spring Valley Farm
By MARTHA HOSLEY MUSSON
The one hundred sixty acre farm known as "Spring Valley
Farm" is located on Fisher Road in Section 18 of Oceola
Township. It was purchased from the United States
Government on May 14, 1836 by Volney Himman of Orelans
County, New York. It was some time later sold to Van
Renselaer Durfee, but it wasn't until 1859 that it came into
the possession of the Hosley family .
On March 9, 1859W illiam Kendall and his wife, Eliza Beach
Hosley, bought the one hundred sixty acres from Van
Renselaer Durfee for four thousand dollars.
Going back a few years in the lifetime of William Kendall
Hosley, we learn that he, at the age of fifteen , and a brother ,
Holland C., age thirteen , came to Livingston County with
their parents, Joseph and Sarah (Northrup) Hosley in 1836.
They first settled in Section 31 of Deerfield Township where
Joseph and his family took up two hundred and sixty acres of
government land, all covered with heavy timber . They lived
upon this land for many years, clearing it from the condition
of a wilderness to that of a highly cultivated farm .
The Hosley's first home was a log cabin and their earliest
neighbors were Indians , while the best roadways were Indian
trails and blazed trees were their only sign posts .
It was in Deerfield Township that William and Holland
Hosley grew to manhood and helped their parents acquire
more acreage in Sections 36 and 25 of Cohoctah Township .
This was across the road from their original homestead , on
what is now the Faussett Road just east of Oak Grove . They
also helped build and run a grist mill and saw mill , and later
owned a general store in Chemungville , now known as Oak
Grove.
Holland sold his share of the property and moved to
Duplain, near St. Johns where he bought a farm and had a
William Joseph Hosley, 1925.
grist mill, but William remained at home to help his parents
until their deaths in 1850 and 1855. It was at this time that the
family farm came into his possession .
In 1841 William Kendall and Eliza Beach Hosley were
married . To them were born seven children, three sons,
Miner Joseph , Elijah Beach and William Kendall, Jr ., four
daughters by the names of Betsy, Caroline, Esther and
Emma .
Purchase Oceola Farm
In 1859 William Kendall, Sr. and his wife,Eliza , sold their
property in Deerfield and a little later the Cohoctah acreage
to their oldest son, Miner. They bought for four thousand
dollars the one hundred sixty acre farm in Oceola Township,
which was destined to become a "Centennial Farm. " It was
here that their family grew to adulthood , married and left
home to make homes of their own.
Elijah married Nancy Maria Lawther in 1868 and lived in
Laingsburg for a short time , where he had a grist mill , but
returned to the family farm to help his parents in the latter
part of 1869. It was on December 25, 1869 that their son,
William James was born . To Elijah and Nancy were also
born two daughters, Helen and May.
Elijah Beach Hosley received his education in a log
schoolhouse, just one mile north of the family home, known
as the Kneeland School, after which he went to Howard City
for further opportunities. He was an ambitious farmer , a
good manager , stock buyer and shipper. For many years he
handled from three to five thousand sheep every year . It was
told that he handled the best stock that could be found and
was a first-class judge of the horse and owned some of the
fastest and best bred horses in the county . He was interested
in public movements and held several public offices, as he
felt it a duty of every patriotic citizen .
Nancy Maria, the oldest child and daughter of James and
Amarilla Harmon Lawther , was of a quiet nature and a good
helpmate to her husband . Her parents were also early
pioneers who had come from Sharon in Schoharie County,
New York to Livingston County in 1836. Before her marriage
she taught a short while in the Kneeland school. It was here
that she met Elijah .
Both Elijah and Nancy wanted the best opportunities for
their children . All had good educations . Both William James
and Helen were graduated from Ypsilanti Business College
and May studied music beyond her high school days.
William Married Colorado Girl
William spent a few years in Colorado and had the
experience of a miner in the Cripple Creek area , where he
met is future wife, Jennie Parker . They were married in
Denver , Colorado in 1900 and continued living near Cripple
Creek until 1903. It was there that their first son, Sterling
Elijah , was born in 1901.I n 1903t hey returned to Michigan to
live on the family farm, to help his parents and raise their
family of nine children , five boys and four girls.
Jennie was also of a pioneer family , the Parkers having
come to Michigan in 1835 from Broome County, New York
and first settled in Hamburg Township and in 1853 purchased
land in Oceola Township in Section 30 just east of what is now
the Diamond Dot Market on M-59. Jennie's father , Clarence
E . Parker, worked for the Hosleys when he was a young man .
He married Nancy 's cousin, Eva Lawther.
The following paragraphs were taken from the June 1934
issue of the Livingston County Press. It concerns the family
of William James and Jennie P . Hosley, who were the last of
the family to live on the homestead, "Spring Valley Farm ."
It was taken from a speech by Emil E. Bode, given at the 1934
Alumni gathering in the Howell High Gymnasium .
Emil Bode Speaks
"-There are many others who have been successful , each
in his or her own field. We can't all build battleships or be at
the head of great educational instituitions. -Somebody must
do the prosaic , uninteresting and everyday work of the
world: till the soil and sow the wheat; add up long columns of
figures and set down the totals ; stand behind the counter and
wrap up the things that people eat and the clothes they wear.
I believe that anybody who does the work near at hand to
the best of his or her ability is successful. I have in mind a
young man of the class of 1920, able to do any one of several
things well, from trapping and hor.se wrangling in the west
(Colorado) to demonstrating multigraphs in the east. He is
now, in spite of physical infirmities that would lay an
ordinary mortal in his grave, the active partner of a
successful general insurance agency in a nearby city
(Lansing ) and is set for life.
Another boy, class of 1921, went west to help his
Grandfather Parker and remained to become a thorough
westerner , practically a native son. He lies in the shadow of
the Lone Cone in the San Miguel Basin of Southwestern
Colorado, and in addition to running a going ranch , owns a
whole section of as potentially rich ranch land as there is in
the whole state .
A few months after a farmer lad had graduated with the
class of 1923h is father died, leaving to his young but willing
shoulders , the care and management of a three hundred and
thirt y acre farm . I know not what other plans or ambitions
this young man had , but they were cast aside for the big task
that confronted him . The fact that his younger brothers and
sisters were able to continue in school and complete their
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Hosley homestead, 1930.
education is proof that he must have risen early and toiled
late on that farm which was spread over certain hills and
valleys of Oceola Township.
A sister and brother , each members of the graduating class
of 1927, she is one of the faculty of the Corunna School; he,
after graduating from Michigan State College, is with the
United States Forestry Service in West Virginia.
A girl member of the class of 1928 applied for and
successfully filled a teaching position in Colorado which was
forty miles from a railroad near Redvale . She spent two
summers with her brother and grandparents and taught one
year in a nearby school, but decided to further her education
and returned home to enroll in a Dental Hygiene course at the
University of Michigan . She is now a dentist 's skilled and
efficient assistant .
Two girls of the classes of 1929 and 1931 respectively,
convinced the head of a large insurance organization ,
Citizens' Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, that they
would make good office help . He took them at their words and
has never regretted it. They are valued members of the office
staff .
These are eight young men and women, four of each . It is
an interesting coincidence that these eight are all brothers
and sisters , of one family , born and raised on a nearby farm
in good times and bad . These eight , each in town, did his or
her trick at this high school and graduated , the girls with an
average well above ninety , the boys somewhat below. There
are nine of them altogether and the ninth one is a member of
this year 's class . He is listed among the graduates of 1934 as
Robert Kendall Hosley. Little Bob, the last chick out of the
nest, is five feet and eleven inches tall and ambitious , so I'm
sure he will live long and prosper . I challenge any farming,
or any other communit y in this or any other state to surpass
this record: a whole family of nine children, all high school
graduates , three college graduates and each employed at
something worthwhile in and during the worst depression in
the world's history . This is another instance of a wonderful
mother ."
Bob continued a little further in his studies and took over
his oldest brother 's business in Lansing at the time of
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Sterling 's death in 1944. He married and with his wife, Lois,
raised four children . He still makes Lansing his home and
place of business .
Margaret worked at Citizens' for a while, married and with
her husband , Merle Sober , had a family of one daughter and
a son. She returned to help at the insurance office until she
retired early in the year 1975, but it was a short time later
that she was asked back to help out part time .
Henrietta worked at Citizens' until 1944w hen she quit to be
a full time homemaker on their "Centennial Farm" in
Deerfield Township. She and Walker Faussett had married in
1935. It is here that they still make their home after raising
two daughters and a son.
Katherine continued with her dental position for a few
years , then married her employer , Dr . Clifford Crockett, and
moved to Lansing where she still worked as his assistant. To
them were born three sons and a daughter .
Wilfred went into the Soil Conservation Service in
Salisbury , North Carolina for a short time until he was called
into service in the second World War in England and the
South Pacific area from 1942u ntil 1945.H e married Beatrice
Roberts of North Carolina , bought a farm near Raleigh and
became a full time farmer and still makes North Carolina his
home. They have one daughter .
Martha taught in Corunna for six years , was married to
Walter Baird in 1935. They moved to St. Clair Shores in 1936
where she did substitute teaching while her husband taught
full time at Lakeshore High School. Walter died in 1942a nd it
was that same year that their daughter was born. Martha
moved back to "Spring Valley Farm, " worked at Citizens'
Mutual for nine years and then returned to teaching in the
Hartland Consolidated Schools for ten years. She remarried
and is now living with her husband , Clayton Musson, on the
Musson family farm in Marion Township.
Both Sterling and Clarence died in their early forties ,
Sterling of Tuberculosis at the State Sanitorium near Howell
in 1944, leaving his wife, the former Marion Eastman , a
daughter and a son. Clarence died in Montrose , Colorado of
pneumonia in 1948, leaving his wife, Ellen .
Roger continued living and working on the family farm
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thatt imhei ms othmeor viendtHo owtoel lilv eR. ogeanr d
Elleand optead li ttleg ir,l Virginia Kay, in 1952.T hey bought
the farm from the family and continued living there until 1967
when they decided to retire from farming and move to
Colorado, where they are still living. Roger couldn't retire
entirely for he puts in many hours at his little ranch in
Montrose, Colorado, as well as help on a nearby ranch during
the summer months . They have been traveling throughout
the United States and Mexico during the winter months. The
family homestead was sold in two parcels-the house and
twenty acres to Severn T. Green and the remaining one
hundred forty acres to Athanas Fontaine .
Christmas Gift
Many memories, both happy and sad, come to mind as I'm
writing this. The first one was told us by our Grandmother
Hosley, Nancy Maria. It was shortly before their first child,
William James , our father , was born that their house burned
and they had to move into a little log house upon the hill, just
south of the homestead. It was here that the baby was born
December 25, 1869a nd was a very welcomed Christmas gift.
In 1870 the new house was built. Grandpa Hosley hauled
with horses and wagon the finishing lumber, white pine, from
Saginaw County. Then in 1902w hen William and Jennie with
their son, Sterling , returned from Colorado there was an
addition built on the north side, thus making two apartments .
In 1913 Grandpa and Grandma moved into Howell and lived
at 359 East Brooks Street , where Mrs. Mae Metz now lives.
This gave Mother and Dad and their nine children more
living space , eight bedrooms in their fourteen room house. In
the early 1930's Roger and Wilfred remodeled the house by
making a new kitchen , piped water into the house and added
a bathroom . It was at this time that electricity was wired into
the house.
We remember Grandpa Hosley telling about his experiences
in buying and selling sheep and cattle. It was in 1884
that he was on one of his trips to Texas with three thousand
sheep when he was caught in a snow storm that lasted nine
days. He lost fifteen hundred of his sheep , which was a most
disastrous experience , for he lost in all some eleven thousand
five hundred dollars. From then on he did most of his
shipping to Buffalo, New York.
Children Play
Many times Father would speak of his children as his
baseball team , and we did enjoy playing baseball as well as
all games. We didn't need any outsiders to play these games ,
but there were usually several of the neighbor children there
to enjoy our fun, especially on Saturday afternoon , when our
work was finished , and during the summer vacations. Many
happy memories came to mind of the picnics that we had
back in the woods on the hog's back , as it was called. Also
many hours were spent fishing and swimming in the creek ,
which was just over the hill. In the winter there were many
hills on which we could use our sleds , toboggans and skiis ,
and ponds for skating .
In looking through one of Grandpa 's day books I learned
that it was in 1870t hat he went back in the woods and brought
up fifty sugar maple trees and planted them in the yard and
along the road . That brought to mind the gathering of sap and
making maple syrup and sugar some forty years later. Then
in 1941 a tornado destroyed nearly all of them . Besides the
trees , the wind lifted and leveled our big hundred foot long
sheep and hay barn , tore the roof off the cow barn as well as
the house, making a mess of things in a very few minutes . It
toookv eary eatorg etth inbgas cikns hap, beunt evetrh e
samea s before.
In reminiscing the changes and improvements in the one
hundred years that the family owned the farm, there were
many . What a difference our forefathers would see if they
could come back and see how we live, not only on the farm
but everywhere! What a difference there is in the way our
work is done! What a change electricity has made in our
ways of living! For the house there is no more cleaning of
lamp chimneys , filling of lamps with kerosene and carrying
of water. For a short time after 1916 we had acetylene gas
lights in both the house and barns, but their advantages were
limited . The gas was made by combining calcium carbide
with water in a large tank outside and piped inside . To light
the lamps you either had to use a match or a lighter fastened
to the side of the lamp . These served for a while, but
electricity was a very welcomed improvement .
Spring Water
There was also a great change in our water supply. We had
a spring which was about seventy-five feet from the house .
This spring did its job very well for it ran continuously from
the main supply to several tanks near the house and in each
of the barns . I remember that many of the neighbors going
and coming from town, especially in the summer time , would
stop to refresh themselves and their horses with a cool drink
of water from our spring .
Soon after we had electricity we had a refrigerator , so no
more ice had to be put up for our ice box. No more wood had
to be cut and carried in for the kitchen range . The electric
range made the kitchen much cooler in the summer . One can
go on and on telling of its advantages . Many who have never
been without electricity can't appreciate its value and
convenience.
Our first automobile was a 1910 four cylinder Hudson,
bought in 1918 and was previously owned by Dr. Avery , a
dentist in Howell. The stearing wheel was on the right side
and it had acetylene lights . To turn them on the car had to be
stopped , get out, turn the gas on and use a match.
In 1925w e bought our first tractor , a Fordson. That made
some difference in the work that could be done. In 1928 the
farm had its first miling machine , a DeLaval Magnetic .
From that time on more and more improvements were made
in farming , such as larger tractors , combines , balers , hay
conditioners and corn pickers to name a few. A farmer today
can do so much more of his work alone than he could years
ago.
We have heard our mother , Jennie Parker Hosley, say
many times , " I believe more changes and improvements
have been made in my lifetime (1883-197)2 than in any other
previous eighty years ."
The Muuon Farm
By LEONARD MUSSON
On a Centennial Farm located at 2659 Byron Road , Howell,
Michigan lives Leonard Musson, grandson of the late Robert
and Mary Ann Musson. In their early twenties the
grandparents with their three-year-old daughter , Elizabeth ,
left Liverpool, England for the United States in the year 1857.
Because of the storms they encountered they arrived two
weeks late in New York .
The grandfather not having much money walked all the
way to Howell, Michigan , sleeping along the trail each night.
Before leaving New York he sold what ever they didn't need
from their carpet bags so as to have enough money to ~ke
care of his wife and daughter in N.Y. whom he was leavmg
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until the time came which he could look after them in
Michigan.
The grandfather had eleven brothers and sisters. They had
all worked together and pooled their money so as to be able to
send one brother , Thomas , being single, to the U.S. at an
earlier date . Therefore the grandfather, Robert worked for
his brother Thomas after arriving , hauling freight from
Detroit to Howell. During the same year Robert had earned
enough money to have his wife and daughter unite with him.
They rented a house which stood on the southwest corner of
the present Library lawn. Later they purchased ten acres
with. a log cabin on it for their real first home, on a trail
north of Howell which is now known as the Brewer Road . Two
children were born there and were later buried along the
trail.
In 1862 they purchased a one-room cabin which is part of
the house which Leonard Musson now lives in on Byron Road.
Because of the transactions at that time the deed was not
recorded until 1864. In this home seven more children were
born: Frank , Maude, William, Grace, Jennie, Thomas, and
George. George purchased the old homestead and later
married Lulu White. They were the parents of William who
lives at Hale, Michigan. Lyle at Crooked Lake , and Leonard
who lives on the old Homestead on Byron Road. The house
which he lives in is over a hundred years old and the barn was
built about 120 years ago.
First Howell telephone operator.
The Preston Farm
In 1847, John Kirk moved to Livingston County from
Roundhill, Connecticut , with his wife and family . With the
help of neighbors , he built a log house on a hill back from the
road .
In 1893 John died and soon afterward his son, Arlington
Kirk, purchased the farm from the heirs . There were nine
children in the John Kirk family . Arlington married Frances
Adams and they had three children, two of whom died in
infancy. Louis Kirk was the only surviving child of the first
marriage . After Frances' death , John married Mary
Burdick , and they had three children , Hazel, Burdick and
Bessie. Hazel (Mrs. Fred Preston ) is the only survivor .
Hazel Kirk and Fred Preston were married in 1909 and in
1923t hey bought the farm from the Arlington Kirk heirs. Mrs.
Preston adds that the family home was built over 100 years
ago by Horace Haines for her grandfather , John Kirk .
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The Peckens Farm
By MARY PECKENS
Sometime in the year 1860A lexander Peckens with his wife
Eliza and eight children came to Chelsea, Michigan from
New York State . Somehow they came to Cohoctah Township
to find and purchase 160 acres of land in section 27. This land
had been purchased from the United States Government by
Benjamin Crawford in October of 1835, sold to Ezra Sanford
for development in 1837. No one knows how much if any of the
land was cleared at that time , but it had a large log cabin
already built on the farm as was an old log barn.
In November of 1860 Alexander and his family purchased
the land and moved into the cabin. The family consisted of
three daughters and five sons, the youngest of which was
Marcena Peckens , who was ten years old at the time. Two of
the sons , Albert Peckens and John Peckens were killed in the
Civil War, leaving Charles , Alton and Marcena.
At the time Alexander purchased the land from Mr.
Sanford he was assured that there would be a village formed
in the vicinity-in fact 10 acres had been set aside for the
purpose , five acres of which joined the property Alexander
was purchasing. This ten acres was in addition to a small
area set aside for a cemetery and school. The school finally
located on the Russell property and was known as the Russell
school.
The cemetery came into being and is known as the Sanford
cemetery today. But the 10 acres set aside remained
separate for many years and was finally purchased by
Howard Peckens and five of it was added to the farm in 1943.
The other five acres lay east of the Byron Road and was
purchased from Howard by Jesse Bugard.
The story is told of some of the people living on this
set-aside land. They had some new-born piglets and a bear
came out of the woods and grabbed one. The farm woman
saw it happen and set out after the bear with a club which she
had snatched as she ran . She overtook the bear, made it drop
the pig which was nursed back to health and grew up to
produce many more pigs .
In 1873 Marcena married Ernaline Brown whose family
had homesteaded their land from the government, and in
1876 a part of the Alexander Peckens farm was sold to
Marcena, some to Charles and some to Alton, thus dividing
the farm between the three remaining sons. A small two
story salt-box type home was built west of the present farm
house where Marcena and his family lived for a short time .
Alexander died in 1881 at the age of seventy-six and two
years later Marcena purchased the tract of land where the
log cabin stood from the heirs and moved his family back into
the log cabin because it was larger . By this time Marcena
and Ernaline had a family of four children , consisting of
three daughters and one son, Albert .
Cold Spring Water
Another attraction of this particular tract of land was the
very cold spring which provided easy access to water for the
family farm. A small "spring house" was later built near the
runway of these springs and the water was used for cooling
milk for many years afterward , no pumps being required .
While living in the log cabin four more children were born ,
two daughters and two sons. Lena Susan Peckens was one of
these children and she married Mark Hill and now resides in
Parshallville , Michigan . Rose Jan Peckens was the youngest
of the family . She married Elbert Slider and is living in
Linden , Mich. The two sons born in this log cabin were
The How ell Foundry made plows and implements.
Howard and Charles and it is through them that the farm
came to the present owners .
The log cabin being in a rather dilapidated state, Marcena
purchased the land from his brothers and moved the little
house up near the log cabin and added to it a dining room ,
kitchen and bedroom . This gave the family a five-bedroom
house , all of which they needed because now there was a total
of eight children .
Marcena had a reputation around the neighborhood as
being very good with sick people and his daughter Rose
remember s seeing him light a lantern after chores were done
to walk across fields to sit up during the night with a neighbor
who was suffering from pneumonia .
The family existed by producing cattle, and other farm
produce , probably not selling very much , but producing
enough for themselves . In those days the cattle had to be
driven on foot to Howell or to the siding at Oak Grove when
the railroad came . The milk that was sold was placed in cans
and cooled in the spring-house before being loaded on a
horse-drawn wagon and hauled all the way to Howell to be
sold.
Charles Marcene being the youngest son, stayed on the
farm with his father Marcena . He married Clara Smith in
1911 and there were four sons and a daughter born to them.
Marcena and Eliza purchased a small house in Oak Grove
and moved there in about 1920. Marcena died in 1928 and his
wife Ernaline in 1931. Howard Peckens then purchased the
farm from the heirs and subsequently added more acreage
until in 1952w hen Charles and Ralph together purchased the
farm from him there was a total of 320 acres .
This farm continues to be a family -type farm. Charles is
now deceased and Ralph and his wife Mary live in the old
farm-house. They have two daughters and two sons. The
sons , David and Lynn are married and are engaged in a
partner ship with Ralph . Another 120 acres has b<)en recently
added to the farm, bringing it to a total of 440 acres . David's
son Justin makes the sixth generation of Peckens to live on
the farm.
The Wilcox-RichardsonF arm
By MR. AND MRS. CHARLES RICHARDSON
Ryland S. Wilcox came to Michigan from New York with
his parents Alonzo and Sarah Wilcox. He was born in New
York . He bought 160 acres on Clyde Road from Joseph M.
Gilbert in Nov. 24, 1853. His wife's name was Deborah. They
had three children Alonzo James born Dec . 21, 1858, Adelbert
Wilcox and Emma Wilcox Cook.
Ryland left 80 acres to his son Alonzo J. in 1908.
Alonzo J . married Hattie Staley January 1, 1885. They had
four children Theodore Wilcox, Mabel Wilcox Filkins (the
only member still living-89 years old) Emma B. Wilcox
Tesch , Susanna Wilcox Richardson . They lived part of the
time on the 80 acres on Hazard Rd . (where Theodore 's
daughter Eleanor Harteau lives now) and the rest of the time
on the 80 acres on Clyde Road . A binder fell on Alonzo. He
lived about two weeks and passed away August 25, 1909o n the
day his oldest daughter Mabel was to be married to Herbert
Filkins. After his death the 80 acres was divided between his
two youngest daughters Emma B. Wilcox Tesch and Susanna
Wilcox Richardson .
Susanna inherited 42 of the 80 acres in 1938.
Susanna lived in California in 1923 and 1924. She worked on
the Draft Board during World War I in Howell during 1917
thru 1919. She also worked for Michigan Bell as an operator
for 11 years before her marriage . She married Charles
Warren Richardson on June 1, 1927 in Detroit. They lived in
Detroit about five years. A son Charles Alonzo Romeyn was
born Oct. 12, 1934 in Detroit. They moved to Clyde Road in
1935. They lived six months on the farm and then moved back
to Detroit.
Charles Warren passed away, Feb . 3, 1937, and Susanna
and Charles A.R. lived with the Herbert Filkins family from
then until April 1938. Then went back to the farm on Clyde
Rd. Susanna lived there until she passed away May 8, 1968.
Charles A.R. married Louise Stickler on Oct. 18, 1958 and
lived on Burkhart Rd. for 6½ years. They have two sons ,
Charles Jr . and Jeffrey Warren . Charles built a new home
west of the original farm house in March 1965. The family has
lived there since .
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The Sharp Farm
By ELNORA MUNSELL
Andrew Sharp , Sr., born in 1790i n Bennington County, New
York, came to Genoa Township in the fall of 1837 with his
wife, the former Hannah Stedman. It is believed they had 14
children . Andrew, Jr . whose nickname was "June " was 12
years old at the time . Mr. Sharp, a blacksmith by trade , built
a shop on the 40 acres at the Northwest corner of Section 18 on
the Marion Genoa townline. Andrew, Jr. learned the
blacksmith and gunsmith trade and worked with his father .
As the other children grew and married they left to make
homes of their own.
Around 1845A ndrew, Sr. and Jr. purchased 40 acres on the
Southwest corner of Section 18. In Nov. 1853 Andrew, Jr .
married Anney Beattie in Ontario, New York and then
returned to Michigan stopping at Dyersburg, Mich. Here the
snow was so deep they went barefoot to save their well worn
shoes. Mr. Dyer bought them new shoes and they came on to
join Andrew, Sr.
In 1855, the present house was built and in 1860 the present
horse barn was built. Andrew Jr. and Anney moved into this
house and had ten children, the second child, George born in
1856. He was married to Mary Poole in Nov., 1879 and as
Andrew Sr. had died in 1869, he helped his father with the
farming . In the meantime more land had been purchased
adjacent to the 40 acres making 267 acres . Andrew, Jr. had
opened a blacksmith shop in Howell and operated it for two
years before selling it and returning to full time farming .
In 1895, when times were bad , Andrew, Jr . sold out to his
oldest son, George and his youngest son, Frank . Together ,
they paid off all back bills and took over the complete
operation of the farm . With roads far apart and much
swampy ground , Frank and George in 1902 decided to haul
gravel from their farm and make an extension of Crooked
Lake Road from Chilson Rd. to Lucy Rd. along the south edge
of their farm. They also built the first telephone line down
Lucy Rd. into Howell. It was owned by the people along the
road but Frank maintained it until it was taken over by the
Bell system around 1930. The Mutual Telephone Co. bought it
from the farmers first but they didn't have it too long.
In 1896, the wife of Fred, second son of Andrew, Jr. , died
leaving him with seven small children. Anney took all but the
Family with their horses .
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youngest , who was adopted by George and Mary to be raised
with their daughter, Hattie .
Frank and George raised horses , sheep and dairy cattle .
They had a stud horse on the road and during the winter
operated a saw mill . Their milk was hauled into Howell and
as they lived so far from school George's daughter and the
seven grandchildren rode to school on the horse drawn milk
wagon.
In 1910F rank married Catherine Liddy and lived in a small
house just north of the main house. Frank was always active
in the Republican Party and served as Republican township
chairman of Genoa for many years. He served on the
township board and also as director of the school district for
several years .
In 1912F rank and George gave 50a cres on the north side to
Fred and his children . Thomas Tengle , Fred's great-grandson
still lives on this land. In 1913 George and Mary decided
to go to Montana . They sold their interest in the farm to
Frank and Catherine . George and Mary stayed in Montana
for two years and when they returned to Michigan they made
their home with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Lounsberry on Chilson Road .
The depression years were hard with debt payments to
make and poor farm prices . At one time in the early 30's two
years supply of wool was sold for 10 cents per pound. During
these years hogs and cattle were butchered on the farm and
sold direct to the consumer in town in order to make ends
meet. For a long time a dozen eggs was traded each week for
the Sunday paper .
Frank and Catherine had two daughters, Frances and
Elnora . They also had twin sons born during the flu epidemic
of 1920. These boys died at birth because of the flu. The
Detroit Edison high power line coming from Ann Arbor to
Howell came down Lucy Rd. Catherine had always done her
washings by hand until about 1930w hen an auxiliary line was
added to the high tension poles providing electric service to
the homes along this road . Her first and only appliance for a
long time was a new Maytag washer . Due to lack of help the
saw mill business was discontinued in the 30's. Two large
steam engines had powered the mill and when World War II
came along these engines along with other old iron was
donated for the much needed scrap metal. Frank and
Catherine , like his father , had always made room for anyone
who needed a home. They had raised two boys, Dwight and
Kester Sharp , who were sons of Frank 's cousin Alvin. Alvin
had died leaving them orphans at 13 and 14.
Several adults had stayed with them from time to time
when there was no other home. In the late 1940's Frank was
no longer able to farm so he rented the farm but he kept his
flock of sheep until 1960. He raised a big garden every year
supplying many friends and relatives with vegetables until
he was 93 years old. Frank always considered voting a sacred
obligation as well as a privilege. He never missed a
Presidential election from the time he started voting in 1892.
Frank died in the spring of 1964. Catherine lived here and
rented the farm land until her death in 1967. Frances had
married J .L. Air heart in 1945a nd made her home on a ranch
at New Underwood, South Dakota .
They have two daughters and three sons : Joan, together
with her husband , Richard Malmquist and children John and
Bobbie Jo , have a ranch at Ekalaka , Montana ; Robert , and
his wife, Beverly and children Cory and Ginger, ranch it at
Scenic, South Dakota . Joe , who achieved the South Dakota
F .F .A. American Farmer Award for 1975r uns the ranch with
his father at New Underwood, South Dakota. Gail and her
husband , Randy Stensaas do ranch work at Hysham ,
Montana. James , the youngest attends high school at New
Underwood, South Dakota .
Elnora had married Robert Munsell, a Handy township
dairy farmer in 1942.T hey have three sons and one daughter:
Gordon and his wife, Teena and children Michael, Molly, and
Mary farm in partnership with his father at Fowlerville.
Arthur and his wife, Carol, live about one mile from the main
farm . He helps his father in busy rush seasons but is a truck
mechanic by trade. Catherine lives and teaches school at
Merrill , Michigan. Frank lives at home and helps with the
work but he too is a truck mechanic by trade .
The farm was sold to Glenn and Dorothy Hanson in 1969
'#ho still farm the land .
Frank Woods with a whitewood tree .
The Van Keuren Farm
3905 Eager Road
Submitted by Paul Van Keuren, great-grandson of Charles
and Charlotte Van Keuren, founders and original owners of
the Van Keuren Centennial Farm.
The Van Keuren Centennial Farm, situated five miles
northeast of Howell in Oceola Township, Livingston County,
Michigan, was homesteaded by my great-grandfather ,
Charles Van Keuren, in 1836. At that time, just prior to
Michigan's being admitted to statehood in 1837, the land was
in the Northwest Territory. The original land patent bears
the signature of Martin Van Buren , then President of the
United States , by his son A. Van Buren , his personal
secretary , and Joshua S. Wilson, acting recorder of the
General Land Office of the United States Government.
Charles Van Keuren, before migrating to the west , had
been a member of the New York City Police Force . In order
to supplement his income , he had also engaged in fine cabinet
making. As one of his police duties, he belonged to a troop of
cavalry which served as an honor guard on special occasions .
Real estate promoters , in those days , evidently served as
colonizers and prospectors for land at a price per acre. When
they came back from their trips to the Far West with maps
and other information regarding the lands they had
surveyed , it was their custom to assemble groups of
prospective pioneers . My great-grandfather joined one such
group in the year 1834, and came west from New York State
to prospect. He brought with him a nephew, Tjerick Van
Keuren.
Location Van Keuren's Creek
Finding conditions as they had been reported , he selected
an acreage near where Howell is now located. It was in a hilly
section with a little stream running through it, and a large
spring conveniently near the spot where he decided to build
his house. This stream is still known as Van Keuren 's Creek .
For temporary shelter , they set up poles, which they covered
with marsh hay. This crude shelter , somewhat like an Indian
wigwam , served them until, with the help of neighboring
settlers, they were able to build a log cabin. They then began
the galling task of cutting out the timber , burning the trees
and underbrush, in order to clear the land on which to plant
their crops . In about a year, they were able to comply with
the requirements for a land patent , and returned to New
York City to bring their families out to their new home in the
West.
The trip West was long and tedious. Their furniture ,
bedding, and cooking utensils were loaded on a barge drawn
by mules driven along a towpath on the banks of the Hudson
to Albany ; thence, by way of the Erie Canal to Buffalo ; there
they embarked on a Lake Erie steamer for the port of
Detroit. Thus far , the trip had been by water and had not
been too difficult or unpleasant ; but from Detroit to their
destination it was , indeed, tough going. It was along rough ,
narrow trails , through dense woods and across vast marshes
by ox team and wagon. The main trail west from Detroit
passed through Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor to Dexter . From
there, it branched off to my great-grandfather 's log cabin ,
which was twenty-five or thirty miles to the north .
In the 1850's he was able to build a large house near the site
of the log cabin . This house, after a hundred years, still
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stands. It has experienced many vicissitudes, but it has
finally been restored as far as possible to its original state,
with some additions . The house is a replica of houses
common in New York State in the 1850's. Since my
great-grandfather was a Hollander, it was also reminiscent
of the Dutch houses along the Hudson River. It was built
almost entirely of timber cut on the land . The frame was of
hewn logs, pegged together with dowel pins. The doors,
window frames , stair treads , and bannisters were of solid
black walnut , fashioned and molded with hand tools . My
great-grandfather had been a skilled cabinet-maker in
Holland , as is evidenced by the beautiful, heavy walnut
cornices over the windows and doors .
As the house was built on the side of a hill, the entrance to
the kitchen was made conveniently from ground level
through a typical Dutch door . The cooking had originally all
been done in the huge fireplace with its Dutch oven.
Adjoining the kitchen , excavated from the side of the hill,
there was a large cellar , in which the pans of milk were set on
shelves hung from the ceiling for the milk to cool and for the
cream to rise . In this cellar there were also huge bins for
storing potatoes and other vegetables for winter use . There
was a pantry convenient at hand , and a comfortable nook
with a couch on which Great-grandmother Van Keuren could
rest and smoke her pipe-a habit not unusual for elderly
women of her generation.
Meals were served in this comfortable kitchen-huge
platters of salt pork , or , occasionally , of chicken , with heaps
of potatoes and vegetables, all placed on the table so that
everybody , even the hired man , with his sleeves rolled up and
his hair slicked down, could help himself . The coffee was kept
hot in the fireplace, and was poured as required. As all the
men had beards in those days , they used "mustache cups." It
was customary to pour the coffee into their saucers,
balancing them on the tip of the thumb and their fingers . It
was also quite proper to cool the coffee by blowing across it
somewhat noisily and sipping it with a loud inhaled breath .
From the basement kitchen , stairs led to the first floor ,
where one entered a large room , which is now used as a
dining room . Opposite the dining room , across the hall , there
was a large parlor and a parlor bedroom in which my father
and his three brothers were born . The long center hall , with
stairs leading to the upper rooms , ran straight through from
the front door to the rear door .
Walnut Horse Stalls
Not far from the house were a large horse barn with stalls
and partitions of solid black walnut , a large hay-and-straw
barn , a granary , a tool shed , and a large sheep barn with
hay-and-grain loft. In addition to these buildings , there was a
large , separate washhouse and laundry , in which a barrel of
soft soap was always ready for use . This was connected with
the woodshed. There were also a smokehouse for curing
hams , a henhouse , hog pens , and of course , the regulation
"Chic Sales ." These buildings had all been built by
whatever skilled carpenters could be obtained in those
pioneer days , with the help of friendly neighbors , who
volunteered their services in old-fashioned "raising bees. "
Clearing the land , cutting down and burning the trees ,
pulling stumps , breaking ground with heavy breaker plow
drawn by oxen to prepare the fields for planting-it takes
little imagination to appreciate the back-breaking work
required for all those operations . The pioneer women , too,
had their full share of work-cooking the meals , washing ,
spinning, weaving, making clothes, caring for their children,
and , in general , keeping their families going .
Threshing time was a gala time . The neighbors all turned
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Mary Brigham in her graduation gown and with her flowers .
out to help-the men in the fields , in the mow , pitching
bundles to the thresher table , stacking the straw; the women
helping in the kitchen preparing the hearty midday meal and
helping serve it to the hungry workers. My father said he
never forgot the mammoth slices of bread spread heavily
with butter and brown sugar which we got when he and his
brothers came home from school on those happy occasions .
No banquet ever tasted as good.
The Van Keuren family was typical of hundreds of pioneer
families that settled in the Michigan wilderness in the 1830's
and '40's and '50's. Our state owes much to their courage ,
their thrift, and their sturdy industry .
The Yerkes Farm
Sleaford Road
By ESTHER YERKES
My grandfather , Enos Sowle, was born in Tompkins
County, New York, in 1826. He came to Michigan at an early
age and settled in Handy Township, Livingston County . He
was a farmer by trade and he worked out until such time as
he was able to purchase the land on Section 33, Howell
Township , in February 1857, where he lived until his death in
1899.
In 1854 Mr . Sowle married Justina Curtis, a native of
Handy Township. The original home was of log construction ,
in which the three Sowle children were born . The house which
still stands was built about 1870. The barn which was built
about the same time was removed when Highway 1-96 was
routed across the farm . The house and barn were both well
built of sturdy timber.
The youngest of the Sowle children was Rosa A., who
became the wife of Samuel M. Yerkes . The Yerkes family
moved to this farm in 1905 to be with Mrs . Sowle, who lived
until 1921. The Yerkes family continued to live on the farm
until 1961, the time of their death . The farm became a
Centennial in 1957. The Centennial Farm Certificate signed
by Gov. G. Mennen Williams , et al , is still in my possession.
There are many fond memories of farm life . I and my two
brothers used to walk to the woods with my grandmother to
pick wild blackberries and to see and enjoy all the wild
flowers which were abundant. On the way to the woods we
would stop at the spring and have a nice cold drink of good,
clean spring water . In the winter time we children had ponds
to skate on and hills for sliding down on sleds when the snow
was deep enough. We had fun, and we also had our chores to
do, so we were never bored for want of something to do.
The Zeeb Farm
275 Chilson Road
By MRS. CECELIA ZEEB
The Zeeb farm has been in the family since 1847. We have a
warranty deed which indicates that a Samuel Case,
grandfather of Donna Case Zeeb and great-grandfather of
the present owner Harley William Zeeb purchased the farm
on the tenth day of May 1847.
On the fifth day of June 1848,S amuel Case and wife sold the
farm to their son Norman M. Case, father of Donna Zeeb.
Norman M. Case and wife Maryette lived on the farm until
their demise. To this marriage were born four daughters ,
Luella , Nettie , Jennie and Donna.
Mr. Case died when the girls were in their teens.
It was necessary for Mrs . Case to hire help on the farm . A
Mr. George Sweeny operated the farm for a number of years
in the late 1890's and 1900's.
While running the farm Mr. Sweeny kept a record of
expenses on farm tools, equipment and the like, which, no
doubt will prove quite interesting.
Here is a partial list :
Spade and shovel ...... $ .30 Fork and rake ..... . ....... 30
4 Tine fork and shovel ..... :60 2 Horse blankets . ... . . .. . 2.50
Potato planter ..... ..... .. .40 Corn planter ............ 1.00
Shovel and ice tongs . : .... . 75 Ice cream freezer .... .. .. . 35
Model Kitchen
By STANLEY AND HAZEL LATSON
I remember when . . . our kitchen was chosen by the
Livingston County Extension Service for its unique floor plan
to be shown as a model country kitchen. We had a planning
area which included drawers , a writing shelf, and shelves for
various knick-knacks and useful items . I had a laundry area ,
25 pound unit to store my flour, fold down ironing board, etc .
My kitchen was very efficient and I enjoyed working in it
daily.
4 Large and 4 small traps 1.80 Spring wagon . . . ..... . . 30.00
Lumber ... . .. .. . . ... . .. 17.00 Bobsleigh and boards ... 11.50
Hay rack .. . . .. .. .. . .... 14.00 Mowing machine ....... 21.00
Plow ........ . . .. . . ... . .. 3.50 Hog crate . . ... .......... 1.60
Floating drag . . .. . .. . . . . 2.50 Iron drag . ............... 2.00
3 Hogs at $11.00e a . . . ... 33.00 White cow ... .. .. . ...... 37.00
While Mrs. Case was in charge of the farm the Ann Arbor
Railroad needed gravel for the railroad bed. So, the "Ohio
Michigan Sand and Gravel Company," under Mr. Bradley of
Toledo, Ohio, opened a gravel plant on the farm which
provided material for the railroad bed . During this period
Donna Case's youngest daughter , traveled to Arizona to wed
William Frederick Zeeb, who at the time was employed by
the U.S. Government in bridge building . In a few months Mr.
and Mrs. Zeeb returned to the Case farm where Harley
William was born .
Mr. Zeeb started working at the gravel plant, in fact , he
remained there until it closed. He also found time to help
Mrs. Case with the farm .
In a few years the Zeebs took over the farm upon paying
Mrs. Zeeb's sisters an amount agreed upon by those
involved. This deed is dated July 31, 1917.
A New Neighbor
In the 1930's the Tiplady farm across from the Zeeb place
was sold to a black couple, Mr. and Mrs . J . Fields and family
of Detroit. They brought with them a hired man of the same
race-name Pat Downs.
These city people were , of course , inexperienced with
farming . Neighbors tried to give them a hand . Pa Zeeb would
offer any equipment he had and would try to suggest that
they should not spend so much on new and expensive
equipment.
Eventually they lost the farm and had to leave . It was a sad
day.
A few days before leaving , Pat Downs, Field 's hired man ,
told Pa Zeeb that he did not want to return to the city . He
offered to work on the farm for just a place to sleep and his
food.
After talking it over with Ma Zeeb and Harley , Dad
informed Pat that he could stay and they would furnish him
living quarters , food and $30.00 a month.
A boxcar at the gravel pit was moved to the farm . Ma Zeeb
and I spent a week or more cleaning , painting , and furnishing
it. Needless to say, Pat was surely happy when he saw his
new home. All of us were happy , too, for this wonderful old
gentleman .
He prepared his own breakfast and Ma Zeeb and I
prepared the dinner at noon, and his supper.
He remained with us until his demise. Harley made all the
arrangements for his funeral and burial. All the neighbors
came to Pat's funeral at Keene's in Brighton . His pall
bearers were his neighbors and ours .
On the day of Pat 's funeral a Mr. Clyde Toush came to the
Zeeb farm . He asked Dad and Harle y if he could take Pat's
place as their hired man. He would like to work for them
under the same terms as Pat. Clyde, a white man , remained
with the Zeebs until his demise also .
Both Pat and Clyde are buried in the Chilson Cemetery .
Taxes Through the Years
Of interest is an item that has been kept by Mrs . Donna
Zeeb, dated Januar y 20, 1851. It is a tax receipt from the
Genoa Township Treasurer to Samuel Case for taxes on the
farm for the year 1850, amount $6.13. The Township
Treasurer at the time was Albert Tooley.
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We also have a tax receipt dated February 23, 1946 to
William and Donna Zeeb from Mildred R. Knapp, Genoa
Township Treasurer , for 1945, amount $8.89, of which the
county tax was $3.30, the township tax was $.50, School Tax
was $5.00 and Fees $.09.
A Busy Place
There was always something interesting going on at the
farm. The Zeebs were busy as usual but always seemed to
have something extra that they took time to do.
In the 1930's Ma and Pa Zeeb served chicken dinners on
weekends. Summer months they boarded children from the
Detroit area . On weekends the families of these children
would come to the farm to enjoy Ma Zeeb's ample dinners .
She did love to cook!
Winter months one would find them busy as ever grinding
pork by hand for pork sausage . Norm Larkin , nephew of Mrs .
Donna Zeeb, sold it at his store in Howell. Have heard so
many remarks about the sausage made by the Zeebs.
New Years Day Gathering
Since the days when Mrs . Maryette Case was living,
members of the family from far and near came to the farm to
celerate her birthday and New Year 's Day.
From the day after Christmas to New Year 's Day Ma and
Pa Zeeb were busy preparing for this day . This gathering of
the family was carried on years and years after Mrs . Case
had died, in fact, until Ma and Pa Zeeb had passed on.
Through the years there have been countless birthday and
anniversary celebrations that have drawn home folks to the
farm.
Yes, for the hundred years and more , the farm has had
many busy and enjoyable times .
The Lasher-Moran Farm
4400 WARNER ROAD
By JAMES MORAN
It was in 1839w hen the first of my ancestors settled on the
land where I, James Moran, my wife Elaine, and our son Bill
now make our home in Howell Township. I remember as a
young lad sitting with my grandfather , James Lasher , and
having him tell me stories of the old days and the events
which led to his coming to Howell in 1859. It began with his
four unmarried uncles James , John , Aaron and William La-
Grange all brothers to his mother Maria LaGrange, who had
married John Lasher . During the year of 1837 these four
brothers came to Howell from Rensselaer County of New
York State in search of new land and fortune.
James and John took farms with adjoining land in Sections
17 and 20 of Howell Township and their two brothers Aaron
and William worked with them periodically clearing land and
farming when they were not out west prospecting for gold.
During 1841J ohn sold his interest in the property to James La-
Grange who continued to operate the farm until his death on
May 9, 1857. Aaron had died December 9, 1853, and John had
married Mary Robinson from which union a son James was
born.
JAMES LAGRANGE WILL
With his passing James LaGrange left a last will and testament
reading in part as follows:
" I James LaGrange of the town of Howell in the County of
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Livingston and State of Michigan being of sound mind and
memory do make this my last will and testament. . .
FIRST: I give and bequeath to my brother Wilham
LaGrange a good living during his lifetime.
SECOND: I give and bequeath to my aged mother after her
present means are used up a good and comfortable living
during her lifetime .
THIRD: I give and bequeath to my brother John and his
infant son in case they should become destitue and needy a
comfortable living .
FOURTH : I also give and bequeath to my uncle Aaron
VanWormar living in the State of New York a good and comfortable
living during his lifetime .
FIFTH : After the above is fulfilled according as above
written I give and bequeath the balance of my property to
James Lasher and James LaGrange sons of John LaGrange
and John Lasher of the State of New York to be divided
equally between the two boys."
LASHER'S MOVE BY OXEN
The demise and will of James LaGrange prompted John
and Maria Lasher to leave their New York State farm and
move their family to the Howell farm site . The move was a
considerable undertaking in the year of 1859 because of the
long distance involved and the mode of travel in those days.
The final leg of the journey from Detroit to Howell was accomplished
with a team of oxen drawing a wagon containing
the family and such belongings as they had brought with
them from New York.
The farm consists of 140 acres and grandfather Lasher told
of the early methods of farming such as seeding the grain
crops by hand broadcasting and harvesting with a scythe and
cradle , planting corn and cutting it with a corn knife . He also
told about gardening and the preservation of vegetables and
meat , the raising of hogs, cattle, chickens, ducks and geese
for food, of trips to Dexter with a wagon load of grain to be
ground at the mill for flour .
I listened to many stories of his hunting squirrel , partridge
and wild turkey which were plentiful in those days. He
related detailed stories of quietly sitting under a big hickory
tree and shooting as many as six fox squirrels out of the one
tree with his trust y old 32. I heard tales of friendly Indians
riding by on their ponies . Great grandfather , John Lasher ,
constructed a new farm home for his family in 1862 and then
met with an untimely death in January of 1863 being taken
with pneumonia . This left the family in hard shape for
manpower and for sometime hired help had to be secured in
order to keep the farm going. Grandfather Lasher was
unable to attend school because of having to work the farm
and tend chores . At the age of 21, he attended the Fleming
School located at the six-corners and learned his three R's.
When grandfather was thirty years of age , he married
Celicia Hand and from this union were born two sons Orel
and Claude, and two daughters Neva and Nida. Claude died
at age 13 from appendicitis , a doctor being brought from Detroit
but to no avail.
WILL FULFILLED IN 1892
The first four provisions of the last will and testament of
James LaGr ange, as listed above , were fulfilled in 1892 at
which time grandfather Lasher purchased the undivided
one-half interest from his cousin James LaGrange thus
owning the farm outright in his own name . Approximatel y
the year 1902, James and Celicia Lasher together with daughters
Nida and Neva left the farm and moved into Howell. Orel
had married Daisy Allen and remained to live on and sharecrop
the farm with his father , my grandfather Lasher . Orel
and Daisy raised a son Ford and a daughter Ione both of
whom were born on the farm. Neva married William Gauss
who was a native of Lansing. They had no children . Neva , 85,
has returned to Howell and now lives in town. Nida married
H. LaRue Moran from Pinckney and I, James Moran, was
the only child born from this marriage . I was born at the
home of grandfather Lasher in the City of Howell on October
3, 1918. My parents moved to Detroit and lived in that area for
the remainder of their lives.
SUMMER ON THE FARM
From my earliest memory , and for many years my parents
would return to Howell each weekend and during the
summers I would remain for lengthy visits with my grandparents
. It was during these summer months that grandfather
Lasher would take me with him out to the farm during
the hay and grain harvest. He would let me walk behind
following the horse-drawn mowing machine as he cut the
hay , and he would allow me to sit on his lap as he winnowed
the hay with the side-delivery rake .
It was great fun as a boy to ride the hay wagon and climb
higher and higher on the hay as the loader being drawn behind
would load the wagon . I would have to duck my head or
lie flat down when the loaded wagon was drawn into the barn
for unloading . I always found it exciting when the hay-fork
was set into the hay and then watch the load rise to the track
at the top of the barn and then scoot off towards they hay
mow where a rope was jerked and the pile fell from the fork
into the upper mow.
I remember , too, the horse-drawn binder as it would cut the
grain on one side and kick out the tied bundles on the other.
As I became older and strong enough, they put me to work
helping to mow the hay away in the barn, to shock the grain
bundles in the field, to pitch the bundles onto the wagon
where they were then drawn up near the barn and then
stacked and covered to await the threshing machine.
Even the girls start young with a three horse team .
For many summers I would come to the farm and lend a
hand through hay and harvest and witnessed the change in
harvesting methods . The horses were replaced by tractors ,
hay was baled , grain was combined in the field as machine
implements improved the whole farming operation and
helped to alleviate the back-breaking heavy work .
My uncle Orel was a good hunter and a fine shot. He taught
me how to shoot his 22 rifle and old long-tom shotgun which
had a forty-inch barrel and kicked like a mule. I would have a
sore shoulder for days after shooting that gun. It was here
where I learned to hunt squirrel , rabbits , pheasant and
partridge in the fields and w ods.
VIRGIN TI BER UPROOTED
The farm contained ab ut 20 acres of woodland representing
the virgin timber of this area as cutting trees was
basically limited to firewood for heating. The woods was full
of enormously large tr Jes which were unfortunately uprooted
and toppled by a tornado sometime in the late 1930's.
Grandmother Lasher died in 1927 and grandfather Lasher
died in 1934, still helping out on the farm to the end. With
grandfather 's passing , the farm ownership passed to his
three children , Orel, Neva and Nida, and remained in a state
of undivided interests until 1954 when Orel was killed by a
train at the railroad crossing in Fowlerville . Orel's death
created an estate settlement situation and on August 31, 1955
my parents, H. LaRue Moran and his wife Niua purchased
the two thirds interest owned by Neva Gauss and Orel
Lasher .
I, James Moran , inherited the old farm with the passing of
the 1st of my parents on May 6, 1970. My family and I are now
living on the farm in a new residence which was completed in
1968. I represent the fourth generation and my son, Bill, the
fifth generation of our family to own and live on the property .
The farm is still under cultivation at this date . The old farm
house still stands and is occupied by !one's husband, Carl
Weller.
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Herman Heeg leads his prize bull at the County Fair.
Holstein Cattle in Livingston County
By HERMAN H. HEEG
"Holstein-Friesian cattle have played an important part in
the economy of Livingston County for many years . The sale
of dair y and breeding stock has brought many hundreds of
thousand dollars into the county to make for better living and
happier homes. According to a statement by Frederick L.
Houghton, in 1910, then Secretary of the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America, more breeders received their mail
at Howell than any other post office in the UnitedStates ,quite
a tribute to Livingston County, considering the fact that a
number of other states had many more Holstein breeders
than Michigan at that time ."
"Holsteins were first brought into the county in 1880 by
W.K. Sexton of Howell, one of the early importers and a
breeder of Holsteins until his death in 1917. The earliest
records show his first importation was made in 1880 and the
oldest animal in this group was born in Holland in June 1877
and imported to this country July 16, 1880. These animals
were recorded in the old Holstein Herd Book, and Mr. Sexton
was a member of the Holstein Breeders Association.
In 1910, there were about 250 Holstein-Friesian breeders
located in the county and the county association grew
rapidl y. A "Holstein Headquarters " was established in
Howell in rooms furnished by Dick Barron, leading dealer in
farm implements. Board meetings and other meetings were
held there .
According to available figures in 1919 there were 17,000
herd of Holsteins with 239 milking herds . This milk was
hauled to markets , the Borden Milk Condensery and Detroit
Creamer y Co., the latter going into the Detroit Market in 10
gallon cans . At first milk was picked up at the farms by team
and wagon (in winter , sometime on sleighs ), then the advent
of trucks , and now gathered in bulk milk tank trucks from
large storage refrigerated cooling tanks .
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The cows in early days were mostly hand milked , today it's
mechanical with the milk being pumped through plastic
see-through pipes direct to the cooling tanks .
According to available figures from the County Extension
Office, there are 20 producing herds in the county at the
present time , with 9000 milking cows. It would be hard to
estimate the number of people employed in 1919 with 237
herds in comoarison to oresent day ooerations. The quality of
the milk is far superior to the older days .
The fact that Livingston County was known as the Holstein
Center of Michigan was the reason my father, Charles S.
Heeg, settled in Howell in 1914, buying a 210-acre farm four
miles north on Byron Rd. In 1905 he had come to Howell and
purchased five registered Holstein cows from W.K. Sexton ,
the founder of Holstein Cattle in Livingston County. At that
time my father lived at Shelby, Michigan in Ocenia County
and these cattle , I believe, were the first in Ocenia County. In
1907, that farm was sold and the cattle were shipped to
Martinsville , Ohio where a farm had been purchased . This
farm was sold in 1913, and we moved in Howell as previously
mentioned.
My father started building up a herd of high producing
registered Holstein cattle . Many blue ribbons were won at
the local fairs and one at the State Fair in Detroit. One cow
was later a Grand Champion at the National Dairy Show in
Chicago. There were silver cups won for butter fat
production records in the various age classes and awarded
by the local association . The highlight was a high bred prize
winning bull, and the sale of a cow for $3,000 at a consignment
sale held at Michigan State college . My part in this was the
feeding and care of the cows for butterfat production . Also
training and showing the cattle for fairs . You see I was in my
teens , seventeen up.
What We Wore. .. the 1800's
Photo titled "The Belles of Howell,' ' by Cleave, former owner of
Zemper ' s Studio . Taken in 1880.
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Ready for the drive to church on Sunday morning .
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Splashing in the
while mama watches .
Two little boys taken with the bear skin rug .
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Christmas time and a tea party with your favorite doll.
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Ice skating on Howell Lake was for all ages in 1897.
I RememberW hen. ..
By WILLIAM McPHERSON IV
During my lifetime certain people come to mind who are
clear recollections and who had a part in my early years as a
boy. We talk of slower and better times . If one considers
horses , wagons , buggies, bobsleds , automobiles only used in
summer and fall, it was a slower time . Times were not
necessarily better with seventy-two hour work weeks being
standard with pay at a dollar a day or less . Even so
everybody seemed content , enjoyed their work and life in
general.
The cartage and dray business was as important then as now
with the present proliferation of trucks , vans, pickups, etc .
which handle deliveries to business and mercantile establishments
today. There was Jim Payne , a club footed man whose
horse and wagon often stood at the Southeast corner of Grand
The Leading If ouse
IN TOWN FOR
---Jine f nrnitnre Is ackn owledged by all
Good Cooks to be . .... .
--KNHPP & CO'S.
River Ave. and Michigan Ave., then known as Division St.
Mr. Payne was available for any odd job of hauling. Guy
Knoop was freight man, house mover, and furniture mover
who has served the people of Howell for approximately
seventy years. Guy, his team and flatbed wagon met all the
trains on both railroads to pick up the Railway Express
packages and freight. My thrill was being allowed to drive
the team. The freight went to the freight depot, the Express
articles went to the office of W.E. Beach, who was the
Railway Express Agent and also conducted an insurance
business .
Fresh vegetables were the summer treat for the housewives
of Howell for such fare was non-existent in winter
months. Logan Papworth and Wilbur Arnold were the
purveyors of these good things. Logan Papworth used a
Model T Ford truck for his deliveries . He had bell fastened to
the floor board of the truck , which he constantly sounded with
his foot. Housewives came to roadside with baskets or just
their aprons to carry the produce. Logan Papworth was also
well known for the horseradish sauce which he made and
bottled and sold in the local groceries. Wilbur Arnold was a
large man physically . His small wagon was pulled by his
horse "Diamond ." I recall many days when Mr. Arnold
arrived at our house with his load of fresh vegetables I was
allowed to ascend the wagon seat and finish the route driving
"Diamond" and ringing the hand "bell ," which had to be
rung with a distinctive rhythm .
Teachers had their place and influence in the lives of
myself and my contemporaries. Kindergarten began in a
small frame building located at the rear of the Michigan Ave.
Middle School. This was prior to the actual construction of
said school building , which became the only school for the
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Howell district. Eva Ackley Vandercook was the teacher and
taught that Kindergarten until her retirement . First Grade
and Second Grade were taught in the East Ward School
located on the site of the Northeast School. Goldie Holt taught
first grade . Sarah Maycock taught second grade. Third
grade meant a move into the new school. Lula Brooks
presided . Fourth grade with Ada Witt, Fifth grade with
Lucille McClenathan, Sixth grade with Grace King. These
elementary teachers were dedicated and with the exception
of Miss Witt served the people of Howell in many ways for
years so that many sons and daughters of my classmates had
the privilege of their early learning under their guidance. In
Junior High and High School the names of Florence Warner ,
Sarah Beattie Allen, Loren Willis, Arthur Williams, Helen
Matson Thomas, and others . Of course, Mr. John Page , our
Superintendent , and Ersyl Rider Hadley in the school office.
In those days the Howell Schools were a model of what a good
school should be and many a student found he had a solid
educational base for college or other endeavor.
1909 Newsboy
By CLAIRE SCHNACKENBERG
The Detroit Tigers had a great baseball team in the
summer of 1909. The afternoon newspapers sent out
packages of "Sporting Extras " via train in the early evening
which reported the games. I was given the opportunity as a
small boy of selling them on the street to men who would be
standing around talking. I found the business section
interesting and spent quite a bit of time at my father 's store
and walking about. There were many fascinating things to
watch. Drygoods stores had little cable cars to carry sales
slips and cash to the central cashier and return with the
change . The blacksmiths were shoeing horses , the printers
were putting out two weekly papers , the flour and grist mills
were grinding .
A planing mill was located on South Michigan , then known
as Division Street , and across from it the municipal electric
plant and water works. The highly polished steam engine
You caught the fish, but mom made you get your Sunday clothes on
to have you get your picture taken with them.
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furnished the power for the generator and pump and also the
town fire whistle , which together with a centrally located fire
bell gave the alarm for the volunteer firemen to meet and run
with the hose cart to the scene of a fire .
At the time there were no paved streets to town. Grand
River A venue had hitching rails on each side to which horses
with buggies or wagons could be secured. A teamster with
tank wagon watered the streets in front of the stores. There
were three large watering troughs for horses , also a town
pump complete with tin cup next to the one across from the
court house.
The courthouse looked almost exactly as it does today . A
large black Civil War cannon adorned the front lawn . Small
boys liked to climb upon it. It was donated to the World War
II scrap drive.
The stores with natural reddish brick second and third
stories had wooden or cast iron and glass fronts with
doorways usually in the middle . The delightful fragrances of
the bakeries and the drug store soda fountains are well
remembered as are the pine pitch smell of the hardwares ,
the bay rum of the barber shops and the leather of the
harness shops.
Many of the merchants opened their doors at seven in the
morning and closed at six or after . Saturday was the big
shopping day , the stores closing around ten and the barber
shops perhaps at midnight. Four small hotels did a thriving
business renting rooms to traveling salesmen who came by
train and were brought uptown along with their sample cases
by a horse drawn bus. Lodge halls , doctors' , dentists ' and
lawyers ' offices, and a few apartments were upstairs above
the stores .
There were two liver y barns on South Michigan just off
Grand River where horses and buggies could be rented .
These barns also housed the light delivery wagon which
delivered groceries and meats to the homes of the
townspeople. Cans of kerosene were sometimes included and
usually spilled , adding a little flavor to the edibles .
The grocery stores, of which there were about seven ,
bought most of their produce from the local farmers . They
sold nothing but groceries , generally . The meat markets ,
three in number , sold only meats. Other businesses included
two furniture stores , two undertaking establishments , two
jewelry stores , two banks , drygoods and women's wear ,
men 's clothing and tailor shops , shoe stores, implement
stores , coal dealers , a lumber yard , lunch counters , cobbler
shops, a laundry , etc ., and a ten cent barn at North Walnut
and Clinton where rigs could be driven in and the horses fed.
In the way of recreation , two former saloons were used as
cigar stores with tables in the back where men could play
cards. A billiard hall was patronized by a few of what I
considered middle aged men , probably in their late twenties.
The Opera House, on the second story of Grand River south
side just east of Walnut , was the place in which large
gatherings were held for speakers and entertainers and for
the year-end school exercises . Quite ornately furnished , it
possessed a curved-front stage with fine curtain and wings
and a balcony , and is pretty much intact to this day .
A roller skating rink stood at the northwest corner of
Clinton and North Michigan , a shed-like building heated with
stoves and having a hardwood floor quite uneven in contour .
Basketball was played here and the home team had a decided
advantage because it knew where the hills and valleys were .
The Howell police force consisted of one elderly night
watchman who made his rounds trying the front and rear
doors of the business places . Finding a rear door unbolted , he
would often set a small board as a brace on the inside .
There were probably no more than two dozen automobiles
in town sixty-five years ago. Nearly all the tradespeople lived
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18 7 6 Centennial Parade
Start of the centennial parade in 1876. The city band is in front and
the firemen are lined up behind.
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If you gotta go, you gotta go .
within easy walking distance. They worked hard and the
competition was keen.
In a word, it seems that downtown Howell was a charming
area , and that it served the community very well.
House of Seven Gables
By BOB KRAUSE
I was born in 1892i n Marion Township and have seen many
events which took place in Howell and the surrounding area .
At the turn of the century Howell hosted Street Fairs, which
drew large crowds . It was at a Fair held about 1903 that I saw
the first movie. It was shown in a tent on North Michigan in
front of the Livingston County Press building, "The Great
Train Robbery. "
One thing that I also remember at one of these street fairs,
Dr. Erwin was a young vetenary just starting practice in
Howell, was approached by a gaining artist and asked if he
would act as a "copper, " which did and won a sum of money
after which he made a call in the country. Upon his return
late that evening the fellow who runs the game started
looking for him as he had been absent for some time, upon
locating the Doctor the fellow said to "Doc ," I guess you have
some of my money. Doc is reported to have said I won it,
didn't I? The game operator said but I let you. Doc was
supposed to have said , so you run a crooked game, try and
get it.
All the big shows have shown on the grounds now known as
Page Field , Ringling Bros. , Forepaugh & Sells Bros.,
Barnum & Bailey Buffalo Bills Wild West and 101 Ranch Wild
West. Geronimo and Sitting Bull were both here as were
several other big names .
The town used to celebrate Decoration Day and Fourth of
July each year . A balloonist used to fill his balloon on what is
now a part of East Clinton St., between the Courthouse and
the jail , one descent was so perfect, there being no air
stirring, he landed on the south roof of the jail and broke a
leg. Another time he landed in Howell Lake, was rescued by
some fishermen.
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Another event to take place at these days was a ball game
between Howell and other fine teams , several Howell players
went to play league ball . Bert Tooley to Brooklyn & Newark ,
Ed Shields to Buffalo, Hank Perry to Detroit, the Newcomb
Bros , Roy and Ray to South. Mich. League .
It was about 1902 I saw the first auto to go down Grand
River Road. We lived at that time on West Grand River in the
seven gable brick house located just west of the airport. It
came from the West, was an Olds, with curved dash and tiller
instead of a steering wheel , two men were in it wearing
dusters, goggles and gauntlet gloves , and it was going all of
four miles an hour.
For a great many years Livingston County was known as
the Holstein center of the mid-west , one of the first cows to
make the coveted 30 lb. butterfat record was owned by F.W .
Munson, the now Glen Berry Farm in Howell Twp. The fi.rst
public auction of Holsteins was held in a tent on West Clinton
Street between Mike Hagman 's Mobil Station and the offices
of Social Services, then between the ten cent barn and the
skating rink , before moving to the Fair Grounds in the 20's.
In 1908 my father bought the Seymour Farm on the Byron
Road by the Howell Townhouse , from the heirs of Mr . Howe,
who had taken it up from the government during Martin Van
Buren term as President. Mr. Howe lived in New York and
took up first 80 acres which the back 80 with no road . Upon
learning of this he purchased the front 80, and gave ½ acre
for a school, now the townhouse. The back 80 was cut by the
Shiawassee River . The land on both sides of the river at one
time was the site of an Indian village. I have found many
Indian relics on the farm as we worked the ground with
horses. Many of those at Kensington Park I donated , also
those at the Howell Historical Center I donated . I also have
some in the museum at Lansing.
Another thing I remember when the first telephone line
was built along Grand River . My mother boarded the crew.
Also about this time cowboys from the West used to drive
bands of Mustangs along the road and trade horses wherever
they could, my father rented them a place to spend the night.
These events happened in the early 1900's.
Picture of the 4 mile house tavern after the tornado of 1941 tore off
the front wall.
Decorating a float in 1915 was a real job . The birds in the headlights
are real stuffed doves, not plastic .
On the north side of Grand River from Walnut Street East,
the building now the McPherson oil office in the early 1900's
was the farm equipment business of Gardner & Burke, along
with the now Swann Store . The next building was E.K.
Johnson Drug and Chapel Jewelry Store. Next Geo. Sawyer's
pool room, then Ad Bolch grocery, next Brokow & Wilkinson
furniture store, then Sheem Fields shoe store, followed by
McPherson's dept. stores. East of Michigan was Gordon
Drug , Ren Cook & Fred Jones grocery , Ed Powell 's saloon,
Goodnow & Beach store and Monroe's shoe store.
Buster Brown and Tige
By MRS. ARVILLA HUBBELL PARSHAL
I was born May 15, 1898a t 1325W . Grand River in a lovely
old house. I do not know who lives there now, but I have fond
memories of living there. My two older brothers and I went to
the West Ward school before our parents sold the place and
moved to Hartland Township in March of 1905. My teacher
was Susie Barron and I think Lula and Jessie Gilmore taught
there too. In November of 1905 our mother died and I went
back to Howell to live with an Aunt. I lived there until I was
married in 1920. I used to spend the summers with my father
and brothers on the farm .
I remember that my father used to take us to a cobbler by
the name of Mr . Snow. His shop was on the corner where the
McPherson Bldg. is now (corner of Walnut and Grand River)
The Fishbeck Bros. had a shop on W. Clinton along where the
Co-op Bldg. is now. Later on there was a Mr. Donnelley who
fixed shoes. His shop was up over where Raymonds on E.
Grand River , and still later Geo. Mutter was there for years.
I also remember my father taking me to Moon's (it was on
N. Michigan and I just can't remember what kind of a store it
was) to see some kind of a show. Slide pictures or something
similar. It was about Buster Brown and Tige.
When I came back to Howell to live with my Aunt, I went to
the East Ward school. Some of the teachers I remember were
Blanche Crandall, Mabel Woodward (Mrs. H. Gartrell). Mr .
John Gilbert had his harness shop next to the school and we
would stand in the door and watch him work . There was a
man by the name of Griffin who was the watchman at the
Ann Arbor tracks on Barnard to see that the children got
safely across the tracks, and Grandpa Foey who was the
janitor at the school.
When we had finished the seventh grade, we went to the
8th in the High School, across from the (funeral home on ~.
Michigan now). Our teacher was Leonora Morton. She taught
school in Howell for many years . If you got through the
eighth grade , then you went up to the third floor of the High
School where the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades had their
home room until they graduated. I graduated in 1918. There
were thirty-two of us. Mr . Courter was Superintendent. Alice
Johnson was principle. Some of the other teachers that I had
while there were : Lelah Burkhart for Home Econ., Alma
Sharpe, Prudence McDowell, Isabelle Knapp and Eunice
Wells. We had our graduation exercises in the Presbyterian
Church on W. Grand River (It was quite new then). It was
during the first World War and the girls dressed alike in
dresses that most of them made themselves, white trimmed
in blue and wore red ties . Our class was the last to graduate
out of the High School before they tore it down to build the one
that is standing there now. Mr. Burdick was the janitor and
he was quite a character , al)d artist too. It was nothing to
come to school and find a lovely picture on the black board
done in chalk; and if you thought you heard a frog croaking in
the school hall , you did, Mr. Burdick . He was a very stern
looking man and you least expected anything like that of him .
I also remember the McPherson Clothing Store that was in
Howell. You could buy most everything there. I especially
remember Miss Hattie Clark who had charge of the yard
goods. She knew just what the latest materials were and how
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much you needed for a garment. When you made a purchase
she would put the money in a little leather box and it would go
on a track around the store to the office where they would
make the change and stamp the bill paid and send it back .
That always fascinated me as a child. You could buy kid
gloves to go with your outfit and laces and ribbons of all kinds
and many other things .
Next door to McPhersons store was Henry Sweet's grocery
store where I went many times on a quick errand . There was
also Miner & Farnsworth Grocery on Grand River across
from the Courthouse and Strobels on the corner of Michigan
and Grand River where the D & C Dime Store is now.
I also remember the Dick Barron store on the corner of
Michigan and Sibley (where the parking lot is now), that was
where we went to buy our buggies and wagons and other
small equipment. Next to it was a livery stable and across the
street on the other corner was Jubb 's Livery Stable and the
family lived upstairs . Across the corner was the blacksmith
shop of Charles Culver. (He was my great-grandfather) . He
made a sled for us children that we had for years . It would
outrun all the other sleds on Skilbeck's Hill.
I remember the Opera House. When I was real young we
used to have our Promotional Exercises in there and later
when I was in High School our class plays . I have gone to
several lectures and plays there . I also remember that they
had a Chautauqua in the summer in a tent next to the Old
Episcopal Church. I had a season ticket and enjoyed all the
programs .
I remember my grandfather used to buy all our meat at Ed
Youngs Meat Market on S. Michigan . His brother had a
harness shop next door.
I must not forget the Monicrief (don't know as I have it
spelled right ) Candy Kitchen. They made their own candy
and had a ice cream parlor there too. Barron & Wines Drug
Store on E . Grand River also had a soda fountain which was
popular with the High School crowd .
I remember when Ed Bowman had a variety store on E.
Grand River and later sold out to W.D. Adams , where I
shopped for years even after I was married.
I remember the water trough that used to be on N.
Michigan near Itsells ' Clothing. Anyone could get a drink of
water and you could water your horses there too. Whatever
became of the cigar store Indian that was outside of the
Miller Brother 's?
I remember when there was just a big pile of stones where
the Carnegie Library is now. I think it was built about 1903o r
04.
People who lived in the country could drive in to Howell to
shop (which was an all day 's job), put their horses in the Ten
Cent Barn and go to Claude Culver 's to eat . They had a short
order place that catered mostly to men . They made cigars
there , the IOOF Cigars were made there and sold around in
stores over the county . I had an Uncle that made cigars and
he used to take me upstairs where I could watch them make
them .
My aunt worked in the Misses Porter 's Clothing Store . She
did the alterations that had to be made . They used to trim
their own hats and I used to like to go in there and see Clara
Sharp and Effie Dunn trim the hats. Effie Dunn made my
wedding hat and sewed a lock of her hair in it for good luck .
There were the two vegetable gardens one on the E . Sibley
St. (Papsworth 's) and the St. just south of Sibley was Charles
Arnold garden . They raised all kinds of vegetables and
pedalled them from door to door with horse and wagon.
I remember the Rubert Hotel that stood on the corner of
Court and Grand River (southeast corner ).
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Kansas Homesteaders
By MARTHA HOSLEY MUSSON
In my work on the Parker Genealogy I have been
corresponding with several families in the state of Kansas .
One letter that I received was from a great-grandson of
William C. and Jane Parker Shaft , by the name of Clay
Hedrick , an auditor for the state of Kansas . Both William and
Jane came to Michigan with their parents in 1835. They
married and lived in this vicinity until 1857 when they, with
their family of nine, left Howell to take up homestead land in
Kansas .
Their home was on the Chilson Road just south of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad track. In 1850 William built
and owned the Shaft Hotel, which was located on the
southeast corner of Grand River and Court Streets , where
Slayton's Motor Sales now stands. Besides the hotel he ran a
line of stages between Howell and Detroit .
The following paragraphs were sent me by Clay Hedrick
concerning his great grandfather :
"Shaft 's cunning exploits and initiative for wholesome fun
have often been told by our family. One being the tale of a
horse race, allegedly taking place between himself and a
neighbor , Sam Sharp . Neighbor Sharp was the owner of a
high-spirited saddle horse and was accustomed to taking first
place cash winnings from the races matched in the Howell
vicinity . Neighbor Shaft was an ambitious admirer and
breeder of excellent draft horses , but also found a way to take
Mr. Sharp "For a ride " with a fast little sprinter that his sons
had trained on the quiet.
A rousing good race was planned , with each side putting up
fifty dollars to the stakeholder. The entire community
became interested . It might be said that while sentiment
overwhelmingly went to Shaft , betting was two to one against
him .
The time for the race was set for ten o'clock Saturday
morning , to be run on a straight road just outside of Howell.
It so happened that this date fell on a cold wintry morning.
Early Friday evening snow began falling and by the morning
the ground was covered with several inches of heavy snow.
Sensing an opportunity to make his winning the race a sure
thing , Shaft awakened his sons and they hastily made a
one-horse drag and went to work in the moonlight scraping
the snow from a path about three feet wide on the right side of
the road for a distance of a quarter of a mile. This path left a
hard dry track for the Shaft horse. Morning came, and
although a large crowd gathered at the appointed place, no
one carried the news of Shaft's clever scheme to Sharp .
When Mr. Sharp arrived and saw the situation , he, at first ,
refused to run his entry , but rather than forfeit a try , he ran .
. . and lost to his crafty little adversary ... by a big margin. "
Free Weekly Shows
By VOLA HUTSON
I remember when every Wednesday night (sometime
between 1918-192,2 I'd say ) that in the center of Howell on the
main four corners , the townspeople had a stage where free
acts of all kinds were performed . One of the most popular and
loved acts was when the Ballard Family would dance . I
believe their names were Laverna and Melvin or Bobby (I'm
not sure about the boy's name ). I think Laverna was 15 or 16
and the boy was 12 or so. Later they went to New York and
became very well known. The Ballard family lived on N.
Michigan Avenue north of the big McPherson home .
Interior view of the drug store. Toothbrushes were very large in
those days .
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Those weekly free shows drew hundreds of people from the
country as well as the city. Eve ryone felt that they had to go
to the center of Howell every Wednesday night.
The year the High School Bldg. was built there was a
temporary building put up while the building was being
completed . It was commonly referred to as "The Chicken
Coop." I believe that building was on Walnut and Sibley
Streets .
The Ann Arbor viaduct over Grand River was built about
1938.
Sometime about 1923-1925an d even long before that (that's
when I remember) every Saturday night all the farmers
would hurry up their chores so they could go into town to do
the weekly shopping, "but mostly to see all the friends and
neighbors and townspeople ." We walked and walked the
streets and saw everybody . We would not get home until
about one o'clock in the morning.
Fond memories of the Howell Fair come to mind, when we
would pack our lunch and supper and spend all day and
evening at the fair for the four days that it would be held. We
walked and walked-saw the free acts on stage (from behind
the fence ) most people paid to sit in the grandstand. We saw
all the displays , handwork , baking , canning, vegetables,
exhibits, livestock , and watched horse races, ball games,
roamed the midway, rode the rides and saw everyone we
ever knew. This went up at least until 1929. My memories are
from 1919 to 1929 and were very outstanding in my mind .
I remember in 1918, the night that World War I ended there
were hundreds of us went to the main four corners of Howell
(Michigan Ave. and Grand River) where the Kaiser was
hung in effigy. He was a very crude looking stuffed character
and as he was pulled high up in the center of the street
everyone screamed and shouted . Then everyone marched
down to what is now Page Field . Here a huge bonfire was
built and the Kaiser was thrown in to burn and to end the
activities.
One of the funeral directors that I remember was
Goodrich. He lived near Livingston and McCarthy Streets.
He also sold furniture , I believe.
Waiting for the parade.
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In t he 1920's, it was n't necessary to wear a bikini to attract
atte ntion.
When the High School playground was completed they had
to remove a whole row of houses on the east side of the street,
thus cutting off one block of houses. My father bought one of
those houses and moved it to the corner of Maple and Isbell
Streets at Jewett Bridge. It is still there.
Anyone remember Jewett Bridge as a famous " parking
area " for young people , since it was not developed near
there.
My grandfather George Sharp had one of the first
"Airline " radios in Genoa Twp. I had large 2-cell batteries
which had to be charged about every 2 months. Took it to
Henry Herbst to be recharged. Cost $3 to recharge .
The Good Ole School
By SHAREN SKUSA KIZER
Interviewed by Vicki and Ed Repik
Having lived all my life in Howell I find it rather difficult
comparing it or trying to imagine living and growing up
anywhere else .
I was born in the old three-story Howell Hospital on
Michigan Avenue where the McPherson State Bank is now
and afterward returned there numerous times for sutures (I
guess I was a clumsy kid) .
Although much here has changed-new stores, restaurants
, and even a Holiday Inn, much still remains the same .
Landmarks such as the Library, Courthouse, our City
Park, Michigan Avenue with its beautiful trees and my High
School which is now Michigan A venue Middle School are all
still intact.
My class of 1965 was the last to graduate from that "Good
ole' School" and we're proud of that. I attended Howell High
from 7th grade up on a split session program which only
lasted one year, thank heaven; because we underclassmen
had afternoon shift and wouldn't get out until 5:30 p.m. In
winter it was a long, dark walk home.
The highlight of High School, it seems was football season.
In 1963,m y Junior year we struck gold and never lost a game .
Howell High came in first in the Capitol Circuit and beat
Fenton and Fowlerville , both of which were also undefeated
and their own Conference Champs . What a great year that
was and lots of our team got football scholarships from their
grea t season .
Most of the teacher s I knew are gone now but I still hear a
few familiar names from time to time . Mr. Badura is one I
still hear and will remember always. Forgive me-Mr .
Badura but we really called you " Charlie B." Until a few
weeks after class had begun one year , I thought he was
carr ying a pistol under his belt (which would fit with his
World War II History classes , I might add ) but found out
later it was only his pipe . I got an A+ on a college English
paper , writing about " Charlie B."
The places we used to go after school are gone now. Bruce
Campbell 's drug store was a big hang out. We would hussle
down after school and sit three to a stool for a Tin Roof
sundae or chocolate cake , and the Doughnut Shop is now the
Hobby Shop.
We didn' t have a new recreation center then so our dances
were mostly at school or on Saturday nights , the Johnny
Thiele Dances at the Armory .
I have just had another birthday and I don't know where
the tim e goes .
When I take my children to the Byron Road Park , I
remember the old West Ward School I attended for first and
second grades , and I see the Northwest School where I
attended the first year it opened through sixth grade . It 's
much larger now as everything seems to be growing so fast.
But I like to be part of the change and see new spring up from
the old.
Howell is a nice place to live and I hope as it grows larger it
doesn't lose any of its charm as the nice small town-I
remember .
The first truck in Howell. Chain drive , hard rubber tires , and
acetalyne lamps. Everyone took a ride.
Customs of Yesterday
"VISITING"
By JANET ROHRABACHER
Many people have noted in our history the passing of the
horse and buggy , the passing of the kerosene lam p and the
wood cook stove . Even more than these material things , I
miss the passing of our social customs and family groups .
One of the great customs of the past was "visiting. " Not
only neighbors and relatives , but also whole groups of friends
used to pay a "visit. " This could extend into several months .
People usually traveled long distances from other states by
train in order to make a "visit, " so it was not undertaken
lightly . The trips were fewer and so lasted longer , until each
friend or relative in the old neighborhood had been "visited ."
My grandmother lived with us, and because each visiting
famil y group wished to see this oldest member of the family ,
we were always included in each visitation .
I well remember one visit which my mother 's ex-sister-inlaw
made us . She came from Wisconsin bringing her
granddaughter and her own sister ; and the sister brought her
nephew from Boston who was out in Wisconsin "visiting " for
the summer. Another time a great -great-uncle came
bringing his wife's niece and his housekeeper .
Of course we had room . We had a twelve-room house and
there aren 't many of them being built today . Possibl y the size
of the modern home has contributed to the death of visiting.
Also, there are the economics . It did not cost us very much
to feed these groups . My father just went out and killed a few
extra chickens and we pulled more vegetables from the
garden and picked more berries and mother made more
biscuits. This can 't be done today at the super-market.
In fact , the whole family group has changed. Ours was a
three -generation famil y, of mother , father and children and
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grandmother . Later , we became a four-generation family. In
fact , at times we had both grandmothers living with us. I
can 't remember that we had any great disagreements either .
Possibly this was because we had room to spread out.
Our grandmother was a wanted and needed member of our
famil y. She not only baby-sat , but ran the household when our
parents were gone. She also heard all of our school lessons at
home, helping us with our spelling, reading and arithmetic .
In this way, she freed my mother , so that she could assist my
father in his business .
From our point of view, as the children , it was great. We
heard from our grandmother all the stories of the past ; not
only what she and her family had done ; but also what her
parents had done and her grandparents.
We were brought up on stories of whaling expeditions ,
building log cabins , bear hunts , births in covered wagons ,
and raids by the Winnebago Indians . Our grandmother had
heard from her own great-grandmother a description of the
Battle of Bunker Hill which she had viewed from a roof-top in
Boston.
Also, all these relatives from far away who came visiting
had their own tall tales to tell and we were all ears .
We had a very rich heritage to look back upon, and it
cer tainly gave us roots . In comparison , I feel the modern
single-family home (with the grandparents in a rest-home
and the children in a day nursery ) is very poor indeed in
family traditions - in fact ; actually deprived .
The Seamstress' Shop
By CLAYTON AND MARTHA MUSSON
The following are some of the things that we remember
concerning Howell and vicinity:
Formal rest areas were non-existant in the old days .
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I remember when the property on which stands Drake 's
Gas Station, Marcy 's Laundry Center and Anthony's Dairy
Mart was Carl Weimiester 's summer pasture for bis cattle .
Frank Wright's planing mill was located just south of the
Chesapeake and Ohio crossing on South Michigan Avenue. I
used to stop there on my way home from high school to watch
him at his work .
I remember when every Wednesday evening for several
weeks during the summer , the city of Howell would have free
entertainments on the main four corners of the town. The
local band would play , the Ballard girls would entertain with
their dancing , Emily Mutter played her violin, accompanied
by Mrs. Caroline Benson . Gerald Pelkey , his father , and
others would put on a boxing match once in a while, as well as
outside talent came to entertain .
I also remember going to the Opera House. The program
put on by a group of bell ringers stand out clear in my mind.
I remember going to Aunt Mary Parker 's seamstress shop .
It was above Jubb and Rossington Hardware on the corner of
Michigan and Grand River where the First National Bank
now stands . There was an outside stairway leading up to the
second story which we had to take to get to her shop. I also
remember that she would come out to our house about twice
a year and stay a couple of days to help Mother in making
clothes for Mother and us four girls .
I remember Grandma Hosley telling us about when her
parents , James and Amarilla (Harmon ) Lawther , owned the
Union Hotel in 1850. It was located on the southeast corner of
Grand River Street and South Michigan , then known as East
Street. Great Grandma Lawther served meals and when she
had the meal ready she would ring a hand bell for her
customers to come to eat.
Previous to James Lawther owning the Union Hotel, and
maybe at the same time , he and a partner , William R.
Melvin, opened the second wagon shop in Howell in 1846.T his
shop was located on the northwest corner of East Street,
(South Michigan ) and Sibley, where the parking lot south of
the D & C Store is now located .
I also remember Grandma Hosley telling us about her
Uncle Henry Harmon , her mother's brother , practicing law
in Howell from 1849 to 1880. He was Circuit Court
Commissioner in 1852, Prosecuting Attorney in 1854,J udge of
Probate in 1864. He also served as a representative in the
State Legislature . His home was at 209 N. Court Street, which
stood on the site of Mrs . Tracy Crandall's home today.
I remember when the spot where Bob White's Standard
Station now stands was a low unsightly spot. There was a
high board fence around that corner to hide the weeds, brush
and young trees.
I remember when there was a roller skating rink on North
Michigan Avenue, where Mike Hagman 's Gas Station now
stands .
I remember when our folks used to bring eggs to Howell
from the farm to sell to Harry Williams' shop on South
Michigan Avenue. I believe he also had a store on West Sibley
just east of where the Methodist Episcopal Church stood.
Bert Snedicor also bought our eggs. He was located just west
of Mike Hagman 's Gas Station on West Sibley.
I remember when Dr . Janette Brigham had her office on
East Grand River where Harold Crandall has his office now.
Dr . Bell had an office on the northeast corner of Grand
River and Court Street, where the Court House Annex now
stands.
I remember going to Homer Beach's Dry Good Store. It
was located on East Grand River on the north side of the
street between Michigan Avenue and State Street , I believe
the second store from State Street.
I remember when McPhersons had a department store
where Ewings have their furniture store now.
I remember when an uncle, Carlos Arthur Williston, and
his family moved to Howell in 1915. He contracted the job of
bricking Michigan Avenue and Walnut Street. They made
their home in the house on the corner of Brooks and Fleming
Glenn Yelland held his flag as he wat cnes the para de. He was a
former Howell attorney.
Street. Our brother, Clarence Hosley, was in his first year of
high school. He was a bell hop at the Livingston Hotel, then
managed by Mrs . Van Keuren and Jessie Parker . In the
evening he would light the lanterns and place them at
dangerous places for Uncle Arthur .
The McPherson Dairy
By FRANCES STORY COOKE
From the early 1940's I recall an old place in Howell, which
is now gone, but is still vivid in my memory.
I remember my Dad's (Robert Story ) work as herdsman at
the McPherson Farm . When I drive out to Howell High
School and see three small white sheds remaining at the
farm, I recall four giant gray barns , a double corn crib
building, which the tractor could drive through, and other
structures of the McPherson Dairy Farm. It was a very big
place to me as a girl near the age of four. I didn't like the loud
air-raid siren wailing in the night from the gas well on the
farm . It sounded for war-time air raid drills.
But I do have fond memories of the dairy . My sister and I
would stand in the doorway of the dairy and watch two young
guys, Jim and George Dunn, brushing glass bottles by hand
in deep tubs of soap suds . Then one of them would look up and
say "Come on." He would walk into the cooler room and open
a big refrigerator door and take out two half-pints of
chocolate milk or sometimes grape drink and give them to us
two "half-pints. " I can still taste how sweet and cool they
were to drink . Sometimes I'd like to bring back Dunn
Brothers Dairy, the treats and the whole farm scene.
Perhaps others remember with me all that has vanished:
the many cows, the barns with the hay lofts that were
exciting to climb into, the milk truck , the sudsy glass bottles
and the chocolate milk treats. All is gone except a nice
two-story house and three sheds .
Uncle Tom's Cabin
By MRS. VICA BRUCE
I was born in Howell on E . Grand River Nov. 5, 1896. My
parents were Lafay A. Lace and Alta Wilcox Lace. Father
was a cousin of Frank Lace . My mother later married
Thomas H. Love in 1926.
I do remember as a small child going to Mr. Beach 's
millinery store for hats . Mr. Beach trimmed the hats
himself. Also Hesse's Market on peanut row.
Going to the Opera House to see Uncle Tom's cabin . At one
time we lived on the Kneeland Farm and we got up early to
see the elephants unload the trains and set up tents .
Saw the first auto that I ever rode in. I believe the sheriff
owned it. I was in grade school with his daughter .
Saw the telephone lines being built . We were on a country
line and and our ring was 1 long 2 short.
I do have a book on " History of Livingston County," with
illustrations dated 1880. It has pictures of farm homes . One of
Thos. Love, grandparents of my stepfather .
I also remember the old 10 cent barn , where we could drive
our horse and buggy in and they would water and care for the
horse . A toilet inside with a high tank of water overhead was
of great interest to me, being from the farm.
I Things Memories Are Made Of
By MRS. MARGARET LEAVENWORTH MAIRS:
"I graduated from Michigan Avenue School in 1932. I
remember football games , dances in the school gym . My
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They're not indians, but they represent indians in the parade.
Notice the right hand drive auto with the spark and choke above the
All dressed up with knit hat and button shoes .
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steering wheel, the brass horn, the brake lever outside the door, and
the toolbox on the running board .
favorite teacher was Miss Woodhurst , latin teacher. Mr.
Murphy was principal and Mr . Page was superintendent. The
teachers and principal also knew each student individually ."
By MR. DATUS MOORE
I have lived at Triangle Lake for 20 years and play the
saxophone in the Livingston County band. "
By MRS. GERTRUDE HILL :
"My father John B. McGivney was in the Civil War . We had
a 400 acre farm on Clyde Rd . My father was a farmer and
uneducated but sent three of his children to college. He was a
stockholder in the Livingston County Fair . Dad died in 1916. I
remember washing clothes with a scrub board and chopping
wood for the coal stove . Went to one room school house ,
heated with a wood stove."
By MISS KATHERINE SORG:
" I was born in 1890. My parents , John and Odelia , born in
Germany and came to Howell in 1885. My father worked on
the Ann Arbor railroad when it was being built. They had
seven children , all living their lives in the Howell area .
Enjoyed the street fairs and coming in from the country to
meet friends ."
By MRS. ILA ROSEMAN (WILCOX) AND MRS. JOYCE
DRAYTON (WILCOX):
"We lived in Howell since 1911. Our parents were J .A. and
Florence Wilcox. We attended Kneeland school and graduated
from Howell Michigan Ave. School. We remember driving
our horse and buggy , 5½ miles to school each day and
parking in the 10 cent barn on the corner of Walnut and
Clinton."
THE NIGHT A BUFFALO CAME TO STAY
By STANLEY AND HAZEL (WRIGHT) LATSON
Thirty-nine years ago Mr. and Mrs . Lelan Wilson drove
through Howell with this caravan (picture ) from Colville,
Washington stopping at the Stanley Latson farm with many
observors trying to take pictures which the Wilsons' objected
to, as they sold pictures of this caravan to promote this trip at
only $.25 each.
This was the only living male off-spring from a Bison bull
(buffalo) and a domestic cow. He stood 5 foot6 inches tall and
weighed 1200 pounds. They traveled 10 to 15 miles a day .
These animals have a longer life span , resist T.B. and Black
leg, dress a quarter percent more of beef especially the front
quarters , have valuable fur , and the cows produce rich milk
and require no shelter.
Jumbo , was born February 8, 1929 on the Grand View
Ranch , Colville, Washington . During our conversation ,
Stanle y (Latson ) said his aunt , Mrs . Nettie Richardson ,
taught school at Colville and he said he went to school under
her , that is Mr. Wilson.
Secretly , they stayed overnight in the orchard (to protect
Jumbo from the crowd wishing to see him ). The following
day Jumbo was harnessed to this caravan , said good-bye
with his characteristic " b-1-o-w" and they were on their way
to Detroit.
Start of the parade .
HOWELL CENTENNIAL
By STANLEY AND HAZEL LATSON
I remember when ... in 1930 our Genoa Township was
represented in the Centennial with a float. Hazel rode a horse
with a beautiful saddle which was given to her by her Uncle
Rob. She still has this saddle today , thanks to her granddaughter
, Helen, who bought it back for her grandmother at
their farm auction. Also daughter , Virginia , a young child,
rode in the Centennial being pulled in her wagon-cart by her
dog, a German Shepherd . He was so very well trained and
kind ; they had such a long way to walk and our dog almost
made it to the end of the parade.
Howell~
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Send all your F ine Lin en to How ell Steam Laundry_
L ace Curtains a Specia lty. F lanne l J3lankets wash ed
without shrink ing or fulling. Sat isfaction gua ranteed•
W. E. SNYDERP, rop'r.
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By MRS. MELBA MAREAU:
"I remember in 1958o n New Year's Eve that the ice was so
thick and the cars ended up in the ditches. We climbed hills
on our hands and knees and the kids skated in the streets ."
By ARLENE RIDDER:
In the '70's Howell became a haven for people leaving the
large cities . Especially attracted by the large stately older
homes.
By FRANCES SEIM
I remember when instead of parking meters downtown
they had hitching posts for horses . Up to 1941w e lived about 5
n:iile~f rom Howell. It took about 1 hr . to ride horse and buggy
nde mto town. We would then park our horse and buggy in a
10 cent barn . We could buy a nice dress at McPherson's for
about $5.00. McPhersons had a basket that your money was
put in by the clerk , she would pull a cord and the basket
would slide up a trolley to the cashier.
By ALICE SCHAUER:
Worked for the telephone co. and remembers when a flag
would drop down when someone came on the line. At the
creamery which was located on Factory St. the milk was
brought by horses in summer and sleigh in the winter .
By ROSE HAYS:
I remember when they used to close the roads in winter
around Howell. Bales of hay were used as a foundation under
the bridge going over the Shiawassee River. The bales are
still there to this day . Grand River was originally a plank
road then was paved and was then the longest paved road in
Michigan all the way from Detroit to Lansing .
By MARY JAMIESON:
My husband peddled ice in Howell. The ice was cut out of
the lake and stored in sawdust ice houses.
By MAUDE PHILLIPS:
I came from England when I was 27 yrs. old and married a
local boy. We belonged to St. Johns Episcopal Church . My
husband and I used bicycles to get around Howell. Her
husband was a member of the Masonic Order, I was a
member of the Kings Daughters and Eastern Star. I worked
for the McPherson family for a number of years.
The 1876 Centennial
By ARVILLA HUBBELL PARSHALL
This is an account of an excursion that Mr. and Mrs .
William Sexton (my great aunt) took in 1876a t the time of the
Centennial Celebration.
June 12th, 1876-Left Sherbourne for the city of New York.
Arrived at Albany at noon, took dinner at the Delivan House
then :,vent up to the New State House which is grand. Took a~
evemng steam boat for the City of New York, (must have
traveled on the Hudson River ) arrived at Dr . Strew's house.
From eight o'clock in the morning of the thirteenth of June
took a ride in the cars to Fultons Ferry , crossed over to
Brooklyr:\with Dr. Strew, he went to visit a patient we to see
the sights . '
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Fourteenth-started for Greenwood, met brother, Sardis
(my grandfather) at the ferry who wanted us to go to Central
Park which we did and stayed all day .
Fifteenth-went to Greenwood and Coney Island . We all
took a bath in the ocean, we consisted of Mr. Hubbell and
wife, Mr. Sexton and wife, besides a host of outsiders .
Friday , June 16th, Dr. Strew and wife went with William
Sexton and wife to see A. T. Stewarts store. (A. T. Stewart
was the world 's most successful merchant and proprietor of
a large department store. Next to Astor was the largest landowner
in New York City).
Also rode around the city. After returning from the ride we
visited a Jewish Synagogue which was grand . Also visited the
Croten Works. ( ?) Then the underground railroad and the
high bridge railroad and rode on it. (The El steam engine
rattled along thirty miles per hour, belching sparks and
smoke; ashes, water and oil dropped on pedestrians in the
streets below. It frightened horses and many runaways was
the result).
June 20th-Left Mr. Murhead's Hotel this morning and
crossed the ferry to Jersey City, from there to New York ,
from thence to New Brunswick, then to Trenton, then to
German Junction, then to the Centennial Grounds. Arrived
June 20th at noon.
William Sexton and wife rented a room at one dollar
twenty-five cents per day. The sights were too numerous to
mention. Philadelphia . Visited the Zoological Garden,
Independence Hall, Government Mint, Girard College
(school for boys), beautiful Indian needlework, Bibles in one
hundred languages, Carpenters Hall (was where the first
Continental Congress met) . Within these walls Patrick
Henry, John Hancock and John Adams inspired the delegates
of the colonies with nerve and sinew for the toils of war. One
hundredth Anniversary Continental Congress, 1774 Carpenters
Hall 1874. They visited the residence of William
Penn . Also visited the Episcopal Church where George
Washington and Ben Franklin worshipped, also sat in their
pews, June 23, 1876.
Addresses: Dr. Wm. Strew, Lexington Avenue, New York;
I. Murhead Broadway Hotel, corner of 42nd Street and
Broadway , New York. Returned home to Howell, July 3, 1876.
Entire trip cost $200.00. Excursion tickets , $53.50.
CITY PARK ENTRANCE
At the entrance to our Howell City Park , a split rail fence
was installed on each side of the entrance. On the north side a
ten-foot by three-foot flower planter was built with a sign
over it saying Howell City Park. The money and labor for this
project was donated by the Howell Rotary Club and
completed in October , 1972.
The Lake Ice House
By MIKE HAGMAN
In my story I would like to go back in memory to the lake
ice business , which covers a span of years from the middle
twenties until the late thirties in my recollections, as I was
born on the corner of Summit and Roosevelt Street in 1919,
and lived on the same corner until 1947, I was right next door
to the ice houses .
The first ice house I remember , was on the southeast
corner of Roosevelt St. and the roadway that goes by Howell
Lake into the new part of the Protestant cemetery . This is a
vacant lot now. The building wasn't too large and probabl y in
the late 19's and early 20's it would hold enough ice for the
summer's business.
I would like to tell about filling the ice houses with the lake
ice.
When the ice reached the proper thickness, which was
about a foot, the field to be cut was laid out. A team of horses
pulled a sharp edged piece of equipment of wood frame, with
many small saw teeth in it . The saw teeth were of heavy steel
about a half inch thick and four inches long. There probably
was about a dozen of these all mounted in a straight line . The
wood frame had an arm on it that extended to the side about 3
ft. long. This arm had a runner on it and after the first
straight line cut was made, the team of horses were turned
around and the runner put in this cut and the second cut 3 ft.
apart was made and so on. Then the ice field was marked
"God freezes the water"-but we must cut our own ice . Taking in
ice on Lakeland, south of Howell.
acrosst hesec uts and they wouldh ave 3 ft. squaresc .ifi ce,
which would weigh approximately 100 lbs. each. A channel
was then cut from the ice field to the loading chute of the ice
house. The loading chute extended from just below the roof of
the ice house, down the back side of the ice house into the lake
at about a 45-degree angle . The loading chute was about 200
ft. long.
The channel from the ice field almost to the ice house chute
was a little over nine ft. wide. This was done so that three 100
lb. cakes of ice in a row were floated down the channel to the
ice house . Men would space the ice into these three 100 lb.
rows of ice in the ice field , which might have twenty-five or
thirty rows . These large chunks sawed off the ice field were
pulled into the ice channel with long pike poles and a man on
a wooden bridge built across the ice channel would spud them
into three 100 lb. cubes long. The channel then narrowed
down to about four feet and the three 100 lb. chunks were
turned long ways and another man on a wooden bridge cut
them into 100 lb. chunks.
The 100 lb. chunks of ice were lined up to go up on the chute
into the ice house . The ice was pulled into the ice house by a
team of horses up on Roosevelt Street headed towards
Summit St. A steel cable came back off Roosevelt St. thru the
ice house and a pulley strung from a huge wood beam down
the ice chute to the water. At the water edge was a
contraption called a hook. This at the bottom had a long steel
hook which was embedded into the end 100 lb. chunk of ice to
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be pulled up the chute. A man had to ride this hook up the
chute to hold it into the ice. The hook had a handle on it and
also a brace , which went forward to put pressure on, so the
hook would stay in the cube of ice better .
When the ten or twelve 100 lb. cubes of ice were lined up in
the chute, the man on the hook was all set, a signal was given
and the team of horses on Roosevelt St. headed northwest,
pulled the ice up the chute into the ice house.
Hook riders were hard to come by as sometimes the hook
would slip out of the ice and the hook would go flying straight
up, the hook rider most any place and the ice back down the
chute, into the lake. I don't believe that any hook riders were
ever seriously injured.
At the top of the chute that came into the ice house, a
similar chute was inside and the ice came down this chute.
The ice was stacked and as the ice house became fuller , the
inside chute was raised higher . After the ice house was full of
ice, the ice was covered with sawdust to keep it in good
condition.
As our city grew this ice house became too small and so to
take care of the booming ice business, three large new ice
houses were built on the north shore of the lake where the
new part of our Protestant cemetery is today. The moderness
of these were a far cry from the old.
The ice houses were built quite long and high . On the side
facing the lake on the west end the loading chute went down
into the water . On the lake side of the ice houses, were three
tiers of chutes running east and west, and from these the ice
could go in the lower part of the ice house first , middle text
and top last. I would say the manpower needed to do all the
work involved to fill the ice houses was about 100 men.
On the lake thereweresawers ,pikepole men, spudders. On
the ice shutes in front of each house was a man with a short
pike pole to drag a cake of ice into his ice house . Inside were
the ice stackers .
Although this was a cold job, numerous men looked
forward to this work, as a little extra income in the winter
time , as most of them had jobs that lasted from spring to fall.
The procedure on the ice field in the lake was the same
except instead of using horses to make the cut, a sled like
outfit was made with a gasoline motor and a circular saw on
it. About all that was needed was a man to guide this as the
saw furnished the power to push the ice cutting machine
forward .
Also the chute that went into the lake was modernized and
4"x4" pieces of wood were fastened into huge chains on
either side of the chute, about 4 ft. apart . The chute had sides
on it and the chain was all one piece , so actually it was a
conveyor sort of system .
In a coupola on top of the top row of chutes were controls to
activate the conveyor or shut it off. The power to run the
conveyor system was furnished by old fashioned steam
engines and a belt system from the engine to a stationary
pulley block on the ground and then belts up to the cupola .
The steam engines were owned by individuals , a Mr. Park
Brayton , who kept his equipment in Howell at the south end
of McCarthy St. A Mr. Rub bins who lived on Triangle Lake
Rd. What a sight to see these old steam engines come puffing
down the street to go down to the ice houses.
It usually took anywhere from four to six days to fill these
three ice houses . Back when the horses were used on the ice,
my father told me that once a team of horses broke through
some thin ice and down they went. The men tried and tried to
get them out and as the horses would get their front feet up on
the good ice, they would slip and back in they would go.
Finally the men got a rope around each horse's neck and with
a lot of heaving and pulling got the horses out of the water.
The horses were chilled to the bone and the men wrapped
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them in heavy blankets and walked the horses all night to get
them warmed up. The horses survived their ordeal without
any problems .
Also one year the ice in the lake by Roosevelt St. didn't get
to be the right kind of ice to put in the ice houses, so a channel
was cut all the way around the lake between the cemetery
and the peninsula , west of the island , and the ice was taken
all that distance to fill the houses.
At the time of my story, a Mr. Cline Galloway and Mr.
Frank Raven were partners in the ice business . Mr.
Galloway lived on East Clinton St. about where the parking
lot is for the Edison substation. He had a barn behind his
house and kept two teams of horses there. Mr. Raven lived on
the corner of McCarthy and Livingston St.
Ice delivery was made to homes and business places with
the horses pulling the ice wagons.
As a boy, I was fortunate enough to go on Mr . Raven's route
with him . He always called me Hiram and he would say
" Hiram , you had better set up on the seat and drive the
horses, " while I take the ice off the back to the houses ."
Those horses didn't need anyone to drive them , as they knew
every stop and go on the route.
Mr. Raven would take me to lunch where the Amber
Lounge is now. Jess Raymond owned it in the by gone days ,
and we sat at the lunch counter on high stools.
As we would go around the ice route , cards would be
displayed in the windows of the homes telling whether the
person wanted 25-50 75-or 100 lb. of ice and of course Mr.
Raven would take whatever the card said and put the ice in
the ice boxes.
What a treat for the small children on a 90-degree
summer's day to see the ice wagon coming and the ice men
chop them off a chunk of ice to suck on.
Eventually, trucks took over for the horses on the deliery
route, and one man would drive and two deliver .
As electric refrigerators became cheaper in the late
thirties , the lake ice business slowly went out of existence
and along with it another chapter in history .
The Day after Halloween
About 1906, many Howell residents and businessmen were
astonished to see an unusual sight perpetrated evidently by
the Halloween pranksters of the night before for, perched on
the eastern roof of the fairly new Carnegie Library astride
the centerline was Purdy's Bakery delivery wagon a one
horse affair. People were gazing, smiling and shaking their
heads , no doubt, wondering how it got there. No violent
windstorm could set it down so perfectly .
Now, how to get it down to earth , I never knew how it was
gotten down but secret word was passed around that it came
down much the same way as it was gotten up there, by taking
it all apart. The perpetrators of this Halloween joke, I never
heard their names spoken, but I had my own guess on that
one.
FLOWER PLANTERS
Another story that is appropriate is about our flower
planters that line Grand River Avenue and Michigan Avenue.
The dimensions of these planters are four feet high by four
feet square , and have concrete walls four inches thick . This is
a Chamber of Commerce project. On most of the planters are
bronze memorial plaques honoring noteworthy citizens of
by-gone years who in their lifetime contributed greatly to
making Howell a better community . In each planter small
trees were planted , and each spring flowers are planted
around the trees for a touch of color in our uptown business
district. A 1972 project .
'Judge' Willis Lyons
Very possibly, the most colorful character to come out of our area
was Willis Lyons . Six feet tall and 14 years old, he enlisted in the
Spanish American War in 1898 by telling them he was 18.
Off the coast of Cuba, he was officially declared dead of yellow fever
and was being buried at sea when a friend saw him wink his eye,
which was the only muscle he could move. After many months and
many experiences in a New York hospital he returned home and took
up the study of Law .
This photograph taken, probably, when he was about 20, in his
uniform, was one of which he was very proud .
From 1930 to 1960 he was thought of as the "Poet Laurreate" of
Howell by his fellow members of the Rotary Club and many others.
Your author remembers so well, monthly visits for an hour or so
when the "Judge" would stop in at the studio and "kill a little time"
talking about the "Olden Days ."
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One-Room Schools
Planting trees on the lawn of the new school, 1909. At least the kids
are out of the mud in the road .
Howell from the air 1975, showing the N.E . school (bottom) and
Mich . Ave . Middle School , left , formerly the main school.
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Rare indoor picture of a one room school.
The boys look innocent in the picture but the way the teacher is
---~~~~~---~~--- biting her lip-I don't know.
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Arbor day 1901. These kids have just planted a tree in the school
yard .
Howell's Schools
Picture taken from the Central School in 1837 showing the old
courthouse and the buildings on Grand River from the back.
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The entire high school student population photographed in the large
assembly room at the top of the Old Central school, 1915.
Howell'sS chools
By MRS. B. H. GLENN
COUNTY SCHOOLS BEGAN
WITH FIRST SETTLERS
This is the first of two articles by Mrs. B. H. Glenn of
Fowlerville regarding early day schools in Livingston
County. Mrs. Glenn, a former Howell resident and a ~raduate
of Howell High School in 1901, was. well versed in Livingston
County history about which she has written several articles
in the past for LCP.
While Livingston County has only been established as an
organized government unit in Michigan 135 years, education
and its schools date from the arrival of its earliest settlers
from New England , New York and Ohio and other eastern
states whose background reflects a desire for progress .
Howell's Schools
Coordinator
Joseph C. Fields, married to Shirley
Ann Fields has resided in Howell the last
three years. Joe is a native Michiganian
finishing his doctorate at Michigan State
University. As Howell High School
Principal he has had personal contact
with the wonderful authors represented in
this article .
From the earliest available histories , we find accounts of
the establishment of schools of some kind in every settlement
in the county from the first year . First a few children, taught ,
perhaps , by an older boy or girls in a home or a hastily built
one room log schoolhouse, or as in Livingston Center
(Howell) in 1836, in the loft of the Eagle Tavern. That was the
first frame building in the county seat, where Abigale
Adams, the daughter of Amos Adams, the first proprietor ,
kept a school.
In Handy Township settled in 1836 history shows that on
October 19, 1839 three elected school inspectors met at the
home of Elijah Gaston and made the first annual report of the
township of Handy. District No. 1 as follows: whole number
of organized districts, one; whole number of children attending
school below the age of five to 17, 24; number under
fivf!, over 17, 19; months , taught by qualified teacher , six ;
Amount of public money received , none; Amount of money ·
recieved in district , $50.00. The first certificate granted by
the township to a teacher in Handy was dated July 13, 1844 to
Jane Watson, Handy Township, Livingston County,
Michigan.
As population increased more districts were added and it is
possible to find detailed accounts of many of the early schools
in the 1880 edition of History of Livingston County. This
report of Handy Township is comparable to the others of that
period .
The detailed sketch of the Howell public schools probably
duplicates in a way the early history of most of the county
schools both rural and later the high schools of Brighton ,
Fowlerville, Pinckney and Hartland .
The rural district schools were one room, one teacher,
offering instruction in a few subjects from the youngest
children to those who cared to attend even to 20 years of age.
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The teachers were selected by their ability to teach
reading , writing and arithmetic and also by their ability to
maintain order .
As conditions improved the teacher 's qualification and
knowledge demanded better education and men and women,
many who had academic training, were employed .
Clergymen often were the head masters of these rural
schools and the principal or superintendent was called
professor , though the degrees required now for that title were
not required.
Quoting from the manual issued by the board of the Howell
Public Schools for the year 1900: "Universal public education
was the first and fundamental principle of American
government- the motive power of all progress and the
bullwark of our libert y. The evaluation of the high schools
bring higher education to the very doors of our common
people, it aims not only to give facts of practical work, but
breadth of information , skill and reasoning power."
The duties of the superintendent at that time were to have
charge of all departments and school property and responsibility
for order as far as in his power to control it. "He shall
make reports to the board , he shall visit the different
departments and have sole power to promote and demote the
pupils.
" He shall hold teachers responsible for instruction and
discipline but shall direct teachers to a faithful performance
of their duties toward their pupils. He shall inform parents or
guardians of the conduct of the students .
"Teacher s ar e expected to familiarize themselves with the
rules and the textbooks, to teach accurately and thoroughly
and devote themselves to the welfare of the pupils. Teachers
will be responsible for the conduct of the pupils, the government
of them must be of a nature to develop kindly
dispositions and character , to stabilize as far as possible the
basic nature of the pupil they shall be rigidly responsible for
the pupils habits of neatness , obedience and politeness. They
must not tolerate profanity , vulgarity , gum, cheating ,
boisterous or improper attitudes or actions .
"Teachers shall require pupils to leave the school premises
as soon as dismissed and go directly to their homes."
Duties of the pupils were also specified : "No books, papers
or anything foreign to the proper study shall be brought to the
school house. Every pupil shall have decent apparel , face
and hands clean and hair decently arranged . Pupils are
required to be respectful , and obedient to the teachers . For
violation of these rules the pupil may be suspended ."
In 1900t he Howell High School had an athletic director and
an association closely associated with the State Athletic
Association and in turn with the University of Michigan
Association. State scholarship crede ntials were required to
participate in athletics .
The names of the earliest teachers in the Howell school
may be found in the 1880 edition of History of Livingston
County with many details of the earliest schools in the
county.
Exercises held in the Howell Opera House on June 21, 1890 a
list of names of every grade and high school pupil at that time
is given with the age of each at that date. This list includes
the names of all in the Central building, the First Ward or
Barnard Street School.
These schools had been erected in 1888-9 and those attending
in rooms on South Walnut, rented to supplement
some grades until the completion of the West Ward, or Byron
Road School house which was opened in 1891.
At that time 124 were listed in the beginners or first grades
and in 1890e ighty in the high school with 14 in the graduation
class of 1890.
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The total enrollment for that year covering all grades was
522. In 1900 the graduating class numbered 29. Many pupils
attended school in the early years only through the sixth or
eighth grades. A very small percentage went on to higher
education in colleges.
Law, medicine , dentistry and engineering attracted the
earliest students from the county schools to the U of M. For
preparation for teaching Ypsilanti offered certificates approved
for limited time and for scientific farming the
Michigan Agriculture College at East Lansing offered short
courses . For preparation for Business careers many high
school students took courses at the Cleary Business College,
also in busines s schools in Detroit and some at Ferris
Institute in Big Rapids .
In 1900 the high school in Howell offered four courses of
study granting diplomas in the scientific classes , classical ,
Latin and English which included the following subjects :
Classical- Greek , Latin , Algebra , Geometry , History,
Physics and English Literature.
Latin course-Latin , German, substituted for Greek ,
Scientific, with either German or Latin and including
chemistry and zoology.
The English course offered a choice of subjects and civics ,
political economy, trigonometry and physical geography .
The names of pupils from the old school include many who
have distinguished themselves as teachers , lawyers ,
physicians , engineers , chemists , a few politicians and in the
arts . Some have become world travelers , newspaper men
and women, millionaires , and business men and women and
many just good people.
The teachers, with few exceptions , were devoted and held
the affection and respect of the pupils. The members of the
board of education held office for years and were the outstanding
men of the community . Each Monday morning the
members of the eighth grade and the high school met with the
teachers in the third floor chapel room for devotions and a
serious talk by some member of the board , a clergyman , a
distinguished visitors or a former pupil of the school who
may have returned after years and brought recollections of
his school days and fond memories .
The alumni held yearly meetings until the number grew too
big for the accommodation of the whole group. Now the
classe s return in five or ten year intervals when possible.
Through the years the grades held promotional exercises at
the close of the school year with the highest graded student
representing his class . The junior class had an exhibition in
the spring and , of course, the June graduation exercises or
commencement was the high spot of the whole school year
for the community whose young people were from the local
education offered by the community .
It is proper to add here a tribute to the custodians of these
early schools who perhaps had as much influence in the care
of the children and their behavior as the teachers. They were
men devoted to the neatness of the rooms , and the safety of
the pupils while under their care.
One of the largest and best remembered at the high school
building was "Dick Burdick ." He was a man of many talents
which he shared with everyone , his example of order and
neatness and his good advice to pupils of every age as to
deportment both in school and in sports and play is affectionately
recalled .
Homes of School Kids
By MRS . ALBERT ROHRABACHER
Long ago, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote that "-the feet
that , creeping slow to school, went storming out to playing ."
The pupils in the 1842s chool did creep to school on their own
two feet. There were no school buses or motor pools to carry
them. Though horses and rigs were used later; in 1842h orses
were scarce and Michigan pioneers needed them for their
farm work. They could not be spared to carry children to
school who had two good legs to carry them.
And what kind of a house did the student set out from?
Usually a log house or frame with a log barn, the wooden
pump and watering-trough a large feature of the door yard.
The road he trod was a dusty path in fall, a quagmire of mud
in spring, snow-clogged in winter . In fact, school was seldom
held in periods of heavy storms or cold weather.
And as for the feet that trudged to school-The boys wore
short cowhide boots; the girls wore black shoes, not oxfords
or slippers, which were buttoned or laced. Some had copper
toes to make them wear longer . Long black cotton stockings
were worn in good weather (even with white clothing) and
home-knitted woolen stockings in winter . There were large
queer-looking lumps around the tops of the shoes caused by
long underwear . And as for summer; both boys and girls
went barefoot to save shoe leather and money.
Children were as daring then as 10w and often walked logs
over creeks or took short-cuts over thin ice just for the heck
of it.
The boys wore trousers which reached halfway between
the knee and ankle. They had to be grown-up before they had
really long trousers . The "waists" they wore were buttoned
on the trousers. Vests or jerkins worn under their coats were
left on in the poorly heated school room to keep them warm .
Straw farmer hats were worn in summer and warm, knitted
ones in winter .
The girls had printed calico or percale dresses worn over
several white petticoats . The dresses had to be "kept clean"
as long as possible, so were covered with aprons or pinafores
that covered most of the front. They wore long-sleeved
The old county schools are almost gone . Torn down or made into
homes, they have almost disappeared from the landscape . The end of
an era which is remembered by many .
dresses and sun-bonnets with a long ruffle in the back; for
what girl in that time wanted her white complexion "simply
ruined" by tan or freckles.
Her hair was braided with one long tail in the middle of her
back, one on each side, or braided and locped up as suited the
wearer . The boys home-haircuts were long and rather like
the Beatles now.
A sudden rain storm was a disaster. Numbers of the
students carried books and slates and they hoped no sudden
rain would wash the home-work or "examples" from their
slates. The older girls feared the rain would take the curl out
of their hair which had been put up on rags or crimped with a
hot curling iron, with so much trouble.
Often the family dog accompanied the children to school
and waited patiently outside to romp with them at recess .
The boys often rolled hoops to school with sticks.
The teacher was possibly, in summer session, a young girl
who had only recently completed the district school course
herself and been "examined" as to her qualifications by the
school director of township supervisor . She wore her dresses
longer than her pupils to add to her authority. A watch , if she
could afford it, was a necessary part of her equipment to time
classes and the ringing of the school bell.
The school house, which might be of logs, had besides the
bell, a teacher's desk, rows of double students desks and a
stove, if you were lucky ; otherwise, a fireplace. Other accouterments
were the wood-box, matches, water pitcher and
bowl for hand washing, water pail and dipper for drinking ,
broom and dustpan , and oil lamp or candles and a shovel.
The teacher had to keep fire and do the janitor work as well
as teach. If she was well-liked the children would help her
make a path to the little outhouses and woodshed. A well was
a necessity.
The subjects taught were reading , writing and arithmetic
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and something called orthography , which seems to have been
a combination of grammar and spelling . Great attention was
paid to mental arithmetic and calculations, and also to oral
spelling . History and geography were taught in the higher
grades.
The spelling bee was enjoyed not only by the school
children but also their elders . The school often served as a
community center with singing schools and spelling bees
often held there and visiting ministers doing preaching .
The milder forms of discipline were standing, facing a
corner in front of the other students or sitting on nothing, or
bending over and holding the finger to a crack in the floor . A
psychological discipline was to make a girl or boy sit with a
member of the opposite sex in the double seats. This was
always humiliating.
A slap over the knuckles or palm of the hands with a ruler
was a milder corporal punishment. But for good, solid effective
discipline the teacher cut herself a good supply of
switches and displayed them prominently in the school room.
The school commissioner chose that day to visit her school.
He paused for a long time in front of the map-case, with his
hands behind his back . Finally he turned to the anxious
teacher and said, "A very good idea-a very good idea, indeed."
The teacher never did know whether he referred to
the map-case or the bundle of switches on top of it.
The winter term was largely attended by the older boys
who were not able to come in the spring and fall because of
farm work. Consequently a man teacher was usually hired;
one could handle the big boys. In fact, muscles were
sometimes his principal qualification for teaching . Big boys
were usually whipped in front of the rest of the school for its
salutary effect on the rest. But, if this wasn't enough, the
teacher invited them outside and had a real fist fight. Don't
tell me it didn't happen ; as my uncle had to "trim" three
students in this way the first week of his term of teaching.
Then they all settled down to serious work for the rest of the
term. He was putting himself through law school by teaching
a winter term each year.
Recess was passed in playing three-old cat (an ancestor
of baseball) , numbledy-peg and marbles. In winter , they slid
down hill with sleds brought from home. The girls often
brought their dolls to school, the boys their jack-knives . Wild
flowers could be picked in the fields and woods for big
bouquets and spruce gum gathered for chewing. Often the
children found a bed of wild leeks or strawberries. Can you
imagine the effects on the teacher of 30 pupils who had been
eating leeks at recess?
Students were no more entirely devoted to study than now.
While unobserved, little girls cut out paper dolls, and even
paper tables, beds and chairs and played with them behind
big propped up geography books. Boys whittled out boats and
daggers with their jackknives by holding the work below
their desks. They even found ways to get rid of the telltale
shavings.
Most of the children, even those who lived close by, carried
their dinner in dinner pails and ate at noon in the school house
or outside in good weather. It was lots more fun than going
home to eat. Children stood in line at the pump for cold
drinking water in the summer . Of course lots of other things
were passed around besides water, mainly measles, chickenpox,
mumps and whooping cough. Some people believed that
an asafetida (fetty) bag worn around the neck warded off
these diseases. They were effective mainly because they
smelled so bad that they warded off everyone , including
those with measles, etc.
And speaking of smells have any of you ever been around
when 30 dinner pails were opened at once, all containing
sandwiches made of salt-rising bread?
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After dismissal in winter there was a rush to the cloakroom
(or corner ). The boys often took this as an opportunity
to get in a few good punches at other boys while unobserved
by the teacher. The small ones struggled with gaiters (some
which had 25 buttons on each leg) and with finding the
matching set of mittens and cap and their own books and still
to be first out of the building if possible . Yes, "they went
storming out" as Whittier said with a lot more energy than
they went in.
MEMORIES OF A COUNTY
ONE-ROOM SCHOOL
By ALICE CRITTENDEN TERRY
The school house has been moved to History Town on East
Grand River , but for those of us who attended Rumsey School
on Highland Road in Oceola Township memories linger on.
Miscellany
- peanut butter sandwiches
- boiled eggs
-dust
-powdery erasers
-long underwear , mufflers, and mittens
- one pail of drinking water, and one dipper was shared by
all
- outside facilities (In zero weather yet!)
Games
-" Porn Porn Pull Away, Come Away, Fetch Away"
- " Prisoner's Goal"
-" Ante-i-Over"
-" One Old Cat"
-" Blind Man's Bluff"
-"Duck On A Rock"
School Commissioners:
Maude Benjamin , Hugh Aldrich, Alma Sharpe, Gladys
McCollum.
Some of the Teachers:
Marie Welker, Kate McNamara, Marie Nevereth, Lena
Devereaux , Grace Line, Charles Lyons, Effie Howell,
Pauline Hart Cornell, Ethel Johnson, Bea Arthur , Beryl
Richards, Mildred Hoffman, Pearl Randall , Ruth Brockway,
Helen Bergin, Mae Botsford, Blanche Botsford.
If the names of any teachers have been omitted it was
unintentional. We respected and revered all of our teachers .
SCHOOL DAYS, SCHOOL DAYS,
DEAR OLD GOLDEN RULE DAYS . ..
By RUAHMAH J . HUTCHINGS, CLASS OF 1830
Mine began in the one room Crittenden School which was
located on the southwest corner of the Henderson-Oak Grove
Road intersection .
Sometime during the years between 1920-1925th e hot lunch
program for rural schools began. Each day the teacher aided
the pupils in cooking one hot dish from food the parents took
turns in supplying. This hot food added to the contents of our
lunch boxes made a hearty meal for hungry youngsters. I
remember one day two of the boys were mashing potatoes
( one holding the kettle, and the other using the masher) when
suddenly the kettle and its contents fell to the floor. Since we
all knew the saying about eating a peck of dirt in a lifetime,
we ate those potatoes , and called them good.
Our seventh and eighth grade years were planned to
prepare us for "year-end examinations." These tests on the
basic subjects were given in the gymnasium of what is now
the Michigan A venue Middle School. It was a frightening
experience for rural boys and girls to leave the known
teacher and friends and go into town among strangers . The
testing lasted two days.
Less frightening and more fun was the annual Christmas
Program . This event wa~ always enjoyed by parents and
children alike. In those days the Christmas tree was
decorated with small burning wax candles, popcorn balls for
all, and small boxes of candy from the teacher to each of her
pupils.
If the boys and girls liked their teacher a quiet Friday
afternoon was sometimes broken by a "Fruit Roll." Suddenly
apples, pears, plums-whatever we could get-began
rolling along the floor toward the teacher's desk. We never
thought about bruising fruit, and one can 't help but wonder
how the teacher used some of those goodies.
Attending Howell High School for four years was a happy
experience . Lessons to learn , and good times too, led the
class of '30 to heartily sing:
" Here days are shining,
And dark clouds have silver linings .
We all confess that we will do our best
For our country and you H.H.S."
Following graduation we went our separate ways. I took
teacher training . After twenty-six years of working with
children in various Michigan cities I came HOME to work
with our boys and girls . Twelve happy years were spent here
in Howell helping our little ones to understand the complexities
of reading, and, 'ritin ,' and 'rithmetic.
It is interesting to note a few of the changes that took place
between my school days and teaching days. Some of these
are:
Then-1. One room schools located throughout the county .
Now-1. Centralization for instruction .
Then-2. Children walked to school. Now-2. Boys and girls
bussed to school.
Then-3. Teacher and pupils preparing one hot dish to add
to lunches brought from home.
Now .-3. Children may buy a complete meal at the school
cafeteria .
Then-4. For warmth the teachers built the fires, and older
pupils took turns keeping fuel in the stove. Now-4. Now
teachers turn a thermostat to regulate the heat.
Yes, new days bring new ways , and life marches on. Now
younger and stronger hands carry "The Torch" ( name of our
high school yearbook). May these new generations enjoy and
truly seek the best education has to offer in their day, just as
we did better than four decades ago.
HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL
By MARY V. REED
I attended Howell High School from 1946u ntil graduation in
1950. The principal was John S. Page. Our graduating class
was one of the smallest groups to graduate, 72 people,
possibly due to the fact that we were Depression babies. We
picked up additional classmates at the graduation exercises-
several young men from the TB Sanitorium joined
us-complete in cap and gown, to receive their diplomas.
Living in the southwest section of Howell, I walked to
school every day-9 blocks-coming home for lunch (gave
me only fifteen minutes to eat). There were three classmates
I met as I walked to school-took the same route every day .
Michigan A venue School was the school. When we moved to
Howell in 1942, I attended Miss Hamil's 5th grade , Miss
King's 6th grade in the south section of the building ;
homerooms were on the third floor. Grades 7 to 12 were
housed in the left or north side of the building with the center
section taken by gym (basement and first floor levels),
auditorium (second and third floor levels with large windows
overlooking Michigan Avenue ). Study hall combined with
library as homeroom for 10th-11th-12th grades stretched the
length of the third floor overlooking the playground side and
connected high school section with the grade school part.
Coats were left on hooks in the corridors. Boots and
miscellaneou s gear was jammed on the floor beneath the
hanging coats . In high school, we had 4 to 5 classes a day ,
held in rooms on the second and third floors ( except for Shop,
Art class and Homemaking which were on the first floor).
Study hall periods made up the balance of the day which ran
approxim ate ly from 8:00 to4:00 with 55 minute class periods .
I was editor-in-chief of our senior class yearbook-"The
Torch ." We tried to be innovative with yellow cover
(previous four years had either dark green or dark blue
covers) and a theme-a sketched Highlander appearing on
all pages . (The artwork was done by a classmate , Wanda
Merithew ). Several " musts " which were traditional - senior
pictures appearing in the front of the book (we wanted to
place them in sequence-after the junior class ) and group
pictures of all the organizations-were maintained.
My notes show we had approximately 350 copies of the
yearbook to sell at $3.00. Finding suitable quotes for each
classmate 's picture was difficult as all of the yearbook staff
had classes with only about 1 / 3 of the group . Really the best
part of working on the yearbook was being able to skip
classes-meetings to work on copy and layout or to dash out
to Zemper's Photo Studio to check on pictures .
Although we weren't a particularly close class, we have
had three class reunions and are planning our 25th year
reunion this summer . Our first get-together was Christmas
vacation after graduation when we had a dinner at the
Episcopal Parish Hall ; second-potluck dinner in July , 1958
at the Southwest School; third-dinner at Howell Elks Club in
August, 1970. At the last reunion there were 46 people and we
anticipate about the same number this year-about 63 percent
attendance.
Memories of School
By SARAH J. MAYCOCK
I REMEMBER MRS. DAFOOT'S SEMINARY
This was a private school established in Howell to meet the
needs of students too far advanced to be accommodated in
any of the schools then existing in the surrounding county .
The aim of the instruction was to cultivate the minds and
hearts of those placed under their care and to exert such a
moral and religious influence over them as could best
prepare them for the high duties and responsibilities of life.
Such courses as: English, Natural Science, Mathematics ,
Latin and French were offered.
None were admitted except those who were able to pass a
thorough examination in arithmetic as far as "interest." The
studies of each class was designed for one year, but pupils
could be advanced from class to class according to their
progress and not according to time spent in the institution.
A full and accurate account was kept of the attendance ,
scholarship, and deportment of each student and the result
publicly announced at the close of each term.
My grandfather, Benjamin T. Batcheler and grandmother
Sarah E. Adams Batcheler and also my great aunt , Clarissa
P . Batcheler were enrolled in 1860-1861, 119 names were
listed in the first annual catalogue .
Some well known family names were included: Charles D.
Itsell, Stephen G. Itsell , Orville W. Sexton, Thomas J. Tubbs,
Therina C. Huntington, Lucinda S. Brooks, Alma Fishbeck ,
Mary A. Pratt, Sarah Winegar .
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Teaching Years
By GLADYS WHIPPLE
I have lived in Howell for the past twenty eight years . I
taught in the Howell Public Schools for at least 25 years . My
associations and memories of my teaching years in Howell
are very wonderful.
I was hired by Mr. John S. Page , who was the superintendent
of schools in Howell for many years. He was
recognized statewide as a highly respected " school-man ."
I'll always remember some of his remarks about the
qualities of a good " school system ," and I quote : "There is
no such thing as a good school without good discipline,
respect for others , and a qualified faculty ." "To this end
certain regulations must be adopted and firmly adhered to."
"These rules , the fewest possible, are for the greatest good of
the greatest number ." " In many cases , if the teacher is
called upon to adjudicate, or if a pupil has seemingly
sustained an injustice , the wise and proper thing for the
parent to do is to talk the matter over with the teacher or
superintendent." "Come let us reason together ," Mr. Page
would say.
Mr. Page also believed in promptness. He used to say , and
I quote : " In school life, largely , the life habits of a child are
formed." "The boy is father to the man ." " A tardy boy
makes a careless man ; a prompt boy becomes a ready man ;
a business boy, a business man. "
My memories include some wonderful friends . For instance,
Mrs. Wm. Bigelow, (affectionately called by all: Joy
Bigelow) Joy taught in the Howell Public Schools for many
years and is known and loved by all her former pupils and
many , many friends . Joy always kept the names and birthday
dates of all her former pupils in her records and
always sends them birthday cards. Not only does she
remember her former pupils but all her many teacher and
facult y friends . She has kept this procedure of remembrance
for many people for a period of many , many years. She sends
at least from 1500 to 2000 birthday cards , friendship cards
and get-well cards in a year's time . Joy Bigelow is the personification
of love and good-will to all . May God bless her .
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I also wish to mention Miss Mary Hammell , a long-time
friend of mine . Mary Hammell taught at least 42 years in the
Howell Public Schools and is highly respected in the community
.
Miss Florence Warner has been a kind, wise " teacher
friend " and counselor to many, many high school students
for over 40 years.
Mrs . Sarah Maycock, whose great dignity and kindness has
made her one of the most highly respected teachers in the
Howell Public School System .
Miss Mildred King has devoted her entire life to her many
teaching years in Howell. She loved young people and taught
sixth grade . Her students knew their " parts of speech " at the
end of the school year .
Mr. Paul Bannett was a fine athletic director of Howell
High School for many years. The Howell Recreation Center
has been named the Paul Bennett Recreation Center in his
honor.
Mrs . Mildred Bennett , his wife, has been a wonderful,
public-spirited , civic-minded personage in Howell. She
assisted her husband in every possible way. She loves youthful
citizens and was of great help to her husband . She still is
very interested in youth, writes excellent articles in the local
paper, talks to groups of youth on bicycle safety, assists as a
judge in many athletic events, etc .
I ran across an old Howell Public School Alumni Manual
for the year of 1900 and 1901.
The class of 1869 had one graduate. Namely : E . D.
Galloway.
The class of 1870 had five graduates . Namely : Mrs . R.
Sprague , Greenville , Michigan ; A. J. Lamoreaux, Rio De
Janeiro , Brazil ; Horace Bernard , Frederick, South Dakota ;
Ella Burt, no address ; Will Carlin, Big Rapids , Michigan .
Ten Cent 8am
By ESTHER YERKES
I Remember When I came into the Howell school, I brought
my own lunch , as did other students . We congregated in the
basement to eat lunch . Dick Burdick was janitor and was
always around to see that things went quietly . We drove to
school and our horse was kept in the ten cent barn all day .
1913-8th Grade .
Howell school board, 1937.
Fun Things
By MRS. FLORENCE WARNER
The class of "39" had a small band of twelve people as a
feature of their variety show. The band played such classics
as "Three Little Fishes ." The entire band wore red felt
fringed hats , Spanish sombrero style, and red jackets to
match . The day of the premier performance some one
discovered that Gale Miner's jacket lacked six inches of
going around him . It was easily remedied by splitting it up
the back and adding a piece . Virginia O'Leary played the
MARACS with the band and as Kay Voss observed , no matter
how the band played , Virginia in her red satin Spanish style
dress was a smash. The "30's" were depression days and
money was almost non-existent. The charge for the variety
shows was fifteen cents (15 cents ) in cash if you had it or
anything of equal value such as eggs, potatoes, apples or
anything usable or edible. One memorable event, Mr.
Charles Sutton gave the ticket seller at one performance a
one dollar bill saying , " Keep the change." She was so excited
that she left her station and ran all the way down the hall to
the back of the stage to give it to the sponsor so it wouldn't get
lost.
The "40's" were a little more lavish . The class of "47" had
an outstanding " J-Hop." The theme was "Alice In Wonderland.
" The walls of the gym were covered with huge
panels of the characters in the story , designed and painted in
appropriate colors by class members. Barbara McQuillan
designed a beautiful purple dragon and made her own floral
print formal to match . The dress was finished the afternoon
of the party and Barbara just made it to the hop. This part y
was made financially possible by a very successful Junior
Carnival under the direction of class president , Bob Myers ,
who with Bill Deutch, treasurer nearly collapsed while
counting more than seven hundred dollars ($700.00) in
pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
The class of " 45" had an exciting senior trip by boat to Put -
in-Bay . Soon after leaving Detroit a severe storm developed .
Nearly everyone was seasick the entire trip . The storm was
so bad that the boat could not land at its destination . Paul
Robert Bennett was about the only one who enjoyed the trip .
He spent his time eating and walking about among the victims
who were stretched on the dining room floor.
In the " 50's" the school activities were growing in number
and complexity . In 1952 Herb Vey was our first foreign exchange
student. He came from Germany . He was a very
happy member of the Duane Zemper family . Herb took an
active part in all school activities. When asked by Dick
Lawson, who was yearbook photographer , what he would like
to do on the yearbook, eagerly replied " I'll carry the
camera. " The class of " 54" chose " Sophistication " as a J -
Hop theme with modern design in black and white . It
featured , in the center of the gym a large three tiered
rotating chandelier made of fifteen hundred (1500) inch
square pieces of mirror cut and mounted by class members
with the help of Mr. Wilbur Davis, who also furnished the
motor . Long after the party closed Janet Allbright , class
president and Dorothy McQuillan, secretary were still in the
gym. When asked why, Dorothy replied , " It's all so beautiful ,
I just can 't leave ." This class made it to Washington , D.C.
and New York for their senior trip . Coming down 56th Street
in New York to the hotel from the train , the bus was absolutely
quiet. Mr. Harold Fulk , one of the sponsors walked
down the aisle to see what had happened . Bob Davis , who was
the class president said , " It's so unbelievable that we are
really at Broadway that we can' t talk ." Or could it have been
those sleepless nights? And that's the way it was for one class
sponsor.
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The old central school.
The CentralS chool
By JOE BRADY
In 1907, I started to school in the kindergarten at the old
Central School, which stood on Michigan Avenue, where the
present Middle School now stands. Incidentally Michigan
Avenue was then known as Division Street. On my first day of
school my brother , Edmund and : were staying with our
great aunt and uncle, Lola and Frank LaRue , as my parents
were out of town. I was too timid to go to school by myself .
My aunt was doing her laundry and was not dressed to go to
the school house with me . As we stood on the corner , Mrs.
George Brigham came along and she took me . Such were
neighbors in those days .
My kindergarten teacher was a Miss Welcker, sister of
Carl Welcker, for many years connected with Howell City
Services . Some forty years later when I was addressing a
teacher gathering in Macomb County, Miss Welcker , then
married to a former school superintendnet , whose name I do
not recall , came to me and introduced herself . She was still
teaching. My first grade teacher was a Miss Parker , who
lived on West Grand River . I remember her having a picnic
on her lawn for our class .
As I finished the first grade , I learned that I would have to
transfer to the East Ward School, which stood on the site of
the present Northeast School. That was to be a long walk for a
youngster . However, my parents , Blanche and Matthew
Brady, bought a house at the corner of East Grand River and
South Street , so my walk to school was considerably
shortened.
I might mention that the superintendents of schools were
first , Mr. Fullerton , then Mr. Osgerby. Mrs. Wickman, still
living in Howell was the eighth grade teacher . I remember
we in the lower grades went out for recess , but the eighth
graders merel y walked around the room in single file for
relaxation and Mrs. Wickman was known as a strict
teacher - this all was in the old Central School.
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The house my parents purchased was then known as the
Fishbeck house and Lynn Fishbeck owned the house at that
time . This house now owned by Mr. and Mrs . Kleehammer is
one of the old houses of Howell and can be seen on the picture
map of early Howell.
I may have neglected to say that my brother Edmund , was
born in the Fannie Huntington house in 1906. My two sisters ,
Katherine and Helen, were born in the Fishbeck house in 1911
and 1918.
From the second grade through the eighth I attended the
East Ward School. At that time , all students in high school
which began with the ninth grade, attended the old Central
School. The year 1916 was quite important in two ways.
Manual Training (now Manual Arts ) and Domestic Science
(now Home Arts ) were instituted in the High School and the
first football team was organized.
Leon Yeakey was the first football coach and also taught
Manual Training ; also , I think , Mechanical Drawing . Both of
these innovations were quite noteworthy in those days.
During my years in High School, the World War I was
started . In 1918, many young men were drafted and some of
the older high school boys enlisted in the military service .
Our school organized the High School Volunteers of the
United States. We had three companies . A student named
Flynn was Captain . Donald Wines was Lieutenant of our
company and I was sergeant. We drilled with wooden guns .
One time when we wished to have martial music , we could
only secure seven instrument players , who could play
together . What a change from today 's several complete
bands , which are available in our Public Schools.
That reminds me the first high school band was begun in
1920-21I.t was called the Jackie Band . My brother , who had
learned trap dr umming from Bruce Newcome was a
member of the band . The Director , whose name I have
forgotten came from the Boys Industrial School (then known
as the Reform School) where he was band director. What he
did that year in Howell was almost miraculous. He formed a
band of some 50-60 high school boys, most with no musical
experience, into a respectable musical organization. In fact ,
the band played well enough that the Howell Commandery
Knights Templar took the Jackie Band to the State Conclave,
where the band marched and played for the Howell Knights
complicated drills.
During the school year 1919-1920H igh School was held in a
temporary building built in a T-shape around what is now the
Christian Science Church (then the Episcopal Church ). The
Episcopal pastor , I believe his name was Lein taught English
that year. The temporar y building built of wood covered with
tar paper was nicknamed the Tabernacle as it resembled
buildings built in that day to house temporary evangelistic
services . Our class had its Baccalaureate Services in the
then new Presbyterian Church and commencement in the
Garland Opera House over the Sutton Hardware. The temporary
building was occasioned by the building of the new
Central School on Michigan A venue , which would hold all
grades , kindergarten through high school. The East and West
Ward Schools were to be closed.
Two of the early superintendents , I have not mentioned
were Mr. Schultz, Claude Courter, whowent on via Flint to
become Superintendent of Cincinnati Schools. Jahn Page
came as superintendent with the opening of the new Central
School building .
Some old businesses I remember are : The Culver
Blacksmith Shop, where the pool hall now is located : the
Shindorf Blacksmith Shop, about where Zemper Studio is
now located ; Lon Chaffee's Bicycle Shop, about where the
Fireplace Shop is now located ; Moncrief's Candy Kitchen ,
located near the Baldwin Hardware ; Hides and Huckleberries
Ad Balch, somewhere near the Livingston drugstore .
One time someone was talking to Mr. Balch in front of his
store when a loud speaker was heard , "There goes that damn
cat in the pickle barrel again ," exclaimed Balch.
KindergartenT eachers
By CECELIA ZEEB
I had the privilege of working with many kindergarten
teachers in the Howell schools. Among the group who have
given many years of dedicated service are : Miss Ruth
Kelley, Mrs. Fran Stipe, and Mrs. Jane Withey.
I Remember Mrs. Glover and her many co-workers will
never be forgotten for their service to the pupils, the staff and
the community. They were a fine group.
I Remember When Howell Public Schools have been fortunate
to have among their staff many very efficient and
dedicated , hard working secretaries.
Those with whom I have had close contact and rate among
the best are : Mrs . Dorothy Pennell , Mrs "Pat" Murphy and
Mrs. Ellen Alanan.
I Remember When-Miss Gladys McCallum a graduate of
the Howell Public Schools and eventually Superintendent of
Schools of Livingston had over one hundred primary schools
under her jurisdiction when I first moved into the county.
She visited all of the schools often, giving encouragement
and help to all .
Her selection of basic readers and textbooks was the very
best and proved very helpful to all of us.
Her monthly meetings were a joy and a need. It gave us an
opportunity to get acquainted not only with one another but
with the area .
Yes, it has been a great privilege to become a friend and
co-worker of this dedicated educator.
Buying School Books
By EVELYN MAAS
I Remember When-E. K. Johnson and Son's (W. B.
Johnson ) Drug Store was , in the 1920's and 30's headquarters
for the purchase of new and used school books. As there was
no other source for securing books and supplies, the first day
of school brought large numbers of parents and students to
the store causing much excitement and confusion.
It's great to have your picture taken if it gets you out of school for a
while .
The students attended school for a part of the morning ,
participating in orientation sessions and receiving their book
lists.
Meanwhile, at the store , clerks , recruited from the owners
families, set up tables down each side and across the center .
New books, flanked by second-hand ones, were arranged
categorically the length of the tables. A cash register occupied
the center table.
The first student to burst through the front door set the
machine in motion. From that time on a mild sort of pandemonium
reigned-haggling over conditions and prices of
used books and durability and content value of new ones. The
clerks spelled each other at lunch time, each in turn "eating
out" at what is now the Family Restaurant operated by Bob
and Joan Gentry. Lew Jackson operated it at that time,
beginning of the 20's and Fred Cronewett later .
Five o'clock found the door locked, bookshelves empty ,
clerks weary and two druggists relieved that it was over and
would not occur again for another year.
Bigger Playground
By ERSYL RIDER HADLEY
I Remember When the playground at the Michigan A venue
School was increased. The district wanted to buy land to the
east , on which there were three houses. A special election
was held, and the proposal was turned down. That was in the
spring . At the annual meeting the next July , the matter was
voted on and was passed. The annual meetings were never
well attended and with the few present they put it across . The
action that was taken was perfectly legal. Of course a little
extra work was done to get the right people out to the annual
meeting and that was good planning as the extra land for the
playground was surely needed. Of course the people who
voted against the proposal at the spring election felt they had
been taken in.
Lighted Athletic Field
By GLEN SLAYTON
I Remember the first school board meeting I attended after
being elected . The board voted on a motion to install lights on
the athletic field for $3,800.I went home and told Irene that I
had gotten on the wrong board as they were spending a lot of
money so the kids could play ball at night.
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Teaching Kindergarteners
By RUTH KELLEY
I Remember while teaching kindergarten , a little girl put
her ring on the wrong finger and could not take it off, an older
child took her to the Yax Jewelry store to have it filed off.
A boy tipped his chair and fell backward, hitting his head
on the register . Stitches were needed. Chairs have four legs
to be used.
Mildred, after a long time in the bathroom appeared with a
red balloon in her mouth . The fingers had been torn off the
teacher 's rubber gloves that she found in a little storage
cupboard .
A child put his finger into a hole in the building blocks and
could not get it out. The custodian was summoned with a pail
of soap suds, which did the "trick."
The rather frequent spilling of milk at lunch time ,
especially when it came in bottles.
Lynda Hodgkinson took on a different facial appearance.
The cookies we had at lunch time had black walnuts in them
and Lynda was allergic to them .
I Remember Child Study Club-Members contacted
parents of prospective kindergarten pupils to get enrollment
information . A kindergarten class met in the Methodist
Church.
A child sometimes brought a birthday treat for his
classmates.
When, with the assistance of a few parents, a class of
kindergarten pupils enjoyed a train ride to Plymouth. A
school bus met us there to bring us home after a lunch and
fun time in a roadside park .
The old A&P store was divided into rooms by canvas walls .
Mrs. Stipe had a kindergarten class in one section .
One Monday morning, Robbie exclaimed that he saw two
" nothings" at the Kroger store on Saturday. Explaining
further , he said they were dressed in black. (Nuns he meant).
Courteous Students
By EVA ALLEN
I Remember When students were so courteous to the
teachers. There were students who tried out all the teachers,
they soon learned that some of them would allow just so
much. Those students really became the teachers friends.
Every so often I meet some of those students and they tell
me how they look back with pleasure to those school days.
Discipline was appreciated. Strict discipline is needed at
the present time.
Tooley School
By STANLEY G. LATSON
I Remember the first school in the Tooley District was
down by Reuland Electric. The next one was on the corner of
Grand River and Latson Road. It was later moved to the
Herbert Lawson farm for a woodshed and shop. The school on
the corner today is about one hundred years old.
There were the Itsell girls that went here and then on to
Howell and were teachers until they retired from Detroit and
Lansing .
In the McNamara family there was a doctor , electrical
engineer and three nurses, all got their start at the Tooley
School also Arthur Larson a dentist.
I was on the school board for eight and one half years and
the county board for six years.
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The times have changed since I went to school, the tuition
was sixteen dollars in the eighth grade and twenty dollars in
high school.
The teachers were Miss Morton and Mrs . William Brook in
the eighth grade. Mr. Shultz was superintendent.
In high school Miss Johnson, Miss Sharpe, Miss Nagel,
Miss Peters , Mr. Graham and Miss Doyle.
I drove a horse in three miles and put him in the ten cent
barn that was on the corner of Walnut and Clinton Street. On
days that the horse was needed on the farm I walked.
Peanut Row
By ALICE CRITTENDEN TERRY
In 1924, while attending Howell High School on Michigan
Avenue, I roomed at Nellie Eager's home on State Street
along with Zoe Lott, Mary Dunn, and several other students .
One rainy morning , on my way to school, I was sloshing
along what was then known as Peanut Row, the block of State
Street opposite the court house. In the middle of the block I
met Judge Willis Lyons. He stopped me and scolded me for
not wearing my raincoat and rubbers. He then escorted me
all the rest of the way to school, sharing his umbrella with
me.
I was unforgettably impressed with the gallantry ,
thoughtfulness, and kindness extended to a small youngster
by such an outstanding citizen and distinguished gentleman
as Judge Lyons.
Livingston County Normal
The Livingston County Normal was the 37th of its kind in
Michigan . It first met in the old high school on North
Michigan occupying two rooms , one for the student body and
the other for a training room where the observation and
practice teaching was supervised.
The attendance grew so rapidly that in 1929-1930 two
training teachers and rooms were needed ; Also a large study
and lecture room for the students , and added space where
practice teaching could be carried on.
So the old West Ward School was restored and the Normal
moved there in the fall of 1929.
It was a pleasant situation, like a little school and college
quiet and self-sustained . There were three grades in each
training room, made to resemble a rural school, where the
student teachers would find positions, as most of the schools
of the county were filled by these applicants .
Following is a list of principals and training teachers who
served during its existence.
Principals-Miss Grace Gilbert , Miss Mary Tranor , Miss
Ann Field , Miss Eunice Fetterly , Miss Mina Reed, Miss
Jennie Lawrence .
Training Teachers-Miss Lela McDowell, Miss Hildred
Gross , Miss Irene Martin, Mrs. Sarah Maycock, Mrs. Ruth
Lemon.
Official School Board's History
EARLY YEARS
From earliest times the people of Howell have been concerned
with providing education for their children. The
Howell Public Schools were first organized in 1836. At a time
when the homes in the community were log cabins, Howell
citizens passed a resolution: "That 350 Dollars be raised in
said district for the purpose of erecting a frame schoolhouse
and completing the same ."
Growth in Howell was continual and in 1849, a two story
brick building was constructed on the present site of the
Michigan Avenue School. Within a year 's time additional
rooms were rented and a large addition was constructed in
1856. Howell High's first graduate was the sole member of the
Class of 1869.L ater in 1869, a three-story brick building with a
mansard roof and distinctive bell tower replaced the older
building. The East Ward Elementary School site and in 1890
the West Ward Elementary School was built on the corner of
Byron Road and Spring Street.
In 1900 the high school offered four programs: Classical-
Greek , Latin, Algebra, Geometry , History, Physics and
English Literature ; Latin-German substituted for Greek ;
Scientific-either German or Latin and Chemistry and
Zoology; and English-a choice of subjects and Civics,
Political Economy, Trigonometry and Physical Geography.
In 1890 the high school was placed on the University of
Michigan 's accreditation list. Howell also became one of the
early schools to receive North Central accreditation in 1916.
MIDDLE YEARS
Once again the community considered the facilities
inadequate , so in 1920 the old Central School was demolished
and a third building, the present Michigan Avenue School,
was built on the s:ime site.
By 1921, the community recognized the need for a high
school that would do more than simply prepare students for
college entrance. As a result, students entering the new
school had the opportunity to take agriculture, domestic
science , manual arts , library training, and commercial
studies . Dramatics , music, art, and physical education were
also offered. At this time , the building included a Kindergarten
through 12th grade program plus a County Normal
program, preparing teachers for the country schools.
For nearly thirty years , the Michigan Avenue School
served as the sole school building for the district. However,
there were a number of one room schools which served the
children in the rural areas through the eighth grade.
"' Banquet meeting of the M.S.U . and U.M . clubs. Scene depicts a
battered M.S .U. football player demanding more pay.
RECENT YEARS
During the nineteen fifties concerned citizens recognized
the need for reorganization of area school districts .
Gradually, during this period approximately 24 primary
districts voted to join the Howell Public Schools. In 1961 the
last school district to become part of Howell was the Stone
School of Marion Township. The only rural school building to
remain in use is the Birkenstock School.
To provide for students entering from the annexed
districts, and for students moving into the area , the following
buildings were added : 1954-Southeast Elementary; 1955-
Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast Elementary Schools;
1960-additions to the Elementary Schools, 1965 Senior High
School; 1970-Senior High addition; 1971-Junior High
School.
THE PEOPLE
No history can be really complete without reviewing the
people who dedicated their lives to the education of Howell's
children . It would include superintendents-none of whom
spent more than the 35 years John S. Page spent at the
helm . .. and Florence Warner, who came to teach at the
Michigan Avenue School in its first year and stayed fifty
years! There were devoted school board members, administrators
, teachers, secretaries, custodians , bus drivers ,
and cafeteria workers. From 1836 to the present, thousands
have conscientously served the children and the citizens of
Howell.
THE FUTURE
Today, Howell is growing more rapidly than ever. The
schools are providing a modern program that reflects the
community 's continuous interest in education. The increase
of population, coupled with the increase in knowledge and
technology means that the schools will continue to have
many more challenges in the coming years. The Howell
Public Schools will continue to be both dynamic and growing.
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The Graduation Class of 1885
By HELEN RICHARDS
This class, 15 in number, was the largest class to have been
graduated at that time .
Miss ancy Childers Webb became a teacher in Fort
Smith, Arkansas . Miss Ella Smith became the first vocal
music teacher in the high school. The teaching of music in
school was unusual at that time, although the pupils marched
up to the chapel each morning and sang several songs . The
teaching staff in high school consisted of the superintendent ,
George Barnes , and a lady principal.
Three members of the class continued their studies at the
University of Michigan. Grant Dunning graduating in 1893.
Eleven became teachers .
The class in time was widely scattered . Three living for
some years in the Phillippine Islands. Others lived in
Washington, Illinois, Arkansas, New York, and Canada. Only
three remained in Howell.
HOWELL'S FIRST SCHOOLS
Howell was always in the forefront of education . One of the
first steps in the organization of the township of Howell, in
June of 1836 was to elect school inspectors , who were F .J.B .
Crane , Jonathan Austin, Joseph Porter . The voters met at
the home of Amos Adams, which was Eagle Tavern, for the
election. Mr. Crane offered a free lot No. 36 of his recently
platted Brooks and Crane lots in the village of Howell if they
would build a frame building .
The building was not built until a year later because of the
difficulty of getting lumber . In 1837 Moses Thompson completed
his saw-mill and they were able to get lumber. Sardis
Davis of Mason Township was the carpenter in charge and
hewed the timbers for the frame . The finish lumber and the
desks were hauled from Salem in Washtenaw County. It was
finished at the cost of $350.00 and was located on Gregory
Street. Miss Abigail Adams, daughter of Amos Adams , was
the first teacher . Her wages were probably $1.50 per week
with board , which was the current wage. The next term was
taught by Justin Durfee , who if local history is correct , liked
to go barefoot when the weather permitted.
In 1845t he district voted to raise the sum of $200.00f or the
purpose of erecting a second school house. At the district
meeting the proposal was accepted then reconsidered and
voted down. In March of 1847a resolution was passed to build
a new school house to be 30 ft. x 40 ft. with walls 12 ft. high and
l ft. thick. A separate committee was appointed to locate a
site. Mr. George W. Jewett and Mr. Alvin Crittenden were
the members. This is no record of any accomplishment by
this committee .
In September , 1848 another committee was appointed to
select a site. It was three years from the time the old building
was sold to the final location of the new site. The fight on this
question was one of the most stubbornly contested of any that
Howell had seen. Five different committees were appointed
at five different meetings .
The fight for the location of the school was between sections
north and south of Grand River . The north side were in
the minority but they managed to secure enough south-siders
to change every location decided upon from 1845-184.9 In 1849
the final location was made on South Michigan, where the
Middle School is now located . It was decided to build a two
story brick building 38 ft. x 48 ft., but the opposition called
this a " castle " and succeeded in getting it cut to 26 ft. x 36 ft.
In September , 1849t he building was completed at a cost of
$1000.00. Mr. William Wills was offered the principal's job
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and he accepted . He proved to be incompetent and cruel.
School broke up before the completion of the winter term .
Because of crowded conditions an addition of 48 ft. x 36 ft.
was made in 1856 by John B. Kneeland , contractor . This cost
$750.00.
In 1866 a resolution was passed authorizing the school officers
to build a new building and issue bonds to pay for it.
The amount was $15,000.00 at the unit rate of 7 percent but
they had to pay 10 percent. The total cost was raised from
$15,000.00 to $15650.00 and an additional $700.00 more was
added for a third story . The total cost was $31,000.00. This
building stood until 1918.
In 1877 the school was organized in three departments ,
Primar y 4 years, Grammar 4 years, High School 4 years . The
total budget in 1877 was $7828.04. The Ward buildings were
built in 1893 or 1894.
Information from Livingston County Historical Society .
CLOSING WEEK OF A RURAL SCHOOL
The last week of school for Mrs . Hazel Olsen and her 17
students at the Boyd district school in 1951 was a unique
experience. That week the representatives of Life Magazine
came to make a picture record of what children experience in
rural America in their last week of school.
The photographer was Mr. Thomas D. McAvoy and the
correspondent Mr. Don Williams. These are excerpts from
the June 4, 1951 issue of Life Magazine .
" It was a bright Monday morning and school began
promptly at9 :00 A.M. with the Lord's Prayer, then a reading
class of the beginners , who clustered around Mrs . Olsen's
desk, while the other students studied at their desks . Lunchtime
that day produced a lively discussion among three
boys, Larry Phillips, and Merely Radebach and his brother ,
Harvey on the subject, ' 'Do monkeys pull out your hair or
not."
On Tuesday a worker from the Rural Bible Mission came to
tell the bible story , " The Parable of the Sower and the
Seeds." He was alloted 30 minutes by the state to talk to the
children . By Wednesday the tension began to mount. There
was a certain restlessness in the room . Students dropped
their crayons more often than usual , some looked out the
door and windows more frequently than necessary , and there
was a growing impatience and a wondering if the week would
ever end.
Fortunately Richard Elkins brought a gopher that he had
caught the day before. The children looked up " Gopher " in
the encyclopedia and they decided to feed it corn and plant
roots. Thursday was the final test day. This decided
promotions to the next higher grade for the following year .
This was also the day to clean out desks .
That left only one more day " Party Day. " Friday the
parents served a huge lunch and the students entertained
with singing and recitations. Then Mrs . Olsen handed out
prizes and report cards and the year 1951 ended for the Boyd
School, except for Mrs. Olsen who remained to sweep out the
one room school and lock the door.
THE "OLD OPERA HOUSE"WASTHE
SITE FOR THE 1906 COMMENCEMENT
The class of 1906 had fifteen members. Twelve girls and
three boys. Mr. J . K. Osgerby was the superintendent and
well liked by the students . Some of the teachers remembered
are Mabel Filkins, Latin ; Edith Bullock, English ; Zoe
Schurtz , mathematics ; Mr. Miles and Grace Bailey , science
and E. Alma Sharpe was the librarian. The janitor was "Dick
Burdick " who was outstanding. He would leave wonderful
drawings on the blackboards in colors. He was a real artist.
The commencement program was held in the Opera House.
Someone had suggested that this class select some famous
person and build a program around that person . The Class of
1906 chose Rudyard Kiplins. Thora Sopp was the Valedictorian
. Although the class was small in numbers, the class
always worked and stuck together .
Alma Young was a member of the 1906 class.
Class of 1916
By MARY McQUILLAN SHIELDS
The freshman class of 1913 had an enrollment of 63. Mr.
Abel was our suoerintendent ably assisted by Miss Alice
Johnson our principal , who presided over the assembly room
with an "iron hand " that was probably needed . Our freshmen
and our sophomore years moved along with sleigh rides to
the country homes of some of our members and weiner roasts
in the woods that is now part of the city park .
Our junior year we looked forward to our class play that
would pay for the reception for the seniors. The rehearsals
had started for " The School for Scandal" under the direction
of Miss Krakau . Finally the Board of Education decided the
play was too risque for our tender years so they reimbursed
us with $75.00. We realized that amount was insufficient for a
reception and had to decide on how to raise more money. We
decided on a Spring Carnival. It was a huge success and we
cleared $50.00. So we were able to give the Seniors a Royal
Reception.
Our class had dwindled to 29 members in our senior year.
Mr. Courter was our superintendent and Miss Bigalke our
principal. Who can forget Mr. Burdick, our genial custodial
who always had a smile and a friendly word for us. We were
proud of our school and there never was vandalism and
destruction in our day. We have so many happy memories of
those days.
In 1966 we had our fiftieth anniversary at the Colonnade.
Fourteen members came .
What the Twenties Were Like
By LUCILE SCHNACKENBERG BROWN, CLASS OF 1926
On the site of the old Central School on South Michigan
Avenue, the new Howell Public School was opened for classes
in the fall of 1920. It provided assembly and class rooms for
all students in the kindergarten through grade 12. There was
an auditorium, gymnasium, offices for the Superintendent of
Schools and the high school principal , and a Community
Room for public gatherings. The community was very proud
of the new school. Mr. Claude V. Courter was the superintendent
and in 1922 Mr. John Page came to Howell.
New in 1922 was the student council. Organized with the
purpose of raising scholastic standards, promoting student
activities, securing the co-operation between pupils and
faculty. It had the responsibility of creating a feeling of
loyalty to the school and the community. The council sponsored
Lecture Courses of evening entertainment for both
students and adults.
The "Jackie Band " was organized in 1921, a fore runner of
all the high school bands. This group accompanied the
Howell Commandery, Knights Templar to many state
conclaves. The music department included boys and girls
bands , Glee Clubs, Octettes, Madrigal Clubs and an orchestra.
Assembly programs were held each Friday afternoon
in the auditorium with outstanding speakers and
student participation and the orchestra in the pit in front of
the stage. Operettas were presented each year . There were
active public speaking programs with Declamation and
Oratory contests and debating teams.
In the athletic department there were fine football,
baseball, basketball and track teams. All of these teams
were rated high in regional and state competiton. There were
special organizations of Hi Y and Girl Reserves . Social
events of special significance to students were Junior-Senior
Tug-of-War, The Y Carnival, J-Hop, Football Banquet,
Student Union parties, and Alumni Reunions . Each year a
panoramic picture was taken of all the students in grades 7
through 12 and the faculty on the bleachers in front of the
school.
The Class of '36 Remembers when
By BARBARA EASTMAN SCOFIELD
Being asked to write your memories of " High School
Days" takes you back a step , and you suddenly realize that
was almost forty years ago. Probably my senior year was the
greatest. Our graduation took place June 11, 1936 in the
auditorium of the building on South Michigan. It was the 68th
commencement of Howell Public Schools and were we proud
of our 97 graduates . Bernadette Bassett Hubbell was our
Valedictorian, and Barbara Eastman Scofield was
Salutatorian. We were especially proud of our school, our
town, our superintendent and our faculty , but we always
thought our class was the best. We were just one big happy
family , who always stuck together.
By WILLABELLE LIL YWHITE HOLMES
Willabelle remembered a drama class taught by Miss
Donna Binkhorst, and especially a play called "Sparkin" in
which she played "Granny" and was required to chew
tobacco (chocolate drops ) and spit in a woodbox. She also
remembers that she and her brother Sherman ('36) attended
most every football and basketball game. Mr. Paul Bennett
was the coach and Howell won most of the games . She was
always thrilled by the Howell marching band that led the way
to the football games.
By ELNORA SHARPE MUNSELL
Elnora writes " The one thing that has had the most influence
in my life happened in a 9th grade Civics class taught
by Miss Lucile McClenathan. The first week of our freshman
year she stood before the Civics class and said "If you will
learn this quotation and practice it, it will guide you the rest
of your life." This is the quotation, "An education is the
training of your mind and the will to do the things you ought
to do, when you ought to do them, whether you want to or
not."
By MAURICE COLES
Maurice recalls the completing of high school in 1936 was
the high point of his school days. He has very pleasant
memories of the school personnel who helped to make that
graduation a high point for him . Superintendent Mr. John
Page, Pat Murphy, Leon McDermott , Keene Stollsteimer,
Paul Bennett, Sarah Beattie Allen, Donna Binkhorst, Loren
Willis, and Mr. Olsen. These and many more who showed a
real interest and a deep concern for us as individuals make
many happy memories .
By ROBERT G. SMITH
Bob recalls the day after Labor Day in 1930. First day of
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school for the seventh grade students. It all began in the
northeast corner of the high school building on Michigan
Avenue.
"I was quite pleased with the way my new corduroy
knickers swished, when I walked and so very proud of the
necktie I didn't have to tie, you just slipped it over your head
and then it sort of hid under your shirt collar . I sat in the back
of the room on the boys side near Maury Coles, Frank Slavin,
Bob Ross and Dick Reiner . Sitting near the girls didn't occur
to us. That came later . It was time to start our year. The
room quieted down and Miss Warner, our home room teacher
started to call the roll. As it continued the door suddenly
opened and a strange kid took about three steps into the room
and stopped. He just stood there, bewildered, looking around
at the strange faces.
Miss Warner greeted him, saying , "Well where did you
come from-Santa Claus?" This caused some nervous
laughter in the room during which Seymour Holcolm, our
new kid, found a place to sit down.
A Championship-Plus
Memories of 1956 Class
By ROSEMARY RICHARDS EARL
A Capital Circuit Football Championship and a sports
minded student-body and community are memories of the
Class of 1956, many of whom were active participants on
those teams. The graduating class numbered a hundred.
Since everyone knew everyone else, all of the activities were
fun.
That was true of the senior trip to New York . During the
year the noon-dances in the gym were fun. Some popular
tunes were "Rock Around The Clock" "Earth Angel," and
"Graduation Day. " The Annual J-Hop was the big dance of
the year. Floor length gowns made of net were the "in" thing.
School attire for the girls was a maxi-length skirt with
crinolines, saddle-shoes, and rolled-down socks. The dress
code, which was strictly enforced, said no jeans . When
Bermuda shorts became popular and knee socks were new
two girls were sent home for wearing inappropriate attire .
Grub-Day was a special day at the end of the year when you
could wear anything "un-neat" except shorts .
The place to go and be seen after school was Culver's ( next
to the National Bank ). After a date, one always went to
"Hop's" on east old Grand River , and usually in a car
borrowed from the parents .
The Veteran's Institute
The graduating class of 1920 spent their senior year in a
temporary building located south of Grand River , where the
Christian Science structure now stands, and directly across
from the U.S. Postoffice . These are some of the comments
made by Gerald Woodward, a member of that class, in an
article published in their senior school paper. (Quote)
"This year has been like camping in a large roomy shack
on the south bank of 'Grand River. ' The building had the
convenience and appearance of a woodshed combined with a
tabernacle. The interior was natural wood with plenty of
knotholes and with neither varnish or stain to mar its beauty.
Fresh air and light were in unlimited quantities due to halfpartitions
.
" In one sense the half-partitions provided a more liberal
education, since the students in the Civics class could listen
to Latin conjugations and a few French verbs and adjectives,
as well as Civics. As the foreign language session subsided,
you could hear Mr. Rawson 's lecture on the relative merits of
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Plymouth Rocks and Leghorns (chickens that is) . All this
knowledge from one class. If you moved to the back of the
building to get more knowledge as in chemistry and physics,
you were impressed with the whir of sewing machines , the
pounding in the Manual Training Classes, and all this
liberally mixed with pungent odors such as onions coming
from the future housewives busy in cooking class." Signed,
G.W.
Fifty-five years later Margaret Garland Hoover, a
member of that class remembers too the half partitions , the
knotholes, the cold temperatures in winter and the English
classes taught by Miss Alma Sharpe , that required each
member to write, to learn and to present before the student
body either an oration or a declamation . Her subject was
"Aliens in the United States. "
A Few Reunion Remembrances
Class of 1922
RUTH HAINES MILLER
The east ward grade school had a segregated playground.
A high board fence separated the boys and girls on the
playground . Being somewhat of an early "Women's Libber"
in the grade school set she ventured one time around that
fence to retrieve a baseball thrown over the fence .
FLORENCE SPALDING MILLER
Remembers catching a Cuban heel on her shoe in a knothole
in the stairs in the old school building on South Michigan
and falling down the long stairs. She also spent a year in the
"Old Tabernacle" as it was called and the winter cold
produced some very painful chilblains .
WINFIELD LINE
Remembered Mr. A. Riley Crittenden (Who published a
County Paper called Livingston Tidings ) as being the most
enthusiastic man he had ever known.
GENEVA McQUEEN DeFEYTER
Was an early commuter while she attended high school.
She took the train at Cohoctah every Sunday night equipped
with heavy suitcase containing food and clothes for the week .
Arriving in Howell she walked several blocks to the place
where she had rented a room for the school year. On Friday
she reversed the process and returned home. Many times the
trains were hours late.
WILLARD WILTSE
Willard was also a student in the "Old Tabernacle "
building and recalls an incident that was a little painful. One
mother used to bring her daughter to school every day with a
horse and buggy. Some of the boys decided to have some fun
so they placed sticks through the wheels so they could not
turn. Mr. Courter was told about the "neat trick" and called
the boys in and administered some corporal punishment. Qne
of the boys said to Mr. Courter, who was the superintendent,
" I'll tell my Dad on you," Mr. Courter replied, "You do that
and if he comes down we will take care of him , too."
DORIS BOURNS
Giving book reports in English classes was standard
procedure for high schools. For Doris it was a problem until
she made a report on " Lavendar and Old Lace ." Encouraged
by Miss Canfield she gave an excellent one and received an
"A." After that she lost some of her fear and was much
happier .
The Class of 1946
Welcomed Returning Veterans
By REBECCA CLARK HEWLETT
School life was the usual thing for the Class of 1946. A total
of 33 of those who enrolled in Kindergarten stayed together
and graduated together.
"Togetherness" has been a characteristic of this class
even since graduation. They have held reunions every five
years and are now planning for the 30th which will occur in
1976. They did have a few specials that they recalled .
World War II was part of their experience. They were very
proud to have George Elliott a World War II Veteran join
them and graduate. John Girard was also a special member
of the class. John came home to finish high school after being
in a Japanese Prison Camp for three years. He was captured
by the Japanese at Corrigedor early in the war. That was a
very historical incident in the Philippines.
A "first" they all remember was persuading the school
administration to let them have an over-night trip for their
senior year. They made the trip to Niagara Falls, New York
by boat the USS South America.
Everybody's Friend
By HELEN MEABON
John Rogers (Dick Burdick ) Burdick kept an attractive
building, a well groomed yard with seasonal flower-beds, and
a well disciplined playground for the grade children at the
first Michigan A venue School. This building and grounds
were the special pride of Dick Burdick, who encouraged us
and did not tolerate abuse. He was everybody's friend and
enlivened many a dull day by stepping into a classroom to
speak with the teacher, or maybe make a funny face for the
small children who loved it and him.
Outside the building he carefully supervised the
playground, which was on the east side of the building on
Michigan A venue. He carefully taught the grade pupils the
difference between lawn and playground and saw to it that it
was remembered.
Spring and summer were beautiful seasons made more so
by the very large flower-bed in the center of the lawn in front
of the building . No weed dared to show up among the caster
beans, Salvia and those gorgeous red cannas that "Dick"
tended so carefully .
By WILLIAM CHRISTOPHERSON
In 1946, with most of the young men back from World War
II, Mr. Page felt that these Veterans should have an opportunity
in Livingston County to complete high school or
learn a skill.
The Board of Education entered into a contract with the
government to provide such training in Howell High School.
Mr. W. A. Christopherson was named its director in the fall of
1946 and continued in that capacity until spring of 1951.
Some Veterans completed their high school work and some
entered training in such areas as welding, auto mechanics,
plastering, masonry , auto body repair, tool and die, carpentry
, drafting , store management, banking , an_d
agriculture. Veterans were paid a partial salary by their
employer and received the rest from the government under
the G.I. Bill during their training. Veterans were trained onthe-
job during the day and attended classes in related fields
from two to four nights a week.
DRIVER EDUCATION
In 1951 Citizens Mutual Insurance Company sponsored the
training of four men from Howell at Western Michigan
University in preparation for the teaching of Driver
Education in our schools.
Donald Gill, high school principal , W.A. Christopherson ,
Louis Richardson of the City Police, and Vern Dibble of the
Sheriff's Department went through one week of intensive
training on the campus .
The Russell Smith Ford Agency provided the first ·car and
Mr. Christopherson was selected as the first instructor .
Driver Education was not required at that time and was
offered during the regular school day. A total of forty-eight
students were trained during that first year.
MINSTREL SHOW
The spring of 1947i s remembered by old timers as the time
the faculty "t ook their hair down" and put on a show which
packed the Michigan Avenue School auditorium both nights .
The entire faculty occupied the stage. Wilbur Davis did his
old soft shoe, John Munn juggled , Paul Bennett reversed the
punch line of his joke, William Christopherson sang " Bill
Bailey ," Fred Jappinga brought the house down with "She's
Too Fat For Me" and Keene Stollsteimer got down on his
hands and knees to bring forth the last low note of " Cool
Water."
Special Services for Rural Schools
MUSIC
By GLADYS MCCALLUM
FORMER COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOLS
Instruction in music for the one room rural school was
provided for the teachers of Livingston County by Michigan
State University. Elsie Thrasher and Wanda Cook were two
of the instructors. In the spring of each year a county wide
festival was held in the Howell High School auditorium. The
students numbered several hundred . The program
demonstrated with songs, dances and with choral work what
the students had accomplished in the school year . The special
guests were parents and friends of the participants .
SPELLING BEES
Champion spellers from each school were chosen at local
contests and the winners competed in a county "Bee." This
champion represented the county at the state contest in
Detroit. This program was sponsored each year by the
Detroit News. Special prizes were awarded the winners and
the News provided dictionaries for the contestants.
BIBLE STUDY
The Rural Bible Mission provided ministers to speak to the
students in the rural schools. The instruction was a Bible
story, hymn singing and prayer. This was only a 30 minute
program and the instructor was on to the next school.
Summer Bible schools were also held. This service was with-
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drawn from any school if there were objections . Melvin
Shelver , Mel Nelson and Uncle Don were familiar names to
the children .
IT WAS A LONG WALK
Oak Grove had a ten grade school. The first through fifth
grades were in one room and the sixth through ten were in a
larger room. Gladys McCallum graduated from the Oak
Grove School and walked a mile and a half each way every
day.
Times Change
By MRS. EV A ALLEN
After my husband died in 1930, I realized that I had three
boys to support. Having had training for teaching of commercial
subjects, I applied for a position in the Howell Public
Schools. Mr. Page informed me that the present teacher
probably would be there indefinitely . But within a year she
married and married teachers were asked to resign . So I got
the position, which I wanted so much . Times have really
changed from then to now.
Sponsoring was part of teacher's assignment and I helped
to sponsor many senior trips . On these trips we found that
some students liked to break rules . This caused many
anxious moments for sponsors. I do remember one incident
especially , these trips included a Broadway show. This
particular one starred " Sophie Tucker ." As I remember
some of her remarks were questionable in those days . After
one of these remarks a boy sitting next to me leaned over and
said to me, " Mrs. Allen should I laugh? "
Special Events
By BETTY CHRISTOPHERSON
Homecoming in October, 1956 was a very special event,
queen Margie Simmons received her crown from Margaret
Devereaux , an high school alumnus of 1952. Margaret had
just returned from the "Miss America" Pageant in Atlantic
City, where she won the title of "Miss Congeniality" also
finishing among the top ten in the contest. She also appeared
that week on CBS-TV show "What's My Line" in New York
City.
Education Expands
By AWILDA HOWEY SLONAKER
In the 30's schools were beginning to recognize special
needs of the children. As a result children in grades 2 through
6 who had special needs were given extra help in arithmetic
and reading . A special teacher was added to work with these
children individually. It also included children who missed
school because of illness or other special reasons . The improvement
of the children was very noticeable . It helped
many to pass their grade at the end of the year that probably
would have failed . It was such a rewarding experience to me
to see such improvement and the expressions of joy in their
faces at the end of the year.
Courses for the 7th grade were improving in content.
Geography was expanded to studying many continents in
detail and a variety of subjects not covered in the text-book. I
remember getting out my college text to find sufficient
material for the eager students .
I also remember that in 1932 spelling as an 8th grade
subject was discontinued.
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School Bus Transportation
By ROBERT GIES
My first trip to be taken by school bus was in August, 1940.
A four day trip was taken to the upper part of Michigan, by a
group of 4-H boys and two sponsors to visit a tree and potato
growing plantation . The first night out the boys slept on the
courthouse lawn in Cheboygan on blankets. When we left
Howell in the morning , it was shirt sleeve weather , but it
turned cold during the night and nobody had thought to take
sweaters or coats along , so the rest of the trip was rather
cold. The second day out we had to cross the straits on a car
ferry , this was a new experience for me as I had never driven
onto or rode a boat before . The boys visited a number of large
potato growing farms in the Marquette area. At night the
boys slept on mats in the college gym at Marquette. The third
night out we had enough money left so all went to tourist
homes for the night in Manistee . The fourth day the boys
visited a large tree plantation on Route No. 55 just outside of
Manistee .
The bus we used on this trip was manufactured by Reo of
Lansing. We made good time on this trip considering my first
school bus driving experience, and no expressways to travel
on in those days. It was the first trip north of Lansing for me
so all roads and towns were new.
During the war years the bus was not used because shortage
of gas and schools were not eligible for gas stamps to
buy gas for special trips . The bus was used, however, four
times a year to take blood donors to Brighton for the Red
Cross Blood Bank.
The Crittenden School burned down at about this time ,
instead of rebuilding, because of shortage of building
material, they bought an old D.S.R. Bus from Detroit and
transported their students to Howell School. In 1947, the
Crittenden School bought a new thirty-six passenger Ford
school bus. At about this time the Fairlawn parents asked the
Crittenden School Board to transport their students to the
Howell Schools. Mr. Lloyd Gies and Mr. Robert Gies were
alternate drivers . Mr. LeRoy Ream was our substitute
driver .
In August, 1953, Mr. John Page, superintendent of Howell
Schools asked me to operate his school bus transportation for
him. The Howell Public Schools had annexed some rural
school districts. The Howell School Board had bought three
new sixty-six passenger Ford school buses from Russel D.
Smith of Howell to transport the students from rural schools.
'The first year (1953-54) we operated five buses with one
spare bus. The other two buses came from the Crittenden and
Louk Districts, the spare bus from the Howell Schools. The
bus drivers the first year were:
Bus No. 1, Robert Gies, Bus No. 2, Maynard Bird ; Bus No.
3, George Bergin; Bus No. 4, Elmer Smith ; Bus No. 4, Joe
Helmore ; Bus No. 6, extra bus, Rev . John Murback .
The first three years the buses were maintained by local
garages . In the fall of 1956, the Howell system was operating
sixteen buses. A building was remodeled on the property of
Robert Gies and a bus garage was started at this time . I was
supervisor and mechanic for two years . In 1956 another
mechanic was hired. Also, Louis Brown was driving bus and
worked part time as mechanic . Mrs . Robert Gies was doing
the book work, payrolls, et cetera for transportation
department of the school system. .
In 1963, I resigned my position as supervisor a.nd was hired
as head mechanic. Mr. Hugh Lyons was supervisor and held
this position until August, 1974. Mrs. Norma Skalski replaced
Mr. Lyons in September of 1974.
I resigned my position as head mechanic on June 30, 1975 to
take a position with the Methodist Church in Howell.
I was with the transportation system for twenty-two years
and guided the bus fleet from a start of six buses in 1953 to a
fleet of sixty buses in 1975.
In 1973,t he voters of the Howell School District voted in one
mill for five years to buy property and build a bus garage and
warehouse complex, but as of August, 1975 buses are still
being maintained at the remodeled building at 1285 Byron
Road .
This is only a small part of the history and background of
the transportation system of the Howell Public Schools.
History of Howell Schools
By MRS. ALBERT ROHRABACHER
Howell was always in the fore front of education .
One of the first acts in the organization of the township of
Howell, June 1836, was to elect school inspectors who were:
F .J.B . Crane, Jonathan Austin and Joseph Porter. The voters
met at the home of Amos Adams, which was the Eagle
Tavern, for the election.
Mr. Crane offered a free lot, No. 36 of his recently plotted
Brooks and Crane Lots of Howell Village if they would build
on it a frame school house.
However, the school house was not built until the following
year, because of the difficulty in obtaining lumber , which
could not be had closer than Green Oak.
Mr. Crittenden in his history says that there were some
provisions for and teaching in the year (1836) before the
frame school house was built. Does this mean that the first
school house was a log house? Probably , it was.
Meanwhile, Moses Thompson had completed his saw mill
in 1837 and they were able to use his lumber for the school
building. Sardis Davis of Marion Township was the carpenter
in charge and hewed the timber for the frame . The finish and
desks had to be hauled from Salem in Washtenaw County. It
was finished at a cost of $350 and located on the east side of
Gregory Street between Sibley and Washington. The Philip
Livingston Chapter of the DAR have marked the spot with a
large granite marker.
Howell could now boast of three frame buildings . The
Eagle Tavern of Mr. Adams and Mr. Gay's store having
preceeded the school house. Miss Abigail Adams, the
daughter of Amos Adams was the first teacher in a regular
school, in the summer of 1837. We do not know what her
wages were but in the 1850's a good teacher's wage was $1.50
a week plus board .
The teacher who taught the following term was Justin
Durfee. According to Mr. Crittenden he was accustomed to
going barefoot. He also held a number of township offices,
assessor and highway commissioner.
Other male teachers, who taught in this building were: E .
F. Burt , William P. Glover (who was said to have punished
his pupils severely ), William 0 . Archer, Henry H. Harmon
and John S. Dixon. The female teachers besides Miss Adams
were: Miss Fransworth , Miss Waterman and Clarissa
Rumsey and Mrs . Skilbeck .
The school house had to serve many purposes . Judge
Fletcher held the first term of court there, on Nov. 8, 1837 and
for sometime afterward.
On the 14th of April, 1838, Rev . Thomas Baker of Highland
met at the village school house with various persons who
were members of the Baptist Church back east. After
religious services they proceeded to plan for the organization
of a Baptist Church of Howell. On May 12 a meeting was held
to adopt Articles of Faith and Practice and on June 21, the
membership was organized . The sermon was by Rev. E .
Weaver and a special address was given by Rev . Lamb.
Also the Presbyterians, beginning with their second year of
meetings , held them in the school house as the Methodists did
also, until the courthouse was completed in 1847.
Meanwhile "se lect" or private schools were very
numerous. The earliest, Theodore Bridgeman opened his
Howell Select School in 1845 in the old Presbyterian Church.
It died before the year was up and the Classical Select School
of Rev . G. F . McEwen was started in that same year . Mrs.
Mariah L. Charles instituted a select school in 1846. The
Howell Academy of William P . Glover opened the same year
and soon folded. Since all these schools were short-lived, a
group of prominent citizens organized a stock-company of
$10,000f or building a school but it never materialized. Also a
writing school was taught by Dr. E. F . Olds about 1843. (Was
a doctor's penmanship better then, than now?)
The most successful select school was that Mrs. Rosina L.
Dayfoot started in 1857 and continued for some time . She had
several teachers and was located on S. Walnut Street. Later
the school was moved to Fenton.
Meanwhile, the old public school had proved to be
inadequate in size and in 1845 an appropriation for a new
public school was made and the old one was sold.
The old Presbyterian Church was rented for auxiliary
school purposes , and also the old " academy building " which
stood where the old Republican Block stood in 1911.
It was three years before the location of a school house was
determined, after the old one was sold. The fight on this
question was one of the most stubbornly contested of any
which Howell has ever seen. Five different committees were
appointed, at as many different meetings . The old town
square at the southeast corner of Grand River and Center
Street, the present site of the Methodist Church and others
were chosen at various times only to be turned down at school
meetings.
This fight for its location was between sections north of and
south of Gand River Street. The north side was never strong
enough to secure the location of the school on their side but
they managed to secure south-siders enough to change every
location decided upon from 1845-1849. In 1848 the final
location decided on was where Howell's Michigan Ave.
School is presently located .
Probabl y, the controversy would have continued much
longer but the district board sold the old school house. It was
then necessary to rent room in the Stage House (south side of
Grand River between Walnut and Michigan). John Dixon
was engaged to teach there.
It was determined to build a two story brick building 38 by
48 feet, but the opposition called this a " castle " and succeeded
in cutting it down to 26 by 36 feet. The promoters of
the larger building were jubilant when by 1850, it was
necessary to rent more room.
The contract for the new building was awarded to Elijah
Coffren who built it for about $700. An addition of 48 feet in
length and 26 feet in width was made to the school house in
1856 by John B. Kneeland, contractor. William Wills was the
first teacher in the new building. It was necessar y to enlarge
the building in 1866 and 1867.
The old records are not complete but the following were
principals from 1849-1869: W. Mills, John S. Dixon, Seth
Beden, J. S. Houston, F. W. Munson, L. Barnes , D. Cramer ,
Charles W. Bowen, Rufus T. Bush, Michael McKernon, S.S.
Babcock , Joshua S. Lane, and L. S. Montague.
When Prof. F . W. Munson was employed to superintend the
Howell school in 1856, there was quite a question whether the
board would employ anyone not a Democrat.
In the future , there were to be two other Howell school
buildings to occupy this location.
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Notable Howell Natives
EMILY MUTTER AUSTIN
First Violinist
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
JOSEPH P. BRADY
National President of University of Michigan Alumni Club
CHARLES P. BUSH
President of Michigan State Senate
McPHERSON BROWNING
President of Detroit Bank and Trust Company
LULU VERE CHILDERS
Director of Music of Howard University
Washington, D.C.
CLAUDE V. COURTIER
Superintendent of Schools
Cincinnati, Ohio
RALPH STAPLETON EULER
Senior Vice-President
Mellon National Bank and Trust Co.
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
DR. CHARLES WHITNEY GILMORE
Curator of Vertebrate Palentology
National Museum (Smithsonian Institution)
Washington, D.C.
WALTER HASTINGS
State of Michigan Ornithologist
Official Photographer
Michigan State Conservation Department
CHARLES JEWETT
World's Champion Glass Ball Shooting
KENDRICK KIMBALL
Outdoor Editor the DETROIT NEWS
A.J. LAMOREAUX
Editor and Publisher of RIO NEWS
Rio deJaneiro, Brazil
Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica
(Latin America)
Librarian-Cornell University
COL. GEORGE W. LEE
Quartermaster of all Michigan Troops
during Civil War
DR. WILLIAM MATHER LEWIS
President of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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President of Lafayette College Eston, Pennsylvania
Director of Selective Service, Pennsylvania
Second World War
ROYAL P. MELENDY
General Manager and Director of
Engineering, Consolidated Coal Company
Member United States Coal Commission
DR. STEPHEN I. MILLER
Dean of School of Business Administration
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Member of Federal Trade Commission
WILLIAM WALLACE WORNTAIN
Grand Exalted Ruler B.P.O. Elks
HUGH ALEXANDER McPHERSON
Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons
of Michigan
25 years Grand Treasurer of
Free and Accepted Masons of Michigan
M.J. McPHERSON
Commissioner of Railroads
State of Michigan
WILLIAM RIDDLE PARKER
Grand Commander of
Knights Templar of Michigan
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President of Oregon State College
Corvallis, Oregon
E.G. PIPP
Editor DETROIT NEWS
Editor DEARBORN INDEPENDENT
C.A. REED
Director of Research in Nut Culture in
United States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C.
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Boy Scout Merit Badge Handbook
CHARLES SCHAFER
Artist for Michigan Department
of Natural Resources Publication
ALBERT L. SMITH
Grand Commander of
Knights Templar of Michigan
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Editor CENTRAL METHODIST CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
Kansas City, Missouri
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Editor of THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
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Marquette, Michigan
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Chief of Navy Department
Bureau of Ships, every Navy yard in U.S.
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A Woman of the 1800 ' s
By MARIETTA CRITTENDEN
Father had land at Saline, 20 miles from Ann Arbor, where
he had started to build a log house. A neighbor had completed
a house. There we stayed for the winter . (Puncheon Floors) ,
logs split open and hewed with Beetle and Wedge. He boarded
with us for rent and how he did eat. It took all of mother 's
time to bake, for all that was done in a bake kettle , bread ,
cake, biscuit, meat , potatoes, all had to be baked in the
kettle . That afore said neighbor got a cat and his greatest
worry was that I would spoil it by playing with it. I would
dress it up in some of my own outgrown garments and enjoyed
myself a little, but catty got cross and one day scratched
my face awfully, indeed I carry the scars yet.
Imagine , if you can , the long lonesomeness of that winter ,
nothing to see or hear or go to school, no meeting, no books,
Mrs. Ernest A very a nd her son Ea rl.
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not a nut or apple or anything that we had been accustomed
to.
The next spring work began indeed it began for me before
that for mother had me at the knitting and I had knit myself a
pair of stockings before I was seven years old and before
spring had completed the second pair. My stint would be so
many rounds a day.
I could tell of many funny and some serious circumstances,
one in particular: I had found a blue bird 's nest in a hollow
stump , a small pile of roots on one side enabled one, when
standing on it to look into the hallow and see the birds. One
day my parents went somewhere and got a little girl to come
and stay while they were absent. Of course I must show the
bird's nest, I ran to the stump and had my bare foot raised to
step upon the pile of rubbish , I was looking back at her , my
foot kept going down without touching anything , something
made me look down. The pile of debris was gone and right in
the very place of it a good sized massasauga Jay coiled for a
spring. I jumped back and ran to the house, got an old axe
and dispatched his snakeship. Then to prove it was a rattler I
chopped off the six rattles and got a spear of grass around
them and carried them in triumph to the house. The little girl
was so scared that she went home . Father laughed at the
snake story , saying that it was nothing but a streaked snake
but when he saw the rattles he was as frightened as the little
girl, almost. Ma was just vexed to think I would be so foolish
as to venture back to kill it.
That same year in strawberry time we were picking them
and were not more than three feet apart when we became
aware of a big rattler crawling between that raised mother's
dander. I was sent to the house instanter ; I don't remember
what was the fate of the snake .
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Bears were numerous, the first summer we lived west. My
father had some business at Ann Arbor; I was sent about
sundown to a neighbors to get a young girl about 14 to come
and stay with mother and me over night, the distance was ¾
of a mile. When we got back to our house it was getting dusk.
We were afraid to go into the house and afraid to stay outside.
The reason of this was the fact that the Indian trail from
Chicago to Detroit was but a short distance back of our house,
and every year Indians went through to Fort Malden in
Canada to get their scalp bounty, a vestige of British conciliation
left over from the war of 1812.
Well, to resume , as Samantha says , we started to go to the
nearest neighbors, we met an immense bear right in the
road . But owing to the darkness we thought it was a neighbor's
black heifer . A more thoroughly frightened couple of
little girls never ran screaming homeward , than we were . I,
after that , saw three more , at different times.
After settlers got in and got hogs growing they were turned
loose to get their living on acorns which were abundant and
fattened the porkers without the trouble of feeding them
corn. At such seasons of the year there would scarcely be a
week but one would hear the poor pigs squealing as some
bear would catch them and carry them off. One little shaver
rushed in while his father was at the breakfast table crying
that a big black man was carrying off one of his " peckled
pigs." Sure enough a black bear was going on his hind feet
with a pig hugged up in his arms . This chap had a hard time
of it, the neighbors turned out with gun and dogs and the
animal was killed on the spot.
My father was quite fond of the chase, and went hunting
whenever he had leisure. He had lost the sight of one eye;
while hunting at one time he saw a large deer with splendid
antlers coming right to him almost , he fired at close range ,
the deer went right by him, so close that a limb caught in his
horns and when released, flew back with great force and hit
the well eye. He was badly hurt of course and had to sit down
and bear the pain and think of his rather undesirable
situation .
After several hours he managed to lift up the eyelid with
his fingers and see enough to form a tolerably correct idea of
his position and would walk a little way, then raise up the
eyelid, and so made out to keep his bearings and so was able
Childs float in the Street fair.
to reach the road and sometime after dark got home. He was
laid up some days with the hurt eye and suffered from apprehension
that the sight would never be restored , but it
came out alright after a time .
The second winter we spent in Michigan was remarkable
for what was called an ice storm . The timber was all coated
with ice of considerable thickness, and trees were bent in all
directions so much that there was no getting about, not only
because the bent branches obstructed the roads but the
constant breaking down of trees and limbs , great tops falling
every moment , and such an indescribable roaring was really
terrifying ; our nearest neighbors dared not pass over the
road . I have seen ice storms since but never anything to
equal that.
The great star shower of 1833w as witnesses by my parents
and myself. Father woke me in the night to view the wonderful
sight. To give you some idea of the impression made
upon me, you have probably been in a snow storm when the
flakes were very large and on looking up you felt as though
you were rising up instead of the big flakes coming down. The
stars seemed to start from the zenith and slide down all
around the dome of the heavens. The fall of meteors continued
until the sun light obscured them .
In October of 1835 father sold his land at Saline and sent
mother and me on a visit to Vermont while he remained to
look for land for another investment. We took passage on the
steamer United States , all went well until the morning we
were due at Buffalo. There was a furious hurricane from the
west. The steamer was quite unmanageable . Oh! what
pandomonium ! such shrieks , curses and praying , some men
on their knees calling on God to save , when but a short time
previous their lips were profaming His sacred name , dogs
howling, seamen shouting orders and so on. All those standing
were thrown down. The captain ordered all to go ashore
at once. The sailors took charge of women and children .
The wind was so violent that strong men were blown down
in the street , we all took hold of hands but even with that
precaution the strain was so great that our hold would be
broken loose and some one would go whirling away until
rescue by some strong hand . We, with most of the
passengers , found shelter in a hotel, some came in and said
they waded in water up to their waist. Toward morning the
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storm abated and we were able to resume our journey. After
leaving Buffalo we continued to Cleveland then to Detroit
where father bought a yoke of oxen and a wagon and after
loading our belongings, as soon as possible we continued on
our way. I was perched atop the load to watch for the marks
of the blazed trail.
Much of the road consisted of logs laid side by side which
made traveling hazardous. Because of this the wagon reach
was broken causing a delay while waiting for repairs . On
arriving at Ann Arbor we were taken to my uncle's farm
which is now a part of the university grounds. Shortly we
went on to Saline where father had some land . Here we spent
the winter at the Webster home which adjoined our property .
Other settlers soon came in. To provide sleeping accommodations
there were beds set up in three corners of the
room while the cook stove occupied the fourth .
There were loose boards laid on the beams above. These
were covered with straw which made a wide bed the full
length. Where several of the men slept. Mother had arranged
a shake-down bed for Mrs. Rumsey's daughter and me which
we didn't object to until in making up the bed mother put her
hand on a massauger after which we slept on the foot of their
bed.
Once a wolf killed and ate one of our sheep about ten rods
from our house. One day Mrs. Rumsey and I had the pleasure
of wolf company for about ¾ of a mile. We ran, whistled and
shouted all the way while the brute spraing into one side of
the wagon track and we were in the other.
One could easily get lost, I did once, while after cattle, I
found that I was going in a circle. I recognized my own track
in crossing a little run . I remembered that I had read that one
must go in an exactly opposite direction from that which
seemed the right way. I did that and came out at our own
house but did not recognize it. Mother came outside but I
didn't know her at first and when I did I could hardly get to
the house after that I was so weak. A little fawn was given to
me, it was the prettiest little creature, when it was two years
old some hunters from Ypsilanti shot it although it had a
broad band of scarlet on its neck.
There was nothing to break the monotony of those days of
work and privation unless one took delight in listening to the
woodman's axe as the mighty monarchs of the forest were
felled.
I worked out of doors with father all day, many days, and
then lugged water and wood and milked cows and fed calves
and pigs for a resting spell.
Father made the drill holes while I scattered the apple
seeds from which the trees in the lower orchard grew. Not
many now days would have to wait for apples to grow from
the seeds.
The summer after I was sixteen father gave me the choice
of teaching school at $1.25 a week or staying home. I thought
of the hard outdoors work and decided to take the school. I
taught 31 boys and 16 girls. It was at this time father was
bitten by a massauga and nearly lost his life from which he
never fully recovered, from the ill effects .
I've made many pairs of buckskin mittens and they were
sold in Detroit. Mother taught me how to spin wool and tow
when I was ten years old and after that I learned the knack of
spinning linen on the little wheel. . . I did quite a quantity of
them and sent it to Detroit where it brought two cents a skien,
as the few threads were called .
I used to chop ice from a water hole and melt for washing
with a smooth board standing in the tub on which the clothes
were pounded with a perforated oar-shaped piece ; the only
wringer being the washer-woman's hands after rinsing at the
spring, then hung on bushes to dry.
I used to sew, knit , weave and study hard and tried to
redeem the time to the best of my poor ability. I had no fine
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features or good looks to help me on to glory . Like a boy I
knew in Vermont who said he had to figure out his rithmetic
on his bare head ; I had to work out my destiny on the barest
of opportunities.
The housekeeping of 75 years ago was very primitive
compared with that now in vogue; first I will speak of the
care of woodwork and floors: all had to be scoured to the
most possible whiteness then the keeping room floors were
sanded. A basket with some design in the bottom was filled
with white sand, the housewife would carefully place it so the
sand would sift through the interstices and leave the imprint,
and so she would go over the whole floor; when done the
doors of the room were hermetically closed to await the
advent of company when of course the beautiful figures
would become marred and the process would have to be gone
over again. Painted floors succeeded, done in various stiles. I
recollect one floor in particular painted to represent sea
waves; it always made me dizzy to walk over it, indeed when
after a lapse of twenty years I went into that same room, my
head almost swam.
House mothers became more ambitious and carpets
succeeded sand with the aristocrats. The Rev. Parkers wife
Roxanna bought a bail of cotton and carded it and spun and
wove it, when sewn she painted her carpet , a wonder to her
friends.
Baking day came once a week. Pioneers dispensed with
cranes and ovens. The chimney was furnished with a stout
wooden pole laid on supports placed far up in the chimney
and on this were hung chains two or three, in the links of
which were inserted hooks for kettles; baking was done in a
bake kettle with a rimmed cover to hold coals to supply top
heat to what ever was being cooked. Johnny cakes were
baked by being spread upon a square board made for the
purpose and set up at an angle of 45 degrees.
When well done on the surface the cake was turned over to
finish. Short cakes were put into a spider and exposed to the
fire heat much as the johnny cake only coals were placed at
the back and the baking at top and bottom were done at the
same time . Much of meat cooking was done by roasting in
front of the fire, turkey , duck, chicken and spare-ribs all
were suspended from the mantle supports , a pan set to catch
the drip and woe betide the hapless wight to whom delegated
the task of keeping the roast turning round and round so that
all sides should be properly browned. The tin baker was a
decided and welcome improvement on farmer methods. I
never saw a wash board in my childhood, instead a smooth
board was placed one end down into the tub, the other resting
on the edge, a piece of wood shaped like an oar perforated full
of holes with a handle with which to pound the clothes.
The only wringer then invented was the hand and wrist of
the washwoman.
Spinning and weaving was carried on in every house, and
much of the wool was carded by hand as was all of the tow for
weaving linen. What cotton cloth was used, the raw cotton
was purchased by the bail, carded, spun and woven by hand .
What we call unbleached, was styled India cotton and was
much prized.
I have a counterpane (or bedspread ) for which the cotton
yarn used in its manufacture was carded and spun by my
mother in her girlhood. She and her sister once spun the yarn
for 40 yards of wide linen cloth, every skein of which could
have been drawn through a finger ring or an open top
thimble , a skein consists of ten knots, a knot of forty threads
around a reel so that 800 threads were the number drawn
through the ring .
Fruit was either preserved in sugar or dried ; the making of
apple butter and cider apple sauce, cost much time and
labor .
A staple article of food was a big kettle of mush and a big
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pan of milk with bowls and spoons each helping him or
herself thereto .
Shoes for the family were made in the house. The shoe
maker bringing his paraphenalia and making and mending
foot-ware for the year . Also a tailoress was employed to
make up men 's clothing all stitched by hand , linen thread
being used .
I heard some ladies tell of meat and vegetables being cut
into mouth sized pieces placed on a platter in the center of the
table , and each helped himself with fork to what ever food
The old Peckens homestead north of town about 1882.
was supplied , and bread spread with butter . No individual
plates were used .
With all the inconveniences and disadvantages our foremothers
encountered in earl y days I am not sure but the
housewife had as much leisure , really , as the housekeeper of
the present time . The new woman was not yet a disturbing
element , to vote or not to vote was a question never
discussed . The fashion plate was an unknown quantit y.
I once heard a gentleman say that his mother wore the
same bonnet summer and winter for fifteen years . Think of
the restfulness that that woman enjoyed .
Inside Kirk ' s millinery store on State Street .
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Blowing up the balloon . Annie Oakley shows her skill in Howell with Buffalo Bill's troupe in
1911.
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Down goes the parachutist as he leaves the balloon.
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Main four in 1910.
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The seal ace on the band stand in front of the grandstand . Notice the
expressions on the faces of th e spectators .
Races for all ages took place during the Homecoming cele rations
of the teens . This photo shows older men of 60 or more runnin against
each other . Nowadays they would have a cardiac arrest . ote the
laughing young man under the arm of the man on the left. He
4 inch razor strap . The winner gets cheers , the loser gets th
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He was so proud of his new big wheeled bike that he came in and had
his picture taken, 1888.
High school play about 1900 on the stage of the Opera House.
Amusements
Howell and the Circus
By JANET ROHRABACHER
When my mother was a little girl about ten years old, some
very famous people came to visit her mother ; but to them
they were merely relatives. They were her mother's cousin,
Martha Robbins who had married John F. Coup and William
C. Coup.
My mother was unaware that William C. Coup was one of
the five greatest men in circus history and P .T. Barnum 's
first partner . But she did remember that he had several
important visitors from New York City while he was staying
with them . She also knew that ; as her mother told her, " He
had something to do with the circus. "
Her mother had joined a religious sect which considered all
theaters and entertainment immoral. They especially
considered the canvas exhibitions an evil which extracted
money from townspeople which might better have been
contributed to the church.
But to her family this man was just " Bill" Coup. He had
begun by working for the Mabie Bros. Circus , the first circus
in Wisconsin. Then became manager of the Yankee Robinson
Circus . Then , the Barnum and Coup Circus was organized in
1871 with P .T. Barnum as a one-third owner . Barnum never
had anything much to do with the circus .
Barnum had made a great name with his Museum in New
York City. For the use of his name in this circus he was to get
three percent of the profits . This was the first circus to use its
own railroad cars .
Coup left the managership of this show in 1875 and so did
Castello. Castello 's new circus went into receivership and the
assets were bought up by the Burr Robbins Circus , a very
successful circus. Meanwhile , Coup went into exhibitions and
built the first Madison Square Garden in New York City and
also the New York City Aquarium .
But, how did Barnum fare without Coup and Castello ? In
about 10 years he was close to bankruptcy , until he engaged
James A. Bailey as his manager.
This brings us back to Howell. In 1847, James Anthony
McGuinnes was born in Detroit , Michigan. This Irish boy, as
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an orphan, secured employment here and there outside
Detroit. In 1858 he came to Howell and worked as a
handy-man and porter at a hotel in Howell.
In 1860, the Robinson and Lake Circus came to Howell with
Col. Fred Bailey as agent. Young McGuinnes left Howell with
Bailey to whom he took a great liking . He changed his name
from McGuinnes to Bailey and became the James A. Bailey
who was to become Barnum's partner.
In 1863a nother circus came through Howell and one of the
lions died. It was buried on the " old" public square (W.
Grand River , S. Walnut, W. Sibley and S. Center ). These
shows were all "mud-shows" - that is they traveled by horse
and wagon through mud and dust.
In 1867 another great circus came to Howell, the Yankee
Robinson Show. It was advertised in the Howell newspaper .
William C. Coup was manager .
Many later shows have played Howell including Wild West
Shows. For years , admission was usually fifty cents for
adults and twenty-five cents for children. Residents of
surrounding towns looked forward to the circus coming to
Howell.
The last large circus to play Howell was the Kelly-Miller
Circus in 1950. They raised their tent on the old Fairgrounds.
When they came , it had been over 10 years since a circus had
played Howell. And admission prices were considerably
greater . There were at least two other circuses which came
to Howell later , but they were not in the same class as the one
in 1950.
COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS
By HAZEL HERBERT
About sixty years ago, one bright sunny day , four young
people; a cousin of mine , his girlfriend , my boyfriend and I
set out from Perr y, Shiawassee County for the Livingston
County Fairgrounds . What was going on there that was
interesting? Livingston County was known as the center of
the breeding and raising of the Holstein Friesian (black and
Floating on the lake .
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There's always a guy with a ukelele .
white) cattle . There was to be a consignment sale there, and
as my uncle raised these cattle , anything concerning them
was interesting . The conversations of the people there to buy
and to sell, the chant of the auctioneer ; watching the people
bidding made it all very exciting. By the way catalogs were
printed when all the cattle were consigned. The name of
owner , animals name, date of birth , also their pedigree . We
followed these , and listed the sale price as they were sold. We
had taken a jug of lemonade , and a basket of goodies for our
noon meal as there were no McDonalds or Hardee eating
places. I have attended several of these consignment sales,
but this one stands out very clear in my memory .
Free Street Fairs in Howell
1898 and 1900
By ERSYL RIDER HADLEY
"Twill Be A Rowelling Success! "
What? The Free Street Fair!
Where? Howell, Michigan: Sept. 27, 28, 29, 30.
The above is a sample of the advertising of the First Free
Street Fair in Howell-1898 .
When I was a young child, I attended the street fair
advertized above , in the evening , with my parents and my
sister , Florence , who is three years older than I.
I remember that I was tired and sat down in the middle of
the sidewalk to rest , where , for a few moments, I enjoyed the
friendly crowds of pedestrians as they passed by. That was a
brief experience , and then I went with my mother to see the
cows. They were near by in stalls, inside of pens. They were
not where I, a farm girl , was used to seeing cows ; they were
right downtown where we went to do our shopping , on Grand
River , then a dirt road , with stores on either side of the road.
My sister wandered into the Indians ' tent , and upon seeing
the Indians dressed in their full regalia, started to scream
and cry, and darted out of the tent , not waiting to learn the
reaction of the Indians to her surprise visit and anguished
departure .
The above are a few memories I have of an evening at the
Howell street fair. I am greatful that I have some
remembrance of those cherished events of long ago.
Since there are not many around now who remember much
about the street fairs , it is fortunate that an outstanding
young man of Howell, at the time of these events , kept
scrapbooks of local newspaper clippings about the fairs , and
beautiful photographs of entries in the parade . This young
man was the late Frank M. Lansing (1868-192)0, whose
daugher , Alice Lansing Sonnenburg , gave these valuable
records to the Livingston County Historical Society, Aug. 15,
1974.
As stated above , the first street fair was held in 1898, Sept.
27-30. There were four days and evenings of the fair , Tuesday
through Frida y. The crowd on Thursday was estimated to be
15,000 to 20,000, the largest ever known in Livingston County.
The first prize , a Champion Mowing Machine , was won by
Judge of Probate , Charles Fishbeck , for a herd of fourteen
shorthorn cattle .
Fir st prize in the floral parade was won by Mrs . F.J . Lee,
her entry being a sunflower carriage.
The Fair Association closed its first free fair out of debt. It
was , indeed , "A Rowelling Success ."
The second street fair was held in 1900, Sepl 25-28, Tuesday
through Friday. The weather was ideal , attendance good,
crowd largest on Thursday , about 20,000. There were good
exhibits in stock-sheep , cattle and swine.
Music for the fair was furnished by the Milford Band, and
much credit was given to this organization for the success
and pleasure of the fair.
There were many attractions every day-trapeze and
tumbling acts , balloon ascensions , etc ., and the floral
parade.
The magnificent floral parade was put on every afternoon
by the ladies , the fire department , and the Knights and
Ladies of the Maccabees . It was the delight of all who saw it.
The parade formed on E . Clinton, proceeded down Court to
Grand River , passing on the south side of Grand River to
Chestnut , returning on the north side of Grand River .
There were tweny-six horse-drawn vehicles in the parade ,
the most unusual being a Ben Hur (Roman ) chariot ; also ,
there was an equestrian group , and a bicycle group .
The horses , including two black Shetland ponies , were
mostly black or white , an occasional bay or gray. If four
horses were used on a vehicle, they were driven abreast or
tandem .
For decorations , much crepe paper and paper roping were
used. Many of the flowers , including a great var iety of
species , were made by the ladies . One entry , said to be the
most expensive in the parade , used 2300 red roses and 1250
yards of green roping . Other means of adding to the beaut y of
an entr y : decorated parasols , occupants of the entr y
dressing all in white, all in black , or in any way to add to the
beauty of the setting , horses trimmed to correspond with
their vehicle , black or white net blankets for the horses , etc .
I will give a brief description of only a few of the man y
entries in the parade .
The Milford Band headed the parade.
Next came the Fire Department , hose cart , trimmed in red
and white bunting , drawn by two large black horses ,
members of the department , dressed in white , riding each
day.
The Queen of the Floral Parade , Miss Julia Benedict , was
next in line, riding in an old fashioned phaeton , top remo ved,
escorted by four knights on white horses , the knights
uniformed and carrying swords , two in front of the phaeton ,
two following. The body of the phaeton was gilded and lined
with royal purple. The entire phaeton was trimmed with
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double white poppies. The white horses of the escorts were
trimmed in purple and white, as were, also, the two white
horses drawing the phaeton, the latter accompanied by two
footmen. The queen's costume was rented from Detroitwhite
satin gown, white lace overdress spangled with beads,
her crown entirely of beads. Another local newspaper 's
version of the dress-white cotton, trimmed in gold braid ,
gold fringes and jewels , crown of pearls , robe trimmed with
gold braid .
There were only two fraternal organizations represented in
the parade ; The Knights of the Maccabees, and the Ladies of
the Maccabees , both featuring the red, white and black of the
order.
The Howell Outing Club furnished a novel float-a boat was
placed upon a wagon with awning placed over the boat for a
canopy, the entire float was decorated with pond lilies, the
silken streamer of the club floating from the canopy.
The Equestrian Group: Ten ladies wearing black riding
habits, riding two abreast with horses trimmed alike,
making five groups, horses in each group trimmed with a
different color. The equestrians were preceded by Bently's
Band.
The Bicycle Group was made up of five small girls riding
their bicycles, which they had trimmed themselves, very
attractively . The second day a young boy came with his
bicycle decorated , and was allowed to join the group.
The Columbia was the last float in the parade. The sides of
the float were two immense flags, the stripes red and white
roses; the field of blue, shirred bunting and silver stars . A
shield of flowers formed the back . Two young boys, one
dressed as a sailor , the other as a soldier, stood on either side
of a flower bedecked cannon placed at the center of the float.
A young man dressed as Uncle Sam and a young lady dressed
as the Goddess of Liberty stood at the rear of the float, The
Goddess of Liberty representing Uncle Sam's mission of
dispensing liberty , with the aid of his Army and Navy, to the
rich and poor alike. A boy in overalls and torn hat
represented the poor, and a girl in fancy dress represented
the rich . The float was drawn by two white horses trimmed in
red and blue.
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It was said that the parade in 1900 surpassed the one in
1898,b oth in variety of design and in perfection of execution.
No prizes, however, were awarded in 1900 for this feature of
the fair.
The second street fair in Howell came to an end with the
close of the evening session on Friday , Sept. 28, 1900.
The officers of the fair were : Fred Hubbell, President ; R.
Bruce McPherson , Secretary; Frank Burt , Treasurer .
They had worked long and hard to bring about the desired
results , as had so many other dedicated people of Howell.
The local newspapers captioned their accounts of the fair:
"A Booming Success ," "A Winner," "A World Beater. "
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
Miss Mary Reed , Vice President, Livingston County
Historical Society, for supplying me with material for the
above topic.
Early Years
By VOLA HUTSON
My mother and dad put their horse in the 10 cent barn when
they got married (1904) and left it there two days while they
went to Ann Arbor on the train on their honeymoon .
THE LIVERY STABLE OR 10 CENT BARN
The old livery stable or so-called Ten Cent Barn was on
east side of Walnut Street between Grand River and Clinton.
Here the horses could receive shelter while the driver was
doing his shopping. It cost ten cents a stall.
About 1910t here was a skating rink on the corner of Clinton
and Michigan Avenue, where Mike Hagman's gas station
now is. It cost 25 cents to skate.
Ella Hagman used to play the piano at the Theater .
Who could forget Henderson 's popcorn stand which stood
on the SW corner of Michigan Avenue and Grand River . It
was just a little permanent building where pounds and
pounds of popcorn were sold. A favorite meeting place .
Everyone knew and loved Mr. and Mrs . Henderson.
THE OPERA HOUSE
The old Opera House was over Sutton 's Hardware. The
ticket office and steps to go up to it were in an area between
where Garland's Store and Sutton's Store now are . In this
opera house the Junior and Senior Class plays were given .
The Junior play in 1914w as "Silas the Chore Boy." In 1915t he
Senior Play was " Esmeralda. " Mrs. Doctor Huntington Sr.
directed the plays and the cast did their practicing in the
Huntington home.
Also in the opera house the lecture series were held . One
could buy a season ticket and the place was always filled .
One of the lectures was called " Acres of Diamonds. " It was
given by a traveler, and the whole theme was that one could
travel the world over , but could find acres of diamonds in
one's own back yard.
Plays were always very popular and one of the most
famous ones was " Uncle Tom's Cabin."
For many years there was a covered stairway on Walnut
Street which is believed to have been the exit from the Opera
House.
Another big event which was entertaining, was the annual
Jack Kelly's Stock Company Tent Show. This could have
been between 1918a nd 1925. Many plays were given and one
Chas . Jewitt with his dog . My secretary said when I brought this out
of the lab , "Did you ever notice how a man and his dog so often look
alike? "
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of them was " Up in Mabel 's Room." It probably was a bit
risque ' with men and women climbing in and out windows
and hiding under the bed-but to me it was just plain
funny-young minds did not understand . One unforgettable
item was that everyone went early to get a seat in the front
because during the intermission they would sell peanuts ,
candy or popped corn , and a prize would be found in some of
the sacks . They always had the prizes in the first few
boxes-a nd since they started in the front, the prizes were
there-more as a "come-on" for all the rest of the audience ,
so if you sat in the back , you didn't have much of a chance.
Between acts there would be vaudeville acts , and one time
they had all the children come on the stage , and they dropped
silver money and pennies , and all of us scrambled to pick up
what we could- we could keep all we picked up.
These shows were held on the land which is now Page
Field.
The Melon Festival
By DR. PAT MAY
The spontaneous birth of the Howell Melon Festival
followed the gift of a truck load of melons to the people of
Howell from the Stanley Knight family in 1959. The following
summer the Howell Business Men used the melons to
promote thie quiet community with the Festival. No formal
organization sponsored the Festival until the J .C.'s
revitalized it in 1965b y their president, Al Latson 's interest in
the project. The first year over three hundred people from all
age groups and social economic classes worked together to
promote the Festival. Nine hundred citizens raised the melon
in their own garden to be judged by the Melon Commission,
which consisted of Tom Kizer, chairman , John Hanna, for-
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mer president of MSU and Frank Bucheit, president of the A
& P Company . This tradition in the family gardens has
continued and every year they have been awarded
recognition .
A secret committee picked Miss Patricia Dowen as the
first Melon Queen in 1960 and crashed her into the Federal
Reserve Board Meeting in Washington where she invited top
industry and bank executives to the Festival. She made the
front page pf major newspapers county-wide with an airsick
picture taken by Howell's local photographer, Duane
Zemper , on the way to the White House for breakfast with
President Eisenhower .
Governor Soapy Williams and Lt. Governor Swenson came
to Howell the evening before to kick off the Melon Festival. A
large parade was formed with Will Terhune's Community
:Band . The parade was stolen by Joe Harris and lead to the
Diamond Dot Market where he fed the gathering. Stanley
Dickson suggested the melon as a tool to bring recognition to
this community and was the first chairman of the Melon
Festival. He was followed by Jake Albert in 1961 and Charlie
Sutton in 1962. Each year following the J.C.'s have been
active in the Festival and are an integral part of the community
and the melon is now known throught the world .
First Movie Theater
By ELLA WHITAKER HAGMAN
The first movie theater was opened about the year 1912 and
was called the Temple Theater . It was located on Grand
River Avenue, across from the Courthouse . A Mr. Boardman
Women had their fun too. Here a group of women are having a nail
driving contest along with many bashed thumbs.
Clubs of cyclists travelled by train with their bikes to meet as clubs
in different towns, 1888.
who was a local photographer owned the theater as a hobby.
It was a rather crude theater. The chairs were wooden
kitchen chairs nailed to the floor and the picture machine
was hand operated . The admission prices were 10 cents and
15 cents .
In November , 1913, Mr. Bert Moeller of Detroit was in
Howell and noticed the theater. Being in the movie business ,
he was curious about the theater and after checking the
building and finding it locked he walked up the street to
Barron and Wines Drug Store to inquire about it. After being
told that Mr. Boardman owned it, he contacted him at his
photo studio and before the day was over had bought the
theater.
Mr. Moeller remodeled the theater, putting in upholstered
seats and two electric picture machines . The admission
prices were raised to 15 cents and 25 cents . He asked his
sister-in-law , Ella Whitaker to come out from Detroit for two
weeks to play the piano at the theater for the silent movie
background music .
Ella Whitaker did come to Howell and fell in love with the
lovely little town with the beautiful trees so she stayed here .
Later she met and married John A. Hagman who was the
County Clerk at that time .
Mr. Moeller kept the theater for about five years and then
sold it to a Mr. Verne Losey.
Memorial Pageant of Drums
By MIKE HAGMAN
In 1970 Howell had its first Livingston County Independence
Day and Pageant of Drums celebration . The purpose
of this day was to dedicate the two new wings that were
added to the War Dead Memorial located on the Courthouse
lawn.
The existing memorial, prior to this time, had the names of
the World War I dead on the face of the east side and the
World War II dead on the west side . Some of the veterans
decided that to put the names of the Korean War dead and
although the Vietnam War was still in progress, we had lost
thirteen of our boys, we needed something a little bit different
than the existing memorial. Through donations from
the citizens of Livingston County and the County Board of
Commissioners the new wings became a reality .
The dedication consisted of removing a shroud from the
whole memorial. Gold Star Mothers did the unveiling whose
sons names were inscribed on the Memorial-Mrs . Charles
Vanwinkle Sutton, Mrs. Maybelle Pless, their sons lost the
lines in World War II. Mrs. Naomi Wins- her son lost his life
in the Korean War and Mrs. Donahue whose son lost his life in
the Vietnam War .
On this day we had both a happy time and a sad time.
Before the dedication we had a nice parade starting at 2:00
p.m ., with a jet fly over by Ohio Air National Guard . After the
parade the Courthouse lawn ceremony began and a Marine
Corps General made the primary address . After the
dedication a band concert was played .
At seven p.m. the festivities moved to Howell High School
Page Athletic Field .
Six Drum & Bugle Corps were hired to march in the parade
and put on the Pageant of Drums , which was a beautiful
show, with their colorful uniforms and display of flags and
banners . After the pageant of Drums the evening was
climaxed by a hugh firework display . This afternoon and
evening has become an annual event with our 1975
celebration on July 4th.
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- This is the outside entrance to the Opera House . On the left, Garland
stands in the entrance to his store , on the right , Bennett and Chas .
Sutton (tall one) stand by their hardware store , 1913. ..
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The Opera House
By D . J . GRAY
It may well be regarded with amazement , but Howell was
once known as " fun town."
That 's right.
According to the Hon. Jerome W. Turner, Circuit Judge of
the Seventh Judicial District for most of the latter half of the
nineteenth century , " Howell was a town from the start, with
a grin on its countenance, which never rela.ved but continually
flowered into guffaws.
" Men from the East , who had no design of setting here ,
staged it out from Detroit , or over from Dexter, to spend a
few days in laughing.
"One man I know, who resided in the city of New York, who
has since told me that he was accustomed to travel through
almost every town in the United States large enough to hold a
meeting-house, without finding one that could equal Howell
for fun."
Howell certainly had its share of characters .
There was Elijah Coffren, " a carpenter and Jomer by
trade, who would come down from the roof of a promising job
to join in a little hilarity , and not be able to get away from it
so that he could return in a month."
And Levi Bristol , " a square fighter , a man who would have
been known as an athlete among the Thebeans , but who
ususlly got 'corned ' when he came to town."
He was emphatically an ugly customer, and he asserted in
all forms of forcible inelegance , that "the first man who
squirts any water onto me'll get his head knocked off."
And 'Old Cuff Simons,' who "was of genial good nature, but
was prone to take too much liquor."
In fact, there were so many good times that , in 1885, the
good ladies of Howell stormed Balcom's saloon and
proceeded to smash everything in sight-perhaps not quite
after the fashion of Carrie Nation, with axe in hand, but
certainly with gusto. Assuredly , things quieted down, for a
short spell at least.
TRAVELING SHOWS
Now, those with a thirst for entertainment can only be
stilled for so long. There were traveling shows in those early
days of first settlers , but the menfolk couldn't resist the
temptation of getting into the act. Even shows, which are
supposed to carry about with them a sort of stereotyped
humor which can make an hour passable, were tame concerns
here in these early days, and it was two to one that
something laughable would happen to them before they left
the place .
Subjects of mesmerism underwent copious inundations of
cold water ; the magic-lantern cuirass suddenly grew cloudy
with ink, and the return of pewter and tin six-penses
astonished the showman when he counted up after the performance.
Whether this passion for antics was recognized as a source
of fortune for those speculating in funny business , or whether
the pleading of wives resulted in the inducement-even
bribery-of someone, anyone, to construct a stage which
separated the world of fools from that of actors, is not really
known.
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It is known, however, that, in 1880, the Livingston Republic
announced, " Howell is happy because it is going to have a
first-class Opera House." The Golden Age of refinement was
at hand .. . at last.
Prior to 1880, Mozart Hall housed the circuit troupes of
performers. December 23, 1880- " The Electric Light
Burlesque will play at Mozart Hall tonight. " But Mozart Hall
was pretentious in name only, and since Livingston Centre
had turned the corner of civilization and finally assumed the
respectability of Howell, a new opera house was but proper .
"The entire building will be constructed of brick and cut
stone! It will be located on Grand River Street opposite S.
Andrews ' agricultural store ; dimensions , 46 feet front and
100 feet deep and walls 46 feet high, final height 56 feet ; will
have a seating capacity for 1000 people, parquette being
seated with chairs , and the gallery with regular seats; two
full stories in height with gallery ; with two stores fronting on
Grand River Street and one on Walnut Street ; the hall will be
provided with large entrances, both in front and rear ; the
stage is 26 feet by 22 feet to ceiling, elevated four feet above
the main floor; scenery will correspond with other features
of the building .
"The whole building will be heated with a furnace and
lighted with gas . Estimated cost when finished is $11,000. The
drawings and plans were executed by A. C. Varney, a Detroit
architect , and are simply magnificent. Hunter and Holmes
are the proprietors and builders."
During the early spring of 1881 ground breaking took place
and building was begun . Well, at least a thousand pounds of
nails were delivered . It seems that then, as now, 93 years
later , the difficulties of construction plagued the investor .
Even under the direction of Lieut. Pierson , of Pontiac, who
" is bossing the business and seems to thoroughly understand
his work," the supply of bricks couldn't be coaxed or carted
in large enough numbers to maintain steady progress .
A sure way to loose the bowels of management is to sell
tickets against a given date when completion of work on a
building is nowhere in sight. This bit of psychology is intended
to stimulate labor , but the opposite result is more
often the case, with the workmen purposely protracting the
finishing touch in order to sneak a preview of watching the
management squirm.
Nevertheless, ready or not, on December 30, 1881, Bentley
Campbell 's "Galley Slave " was presented as a benefit ,
followed a few nights later by " My Geraldine ."
Previous to this, on December 2nd and 3rd, "Chaff" and
"Fun In The Kitchen " closed the era of Mozart Hall. Judging
from the titles, the performances just might be revived at the
neighborhood theater to thundering boots of audiences.
Now that the formal opening night had been celebrated , the
business of finishing the Opera House could be undertaken .
January 5, 1882,-"The gas works at the Opera House failed
to give light on Monday night. .. The hall, when completed ,
will be one of the best in the state, and far ahead of Opera
Houses usually found in towns of Howell's population. "
Finally, at a later date, "The gas works have been refitted
and adjusted by a workman from the manufactory at
Baltimore; the plaster is thoroughly dry ; a number of nice
easy pews have been put in the gallery ; and at this date very
little remains to be done, except to sweep out and arrange the
seats ." What more could be said , except possibly-have you
ever tried a pew for comfort ?
JUST PASSING BY
There was no marquee or imposing edifice to entice the
curious , just two stout doors carved to admit giants , centered
symetrically between two store fronts , one advertising
clothing and the other hardware .
When the theatre wasn 't open, the shallow alcove was a
nice place to linger, to lean against a wall of shadow and
watch passersby amble the length of the sidewalk .
On dates corresponding with those listed on gaily colored
posters announcing coming attractions-big signs pasted to a
board at the old foundry site on the corner of Grand River
and Chestnut Streets by Bert Snedicor, who balanced on a
little ladder with glue pot in hand-the huge doors were
opened at seven in the evening .
A dimly lighted plank stairway led upward , and with each
step climbed , the wheezing aspiration of pressurized
acetylene issuing from fixtures mounted by glowing globes
filled with ears with whispers , an intensifying murmur that
teased the nerves with excitement.
Short of the main floor of the Opera House, the stairway
emptied onto a landing, and forming the crown of a Roman T,
divided into two bays of steps , six to each . Either side of the
stairway were ticket windows for late arrivals, or for those
who couldn't find time to purchase reservations at 0 . J.
Parker 's Drug Store , located at Grand River and East
Street-now N. Michigan.
For the strong of heart and ample of derriere , there was
the additional flight of stairs to the gallery .. . and the pews.
Others entered the parquet through one of the two doors, and
passing down aisles with letters stenciled on the floor next to
rows of chairs , found their places and awaited the performance
.
BACKSTAGE
Mixed with the muted mumble of hushed conversation , and
the sporadic mutter of " lo, Jed " and " Hi ya , Zeke," was the
incessant hiss of gas jets . White-fired hives fizzing in frosted
glass bowls were spaced at regular intervals on the walls
under the balcony, over the gallery , and ascending the arch
of the stage .
Suspended from the ceiling , and tethered to ropes arranged
throughout a series of pulleys for lowering and lighting, were
the splayed forms of monstrous spiders , one atop the other ,
with legs rigidly stretched and holding a pearl of incandescence
at the extremities , eighteen fiery gems in all.
Separating the proscenium from the interior stage was a
curtain depicting a scene of Byzantine charm folded in the
veil of mystery .
Dark -skinned Bedouins dressed in white, flowing robes ,
with turbans coiled about the heads , sorted fruits into
pyrimidal clusters . A mythical city of oasean splendor,
flushed with the first light of day and gently fanned by
swaying fronds and palms , its presence was sanctified by the
radiant dome of a Mosque overseeing all, majestically attending
to all and everything .
The scene insensibly brought to mind such names as
Bengaski, Khartoum , and Alexandria . It was said to have
been the creation of the artist who painted the curtain for the
Detroit Opera House.
Behind the curtain , various props were arranged to lend to
similitude the verity of reality. Ropes were tested to ensure
that backdrops were in proper working order ; especially so,
the one containing the advertisements of local merchants,
which was lowered for viewing between acts .
Bert Snedicor was there, too .. . he pulled the ropes . The
trap door at ce.nter stage was checked for fastness , for apart
from Signor Bosco, the Famous Prestidigitator , sudden
disappearance proved embarrassing .
DRESSING ROOMS
Beneath the stage , in two dressing rooms abutting the rear
wall of the builiding, the actors and actresses daubed the
grease paint and applied the artistry of cosmetic transformation
.
A steady barrage of complaints was heaped on the
manager-poor accommodations, chilling drafts, unfair
billing, and most vociferously . . . back wages!-as he flitted
from room to room pleading for haste.
But this was all part of the business, a chorus repeated six
nights a week at five different towns. In utter desperation , he
paused to wring his hands beneath a sign posted for all to
read , " All local gags and jokes with double meaning please
leave out."
The hum of the audience and the confusion of voices and
noise from props being moved backstage blended fittingly
with dissonent notes blown, bowed or thumped on musical
instruments.
Seated before the stage at floor level, the members of the
Howell Union Orchestra ran the scales and sounded the
depths .
After a final piercing shriek from an obstinate clarinet , a
sudden silence settled throughout the theatre , and at a
precise moment calculated to be the peak of surging anticipation
, the baton was raised and the show begun .
The "season " of theatrical entertainment commenced in
September and lasted until the following March or April. This
is not to say that the flow of events was continuous. The
business of theatre has always been subject to calamity , or at
best , abrupt change .
November 5, 1885- the Republican reports that " Jenison
and Ward's Dime Comedy Company went to pieces in this
town last Saturday night, three of the best people in the
combination striking for their salaries . The company had
more than made their expenses during their engagement
here , but bills contracted in Fowlerville had to be met , which
left the manager 's exchequer depleted .
"Being unable to agree about future prospects the company
cancelled its Northville engagement and Mr. Ward with
five of the old company went to Williamston to reorganize
while Mr. Jennison and Misses Tremayne and Christie
(songster ) went to Detroit to seek engagements ."
In any case , there were often quiet spells between performances
at the Opera House.
SUMMER SCHEDULE
Summertime , of course , had an amusement calendar of its
own. Every town had a yearly fair , and this combined with
the circus and traveling tent shows, sufficiently filled the
time between agricultural labors and weary bones.
Once the harvest was completed and the products of the
earth stored for the winter , however , apparent stirrings were
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in evidence around the Opera House and Bert Snedicor was
once again busy with his ladder and glue pot.
Culture is known to lag in certain areas .
March 16, 1882- " Those who purchase tickets for 'A
Celebrated Case ' or any other case, do not purchase the right
to make the floor worse than a hogpen, with tobacco juice .
We have resolved to make a note of those who besmear
everything in reach of them , and ruin every ladies dress
coming in reach of their quids and filth. And those who
cannot get along without chewing tobacco in the Opera House
will be refused tickets of admission , as their empty seats are
worth more than the amount they pay for admission, taking
into consideration what they leave on the floor."
But then what is reputed to be cultural often falls short of
the mark .
" At the same time the plays that were coming through the
circuit were sometimes too crude a nature for the people of
Howell to accept. The J oily Rover Company proving to be
composed of too many professional 'sticks ' to give
satisfaction to an intelligent audience ."
The Press, in its capacity of critical arbiter and standard
bearer of value, now and then subscribed to principles of
declaration , and on occasion, however rarely , it even ventured
forth with a modicum of wit.
May 18, 1882-" Flashes (a musical comedy ) flashed but
feebly, and upon a feeble audience last week Wednesday
evening, and having no audience whatever to dazzle on
Thursday evening, they departed to more genial climes
where people will be more susceptible to their brilliant
rays. ''
COMMENCEMENT TIME
June 23, 1882, witnessed the first of a series of events that
was to be repeated every year, for forty years. On this date
occurred the first high school commencement held in the
Opera House. The occasion was accorded the solemnity
befitting an educational system founded on Duffy's Primer
and the three R's.
The length of the exercise probably exceeded the duration
of most entertainment, and the turnout-950 persons in a
house seating 800-was undoubtedly the envy and gnashing of
teeth of all traveling companies.
The exercise opened with "a musical duet and a prayer
followed . . . Then a quartet of singers preceded the main
speech which on this occasion was delivered by Charles P .
Bush, entitled "Science and Civilization."
Following the speech "Enoch Arden" was read, or recited ,
in three parts ... Miss Spencer then favored the audience
with a solo and Miss Emma Foster read an essay on "Books
and Bread ." The "Class History and Prophesy " was read
and was followed by a solo by Miss Mills.
The great moment had arrived, diplomas were conferred
to but six students, five girls and one boy. The whole program
was concluded with the singing of the class song which was
composed by L. C. Smith with words by H. H. Harmon . A
momentous milestone, indeed.
The period of time during which the Opera House was
active coincided with the most ardent and romantic era in the
history of the American theater.
Everywhere groups sprang up over night , and not unfortunately,
many disappeared just as quickly .
It was truly a time of doing your own thing . With a splash of
talent and a flood of nerve, groups gathered together to
produce a play and choose a name .
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And with little money, but bolstered with an enthisiasm
comparable to early pioneers, they clamored aboard the
stagecoach and were off on the circuit.
SPECIAL FORMULA
For the most part, the plays of this period were the product
of a formula . The typical format included skits , songs,
dances , recitations, and the playing of musical instruments.
Other routines were patterned on burlesque and comedy
acts.
Occasionally , however , drama would arrive on the scene ,
as if to remind tempestuous upstarts of the true claim to
legitimacy .
What gave rise to the abandonment of inhibition and the
rush for limelight was in part due to a very real need, the
need of entertainment in towns separated by miles of difficult
roads that rendered travelers weary after a short distance .
Money was available and waiting for those fortunate
enough to satisfy the peculiar bent of a demanding audience .
There was opportunity, and a chance to be somebody ... a big
name in " lights! " Of the few who succeeded , there were
scores of others whose names were known only to themselves
.
Every town has its favorite amusements , and I suppose,
depending on time and place , sentiments may vary . . . but not
all that much .
Howellites, in particular , headed their list with concerts .
There were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers of Nashville,
Tennessee , which returned regularly for years .
A special treat was Rice 's Opera Company performance of
Gilbert & Sullivan 's " Mikado. "
Then there was Duprez and Benedict 's Minstrels, the Lynn
and Flaherty Female Minstrels, Callender's Minstrels , and
the Slayton Ideal Colored Concert Company.
And in addition to the Weber Male Quartette, there appeared
Arbuckle , the cornetist , and Remenyi , the violinist,
brought back for a return engagement by popular demand .
THE LIST GROWS
The Lever Lecture Course began as a popular
organization, subscribing funds to bring to Howell outstanding
attractions . Among those listed as appearing are
John B. Gough, and Bell's Brilliants (hopefully better
charged than was Flashes ).
Also listed to appear were Litta , The American Queen of
Song, Theodore Tilton, Grove 's "Hearts of Oak" and " Hazel
Kirk ," the last two being plays. The eventual fate of this
series seems to bear out the saying that "Culture is often
talked about in high style, but is seldom endured ."
Very well, so much for amusements that strongly appeal to
feminine interests-now for the men .
Leahy's Bros . Ring Gymnasts must have teased the ego,
and George Ober's Company presentation of Dr . Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde surely sated suspense.
Bourne and Tucker 's Dime Comedy Company and the
Santley Burlesque combined to please the pocketbook and lift
the spirits , for they filled the Opera House from foyer to
ceiling.
And who can explain the immense enjoyment afforded by
Uncle Tom's Cabin? At least five times each year , by as
many companies , Uncle Tom's Cabin drew the tumultous
applause of full houses and tents . Yes, tents ... the play was
toured both summer and winter.
But of all the companies , including the Union Square
Company, Jack Kelley's Stock Company, and the George H.
Maxwell Company, the Noss Family was by far the most
treasured remembrance of many.
Concerning drama , either acts of God or man seemed
deliberately intent on undermining its scheduled appearances
. In 1886, the Merchant of Venice was cancelled
because of a blizzard . The Star Theatre Company presentation
of " Monte Cristo " was cancelled through fear
resulting from a false smallpox epidemic (reportedly the
magnification tactics of the Pinckney Dispatch ).
But when " Monte Cristo " was performed, with Frank
Lindor in the lead and directed by Alden S. Benedict- "This
was one of the rare plays which was presented in the Opera
House which did not follow the popular formula of burlesque
or comedy ."- well. ..
LACK OF SUPPORT
The Republican reports, " Monte Cristo, " one of the best
pieces seen in Howell however, suffered the fate that is accorded
nearly every good company that visits Howell-a
miserabl y light house, only $60 being taken in.
" It is evident that the reading class who criticize the too
frequent appearance of comedy entertainments are not
sincere in their professed wish for the higher grade dramas,
at least they discourage in large numbers a first-class attraction
by staying away. " Monte Cristo" is too heavy for
Howell from a financial point of view, though those who attended
appreciated and enjoyed its performance keenly, and
yet some think tragedy would pay here ."
In 1884, the Stair brothers , E .D. and Orin, came to Howell
and assumed ownership of the Republican , and " theatrical
histor y of national significance finds its beginning at this
time ." Soon after their arrival , they acquired a chain of
newspapers in the state and delved into the speculative
business of real estate .
September , 1885, found E .D. Stair deeply involved in the
management of the Opera House.
With Holmes, he took the occasion to publish a new policy
of theatrical standards -" It will not only be the aim of the
new management to give the patrons of the Opera House first
class amusement , but also to protect them from 'snide' or
unworthy shows.
" E very precaution will be exercised that no inferior entertainment
appears with their endorsement, or under the
ausp ices of the House."
How about that for quelling the fears of those who held that
all theatre was the corruption of morals and the home of the
Devil.
PRICES IN TUNE
Also, at this time , introduction of the 10-20-30c ent theater
days took place . This was a scheme whereby the price of
admission was scaled to the type of entertainment presented.
Prior to this, prices presumably were allowed to float, and
judging from 50 and 75 cents charged to see John T. Sullivan
and Effie Putnam in "David Garrick ," the ceiling appeared
to be somewhere beyond the dark side of the moon.
March 16, 1886, was the date that launched the careers of
two people destined for fame . On that particularly gusty
night , Little Jessie Bonesteele and Fred B. Crittenden wowed
the audience of the Opera House with " Gypsy's Prophesy ," a
playlette typical of the times in which Little Jessie acted in a
number of roles , including that of Katterina Von Hotzendotzengroo-
Shenheiser , the German Emigrant.
The Republican , March 18- " Little Jessie Bonstelle (the
change in name didn't occur until a later date ) is truly a
marvel of stage grace and a power in impersonation! The
entertainment on Tuesday evening , of which she was the
particular star , was a most worthy one indeed. She assumed
during the rendition of " The Gypsy's Prophesy ," a very
colorful comedietta written for her, seven distinct characters
and did them with a true dramatic genuis that seems hardl y
creditable in a girl scarce 15 years old. (She was sixteen ).
" Her dances were immense , the execution of a Highland
fling while playing the banjo being exceptionally difficult ;
her recitations were good, her acting splendid and her
vocalizing fair . On the whole, for a two-people show it was a
decided success , and a proposition to have it repeated here
has been made .
Reappearance took place sooner than expected , occurring
on April 2nd.
LEGEND IS BORN
Little Jessie was the youngest of ten children . She was born
near the town of Rochester , in the State of New York . Her
mother was determined to have one of her famil y on the
stage , and from an early age , Jessie was taught to recite ,
sing and dance.
Finall y, after years of practice , and the remainder of the
family old enough to take care of themselves , Jessie 's
mother gathered together various costumes and several
plays she had written and headed for the circuits.
Jessie 's meeting with E .D. Stair proved to be that
necessary ingredient in every success story . Taking a piece
written by Jessie 's mother , entitled " Little Trixie ," Stair
rewrote the play and renamed it " Trixie , The Romp
Heiress ." The following year Stair went on tour with Jessie ,
playing to major cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco.
The next year he acquired the right to " Chip O' The Old
Block" and again toured Jessie from coast to coast. After
this, their relationship was suspended until 1910, in Detroit.
During the years between 1887a nd 1910, Jessie traveled the
length and breadth of the country, acting in endles s numbers
of stock companies . She was alone now, for her mother had
died.
At age 40, weary from years of unsettled living conditions ,
wind-chilled accommodations , and one night stands , she
returned to Detroit , fifty miles from the town that witnessed
her beginning.
Surely she must have returned to Howell, and the Opera
House, if only to give substance to memories .
Although Miss Bonstelle 's appearance in 1886 was an event
of no small importance , a second happening occurred that
year which directly concerned the Opera House.
In August, Mrs. Campau , a resident of Detroit , bought the
Opera House---"she bid it in front of the steps of the Courthouse
at $1100, less than her claim against the property ."
INTERIOR REDONE
Following the sale , the Stair Brothers took over complete
management. They succeeded in convincing Mrs . Campau to
refurbish the interior . The Messrs . Burdict and Dowling
<Dick and Matt ) " skilled manipulators of the brush will leave
the walls and ceiling of the building adorned by the most
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tasteful designs of their art. The house will be ready for
formal opening about the middle of September ."
Excellent , but who was there to repair a leaky roof!
It must be assumed that, following E .D. Stair 's theatrical
adventure with Jessie , events at the Opera House continued
much the same as in other years . This is not known.
What is known is that Harrigan's Irish and American
Tourists closed the year 1887. It seemingly happened on the
sad note of a poor audience .
But sadness apparently was restricted only to certain
quarters , for the Republican reports that Howell has its ninth
bar- " Davis and Sullivan having put a bar at their tobacco
store in the Brown block."
July 18, 1889, the Stair brothers sold the Republican to
George Barns . E .D. and Orin moved to Detroit where they
purchased the Detroit Free Press and the Garrick Theatre.
The vacancy left by the two brothers is difficult to assess , but
it is certain that reportage of theatrical goings on in the
Republic under George Barnes all but vanished .
In 1910, Miss Bonstelle joined E.D. Stair at the Garrick
Theatre , managing under his directorship the Bonstelle
Stock Company, a successful operation that endured for
fifteen summers .
In 1924, however, they parted company once again , and
" the following year Miss Bonstelle founded the Bonstelle
Playhouse on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, opening it on
New Year 's Day of 1925. Two years later it was renamed the
Detroit Civic Theatre which she successfully operated under
her direction until her death in October, 1932."
ROAR OF THE CROWD
The Opera House served as a stage on which aspmng
actors and actresses with great expectations and soaring
dream s either flourished or perished .
But there were others whose lives were less dramatic , less
desperate for the roar of the crowd, yet who wished to experience
the thrill of vicarious existence . For those people
who acknowledge limitations , the Opera House afforded the
opportunity of compromise-the amateur theatrical.
In May, 1885, the G.A.R. " hired Major Burton to play the
lead in "The Dutch Recruit " . .. Notable in the cast of local
people was E.D. Stair playing the role of Frank Duncan , the
Guerilla Chieftain .''
Much later , on October 31, 1906, " Mrs . Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch " was presented as a benefit for the Howell
Masonic Lodge. A group of local people were directed by
Miss Florence Galpin of the Drama Department of the Ann
Arbor School of Music. Miss Nellie Lansing played Miss
Razey; that is, Mrs . B. H. Glenn, an invaluable source for the
compilat ion of this brief histor y.
And the Opera House served other uses as well. In
Februar y, 1885, the rear room of the Opera House was
finished and furnished for the second grade primar y school-
"t he present dilap idated quarters being considered
detrimental to the health of scholars ."
August 10, 1889, the cornerstone of the courthouse was laid
by Judge Turner . Until the new facilities were in readine ss,
the Opera House was rented to service the proceedings of
Circuit Court. Perhaps , because of such prestigious company,
the leaky roof was at last repaired .
In 1898, Arthur Garland purchased the Opera House and
used a portion of the main floor for the manufacture of
custom-tailored suits . Chas. Sutton purchased the building in
1935 and reta ins present ownership .
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What began as a grand design for gaiety and fun came to a
close in the early years of the 1920's. The fragrance of grease
paint and the smell of smoke from the fiery explosions at the
conclusion of Faust has vanished without a trace .
It is a place for storage now, but not for
memories . .. they're all but gone.
Only shadows remain , and the roof has stopped leaking .
Note: Permission to inspect and photograph the premises
of the Opera House was granted on the following condition:
That the public be notified that fire insurance reguations
prohibit their admission. Under no circumstances will this
understanding be abridged .
OPERA HOUSE.--.-/
Monday Evening, November 20.
HAlv.[LETSpecial
EngagPment of Bu shea's P laye rs, supp orting
Bennett Matlack
~Hortense VanZile
in a grand Scenic Pr odu ction of H amlet .
SpeciaSl cenery! CorrecCt ostumes!
HandsomSet ageM ountings!
Reserved Sea ts, 50c. and 75c.
Now on Sal e at A. Garland 's. Gallery , 35c. Childr en, 25c.
Notice of 1894 . to succeed Hamlet had to be sensational.
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Invitation to an evening with Jane in 1895 .
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0n December 13, 1862, as Howell prepared for the nearing - ~l~m-CJ . ·1 -w Christmas holidays, the 5th Michigan Regiment of Volunteer Infantry - - - - IVI '-:- .a r went into battle at Fredericksburg, Maryland . __ _· :=:::=-'I"=::::
Lt . . Col. John Gilully of Brighton, who commanded the Howell =-:-==:.~..,. . - 0 -
company when it wenttowar in 1861, had been promoted to command ---=:- ~- .;_ ·:~-~ _·_
on the entire regiment. --· -:-·._
Leading a charge on the Confederate lines on Marye's Heights, Col. _ --·-
Gilully was killed .
This official war dispatch describes what happened:
"Headquarters Fifth Michigan Volunteers .
"Bivouac on the Battle-Field, December 15th.
"Captain Wilson, A.A .A . General:
"Sir-In accordance with a circular from headquarters, I have the -
honor to submit the following report of the part which this regiment - ·----""~---Y~:~.
sustained in the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Gilully, came -~ =-·-=_-
upon the field at half-past one o'clock, and, after shifting from place to =. -:: · -~ -~~_;_
place, occupying different positions, constantly exposed to a furious - - --- - ~-"
fire of shot and shell, was at length detailed to support Randolph's
battery, which was in rather a precarious situation, on account of the ·
falling back of some regiments thrown out in front of it. At this
juncture the regiment was ordered forward, and opened an effective
fire upon the enemy, who were sheltered by a brush fence, and after a
brisk conflict drove them back into the woods .
"Lieutenant-Colonel Gilully fell mortally wounded while cheering
on the men, and I assumed command. The regiment remained upon
the scene of action till evening, when the First New York relieved us,
and we retired in perfect order, carrying with us our dead and
wounded. The regiment numbered two hundred and seventy-two rank
and file, and our loss is nine killed and seventy-four wounded.
"The officers and men behaved nobly throughout the short but
sharp conflict, and it would be an act of injustice to particularize
where all demeaned themselves so well; yet I cannot forbear
mentioning Color-Sergeant Bergher, who stood up bravely, waving
the colors defiantly in the face of the foe.
"I am, very respectfully,
"Your obedient servant,
"R.T . Sherlock,
"Major Commanding Fifth Michigan Infantry ."
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The civil war vets all pile into a wagon for their ride through Floral
parade in 1898.
The Civil War
By ABBOTT M. GIBNEY
The Civil War was little more than two weeks old when
villagers and people from the township gathered for "an
extremely large and enthusiastic mass-meeting " at the
courthouse in Howell. President Lincoln was calling for
75,000 volunteers to help quell the rebellion in the Southern
sta tes . Michigan's share of these men, expected to serve only
90 days , was one regiment , 780 men . And from the fervor of
the crowd gathered outside the courthouse on that April 30th
in 1861, an onlooker might easily have concluded that the
state 's entire quota was about to be filled on the spot.
The 1880 History of Livingston County by Everts and
Abbott describes the scene:
"At noon a magnificent star-spangled banner, made expressly
for the occasion by the patriotic ladies, was unfurled
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from the liberty-pole in front of the court-house amid the
wildest enthusiasm of the assembled multitude. The thrilling
song of the 'Star-Spangled Banner ' was sung and listened to
by the audience with intense emotion and vociferous cheers . .
. . All party ties seemed broken , all partisan prejudices
obliterated, and but one desire and determination manifested
by the speakers and the people,-to sustain the Federal
government in the legitimate exercise of its power to
preserve the Union."
Similar meetings were being held throughout the state.
Adding encouragement to the patriotic zeal stirred by the
words of local orators , communities set up relief funds for the
families of men who went off to " defend the Republic ." In
Howell, the citizens pledged $800, a sizeable sum in those
days, for the purpose. Additional sums were voted by the
township board of supervisors .
Support like this from friends and neighbors brought
volunteers in a flood. Soon recruiters had more men than
they could equip or had facilities to train, and some eager,
would-be soldiers actually had to be turned away. This was
the Civil War in its first stages - a gallant "rush to the
colors"-almost a holiday frolic that most young men feared
would all be over before they had the chance to join in.
But all too soon the Civil War assumed its true proportions .
It was to be a massive, grim and bloody armed struggle that
would last much longer than a mere 90 days and require the
efforts of considerably more than 75,000 men-from the state
of Michigan alone .
Before the war finally ended in April of 1865, over 90,000
Michigan men saw service in the Union army and some
14,000 of them died . Of the 1,887 Livingston County men who
answered the colors , 175-nearly one out of 10--came from
Harper's Weekly shows the women of Charleston watching the
bombardment of Fort Sumter .
Howell or the township and 45 of them died, a casualty rate
considerable more severe than that for the state as a whole.
Howell men participated in every campaign and every
major battle of the war. In the East they fought with the
famed Army of the Potomac; in the West, with the Armies of
the Ohio, the Cumberland and the Tennessee. Some of the
most famous (and infamous) generals in American history
were their commanders-Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
Thomas, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, among
others. .
Nearly half of the Michigan regiments enlisted during the
war counted Howell men in their ranks. Seventeen of those
were infantry, four were cavalry and one regiment were
sharp shooters, artillery and engineers and mechanics. Nine
out of 10 of the men were foot soldiers and in these ranks
casualties ran the highest. Of the 45 dead, 22 were either
killed in battle or died as a result of wounds received in
combat. But disease claimed nearly as many, 20.
Additionally, three men died in Confederate prisons.
Two Eastern regiments-the 5th and 26th Michigan
Infantry-and two Western regiments-the 9th and 15th
Michigan Infantry-carried the largest number of Howell
men on their rolls. And of these, the 5th Michigan, with 60
men, had by far the most.
Company 1 of the Fifth, made up largely of men from the
county, was designated the "Livingston Company."
Recruited in April and May of 1861, Company 1 was led by
Captain John Gilluly of Brighton.
There were probably some Howell men in the regiments of
other states as well. This figure-the only one available-is
for Michigan units. Howell man, Hudson B. Blackman, was
his first lieutenant, and seven other Howell men were in the
ranks; John W. Gilbert, Daniel W. Morse, Jabez A. Pond,
Henry S. Preston , Merritt Pullen, William H. Pullen and
Samuel Sutton. Gilluly, Morse, Pond, Merritt Pullen, and
Sutton were all early combat casualties of the Fifth, which
was to become one of the hardest fought regiments in the
entire Union Army.
But even as the Fifth was being organized, the "Howell
Volunteers" were on their way to the army in Washington as
part of Company K of the 4th Michigan Infantry. Raised by
James Mulloy of Howell, who became one of its lieutenants,
the "Volunteers " included: William Bennett, Henry Boothby,
John J. Dorn, Giles Donnelly, J.B. McLean, Edgar Noble,
Jonathan S. Sharp, and Julius D. Smith. The 4th Michigan
campaigned in the East and shared much of the heavy
fighting experienced by the Fifth.
Some idea of what the soldier's life was like at the front was
supplied in the letters of Gus Smith to his parents who lived
on a farm near Howell. Smith, a lieutenant with the 22nd
Michigan Infantry, was in Covington, Kentucky in 1862 when
he wrote:
" ... Haven't changed my shirt since I left Pontiac and
don't know when I can, as our baggage is fifteen miles from
here . We are the dirtyest set you ever saw. We have to drink
water out of a common duck pond. It looks green when we dip
it up. If we don't all get sick it will be a wonder."
The war ground on, casualties mounted and there was no
indication that victory was in sight. Opposition to the war
began to be heard, some of it in Gus's home town. In reply,
Gus wrote:
" . . . just so long as Such men, are allowed to talk ...
treason openly and boldly among You there at home. As they
do, there is in my humble opinion, no prospect of a Speedy
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This is the G .A.R. , the Grand Army of the Republic . The last
remaining veterans of the Civil War, in 1914, march briskly with flag
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termination . At best , Be united, Be a unit , and pull together .
And we will whip them into Subjection in Short order . But
place an army , as we are placed , with a fire in front , and a
great deal worse in the rear , It is up hill business , and prett y
Sandy at that I reckon ."
Gus Smith , in the meantime promoted to captain , died in
October 1863 of wounds received in the Battle of
Chickamauga .
With the end of the war , Howell men returned from the
arm y to take up their lives where they had left them three or
four years before . Most of them went back to their original
occupations as farmers or tradesmen. For the most part ,
they wanted to forget the war , but they would always
remember why the war was fought and take pride in their
part in preserving the Union.
They joined the Grand Army of the Republic, either John
Gilluly Post 114 in nearby Fowlerville , named for the first
captain of the "Livingston company ," or, in Howell, Waddell
Post 120, named for Andrew D. Waddell, who helped rerecruit
the 5th Infantry in 1864a nd became one of its officers .
While any of the old soldiers were still alive, Memorial Day
was a very special day and would find as many as were able
making the trip to Lakeview Cemetery to salute their
comrades who had gone on before . Now they are all gone. But
what they fought for will live on as long as the Nation .
Dr . Liddell, civil war surgeon , grandfather of Mrs . Harry Williams .
furled in celebration of the 50 years since they , as young men , came
marching home from the war.
Maria Parker , dressed in black , walks back to her lonely cabin on
Marr Road after the funeral of her husband .
Cemeteries
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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS BURIED IN
THE HOWELL AREA
1. Jonathan Cook, Lakeview , Howell.
2. Lemuel Monroe, Lakeside , Marion.
3. Ephraim Smith, Lakeview , Howell.
4. Marshall Tubbs , Lakeside , Marion.
SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
5. Caleb Curtis , Lakeview, son of French , Indian War .
6. John B. Brittin, Chilson, Genoa.
7. Nathan Cook, Lakeview , Howell.
8. David Hight, Chilson, Genoa.
Cemeteries
Coordinator
Janet Rohrabacher . Western Michigan
State Univers ity, L . P.N . McPherson
Hospital ; husband, Albert Rohrabacher;
daughter , Mrs. William Brigham ; three
grandchildren . Member Methodist
Church , Daughters of the American
Revolution, Howell Women's Club,
Detroit Society for Genealogical
Research, Wisconsin State Genealogic'.il
Society , Connecticut Society of
Genealogists . Charter member of
Livingston County Historical Society and
Mid - Michigan Genealogical Society .
Author of historical articles for Michigan ,
Wisconsin and New York publications and
of Lane and Rohrabacher family
genealogies .
9. Francis Monroe, Lakeview, Howell.
10. James Monroe, Lakeview , Howell.
11. Waitstill Smith , Lakeview , Howell.
12. Charles VanWinkle, Gilkes , Putnam .
ONE WIDOW AND DAUGHTERS
OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
13. Eunice (Chapel ) Cook, widow, Lakeview, Howell.
14. Nancy (Dearborn ) Brooks, Lakeview , Howell.
15. Miss Mary Cook, Lakeview, Howell.
16. Eunice (Cook) Curtis , Lakeview , Howell.
17. Mehetabell (Cook) Hight , Chilson, Genoa .
18. Lucinda (Wakeman ) Norton , Lakeside , Marion.
19. Mary Ann (Dearborn ) Skilbeck , Lakeview , Howell.
20. Margaret (Morris ) Thompson , Lakeview , Howell.
CEMETERIES IN HOWELL
1. Lakeview
2. Mt. Olivet (Catholic )
CEMETERIES IN THE HOWELL AREA
3. Boutell or Jones Cemeter y
4. Brophy Road Catholic Cemetery (abandoned )
5. Chilson Cemetery
6. Deerfield Center Burying Ground or Sharp Cemeter y
7. Drew Burying Ground (private )
8. Euler Cemetery
9. Fleming or West Howell
10. Gilkes Cemetery
11. Green Cemetery
12. Harger Cemetery
13. Kellogg Cemetery (private )
14. Kelly or Benjamin Cemetery
15. Lake or Lakeside Cemetery
16. Livingston County Poor Farm
17. Lutheran (St. George ) Cemetery
18. Marr or Pioneer Cemetery
19. Riddle Cemetery
20. Sanford or Russell Cemetery
21. St. Augustine or Deerfield Roman Catholic Cemetery
22. St. John 's Catholic Churchyard Cemetery
23. Van Keuren Cemetery
24. Unknown cemetery on Brayton Farm (abandoned )
Lakeview Cementery, Howell
CONTRIBUTORS TO LAKEVIEW
CEMETERY, HOWELL
1. Philip Livingston Chapter DAR
2. Roy Washburn , dee.
3. Emma Houghtaling, dee.
4. Mrs. William Hicks
5. Thomas Richardson
6. Duane Meyer
7. Fred Catrell
8. Martha Harris
9. Elizabeth Parker
10. Chester Clark
11. Doris Frykman
12. Galen Phillips
13. Helon Hacker
14. Mrs . Frank Perkins
15. Albert Rohrabacher
16. Ernest Monroe
17. Dorothy Kahler
Located , northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of
Section 36, Howell Township, Livingston County, Michigan . It
Roy Jubb and Grace Jubb, brother and sister.
is at the intersection of Roosevelt and Madison Streets, in the
northeast section of Howell.
No history of the Howell cemetery would be complete
without a history of the two earlier cemeteries which
preceded it :
FIRST CEMETERY OF HOWELL
The first cemetery in Howell was situated near the
southeast loop of Thompson Lake . At this time the Grand
River Trail ran much farther to the north than the present
Grand River Road and the cemetery was situated north of
this road, south of the lake and north and east of the house of
John D. Pinckney on North National Street. The land for this
cemetery was given in 1836 by Alexander Fraser, John D.
Pinckney and Moses Thompson.
The first person buried here was Miss Polly S. Davis , the
daughter of Sardis Davis . Other early burials were Samuel
Rowe and Jonathan Cook both of whom died in 1837. But this
land was never satisfactory for a burial ground . All of the
bodies which could be found were removed to the second
Howell cemetery or other grounds .
THE SECOND OR "OLD" HOWELL CEMETERY
The second Howell cemetery was situated on its western
bounds by North Barnard Street , on the north by the southern
line of the present athletic field and the eastern boundary
was the end of North Street.
This land was purchased by the Howell Township Board of
Health on March 4, 1841 from Edward and Rocelia Thompson.
Members of this board of health were : John W. Smith,
Odell J . Smith , Gardner Wheeler , Wellington A. Glover ,
George W. Kneeland and Moses Thompson. A new road had
just been built there and while the land purchased included
the road , the size of the land for the cemetery, excluding the
road , equaled one acre of ground.
FIRST BURIAL
The first person buried here was Henry Wheeler, the son of
Dr . Gardner Wheeler, who died January 16, 1841, before the
land was purchased . Most of the burials from the first
cemetery were removed to this cemetery .
The development of the town of Howell swung to the east
and northeast, following the location of the new Courthouse
Square on this side of town. Soon the old cemetery was
surrounded by houses with no space to expand . Following the
opening of the new Oak Grove Cemetery on the shore of
Thompson Lake , most of the bodies were disinterred and
buried there from 1867 to 1890.
Mrs. William Hick's grandmother remembered the first
burial in this new cemetery which she said took place about
1868, "up in the woods."
MOVING THE BODIES
In moving the bodies from this cemetery to the Oak Grove
grounds, everyone did their own work. The ground soon
became dug over in such a way that it was impossible to find
some graves . The oldest daughters of Rev . Alva Crittenden
and two children of Richard Fishbeck were among those
whose bodies could not be found.
Mrs. Emma Houghtaling said she remembered the
removal of some of these bodies by horse-drawn wagons ,
when she was a small child. The wagon racks were open and
loaded with the pine boxes. She thought this was about 1887.
The Howell History says that in 1880 the old cemetery was
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Governor Dickenson speaks to the Howell Rotary Club .
in disuse, wholly neglected and covered with a tangle of
shrubs, with only a few graves remaining.
In correspondence with The Ann Arbor Railroad Company
officials, they stated they have the deed by which the Ann
Arbor Railroad bought part of this cemetery land for a right
of way in 1890.
THE LAKEVIEW <OAK GROVE) CEMETERY
The Oak Grove cemetery was originally the private
cemetery for the Thompson family. There were a few of their
family burials here at the time that the land was conveyed to
the Howell Township Board of Health on April 17, 1867.
This land had been acquired by Albert D. Thompson, John
H. Galloway, William and Alexander McPherson and
William McPherson, Jr. and N. J. Hickey for cemetery
purposes. It is situated in the northeast quarter of Section 36,
Howell Township and in the northeast section of the city; the
entrance at the intersection of Madison and Roosevelt
Streets.
The original portion which was conveyed in 1867 comprised
about fifteen and one half acres . This land is in the shape of a
triangle, with the point ; the northeastern and southeastern
lines bounded by Thompson Lake. It has a beautiful rolling
surface and its vegetation is what is called in Michigan "Oak
Openings" in which oak trees stand in open spaces with very
little undergrowth . Besides the oaks, there are a number of
hickory nut trees and tall pines.
SECTION D
This land was plotted in the usual manner of a modern
cemetery. ' One of its most unusual features was the formation
of Section D, or as it is commonly called " The Old
Corner Cemetery." This is in the northwest corner of the
cemetery, cut-off by the road to form a triangle . This space
was reserved for the bodies removed from the old cemetery.
Of course, many relatives or descendants of those buried in
the old cemetery could not be located so these remains were
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buried here in Section D. But, also many persons who had
bought new lots in the new cemetery felt that they had paid
once for their burial lots in the old cemetery and they were
not going to pay again, so they allowed the removals of their
family to be buried in this Section D provided by the town;
while they reserved their new lot for their present family .
LAYOUT
In the main, Section A is on the south side of the original
cemetery and Section B is in the center and Section C on the
north side . Section Fis east of A, Section G is east of B, and E
and H are east of C and follow the lake.
CIVIL WAR
Little Arlington, a section set aside for Civil War soldiers
by the G.A.R. post is located in Section B, Lot 231, Block 7
(half way down Section B toward the east) . This is a very
colorful spot on Memorial Day.
There is a large Civil War monument of granite located in
Section A, just inside the gates . It is surmounted by a figure
of an Infantryman in Civil War uniform . Inscribed on the
front is "In Memory of Our Fallen Comrades"-the only
inscription on the stone . This monument , which had been
worked for so long by the local veterans organizations, was
unveiled and dedicated at the Memorial Day program , May
30, 1895. Mayor Pingree of Detroit was one of the speakers at
the exercises . These were preceded by a parade in which the
Howell K. T. band was a feature .
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Soldiers of all wars are buried in this cemetery . There are
two Revolutionary War soldiers buried here, Jonathan Cook
and Ephraim Smith . There is also one Revolutionary War
soldier's widow, Eunice (Chapel) Cook, widow of Jonathan
Cook and five daughters of Revolutionary War soldiers : Miss
Mary A. Cook, Mrs. Eunice (Cook) Curtis, Nancy (Dearborn
) Brooks, Mary Ann (Dearborn ) Skilbeck and Margaret
(Morris ) Thompson.
Four sons of Revolutionary soldiers buried here are:
Nathan Cook, Francis Monroe, James Monroe and Waitstill
Smith . There is also Caleb Curtis, a son of a French and
Indian War soldier .
OTHER WAR VETERANS
There are numerous veterans of the War of 1812 buried
here , some Mexican War soldiers , Spanish-American War
soldiers and soldiers of both World Wars.
In 1963 Civil War Centennial Observation Commission
Survey showed at least one hundred and sixty-five soldiers of
the Civil War buried here. Roy Washburn was very helpful in
this survey .
UNDERGROUND VAULTS
There were originally three underground burial vaults , two
belonging to the Angel family and one to the Fishbecks. One
Angel vault deteriorated so much that it was obliterated
some time ago, but one Angel vault marked " 1875" still
remains and also the Fishbeck vault. Neither one are now
used as vaults . Some years ago the bodies were interred in
the ground. The Fishbeck vault also contained the Bullock
family .
The McPherson family have a private mausoleum and the
Frisbys have a private vault.
CITY OWNERSHIP
On April 28, 1915 the township of Howell sold to the City of
Howell for $1.00 the Oak Grove Cemetery property . The
The home of Earnest Avery , 1893.
upkeep of such a large cemetery had grown to be too much
for the township.
At once, the Howell City Council organized a cemeter y fund
of $300.00f or the maintenance of the cemetery . On the first
Memorial Day following the acquisition from the township,
the city spent $50.00 for commemoration .
On April 27, 1917t he city purchased markers for all soldiers
graves . This was at the height of the first World War and
people were very conscious of the soldiers ' sacrifice of life.
' In council action of February 11, 1919 the name of Oak
Grove Cemetery was changed to Lakeview.
MAUSOLEUM
The large Mausoleum at the entrance to Lake view
Cemetery was built by a private company . Construction
began in 1913 and the building was dedicated in 1915. The
Mausoleum Association Constitution and By-Laws are dated
March 2, 1922.
On June 17, 1946 the City of Howell took over all the assets
and property of the Howell Mausoleum Association , Inc .
adjacent to Lakeview Cemetery. From then on, the city
would manage , care for and maintain the mausoleum .
In 1972, the mausoleum needed a complete new roof and
also extensive repair. The city felt that any revenues coming
in from sale of mausoleum space would never cover the
present immediate repairs or any repairs in the future .
Therefore it was determined to proceed with the disinterment
of the bodies in the mausoleum and their reinterment
, along guidelines set forth by the city attorney. They
were given ~our years for completion of the task . Location of
next of kin to giv.: consent has been very slow.
There were thought to be 133 bodies in the mausoleum, but
a search revealed 111 bodies and 109 caskets (two bodies
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were without caskets ). When one casket was opened the body
was found to be gone. To date, there have been 29 bodies
removed.
At present there are 57 bodies for whom no heirs can be
found to authorize removal , so they will have to be removed
as provided by law. Then the Mausoleum building will be
razed .
THE NEW DIVISION
April 24, 1929 the city purchased some lots south of the
mausoleum, and followed this up with the purchase less than
a year later, March 26, 1930 of two or more acres on the south
side of Lakeview. This was the first part of the New Division;
the part north of the drive .
In 1931, the old fence separating the old Lakeview from the
New Division was taken down. This made it possible to
establish Babyland , on a bluff, southeast of Section A,
overlooking the northern part of the New Division. (Now
Section F ).
UTILITY BUILDING
The very same year saw plans made to build a cemetery
utility building, large enough to contain a superintendent's
office, a garage for a truck and one or more cars and two
restrooms. This was in the time of the depression and it was
voted to use welfare help as much as possible. Also many
persons donated materials and their labor . It could never
have been built without the help of a lot of dedicated individuals
. Of actual money the town voted $600.00.
SECOND ADDITION
The second addition to the New Division, the south side,
was made August 26, 1935. The city bought up the old icehouse
property on Thompson Lake and also a couple of
houses. These were torn down and the land was added to the
cemetery, more than two acres .
Landscaping plans were submitted to the council in 1938b y
the Coryell Nursery and approved.
WORLD WAR VETERANS
The American Legion provided a plot on the north side of
the New Division for the burial of veterans of World Wars and
subsequent wars. It is about two-thirds of the distance east
from the entrance, going toward the lake .
The cemetery accepts for burial the ashes of persons whose
bodies were used for medical purposes by Wayne State
University. Previous to this the ashes of such persons came
from Eloise and older Detroit hospitals. This program was
begun about 1945-6.
DESTRUCTION IN SECTION D
Approximately 1950t o 1955,v andalism was very extensive .
Damage was done to all of the cemetery, but the old Section
D, the removals from the second and even from the first
Howell cemetery, was the most extensive. Many of these old
headstones were thrown into the lake and some were never
recovered ; others were broken to bits .
No records of the burials or headstones in this section had
ever been made . Only records existant are in 1916 when the
bodies of Dr . Cyrus Wells and Mrs . Nelson Pettibone were
disinterred . Unfortunately , Mrs . Edla Potter did not record
the inscriptions from this section until after more than half of
them had been destroyed in this vandalism .
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Frank Wilson-poor Commissioner .
This section of the cemetery contained Pinckneys , Sages ,
Austins, Smiths , Campbells, Rohrabachers, Havens , Dixons,
Wells and all the first settlers .
RELOCATION OF STONES
After the vandalism of the 1950's, what headstones that
were recovered were saved and stored. Then the road
widening project was begun at the place where the roadway
approaches the lake at the Old Corner Cemetery (Section D)
and makes a sudden turn to the right. The descent is steep
here and the turn abrupt. It was thought to be dangerous, so
the road was widened by taking some land from old Section
D. Then all the stones, those remaining , and those vandalized
were reset in two straight rows, so that the headstones are
nowhere near the bodies they mark, and the roadway actually
goes over the bodies of Howell's pioneers.
Another major vandalism took place October 21, 1966. Fifty
gravestones were toppled, destroyed or removed . A week
before this, thirty-five were broken. Restoration of this has
been very fine. Howell can very well be proud of their
cemetery and its management.
MEMORIAL DAY
Howell has Memorial Day Services each year at this
cemetery. They are preceded by a parade of veterans and
their organizations, the National Guard, Women's Patriotic
Societies and Boy and Girl Scouts, bands and fife and drum
corps .
The monument on the courthouse lawn is given a memorial
tribute. The front of this monument contains the names of
those who died in the Second World War; the left-wing of the
monument contains those who died in the Korean War and
the right-wing those who died in the Vietnam War. On the
back of the monument are those names who died in the First
World War.
The Civil War monument at Lakeview is also decorated ,
and the sailors remembered with floral offerings on
Thompson Lake . Our own local citizenry have provided some
very fine speakers who have addressed those gathered from
the natural pulpit which is the high bluff on the south line of
the old cemetery which overlooks the New Division. These
services , in charge of local veteran organizations have been
very fine and impressive .
ML Olivet Cemetery (Catholic), Howell
CONTRIBUTORS TO MT. OLIVET
CEMETERY, HOWELL
1. Veronica Devereaux
2. Virginia Dayton
3. Haidee Brady
4. Irene Brotz
5. Mrs. Joseph Metz, Sr.
6. Mary Shields
7. Mrs . Glenn Berry
8. Doris Jones
9. Joseph Brady
10. Julia C. Blackburn
In 1836-38 Fr. Patrick O'Kelly who was stationed at
Northfield served several groups of families in Green Oak
and Genoa in private homes. Later , Catholics of Howell were
attached to Genoa and Brighton congregations. In August.
1878 the first church building, St. Joseph was begun in
Howell, under Fr. J . G. Dougherty of Brighton. Formerl y
Howell had been a mission of Brighton. There were many
Irish and Germans in the congregation.
The first Catholic cemetery of Howell area was a short
distance south on Chilson Road from Grand River . It was on
the west side of the road and near the Fuhrman farm . The
land was purchased from Charles E. Itsell and his wife, Kate
for $250.00. It was in the northwest quarter of Section 6,
Genoa Township and purchased March 14, 1891b y the Howell
Catholic Cemetery Association which had filed articles with
the County Clerk March 18, 1891 in which they agreed to
purchase four and one-quarter acres in Genoa Township for
cemetery purposes.
FIRST CEMETERY
Their capital stock was $275.00a nd the number of shares
were eleven. There was a five member board of directors.
The first board of directors were: Pastor of St. Joseph
Church of Howell, A. A. McDonough, John Jones, John
O'Connor, John Ryan, and Thomas E . Baron, treasurer .
The association was to continue in existence for ten years.
The shareholders were: John Jones, Dennis Shields, William
Dunn, John Ryan , John O'Conner, Ambros A. McDonough,
Thos. E. Baron, Alex O'Neil and Joseph Wessinger.
SECOND CEMETERY
Some twenty or twenty-five years later , it was decided to
relocate the cemetery . On the 29th of January, 1914, Richard
E. Barron and his wife, Mary sold a tract of land roughly the
shape of a triangle, bounded by a line north of the Ann Arbor
Railroad , Thompson Lake and Knox Street (now Roosevelt
Street ). It was purchased by the Right Reverend J . S. Foley,
D.D. Bishop of the Diocese of Detroit for the sum of $1,000.00.
A feature of the new cemetery is a circle drive . Rev. Fr.
John Rolf Day, a former Howell priest, liked Howell so much
that he requested to be buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery rather
than the priest's cemetery in Detroit.
Two of the five Devereaux brothers who served in the First
World War are buried here. Also, a sixth Devereaux boy, a
relative, served in the war .
The southeastern section belongs to the original church
purchase for a cemetery, but it has not yet been developed .
IMPROVEMENTS
In 1969 Edward M. Brady of Grosse Pointe Shores, but
formerly of Howell began improvements in the cemetery . He
had a wrought iron fence installed and the circular drive
paved . Later, he had the shoreline of Thompson Lake which
adjoins the cemetery cleaned out and seeded . The City of
Howell, which has land on the north side of the cemetery also
cleaned their shoreline and seeded. Then Mr. Brady had the
unused part of the cemetery seeded and a hedge planted on
the south side. This not only improved the cemetery but this
entire section of Thompson Lake .
Cemeteries of the Howell Area
CONTRIBUTORS TO HOWELL AREA CEMETERIES
Boutell: Earl Handy
Brophy Road Catholic: Frances McDevitt, Gale McDevitt
Chilson: William Pless, Bird Hight
Deerfield Center: Helen Sharp
Euler: William Pless
Green : Mrs. Harold J . Maycock, Mrs . Carl Ward, Lloyd
Miller
Harger: Burt Rubbins, Ernest Wright, Mrs. Byron Rogers
Kellogg: Ralph Hardy
Kelly or Benjamin: William Pless
Lakeside: Mary Bartkowiak
Livingston County Poor Farm: Stanley Knight, Gladys
Crippen
Lutheran (St. George): William Pless
Riddle: Mrs . Mervil Moore
Sanford: Earl Handy
St. Augustine : Helen Sharp
St. Johns: Kathleen Farmer, Mrs. Robert Fauldenour
Unknown cemetery, Brayton Farm: Ruth Marr, Lyle
Musson, Albert Rohrabacher
Foreword: Families mentioned as buried in cemeteries
are only those with numerous burials . There are persons
buried there with many other names.
BOUTELL OR JONES CEMETERY
Southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 24,
Cohoctah Township.
The first burial in this cemetery was Mrs . William Northrop
who died in 1837, probably when this land belonged to
William Packard . In 1839 Noah Ramsdell bought this land
and sold it to Daniel Bouten in 1853. The cemetery was well
established in 1860 when Daniel Bouten sold his land , excepting
from the sale the burial ground . John Jones land
joined it on the south, hence sometimes called the Jones
Cemetery. It occupies about one acre of ground . Vandalism
took place and markers were broken several years ago.
Families : Jones, McMillen, Bouten , Phillips, Graham,
Ramsdell.
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The unveiling of the civil war monument in tne cemetary .
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The banquet at the Armory for the Centennial celebration of the
founding of the Masonic Lodge in Howell.
BROPHY ROAD CATHOLIC CEMETERY
(ABANDONED)
Southwest corner of southeast quarter of Section 18,
Hartland Township .
The first Roman Catholic service was held at the home of
James Gleason with Rev . Fr . Morrissey of Ann Arbor officiating
. Money was collected and donated by the
congregation and placed in the hands of Rev . Bernard
O'Cavanagh to purchase 40 acres for the Roman Catholic
Church and for the purpose of erecting the church . In turn, he
turned the land over to Right Rev. Frederick Rese, Bishop of
Detroit on August 18, 1837.
John and James Brophy came in 1835a nd took up 320 acres
of land in this area . A cemetery was started and also a
church foundation , when there was a disagreement among
the congregation over where the church was to be located .
Finally, the Bishop at Detroit chose a building site in Oceola
Township, now called St. John's Church of Oceola.
When the congregation moved, many of the bodies were
removed from Brophy Road to the St. John's Church
Cemetery , but the priest was not in favor of doing this. Yet
the township officials agreed to do it. Evidently there were
some burials that were not removed by request.
The Detroit diocese transferred this land to ownership by
the Lansing diocese in 1938. In 1945, the forty acres was sold,
but the Lansing diocese still owns the cemetery . This is one of
the earliest cemeteries of the very earliest settlers. Last
burial was Father Wines who died in 1905.
CHILSON CEMETERY
Northeast corner of the east half of the southwest quarter
of Section 28, Genoa Township . Located about a mile north of
the village of Chilson, on the east side of Chilson Road, near
the Ann Arbor Railroad junction and Coon Lake Road intersection
.
This cemetery is located on land taken up by Nicholas
The East Ward School.
Joe Brown on his 100th birthday .
Kriesler in 1837. It is one of the oldest cemeteries and contains
the graves of some of the first settlers of Genoa. When
Kriesler sold his land in 1867, he excluded the graveyard
which contained three acres. Later he sold this burial ground
to Asa Rounsifer and Mr . Rounsifer sold it for $5.00 to the
Genoa Burying Ground Association in 1870.
In 1924 the Genoa Burying Ground Association consisting of
B. F . King, president; John Rickett , secretary and Bert
Beurman , treasurer transferred the cemetery to the
Township of Genoa .
Recently the township has improved this cemetery greatly
by cutting the brush and grass and enclosing it with a sturdy
fence ; thus reclaiming it from a shambles such as the
Benjamin cemetery is at present. Many hitherto unknown
markers have been discovered here. It is hoped that the
restoration may continue . ·
There are two sons of Revolutionary War soldiers buried
here, John B. Brittin and David Hight and also a daughter of
a Revolutionary soldier , Mehetabell (Cook) Hight. Families :
Fishbeck , Carpenter, Case, Beattie , Cole, Barnard , Beurmann
.
DEERFIELD CENTER BURYING GROUND
OR SHARP CEMETERY
Located on east side of southeast quarter of Section 21,
Deerfield Township. On west side of Mack Road.
Thomas Sharp of Seneca Co., N .Y . took up this land from
the government in 1837.
Nancy Fausett , born 1778d ied in 1838w as the first burial on
this land , which was selected by herself from the farm of her
nephew, Thomas Sharp .
On January 20, 1855 Thomas Sharp sold an acre of ground ,
or 87 square rods, of his farm to the trustees of the Deerfield
Center Burying Ground . The trustees were : John Sellers , E .
F . Cooley and Darius Lewis. Mr. Sharp retained a plot two
rods square for the burials of the Sharp family.
On May 6, 1863, Elhanan F. Cooley gave a warrant for a
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meeting to organize a cemetery association. They met May
16, 1863a nd chose the name , Deerfield Center Burial Ground
Corp. 0 . J . Marble was chairman for the meeting and Sineon
Kittle , clerk .
Officers elected were : Elhanan F. Cooley, president ; John
Sellers , treasurer ; Simeon Kittle , clerk and John Merrels,
sexton .
In 1869, Henry Sharp sold a plot approximately 12 rods by 4
rods to the " north of the Old Graveyard" to the Deerfield
Burying Ground Incorporation .
In 1887 Catharine (Sharp ) Mack sold part of the old
Thomas Sharp farm to the same Deerfield Center Burying
Ground Incorporation . At that time it was represented by
Peter Lamb , E . H. Stiles, James Fausett , Charles F .
Leonard , John Noble, Henry Fawsett , James Cameron , S.R.
Mack and Wiltsey Glaspie . The piece was about 17½ rods
square . She also leased a strip of land on the south side for a
driveway , with the provision that it be fenced with boards or
with slat and wire fence .
The cemetery was still growing when in 1952, Glenn S.
Mack sold a piece of land 17 rods, 2 feet by 9 rods , 5 feet ,
containing one acre , on the south side, to the Deerfield Center
Burying Ground Corporation , Edward White, president and
Bruce Fawcett , secretary . This was on condition that the
buyers build and keep in repair a fence along the north and
west side of the acre .
Mr. Thomas Faussett placed a large stone in the cemetery
which was originally an Indian grinding stone and on it
placed a bronze plaque which gives the history of the stone
and of the Faussett family. Families : Merrill, Root, Lewis,
Fausett , Cole, Stiles , Royce, Howell, Holcomb, Marble ,
Sharp , Pratt , Spalding, Hatt. Green .
DREW BURYING GROUND (PRIVATE)
Located in northwest fractional quarter of Section 3,
Marion Township. It is opposite the site of the Michigan State
Sanatorium , now Hillcrest.
This cemeter y was located on land which was part of the
original 235 acre farm which Townsend Drew took up in 1839.
It was the burial place of the pioneer Drew family who
owned the site of Michigan State T.B. Sanatorium , now
Hillcrest. It stood on a knoll, enclosed by a fence , nearl y
opposite the entrance to the sanatorium and in view of the
road , but is now obscured by buildings .
In his will in 1882 Townsend Drew declared " That acre of
ground on my farm where my friends have been buried and
where I wish to be buried , I give to the Drew family to be used
as a burying ground forever ."
In the partition of his farm the section which contained the
cemetery went to Townsend Drew , Jr . The cemetery lot
extended to the center of the north and south roadway .
Possibl y this section was released to the state for a road .
There are seven Drew burials here .
EULER CEMETERY (PRIVATE)
East quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 12, Genoa
Township.
This cemetery is at the intersection of Euler Road and
McClements Road , on the southwest corner . It is on land
bought by Lawrence Euler in 1861, son of John Euler who
settled in 1836.
In 1924 this land was purchased by the City of Detroit
Recreation Department for a summer camp , and the entire
area, including the cemetery is now fenced in. It can be
approached by entering the camp grounds , crossing the
baseball field and taking the nature trail through the woods.
An attempt has been made to fence off the cemeter y.
Only Euler headstones are here now, but there may have
been others .
Women of the Howell Baptist Church.
Dr . Gerald Mccloskey at work .
FLEMING OR WEST HOWELL CEMETERY
West half of Section 17, Howell Township.
This cemetery was laid out in 1850, apparently first on the
land of Abram Van Nest. Many of the pioneers of Howell
Township rest here .
On May 7, 1866,A bram Van Nest sold about one-fourth acre
of land in the northeast quarter section to the trustees of the
Burial Ground of School District No. 5 of Howell. The trustees
were: John W. Smith, Tracy Richmond and Ethel Stewart.
The area was a rectangle 3 rods and 14 feet by 10 rods and 2
feet. In this he reserved Lot No. 14 for the Van Nest family .
Probably they had already been buried at this spot.
At the same time Manuel Streker sold to the same trustees
an area of approximately the same size, adjoining the other
plot, but on the southwest quarter of the section .
In 1879, Manuel Striker sold another section of land, containing
5,692 square feet to Jerome W. Hand, Henry P . Taber ,
and William E. Bennett, trustees of the Burial Ground of
District No. 5, Howell. This land seems to join the old
cemetery on the east and south .
The trustees in 1892 were Vernon C. Smith, Daniel Lockwood,
Lemuel A. Wight, Jerome Hand, James Lasher ,
Leonard Huck, Edward Bushnell, Charles B. Damon and
George Lutz and they turned the cemetery over to the Board
of Health of Howell Township.
The Board of Health was : George B. Allen, clerk; George
Raymour , David Robinson and Edward P . Gregory, J.P . and
Lewis J . Wright , supervisor .
The cemetery is surrounded by a fence and has about a
dozen majestic pine trees , making an outstanding landmark
to be seen from many directions . It is located one-half mile
directly north from the interesection of three roads , known as
Six Corners of Fleming, one of the earliest settlements on the
Grand River Road , between Howell and Fowlerville . Col.
Ebenezer Damon , a soldier of the War of 1812 is buried here .
Families : Stevens , Smith, Van Nest, Stewart, Gilchrist ,
Parker , Lake , Marr, Richmond , Hall.
GILKES CEMETERY
Northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 5,
Putnam Township.
It is located on the town line between Putnam and Marion
Townships, corner of Cedar Lake Road and Schafe~ Road .
The Putnam and Marion Burying Ground Corporation was
formed March 17, 1851. First officers were : William
Younglove, president ; David Parker , clerk ; John Love,
collector ; Elisha Love, treasurer ; and Nehemiah Gilkes,
sexton.
Other members of this group were Aaron Younglove,
Thomas Love, John Larkin , J . Barney, Frederick Saunders,
I. H. Shaw, Ezra N. Fairchild , Enos Burden , A. H. Smith , S.
J,. Hazard , William P . Fitch , Lorenzo Smith , Henry G. Love,
and John Vanwinkle .
This group bought the site of the cemetery from Nehemiah
Gilkes, April 7, 1851. It was on land which Nehemiah Gilkes
had acquired in 1836, and was a rectangle 161 feet by 131 feet.
This group was reorganized April 10, 1869 with the
following officers : Ezra N. Fairchild , president ; George
Younglove, clerk ; and William H. Gilkes, treasurer. Many of
these people were residents of Marion Township. This
cemeter y contains many English immigrants . Charles
Van Winkle, son of Revolutionary War soldier is buried here.
Families : Love, Weller, Russell , Wilkerson, Gilkes, Basing ,
Burden , Affleck, Clements , Smith.
GREEN CEMETERY
Southeast corner of the west half of the southwest quarter
of Section 19, Marion Township, on the west side of Pingree
Road, near Vines Road .
On April 20, 1842 the First Burying Ground Society of
Marion and Iosco Townships, bought the above land which
was a rectangle 18 rods by 16 rods, containing 304 square rods
or about two acres of land for $5.00. This land was bought
from Joseph Walker and was part of his farm. Later , he sold
his farm to Adolphus M. Green ; then Mr. Green 's son,
Reuben Green occupied the land, hence the name .
On September 30, 1925, the Marion and Iosco Burying
Ground Society, in a meeting called by Wirt Smith, clerk ,
with the following officers: Roy Ellsworth , chairman; Roy
E . Miller, secretary ; Fred Moore, Sexton, turned the
cemetery over to the Township Board of Health of Marion
Township. Thus it became a township cemetery .
It has always been a policy of the cemetery that it was for
the use of the people of the area and that no charge was ever
to be made for a grave . At the present time nearly all the lots
in the cemetery are filled. Families : Gorton, Coleman ,
Beach , Person , Backus , Clark .
HARGER CEMETERY
Northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 23,
Marion Township. Located on Pinckney Road, west side of
road .
The first place of burial was on the Pinckney Road near
Joseph Walker's residence . Andrew C. Harger bought land
here in 1846. On February 14, 1848 Mr. Harger deeded one
acre of this ground for a cemetery to the Board of Health of
Marion Township; William Younglove, supervisor ; Z.M.
Drew, Wilson G. Isbell , William Younglove and Miles Chubb,
acting as members of the Board of Health.
The grounds were surveyed by Ezra N. Fairchild March 15,
1849. Mr. Harger reserved the right to a portion of this
graveyard for burying his own family and also the right to
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exclude all persons for burial who had borne none of the
expense of fencing and improvement of the cemetery.
In 1878, the Board of Health of Marion Township, consisting
of George Coleman, supervisor ; Albert N. Fairchild , town
clerk; Israel Bailey, J.P. acting for the Township of Marion
turned the cemetery over to the ownership of the East
Marion Burying Ground Corporation .
The officers of the East Marion Burying Ground Corporation
were: Joseph Brown, president; James Harger,
clerk ; Alfred Wright, treasurer; and James W. Dickerson,
sexton.
The next year , 1879, James W. Dickerson gave a strip of
land ten feet wide by 16 rods long, adjoining the north side of
the burying ground to enlarge the grounds. Families:
Harger, Goodrich, Lyons, Dickerson.
KELLOGG CEMETERY (PRIVATE)
Southwest quarter of southwest quarter of Section 36,
Oceola Township. Located at corner of Kellogg and Golf Club
Roads.
In 1864 Ebenezer Kellogg deeded the Kellogg family
cemetery to Richard Walker, Samuel Stark and David
Kellogg. It was a rectangle five rods by eight rods, containing
one-fourth of an acre. In 1939i t was still owned by the Kellogg
family and apparently is now. Families: Kellogg, Walker,
Hardy, Whitehead.
KELLY OR BENJAMIN CEMETERY
On Section 13, Genoa Township on Hyne Road about a
quarter of a mile northeast of Grand River Road at
Woodlands Golf course , west side of the road . North is the
Birkenstock schoolhouse.
This cemetery is on land originally owned by Nelson S.
Benjamin and is one of the earliest in the county. Aaron
Kelly entered land in 1833 in Section 6 and 7, Brighton
township, directly across the road to the east of this
cemetery , hence the name Kelly, although no stones bearing
the name Kelly were found. It is quite possible they were
destroyed.
In the 1930's more than a dozen gravestones were standing ;
now all are broken or flat, and hidden in a dense thicket of
trees and shrubs. The broken headstones are hidden in the
myrtle and wild grape vines covering the ground .
Families : Benjamin, Spencer , Hathaway, Murray .
LAKESIDE CEMETERY (CALLED LAKE)
Located Northeast quarter of Section 5, Marion township.
It is called Lakeside in the inscription over the gate,
probably because it is situated beside a lake, but the
Livingston County History calls it " the Lake Burying
Ground." This is because it was a private burying ground
belonging to Rial Lake who settled there in 1838. This
cemeter y became part of the widow's dower on Rial Lake 's
death in 1859.
Ten year s later , 1869, her son, George B. Lake sold their
family cemetery to the North Marion Burying Ground
Corporation for $25.000 The officers of the North Marion
Burying Ground Corporation were : Elijah F . Burt,
president ; Frederick W. Muson, clerk ; Samuel M. Yerkes ,
treasurer and Henry M. Avery, sexton . The amount of land
was approximately three-quarters of an acre, on an
irregularly shaped lot.
In 1936 the North Marion Burying Ground Corporation
deeded this original plot to the Township of Marion. At the
sam e time they conveyed to them a new addition containing
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one and one-third acre . The officers of the Corporation at this
time were ; Fred Berry, president; Roy R. Day , treasurer ,
and Bruce W. Roberts, secretary .
This cemetery contains a number of pioneer settlers .
Several families who were related are buried with their
graves in a form of a circle overlooking the lake.
Lemuel Monroe, a Revolutionary War soldier and Lucinda
(Wakeman ) Norton, daughter of Stephen Wakeman, Jr .
Pierpont Smith, the early explorer and settler of
Shiawassee County, Mich. is buried here.
Families : Bashford , Smith , Woll, Lake, Munson, Norton,
Bailey , Yerkes .
LIVINGSTON COUNTY POOR FARM CEMETERY
Southwest quarter of Section 15, Marion township. Located
just off County Farm Road.
The poor of the county were at first boarded in private
homes that were known as " poor farms " but were not actually
owned by the county. On January 5, 1871 Hiran Wing of
Marion Township sold his farm of 215 acres for $10,000.00t o
the Board of County Supervisors. A committee composed of
the Supervisors of Green Oak, Unadilla , Tyrone and Conway
Twps. made the choice for the location of the poor farm . That
very year a new building was started for them, near the road
and the Wing farm buildings . A second building called the
Infirmary was later built which burned in 1937.
During the 1930's under Mr. Whitacre 's direction and using
W.F.A. labor , the cemetery on the Poor Farm was improved .
However, when the stones were reset , they were set in rows
and not over the graves . There were at least 65 burials , a
number of them Scotch or Irish . This area, one-seventh of an
acre , was at this time fenced, but now the fence is gone, and
the county has never done anything to keep up this cemetery .
Monuments waiting to be transferred from the old cemetary to the
new one on the lake .
LUTHERAN (ST. GEORGE) CEMETERY
AND CHURCHYARD
Southwest corner of the southeast quarter of Section 1 .,
Genoa township. Located corner of Crooked Lake and Bauer
Roads .
German settlers came from Hanover and Hamburg ,
Germany to Genoa township as early as 1835.
On January 14, 1850 Deitrick (alias Richard ) Berhnes sold
two acres of land for $25.00 to the Trustees of the German
Evangelical Lutheran Congregation , named St. George's
Church . The trustees were: Richard Berhnes, Lewis Dorrt
and George Rusischer. This land in Section 14 was expressly
for a site for a meeting-house , school house, and burying
place . This is where the old church and cemetery were
located.
On April 12, 1862, Richard Berhnes sold three acres of land
on Section 13, Genoa township to the Trustees of the German
Lutheran Church of St. George. This was the site for the new
church and parsonage . The Trustees at this time were: John
E . Wiechers , Theodore Winter and Richard Berhnes .
In 1913 Leonard Berhnes of Genoa sold an addition to the
original Section 14 site. The area of the addition was 17 rods
by 14 rods. It was sold to the church trustees, Oscar
Schoenhals and George Conrad .
Mr. Behrnes bought the old church and moved it across the
road and used it for a granary .
Many of the inscriptions on the headstones are in German.
Families: Pfau, Wehnes, Bode, Grostic , Behrnes , Euler ,
Herbst.
MARR OR PIONEER CEMETERY
East side of northeast quarter of Section 8, Howell township
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This is the oldest cemetery in Howell township, laid out as a
place of burial in 1848 on land owned by the Marr family .
John Marr settled on Section 8 in 1839.
John Marr, when he deeded land to his son in 1859 excludes
the piece of ground on the east side of the farm which he had
deeded to the township of Howell for a burying ground. ( deed
not found).
After John Marr 's death , his heirs in 1886 deeded this
cemetery containing one-half acre of land to the Pioneer
Burial Ground Association of Howell. The heirs of Erastus
Marr and Jesse Marr did the same.
On the 15th of October , 1892 the Pioneer Burial Society of
West Howell deeded this land on Section 8, containing onehalf
acre to the Township of Howell.
Families : Dorrance, Rambo , Marr , Lake , Robinson,
LaGrange .
RIDDLE CEMETERY
East side of southeast quarter of Section 15, Oceola
township.
The spot for this cemetery was selected by Elijah Riddle,
father of Sallu Riddle who came to Oceola about 1840 or 1841.
The cemetery was on land which his son, Sallu Riddle took up
in 1839. Elijah Riddle was the first person buried there in
1842. Persons who had died in Oceola before this time were
buried on their farms. Their bodies were removed to this
cemetery .
On May 19, 1852 Sallu Riddle sold this cemetery to the
Board of Health of Oceola township for $10.00. It was 165 feet
wide by 264 feet long, containing one acre of land .
April 16, 1898 Henry A. Cornell sold additional land on the
south side of the cemetery for $100.00 which increased its size
by half an acre .
In 1963 Mervil Moore sold an acre for an addition on the
west side of the cemetery. This is an unusual pioneer
cemetery, in that it is still in use and still growing in size.
Families : Wilcox, Parshall , Dean, Curdy, Rumsey .
SANFORD OR RUSSELL CEMETERY
Located on North end of west half of southeast quarter of
Section 27, Cohoctah township.
John and James Sanford took up land here in 1834 coming
from Steuben County, N.Y. Ezra Sanford came in 1835.
James Sanford on May 21, 1841d eeded 80 square rods to the
Board of Health of Tuscola ( Cohoctah ) township for a burial
ground. He mentioned that it was on an East and West road
and already known as a burial ground.
In 1845 he gave one-half acre more deeding it to an
association formed for the purpose of holding title and caring
for the grounds. In 1859 this organization became defunct
remaining so until 1873 when a reorganization was effected
under the name of the "Sanford Burial Ground Association ."
Officers in the 1873 reorganization were : Joseph B. Brown,
president ; Thomas Goldsmith , sexton ; Michael Thatcher,
secretary ; Alexander Peckins , treasurer . Later Marcenus
Peckins became treasurer.
In 1892 Joseph A. Russell sold about two and one-quarter
acres to the Township Board of Cohoctah for an addition on
the east side of the cemetery . Members of the Board were ;
Charles E. Dunston, Charles H. Miner and Samuel A. Teller.
The cemetery continued to expand when Wheeler Russell
sold an addition to the south in 1913. They reserved the right
to a burial plot for the Russells selected by themselves.
In 1939 Wheeler A. Russell gave a large plot on the south
side of the cemetery , 82½ feet by 525 feet.
This is a very well kept cemetery and usually Memorial
Day services are held here each year.
A beautiful glacial granite stone was dedicated October 14,
1934 to the Rev . Ezra Sanford , a Baptist minister and it occupies
a prominent place in the cemetery .
Families : Sanford, Russell , Peckins, Staley, Houghtaling ,
Howe, Houghton, Wrigglesworth .
ST. AUGUSTINE'S OR DEERFIELD ROMAN CATHOLIC
CEMETERY
Located on the southwest corner of southwest quarter of
Section 25, Deerfield township ; on Faussett Road .
Joseph Welch (or Walsh) who was not a member of the
Roman Catholic congregation of Deerfield gave a piece of
land two acres square for the site of a church by this
congregation. It was to be designated by the name St. Peter &
Paul 's Roman Catholic Church of Deerfield .
The church was erected and the cemetery started beside it.
The first burial stone is dated 1843.
The church numbered thirteen families under the
organization of Rev . Patrick Kelly in 1846. They were : Jame s
McKeone, Dennis and Timothy McCarthy, Bryan Corr, John
McKeone, Edward Sweeney, Michael Bennett , Patrick and
James Conklin, James Scullin, James Murpry , James
McGuire and John Ryan .
In 1857t wo more acres in the southeast corner of Section 26
were purchased . This area was 22 rods east and west and 15
rods north and south .
The original church stood where the cemetery now stands .
The new church was built in 1896. It is not known when the
nam " was changed to St. Augustine .
In 1917 Rev . John S. Foley of Detroit conveyed all Roman
Catholic property in Deerfield to Rt. Rev. Edward D. Kelly.
In 1920 Rev. Edward D. Kelly, Bishop of Grand Rapids
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turned over the ownership of the cemetery to Rt. Rev .
Michael J . Gallagher, Bishop of Detroit.
In 1938 Edward Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit (successor
to Michael J. Gallagher) passed control to Joseph H. Albers.
Roman Catholic Bishop of Lansing.
Families : Besides those already mentioned as members;
Devereaux, Robb, Daley.
ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD CEMETERY
Northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 25,
Oceola township. Located M-59 at Hacker Road.
The congregation was founded 1838. First mass of the
Oceola and Hartland Catholic congregation was in a log
cabin situated in the road-bed of present M-59 at Hacker
Road . Next, it was held in the home of James Gleason, east of
the present church on Section 30, Hartland township.
January 20, 1844 Rt. Rev . Peter Paul Le Ferve purchased
two acres in Section 25, Oceola township from Michael
McGuire, which included the present church and cemetery
site . The plot of land was 18 rods east and west and 1712/ rods
north and south, to be held for the Roman Catholic
congregation of Oceola.
The first name of the church was St. Mary 's, but by 1859 the
name was changed to St.John 's. The present church building
dates from 1868-1873.
In 1918 Rev. John S. Foley of Detroit transferred all the
Roman Catholic property in Oceola township to Rt. Rev.
Edward D. Kelly of Ann Arbor .
In 1920 Rt. Rev . Edward D. Kelly of Grand Rapids transferred
the two acres in Oceola to Rt. Rev . Michael J.
Gallagher of Detroit.
In 1938 Edward Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit (successor
to Michael J. Gallagher) passed this property to Joseph H.
Albers, Bishop of Lansing.
Joseph H. Albers, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lansing,
in 1941, accepted in trust for the St. John's Parish of Oceola
township, a plot of land given by Fred and Rose McGrain. It
extended southward on the east side of the cemetery to the
first Edison electric pole, then west for the length of the
cemetery. The McGrains were to hold possession of the land
The price of the menu is hard to believe nowadays.
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until it was needed for cemetery purposes. The church was to
furnish the necessary fencing.
Families : McKeever, Fahey, McGuire, Gleason,
Foldenauer , Quinliven, Bergin , Walsh.
VANKEUREN CEMETERY
Northeast corner of northeast quarter of Section 18, Oceola
township.
This small cemetery is located on land originally owned by
Charles Van Keuren who came to Michigan from Ulster
County, N.Y. in 1836, building his home on the northeast
quarter section 18 in 1837.
The original size of the cemetery was a rectangle 14 rods by
11 rods and 7 feet , containing one acre of ground . Many of the
earl y settlers of Oceola are buried here .
When many private persons or cemetery organizations
sold their plots to their township board of health, many times
a nominal sum of $1.00 was required. But Mr. Van Keuren
sold his cemetery for the smallest sum on record - for
twenty-five cents-to the Board of Health of Oceola Township.
The board members were: Samuel K. Tubbs, K.S.
Franklin and Jacob W. Eager .
In 1913, James I. Van Keuren, the son of Charles gave a
half-acre of land for an addition on the west side. The
cemetery is still in use.
Families : Van Keuren, Taft, Walker, Parker , Hetchler ,
Eager , Cassady.
UNNAMED CEMETERY, BRAYTON FARM
(ABANDONED)
Southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 22,
Howell township.
A cemetery was located here, on the north side of Bowen
Road. It was founded 1853 possibly as a private family
cemetery on the Ira Brayton farm , across from the present
Charles Wilkerson house. It was still in existence in 1880, but
by the 1930's all headstones were gone. It is unknown whether
the bodies were removed .
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The 5th Michigan Regiment Band Historical Color Party perfectly execute a company front, 1974.
Music through the Years
The Howell City Band
An earli er City Band , photographed on the steps of the
Court House in Howell, was active probably in the 1910-1915
era . The photo from the Livingston County Historical Society
has been studied by their historian, Mrs . Esther Clark, and
the following persons identified :
Front row, from the left , are the director Mr. Garland ,
snare drum player Bruce Newcomb, Dr . Bailey , Art Joy,
fifth man unidentified , Dutch Miller, Charles Culver , Ford
Smock, Julius Hesse, Frank Lansing , and the drum major
Lynn Fishbeck.
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Music through
the Years
Joan Marie Bergren is the daughter of
Mr . and Mrs . Wendell E . Bergren , 6350
Dunn Road, Howell. She is a twelve-year
resident of Livingston County and a 1971
graduate of Howell High School. She
earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Advertising from Michigan State
University in 1975.
The six men in the second row are the bass drummer Leon
Stowe, second man unidentified Mr. Randall , Joe Jaszewski ,
Hugh Culver , and Charles Riley .
Three in the third row are all unidentified .
Fourth row has at the left the tube player Frank Jaszewski ,
in the center William Porter , and the man on the right
unidentified . ·
Amusing incidents recalled by Esther Clark while
reviewing this photo include the one about Dr . Bailey , In
about 1905 or 1906 Dr . Bailey had the first little Brush
roadster in town. A certain Ma Carpenter , prominent lady in
town, was reluctant to go for a ride in the thing when others
did. Finall y she was persuaded to go, and it was this
particular time , down by the lakeside of what is now Howell
Lake, Dr . Bailey failed to make the curve and dumped her in
the lake .
The baton shown in the photo in the right hand of Lynn
Fishbeck is now on display in the Depot Museum.
Esther Clark is a sister of the snare drummer boy Bruce
Newcomb and she recalls many times that she went with him
before the band played to wet down the skin on the heads of
drums .
Livingston County Concert Band
The first " community " band in the area was the Howell
Community Band , directed by Mr. Will Terhune . Mr.
Terhune established the Band in 1955 and provided the
leadership that enabled the Band to continue for 11 years .
The Howell Community Band played on many occasions that
took them out of Howell to County and State Fairs , the
Jackson Cascades , and numerous local civic functions. In
1962 they won a trophy for excellent performance at the
Michigan State Fair. The Band was especially honored to
play for the inauguration of Governor George Romney in 1964
under the dome of the Capitol Building in Lansing .
The Howell Community Band performed in black and
white uniform coats , paid for by their conductor, Will
Terhune. Due to schedule conflicts , the Howell Community
Band discontinued in 1966 and for six years, the County was
without a community band.
Mrs. Sally Witt, a strong band and music enthusiast,
decided that Livingston County needed a band and proceeded
to establish the Livingston County Community Band in the
Spring of 1972. Since she was not a conductor, she contacted
Mr. Gordon Small to take the leadership of the new Band, a
position which he held until August 1973. Many members of
this new group were members of the former Howell
Community Band. The feeling among the membership was
that the new group was a "descendent" of the original band
as they used the same music and equipment.
During the time when the new band was getting into formal
organization, the name was changed to the Livingston
County Concert Band , which remains as the present title.
Under Mr . Small's direction , the Band played at many
functions around the County: civic organizations, public
meetings , lawn concerts, and the Fowlerville Fair. Formal
concerts were held in Howell, Brighton, and Fowlerville. In
August 1973, Mr. Small resigned from the Band to become
Bandmaster of the newly formed 5th Michigan Regiment
Band.
Leroy E . Lane , Band Director of the Highlander Way
Middle School, was appointed conductor of the Livingston
County Concert Band in September 1973. Under his
leadership, the Band membership grew from 18 to 65 during
the next two years. They achieved official recognition as a
non-profit organization and continued to make progress
City band on the courthouse steps.
toward a professional approach in providing musical and
cultural events to the area. Their concert schedule consists of
three formal concerts , one spring " pops" concert and four
summer lawn concerts .
During the 1974-75s eason , the Livingston County Concert
Chorus was added to the formal auditorium concerts. The
singers were volunteers from local school and church choirs .
Under the direction of Mr. Lane , the Band continues to
grow and provide the community with musical excellence
and urges interested people in the area to join the Band ,
either as a player , singer, or listener.
The 5th Michigan Regiment Band
The 5th Michigan Regiment Band, an internationally noted
official American Revolution Bicentennial Project of the
State of Michigan , is a 160-member recreation of the Civil
War Band (1861-1865o) f the 5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Regiment.
The original regiment, with its band , was mustered
through Fort Wayne, Detroit , in the early fall of 1861, and
included a 24-member band, plus 20 additional fifers and
drummers from the individual companies .
The new unit was formed in Howell, Michigan in the fall of
1973.I t includes an 80-piece Regimental Band, a Regimental
Color Party , a ,Historical Flags Color Party, the Regimental
Dancers , the Regimental Fifes and Drums , the Regimental
Bugle Band, the Regimental Banjos and Singers, and the unit
quartermaster and ordinance sections. Smaller units,
including the Brass Choir, the Saxophone Quartet , and the
Woodwind Quintet are also a part of the entire unit.
It is appropriate that the band was formed in Howell,
because Company I (The Livingston Company) of the 5th
Michigan Volunteer Infantry was from the Livingston County
area. The Regimental Commander killed at Fredericksburg,
while leading a futile charge , was Lt. Col. John Gilluly of
Brighton, also in Livingston County.
Gilluly, as a captain, had formed and commanded
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The 5th Michigan Regiment Band on the Village Green at Dearborn's Greenfield Village Muzzleloaders festival
1975. '
Company I when it was mustered into the regiment in 1861.
He is buried in the cemetery by the millpond in Brighton .
The regimental musical units are under the direction of
Captain Betty Forsyth, Bandmaster. Bandmaster Forsyth is
a virtuoso french horn player and music instructor .
The unit was honored at Governor William Milliken's
swearing in on January 1, 1975,w hen the band performed for
the Governor's Inauguration in Lansing.
Commanding the entire unit is Major David L. Jaehnig ,
who was a founder of the unit, and who serves as the
Bicentennial Commissioner for the City of Howell. Major
Jaehnig has extensive background in band management in
Michigan and Colorado.
Since its beginnings, the unit has toured extensively in
Canada and the Midwest. It was , for example , selected by the
Canadian government to perform at Old Fort Henry in
Kingston, Ontario with the Fort Henry Guard ... an honor
usually reserved to the United States Marine units from
Washington, D.C.
The group has also performed by special invitation at the
annual Canadian National Exhibition , joining in the Exhibition
Parade, which was viewed by 750,000 spectators , plus
millions on Canadian television. Other bands selected for
that honor included the Royal Air Force Band from London,
England; the National Band of New Zealand; and the
Caribinieri Band from Rome, Italy.
The many other engagements of the 5th Michigan are
equally high in the list of honors : Henry Ford Museum as the
ceremonial band for the Let Freedom Ring Ceremony ;
Greenfield Village for the annual Muzzleloaders Festival;
Toronto's Ontario Place Forum, usually hosting the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police Band , or popular and classical
events· Toronto's Old Fort York where the unit was
welco~ed by the brigadier in charge of the Toronto
Historical Commission; Burlington, Ontario, crowds
swamped the band shell and Queen Victoria park to welcome
and hear the unit last August, as crowds vaulted from a
normal 200-300p er band concert to more than 2000a s the 5th
Michigan arrived.
And the list doesn't end there : From Belleville to Chatham ,
Ontario ; from Marshall to Mt. Clemens; from Cedar Point to
invitations to Disney World; from Romeo's Peach Festival to
invitations to Spokane, Washington's Expo '74; and from Old
Fort Wayne to Tecumseh 's Sesquicentennial the 5th Michigan
logged more than 60 performances at home and abroad
in less than a year.
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Now the Michigan Council of the Arts has taken over some
of the burden, making the only band grant in the history of
the National Council of the Arts ... $18,300 to help the 5th
Michigan and smaller Michigan communities combine to
bring music and the arts to everyone.
The unit has also received a $10,000 grant from the
Michigan Bicentennial Commission.
Precision, musical excellence , and historical tradition
have brought the 5th Michigan Regiment Band to international
prominence, and negotiations are now working to
bring the unit to the East Coast in 1976, to Europe in 1977, to
the West Coast in 1977, and to the major world marchingmusical
festivals in the years upcoming .
Members of the band range in age from 13 to 73, as families
and professionals, students and professional men combine
several times weekly to rehearse, plan, and perform for
many thousands of spectators .
The unit is the only American Revolution Bicentennial
band that was begun from scratch for the 200th Birthday
Celebration. The unit is an ongoing project, however , and it
will continue to thrill the audiences across the state and the
world in the years to come. As the bicentennial era ends in
1789 plus 200, the 5th Michigan will continue to represent
American history and tradition.
The 5th Michigan Regiment Band is an official American
Revolution Bicentennial project of the City of Howell, the State of
Michigan, and the United States of America. It was the initial project
of the Howell Bicentennial Committee, when it was founded in late
summer of 1973, and has received international acclaim for its
musical and drill excellence. The unit includes more than 160
members between the ages of 7 and 73, the younger members
assisting in limited areas. The performing unit is more than 140
members between the ages of 12 and 73, and includes many area
families, and families from three surrounding counties. The unit has
received nearly $30,000 in outside funding through the efforts of the
Howell Bicentennial unit .
The 1917 Saxaphone orchestra.
1900-1910
By JOAN BERGREN
Imagine steak for 24 cents a pound! Or a dozen eggs for 12
cents, a man's shirt for 50 cents, a suit for $9.00 and work
shoes for $1.25. Those were the "good old days" of 1900 when
76 million people populated 45 United States of A,merica. Led
by President William McKinley, America was faced with a
wave of growth and new developments. Nine million immigrants
arrived to settle down and take part in the growth
of our nation.
In 1901, President McKinley was assassinated . Vicepresident
Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest
president in our country 's history, at the age of 42. His
"Square Deal " reform became the farmer's and
workingman 's production incentive.
News headlines proclaimed transportation achievements .
The Wright Brother 's 59-second airplane flight at Kittyhawk
was just the start of a new industry . Nearly half a million
automobiles flooded the streets. Packards, Locomobiles,
Haynes, Columbias and Oldsmobiles began to replace the
longstanding horse and buggy form of transportation .
The beauty and freedom of women was symbolized by the
Gibson Girl. And baseball became the All-American sport.
Ty Cobb for Detroit and Christy Mathewson for the New York
Nationals were sports heroes of the decade . Collegiate
football became popular . The first Rose Bowl game was held
in 1902 when Michigan beat Stanford 49-0.
America was starving for entertainment. Show and music
business boomed. Vaudeville theaters could be found in
almost every American town. The Keatons, Cherry Sisters
and Zeigfield Follies played a great part in vaudeville along
with animal acts, singers and jugglers . In 1903, the first
motion picture debuted in a New Jersey store . Entitled "The
Great Train Robbery," it was an 11-minute film about a train
robbery and the pursuit of the robbers . The success of the
film led to the establishment of nickelodeons-stores converted
into theaters by the addition of chairs. They charged 5
cents to view the movie accompanied by piano music.
Popular songs of the 1900's grew into an industry known as
Tin Pan Alley. The name came from the area in New York
City-Broadway to 8th Avenue of 28th Street-where music
publishing houses were centered .
"My Gal Sal," "In My Merry Oldsmobile," "Ida! Sweet As
Apple Cider, " and many other songs could be heard in
department store basements on demonstrators . Ragtime
reached its popularity peak during the first decade of the 20th
century . Dances like the one-step and turkey-trot were
popular.
George M. Cohan rose to stardom with his patriotic songs
such as " You're A Grand Old Flag" and "Yankee Doodle
Boy."
America faced the future with optimism at the turn of the
century . Lifestyles were energetic and bustling and now had
a flair for musical comedy, which moved America into the
second decade .
1910-1920
The second decade of the 20th century was the decade of
change-not only in government affairs but in lifestyles as
well.
Three-hundred pound William Taft was chosen as
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presiden t in 1908. He was succeeded by Woodrow Wilson in
1912. Wilson's program of reform was called the " New
Freedom ." The New Freedom was accompanied by unrest ,
strikes and left and right-wing organization involvement.
The Gross National Product grew immensely-to over $70
billion in 1920. In 1910 alone, Tin Pan Alley sold over two
billion copies of sheet music . Automobile sales soared. Over
ten million cars were sold. Four million families went " on
wheels" by 1917. The " automobile for everyone " was built by
Henry Ford in Highland Park , Michigan . It was known as the
" Tin Lizzie" or Model T.
Meanwhile, Europe was in the midst of a war with the
German Kaiser . The U.S. entered the battle in 1917 after ten
million men registered for the army draft in a single day .
Poster s could be seen with slogans such as , " I Want You For
The U.S. Army" and " Buy Liberty Bonds." There was a
giant effort to " make the world safe for democracy ."
Cohan's "Over There " could be heard whistled in many
households.
The women of America were campaigning strongly for
voting rights. The suffrage movement ended on June 4, 1919
when the 19th Amendment was passed , guaranteeing a vote
regardless of sex. The Women's Christian Temperance
Union succeeded in banning the manufacture , sale and use of
liquor by fighting for the 18th Amendment.
Movie production grew into a huge industry by 1912. Stars
were soon singled out by the public . Mark Pickford became
America's Sweetheart. Infamous Charlie Chaplin, "The
Tramp ," and Rudolph Valentino, the idol of the matinee ,
were star s.
Broadwa y came to be known as the Great White Way
because of it's bright hue when lit up.
War songs such as " How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On
The Farm ," and " It 's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary " were
popular as well as nostalgic songs like " Indiana, " "Beautiful
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Ohio," " Roses Of Picardy' ' and " The Bells Of St. Mary 's."
The changes in popular music can also be noted in the rise of
jazz numbers like "Hindustan ," "After You've Gone" and
"That's A-Plenty ." Irving Berlin completed his all-time hit
" Alexander's Ragtime Band " in 1911. The change in music
showed that the country was also changing .
1920-1930
The 20's opened with popular songs of the previous
decade--"Hindustan ," " My Mammy ," "After You've Gone"
and " Roses of Picardy ." The "Roaring Twenties " found
people bustling around enjoying good times . Silent movies
bowed out to make room for the talkies . With money in the
bank and smiles on their faces, people sat back to listen to the
love songs sung in a throaty voice by Helen Morgan-" Love
Me Or Leave Me," " The One I Love Belongs To Somebody
Else ," and "Basin Street Blues."
Over 400 musicals gave birth to such songs as "Button Up
Your Overcoat ," "The Best Things In Life Are Free ," and
"The Varsity Drag ." Al Jolson made famous "Sonny Boy" in
the film " The Singing Fool. " Sophie Tucker was THE Red
Hot Mama as she sang "A Good Man Is Hard To Find. " Bing
Crosby and Rudy Vallee made their star appearance. George
Gershwin 's "Strike Up The Band " and " Rhapsody In Blue,"
played by Paul Whiteman 's orchestra , were all-time
favorites .
If you were having a " swell" time , people said you were
" Makin ' Whoopee." Other expressions used were the bee's
knees , the cat's pajamas , 23 Skidoo and oh, you kid!
In the 20's, dances like the fox trot, black bottom ,
Charleston and the shimm y were popular . Short skirts ,
bobbed hair , " shingle " haircuts , hats of cloche and-heaven
forbid- bare knees were all the fashion . "Flappers " shocked
their elders with free use of cosmetics and cigarettes.
Canned foods, ready-made clothing and household appliances
gave women more freedom to leave the home.
In Atlantic City, the first Miss America Beauty Pageant
was held-including the one-piece bathing suit parade. Mary
Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. threw lavish parties to
boast a happy marriage. Fortunes were won and lost overnight-
especially at the racetrack. Man-0-War won $170,000
and took a place in racing's Hall of Fame.
The greatest sports stars ever known became national
heroes-Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Red
Grange and coach, Knute Rockne were in the spotlight.
College and professional football was organized and provided
the American public with an exciting sport to view. Another
national figure that hit the limelight was-who else?-
Mickey Mouse.
Census figures showed 100 million people when Hoover
succeeded Coolidge in the presidency . The "Teapot Dome"
scandal during Harding's administration had raised
thousands of eyebrows. And when the stockmarkets crashed,
smiles fell. Homes were lost, debts rose and people lost jobs.
As the curtain descended on the 20's everyone wondered what
the 30's wound bring to smile and sing about.
1930-1940
The 30's was the decade of the "blues"-not only in music
but in lifestyles as well. As the "Depression Years"
progressed, breadlines lenghtened and tempers grew short.
Ethel Water 's soulful song "Stormy Weather" from "Cabin
In The Sky" was virtually the song sung in every household.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was now the president. His "New
Deal" was a campaign for Relief, Recovery and Reform.
Although a few new jobs were created, most people were
unemployed. To pass the long hours, new games were born.
Monopoly, bingo, contract bridge and jigsaw puzzles were all
the rage. The radio became a household relief from everyday
boredom. There was no admission fee and people could hear
entertainment's best-Amos 'n Andy, Fibber McGee and
Molly, Lum and Abner, Easy Aces, The Shadow, Fred Allen,
Burns and Allen, Myrt and Marge, Jack Benny, the Lone
Ranger , Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and suspenseful
drama from the Lux Radio Theater hosted by Cecil B.
DeMille.
While families kept themselves entertained in the home,
whistling and humming to "Goody Goody" and "On The
Sunny Side Of The Street ," men were out on the street corners
selling apples for 5 cents, hoping to earn a dollar.
As the 30's plunged on, things began to pick up. Roosevelt
was elected for a second term, Social Security went into
effect and General Motors workers fought and won a 5 cent
per hour raise.
The 30's decade was the " Swing Era. " Big bands, led by
Count Basie, Bob Crosby, Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller,
Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, and Artie
Shaw made their mark in history. A young trumpet player ,
Harry James, formed his own band after leaving Goodman's
band . His theme song was "Ciribiribin." Pinetop Smith and
his piano boogie woogie was another popular form of music .
The Hit Parade of songs listed at the top " Stompin' At The
Savoy," " Tuxedo Junction, " "Out Of Nowhere," "This Can't
Be Love," and "Memories Of You." One of the greatest
patriotic songs was released in 1938-Irving Berlin's "God
Bless America."
The Big Apple and the Jitterbug were the dance crazes of
the era.
Motion pictures now had full sound. Names like Marie
Dressler, Norma Shearer, Will Rogers, The Barrymores ,
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis were in lights on theater
marquees. Clark Gable was seen in "Gone With The Wind,"
which was the Academy Award winning movie in 1939. The
Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields and Shirley Temple were loved
by the American audience.
Sports heroes reigned in the public eye. Baseball Hall of
Fame included Walter Johnson, Rogers Hornsby , Cy Young
and Lou Gehrig. Football boasted stars such as Sammy
Baugh, Tom Harmon from U of M, Don Hutson, Bronko
Nagurski from the Chicago Bears, Ernie Nevers and
Fielding " Hurry Up" Yost, coach of collegiate teams.
On 1.her adio, Walter Winchell began his radio series with a
rousing "Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South
America and all the ships at sea ... " and right he was. Hitler
was just taking his big step in to the second World War of the
century . And America was soon to follow in those footsteps .
1940-1950
From Depression to War and on to the Atomic Age! That's
what the 40's were all about. The Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor on December 7, 1941 got America into the full swing
of World War II.
Americans tightened their belts another notch and bore
down on war production. Beauties in steel helmets took their
place in the factory production lines and shipyards-all for
the war cause.
Urgent requirements for war goods caused many consumer
goods shortages . Rationing of items was nationwide.
Coupons were needed to purchase meats , butter, sugar, fats,
oils, coffee, canned foods, shoes, nylons and gasoline . Prices
froze on rents and wages . Slogans like "A slip of the lip may
sink a ship" was well-known due to censorship of all communication
between countries .
Men headed off to war with memories of tunes like
"Tenderly," "Autumn Leaves ," "Silver Wings In The
Moonlight," "In The Mood," and "I'll Walk Alone."
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Big Bands declined somewhat as the individual singers
became star attractions . Helen Forrest and Helen O'Connell
wailed the blues. The Dorsey Brothers , Guy Lombardo, and
Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers were famous dance
bands . " Deep Purple, " "Embraceable You," "One O'Clock
Jump ," and " Jersey Bounce" were sweet and swing tunes .
Rodgers a-nd Hart were producing songs like " Manhattan"
and "Blue Moon."
Dancing was popular both on stage and off. Fred Astaire
made famous " One For My Baby (And One More For The
Road)" with it's sad melody. He turned it into a routine that
told a story . The Jitterbug was still extremely popular .
Jazz was going strong . Dizzie Gillespie and "Bird " Parker
made great contributions to the new jazz style known as
bebop.
New lyrics , melodies, rhythms, syncopation and improvisation
made the music of the Forties . Lyric treatment
can be heard in " That Old Black Magic" sung by the handsome,
swooner-crooner Frank Sinatra , but made BIG by
Billy Daniels. Syncopation is handled well in "Sentimental
Journey ." Melody is the strong point of songs like " I
Remember You" and " Moonlight Becomes You." The tune
that glamorized the New York nickel subway ride was " Take
The 'A' Train ."
Movies of the 40's covered many areas . War pictures included
" Casablanca " and " The Best Years Of Our Lives ."
Social injustice was dealt with in the " Grapes Of Wrath" and
" Gentlemen 's Agreement. " Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful
" Rebecca " was a thriller . Musical comedies included Bob
Hope and Bing Crosby in " The Road To Morocco." Even
Disney's full-length cartoons "Fantasia" and " Pinochio "
were box-office hits. Drive-in theatres became popular
during the late 40's.
Mickey Cochraine and Frank Chance became baseball
Hall of Famers . Stan Musial and Ted Williams were leading
hitters .
Meanwhile, back at the war , VJ-Day came shortly after the
U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima . The war was
over! Truman was now president, after Roosevelt 's death . In
1948,T ruman ran against Thomas Dewey for the presidency
and fooled everyone by winning.
America surged on as events galloped across headlines.
The umber 1 song on the Hit Parade was Tony Martin 's
rendition of " To Each His Own." Nat King Cole left his trio to
become a soloist with " Mona Lisa." Knock knock jokes,
Kilroy jokes and Shaggy dog jokes seemed uproariously
funny. Al Jolson 's "Anniversary Song" was a big hit.
The 40's closed on a note of nostalgia with a lot of hopes for
continuing prosperity .
1950-1960
The 50's opened on a note of optimism . The Baby Boom was
on and everyone was having fun-as new homes were built,
marriages went up and incomes increased . Truman approved
the Hydrogen Bomb development as men went off to
fight in the Korean "Police Action." The Cold War against
" Iron Curtain " nations was on.
At home, Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded "Vaya Con
Dias," a million-seller. Broadway shows like "The King And
I," "Gigi," and "Paint Your Wagon" sparkled on stage. The
Kingston Trio's " Tom Dooley" and Jo Stafford's "Shrimp
Boats Are A-Comin," were radio hits.
Music styles began to change as new stars entered the
limelight. Fats Domino, Fabian, Debbie Reynolds , Paul
Anka, Connie Francis, Doris Day , Jerry Lee Lewis and
Bobby Darin were soon becoming favorites . The King was
none other than Elvis Presley , who stopped many hearts with
his swinging hips and hit song "Heartbreak Hotel."
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Movies became more spectacular. " Around The World In
80 Days, " " Here Comes The Groom," " The Robe," " The
Greatest Show On Earth, " "All About Eve " and "Ben Hur "
were a few of the best. Television was quickly becoming the
popular form of home-entertainment.
Number One hits of the decade were Bing Crosby's "In The
Cool, Cool, Cool, Of The Evening," and Judy Garland 's " Man
That Got Away" from "A Star Is Born." " Silver Bells,"
" Fever ," "Misty, " " Que Sera Sera " and Harry Belafonte's
" Jamaica Farewell " entertained the changing American
audiences.
Billy Graham brought his evangelism to Yankee Stadium's
92,000 spectators . Millions wore "I Like Ike" buttons as
America elected Dwight D. Eisenhower , WWII hero, as new
president.
The Russian Sputnik went into orbit only to return to a new
music sensation-Rock and Roll! Led by such stars as Bill
Haley and Little Richard , music had changed forever. The
Everly Brothers' rendition of "All I Have To Do Is Dream "
and "Wake Up Little Susie" sent young hearts aflutter .
" Rock Around The Clock Tonight," "Satin Doll" and
"Kansas City" were top on the Hit Parade . Bing Crosby,
Johnnie Mathis , Frankie Laine, Tony Bennett , Frank Sinatra
and Pat Boone all recorded top songs.
Baseball was proud of some of its greatest heroes-Dizzy
Dean, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg. The great Joe
Lewis fell in defeat to Ezzard Charles after 15 rounds.
The young face of dashing John F . Kennedy had entered
the picture in the 50's. And was to be seen much more in the
beginning of the 60's.
1960-1970
Unrest , discontent , rebellion and revolution-those were
the characteristics of the 60's.
Vocal opposition of an Asian war brought on peace mar -
ches and demonstrations by the young.
Everyone seemed to oppose something : parents, school,
morals , materialism, a callous society . One could sense the
feelings by reading slogans , graffiti on walls and buttons
stating " Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty ," "Make Love Not
War" and " War Is Not Healthy For Children and Other
Living Things. "
Musicw asi ndicativoef t hef eelings-lyricws eres ensitive
searchi~g }nd meaningful. The words had to "sa;
somethmg. They had to get frustrations off the chest. There
was enough mush and romanticism in the songs of the
previous decade .
The Be~ch Boys had "surfed" their way into teenage
he~rts until the Beatles c~me along. With them, they brought
hair over the ears , national sell-out concerts ending with
standing ovations and lyrics ranging from "She loves you
Yaa, Yaa , Yaa, " to "We're Gonna Have A Revolution." Th~
Rolling Stones, a rock group from England, brought
numerous hit songs to America , like "You Can't Get No
Satisfaction ." Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and
Simon and Garfunkel wrote and sang songs the youth wanted
to hear. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was a big hit. Guitarplaying
was becoming ever-popular-it provided the artist a
means through which he could express his feelings.
The nation was now blue jeans, long, straight hair , beads,
barefeet, Love Power, flower children , Woodstock-instead
of saddle shoes, bobby socks, gathered skirts, cardigans ,
pageboys and bubble gum. The Mamas and Papas, flower
children of the era, sang one hit after another-"Monday,
Monday," "Dedicated To The One I Love," "California
Dreamin ' " and countless others. '
Fads came and went. Miniskirts rose to great popularity.
The "Twiggy" look was widely imitated. Drugs hit the scene
as a way to get away from it all.
Concert halls became money-making business places as
young people flocked to hear their favorite rock bands .
Songs like "The Impossible Dream, " "Let There Be Peace
On Earth " and "Try To Remember " were indicative of the
mood of adults .
Folk and Country and Western music made a comeback.
Glen Campbell's golden voice sang out "By The Time I Get
To Phoenix" as Johnny Cash sang his melancholy prison
songs.
Lyndon Johnson succeeded John Kennedy as president. He
attempted to turn America into the "Great Society." He
passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, after considerable unrest
across the nation. The Vietnam War raged on, as men made
public the burning of draft cards. Riots broke out in opposition
to all "Authority."
Books published also lend to the unrestful feelings. Alvin
Toffler's "Future Shock" and Jacqueline Susann's "Valley
Of The Dolls" were best-sellers .
The drug-influenced culture of long-haired "freaks" had
spread across the nation . And with it went the spread of
exciting music styles. The 60's had indeed exploded upon the
world!
1970. ..
The 70's have been as eventful as the 60's. Man took a giant
step for mankind by walking on the moon in 1969. Hijacking ,
terrorism and the Vietnam War were in the headlines .
Trouble in the Mideast raged on, waiting for a spark to ignite
the keg.
Loud rock bands sprang up in nearly every garage and
recording studio across the nation . The music was clear , but
the words were often mumbled and blurred . Black Oak
Arkansas, Grand Funk Railroad , Jefferson Airplane,
Grateful Dead , Cream , Spirit , Mountain and Steppenwolf
were just a few of the leading bands of the early 70's. The
rock productions " Hair ," "Tommy," and "Jesus Christ
Superstar" started new trends in musicals . " Mush" songs
were becoming more popular . New renditions of the Big
Band songs could be heard on many " middle-of-the-road"
radio stations . There was a sound for everyone.
Influenced by homes, friends , and the countryside , balladsingers
came into their own. Kris Kristopherson , Rita
Coolidge, John Denver , James Taylor , Carol King and Carly
Simon were among the top artists of the group .
"Anticipation," " Rocky Mountain High," and " Me and
Bobby McGee" were top hits .
The Carpenter 's, "We've Only Just Begun, " about young
love, was becoming a popular wedding march . ''Tie A Yellow
Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree " recorded by Tony Orlando
and "Everything Is Beautiful " were inspirational mood
songs. Elton John, Alice Cooper, Cat Stevens and George
Harrison led the Hit Parade with songs like "Goodbye Yellow
Brick Road," "School's Out," "Peace Train ," and " Here
Comes The Sun.''
Movies were indicative of the times. "The Godfather "
captured sell-out audiences with its violence. "Love Story"
and "Romeo and Juliet " were tear-jerkers for thousands.
Disaster and suspense were the themes for "Airport, "
"Towering Inferno ," "Poseidon Adventure " and "Jaws."
President Richard Nixon entered the limelight with his
step towards international peace stemming from historic
trips to Moscow and Peking . Henry Kissinger was in the news
with his famous peace talks. The Watergate Scandal unfolded
and Nixon found himself out of a job. He was succeeded
by Gerald Ford from Michigan.
The first years of the 70's were turbulent. And who knows
what follows: "recession or recovery, depression or
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This is the old grist mill. It was started by Moses Thompson and had
many owners . At the time this picture was taken, after 1900, it was
owned by A .O. Hoyland , and ground out hundreds of pounds of flour
per day .
Later , when the creek slowed up , a steam plant was added to
supplement the water power .
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This is a picture of the north end of Howell Lake . It is in the north
part of town and is now pretty well surrounded by homes .
Originally it was 3 ponds separated by tamarack swamps. When
Moses Thompson came here as a pioneer and started building his mill
at this end , he dammed up the creek and it brought the ponds together
into a lake as we have it today.
The old wooden intake pipe to the mill shows in the foreground . The
water area in the foreground was the old village "swimming hole."
Howell from the air, 1974.
City Government
HOWELL GOVERNMENT 1863-1956
The Village of Howell was incorporated on March 14, 1863.
Trustees were elected from each of four wards. Altho the
candidates for Village offices did not run on a partisan ticket
each party had a nominee. Elections were held every year.
Efforts to incorporate as a city in 1889 and 1890 failed .
Legislature granted Howell a new charter in 1891 and the
first attorney was retained. Two precincts (north and south)
were established in 1893 and the first public water system
started .
A new charter in 1895 made trustees elected at-large and
for a two-year term.
Village ordinances were first adopted in 1896.
City Government
Coordinator
Cliff Heller was born in Cass City on
Jan . 23, 1912. Graduated from Michigan
State and earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in Horticulture, married
Margaret E. Davis who also received her
bachelor of science degree in Horticulture
at Michigan State . They have three
children, Nancy Lee (Weirch) , Sharon
Louise (Kaningl, Earl Davis. He joined in
partnership with Henry Winkelhaus in the
florist business and also Margaret Heller .
He was past president of Howell Rotary
Club, Howell Chamber of Commerce and
Past Master of Howell Lodge No . 38
F&AM . Also, he surved as Livingston
County Commissioner and the Huron-
Clinton Metropolitan Authority . He is a
Methodist and a Knight Templar.
1890 first village-wide electric lights . Auto speed limits
were 8 miles per hour in 1902, fines $5.00t o $25.00o r 30 days in
jail. Cement began to replace boards as sidewalks in 1903.
The cost was 18 cents per square foot. Costs dropped to 8
cents per square foot by 1913.
1908 saw the first sanitary sewer installed. Women
registered to vote in 1910. The present City Hall was
purchased and remodeled in 1912, altho only the first two
floors were owned. A bicycle ordinance was enacted.
On Dec. 14, 1914 Howell was incorporated as a Home-rule
City. Grand River Avenue was paved .
The Commercial Club purchased calcium chloride for
street application in 1915.
Michigan and Walnut Streets were paved in 1916.
Concrete cost $1.50 square yard , no reinforcing .
Boulevard lights were erected on Grand River in 1917. The
city leased and later sold its electric light generating plant to
the Detroit Edison Co. in 1918.
Parking regulations were enacted in 1921 and the present
elevated water storage tank erected .
Walker 's woods were purchased in 1925 for a City Park .
The Rotary Club built the bathhouse .
The first traffic ordinance was passed in 1927. McPherson
home purchased and remodeled into a hospital.
Rubbish collection was begun on a regular basis in 1928.
The police motorcycle was traded for the first patrol car .
Paul Bennett was hired as the first lifeguard at the City
Park beach in 1928.
Land was purchased for cemetery expansion in 1930.
Posted speed limit signs were erected on Grand River Ave.
in 1935.
1936 saw the building of a sanitary sewerage disposal
treatment plant. This had been voted down in both 1908 and
1923.
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Voters abolished the justice of peace courts and established
a municipal court in 1939, but it was not implemented
until 1949.
The first Zoning Ordinance was enacted in 1942. Land was
purchased for a city airport (now county.)
The impoundment dam at Thompson Lake was purchased
in 1946. The Montague property (now Citizens' Mutual)
purchased for a recreation building.
Parking meters appeared first in 1947. The old fairgrounds
were purchased for a cemetery in 1949, but later developed as
an industrial park .
Public subscription paid for the armory site bought in 1950.
Charter amendments made 6 councilmen at large for
4-year terms in 1952.
A new office and storage building for the cemetery and
park was built in 1953. A master plan for the park was
adopted .
A Charter Revision was favorably passed upon in 1954 and
the City Manager form of government adopted effective Nov.
8, 1955.
Parking lots were purchased .
Development to the Armory site were finished in 1956.
A storm sewer bond issue was voted favorably in 1954 for
$450,000T. he same issue was defeated in 1950f or $300,000.
All properties in the city were reassessed in 1956.
HOWELL VILLAGF. PRESIDENTS 1863-1914
1863, Sardis F . Hubbell ; 1864, John M. Gilbert ; 1865, Sardis
F. Hubbell; 1866, Mylo L. Gay ; 1867, Sardis F . Hubbell ; 1868,
Andrew D. Waddell; 1869, Mylo L. Gay ; 1870, Henry H . Mills;
1871-72, Sardis F. Hubbell ; 1873, Neil O'Hearn ; 1874, Francis
N. Monroe; 1875, Horace Halbert ; 1876, Harry J . Haven ;
1877, Asa VanKleek ; 1878, Neil O'Hearn ; 1879, John H.
Galloway.
1880, Leander C. Smith ; 1881, William B. Smith ; 1882,
Harry J . Haven ; 1883, William W. Kenyon; 1884, George P .
Dudley; 1885J ay Corson; 1886, Edward G. McPherson; 1887,
Edward P . Gregory ; 1888, Dennis Shields ; 1889-90, William
P . Vanwinkle ; 1891, William C. Huntington ; 1892-93,J ohn
Wright; 1894, Arthur Garland ; 1895, Jay C. Walton; 1896,
Robert Bell; 1897, A.D. Thompson ; 1898-99'0- 0, Louis E.
Howlett; 1901, Thomas Gordon Jr.
1902, E.P . Gregory ; 1903, David D. Harger; 1904, Amos
Winegar ; 1905, Electus Hadden ; 1906, Chester A. Parshall ;
1907, H.A. McPherson ; 1908, Amos Winegar ; 1909, Calvin
Wilcox; 1910, Thomas Gordon, Jr .; 1911, Harry Williams ;
1912, Frank E . Mills; 1913-14, E.L . Avery .
HOWELL MAYORS 1915-1975
1915-16, Samuel S. Platt ; 1917, Harry Huntington ; 1918-19-
20, Charles Sutton.; 1921-22-2,3 Freeman Fishbeck ; 1924-2,5
Samuel S. Platt ; 1926-27,B ert Huff; 1928, John Wrigglesworth
; 1929-30, Samuel S. Platt ; 1931-39, Charles P. Adams ;
1940-42, Eric Reiner; 1943-48, Berthold Woodhams ; 1949-50,
Shirley Henry ; 1951-52, Charles Sutton ; 1953-54, Orland
Young; 1955-56, Howard Gentry ; 1957-68, Clifton W. Heller ;
1969-197, 3Richard Slayton ; 1974-7,5 Robert Parker .
CLIFTON W. HELLER
MAYOR APRIL 1957 TO APRIL 1969
The new City Charter establishing a city manager form of
government was only a little over a year old when I was first
elected mayor . Considerable time was devoted learning to
use this Charter . Fortunately , the Councilmen were devoted
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men not afriad to make hard decisions and many
improvements to the City and its facilities resulted from
long, numerous and often spirited meetings. I believe a
mutual respect grew up between the Council and the citizens
that led to a period of real progress in the city .
My experiences in city affairs previous to election inc~ud_ed
membership on the Howell Park and Cemetery Comm1ss10n
and also planning and Zoning Commission . President of the
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. I also had an active
interest in the affairs of my church and the Masonic Lodge,
which I served as Master. Membership on the boards of state
organizations gave me much valuable background .
Concurrent with my term as Mayor I served on the
Livingston County Board of Supervisors , Chairman for one
term .
My interest in local and Michigan history made the position
an interesting , enjoyable and challenging one.
The major trunk storm sewer system was completed after
many delays . A bond issue to finance an expansion of the
sanitary sewer disposal facility was passed and the plant
completed . The Lucy Road sanitary land fill property was
purchased . A major trunk line water line was planned to
circle the city and much of it installed . New water sources
were located west of the city and a 16" pipeline laid to the
expanded water treatment plant. A 300,000 gal. elevated
storage tank was erected. The old storage tank was repainted
and several water lines were extended to the outskirts of the
city . Floridation of the water was initiated . The water supply
source was assured by a 99-year lease from the Livingston
County Road Commission.
Federal money was obtained for planning and partial
financing of extension of water supply and sanitary sewerage
lines to the northern part of the city . The project however ,
was not carried out to completion .
Street conditions in the city were not good. Lack of surface
drainage and poor road surfaces led the council to examine
many plans promising to lead to a solution. Bower, Jewett ,
Catrell , North and South Michigan , Grand River , George ,
Riddle , Dearborn , Goodyear , McPherson Park and Sibley
Streets were paved with the cooperation of the State and
Federal agencies as well as the city and property owners .
New street signs were erected.
Several miles of sidewalks constructed. New and more
modern street lights were installed. Those on Grand River
financed by an association of downtown merchants.
Several streets were opened that had been closed to thru
traffic .
Three new parking lots were purchased and improved in
the downtown area . Parking meters were installed and
removed on a trial basis in many areas .
The City Park was developed to higher degree than before
due largely to the efforts of the Rotary Club by tree planting
and erection of a picnic shelter .
The local industries contributed funds to extend water and
sanitary sewerage facilities to the park , largely thru the
efforts of Robert Parker Sr. Sufficient funds were also
provided to pay for the materials to erect new toilet facilities .
The area adjoining Thompson Lake on the west was
purchased and a boat launching ramp was established .
The cemetery was extended slightly to the south by
purchase. Further development of existing land was
accomplished . A census and card file of the lots was
completed .
The librar y building was reroofed and a very extensive
remodeling of the basement was accomplished .
The Fire Department's garage in the City Hall was
remodelled to accomodate its new truck . The Fire and Police
Departments both had new auxiliary units trained and
attached to their regular manpower .
_Annexa tions to the city occurred along Mason and
Pinckney Roads, now occupied by Chateau Estates Mobile
Home Park , The Holiday Inn , Goodyear Tire Co. and two
ser vice stations .
Other small annexations were added on the East and West
edge of the city.
Industrial Parks at the old fairgrounds along Catrell and
Sutton A venues ; McPherson Park Drive off Mason Road and
Dickson and Krol 's Park off Pinckney Road added to th~
economic stability of the city .
Afte~ several years of planning by the Zoning Board , the
Council and Consultants we had a Master Plan and new
Zoning Ordinance . Several thousand dollars of local money
were matched by Federal Funds to obtain this valuable
instrument , useful in an orderly development of the city.
Funds were not available in large enough amounts to
properly maintain and develop the airport purchased west of
the city. The Airport was sold to Livingston County and has
become a fine asset to the community .
The City Hall third floor was purchased and major roof
repairs completed. Extensive remodeling of the entire
building was carried out by the three city managers who
served during my term ; Fred Tholen , William Norman, and
Roy Trimm .
A retirement plan was put into effect for the city
employees .
New bookkeeping machinery purchased . The city purchased
its first comprehensive insurance program.
The Mayors Exchange Program held each May allowed an
exchange of ideas between cities of the same approximate
size although we did exchange with Parma and Highland
Park . One idea of county-wide fire cooperation grew out of a
visit to Hudsonville .
Howell was by-passed by both M-59 and I-96 during this
time and the mayor of Portland did much to placate the fears
of the merchants as to its effect , since Portland had been
by-passed some time before .
Much building took place during my term : McPherson
Community Health Center and Livingston Manor; Kroger
Shopping Center ; A & P Shopping Center ; Golden Triangle
Political speeches really drew a crowd. Here Ex-Governor Ferris,
founder of Ferris State University, speaks at a large rally with
hundreds of interested listeners, even on the roof of the shed .
Apartments ; Holiday Inn ; Several service stations ; Mc-
Pherson Bank ; Howell Industries · Recreation Center
building ; Goodyear Tire Center ; 'international Paper ·
Unified Industries ; Byron Ave. Apartments · Churches '
Methodist , Catholic, Baptist , Nazarene , Luthera~. '
It was a great satisfaction to be Mayor of Howell and see so
many things accomplished , through the efforts of all the
people. Some things were not done that I would have chosen
to have completed . These were in the areas of street
improvements and water and sanitary sewerage extensions .
WHEN I WAS MAYOR OF HOWELL
By BERTHOLD WOODHAMS
I first came to Howell in June of 1916. In the 58 years that I
have been here everything has changed . None of the doctors
or lawyers that were in practice then are in practice this year
of 1974; There were several independent grocery stores
which have been superceded by the large chain stores ; all of
the drug stores are under different ownership .
After graduating from the business course of what was
then Ferris Institute, I came to Howell as a sort of office
clerk to R. Bruce McPherson , whose father , Wm. McPherson,
Jr . had just shortly before that had died leaving Bruce
with a rather large estate and in many states to probate.
When I left Bruce McPherson 's office in 1920 I went with
William E. Robb who was attempting to found a new
automobile insurance company , the Citizens Mutual
Automobile Insurance Company . I helped establish that
compan :· in claims , underwriting, and procedures and was
elected to the Board of Directors in 1932; to president in 1950;
to chairman of the board in 1963 and since 1966 I have been
honorary chairman of the board of directors.
In 1927 I was elected to the city council of Howell and was
appointed by the then mayor , Bert Hoff to be the first
chairman of the newly established city hospital , now the
McPherson Health Center .
From 1943 to 1949 I was mayor of the City of Howell. That
was during the years of World War No. II and we had difficulty
to do anything much during those years as both
materials and manpower were in short suppl y. I do
remember that in those years we put in the meters and
provided for parallel parking ; we install a very efficient
method of snow removal from our city streets down Grand
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Blacksmith shops were more common than grocery stores in the old
days . Here is a typical city smithy. Ted Shindorf, with his helpers on
each side all in their leather aprons . Blacksmiths did more than just
River and Michigan Avenue; there was no city manager at
that time and the mayor and the members of the city council
were each heads of the different departments; we enlarged
the city sewerage disposal plant; the present site of the
airport was acquired and we tried to make a usable airport
out of what was farm land; Grand River Avenue its entire
length in the city was paved and blacktopped by the road
commission of Michigan without any expense to Howell; we
endeavored to amend our old charter which had been in force
for a long time with a new charter which provided for a city
manager but the first election lost.
Under succeeding mayors a committee was elected to
revise the charter and I was elected chairman of that commission.
The charter which our commission drew passed the
voters and has been in use in Howell since then. During my
years as mayor the country was very short of scrap steel and
following a patriotic urge voluntary delegations went
through the countryside and picked up all kinds of scrap steel
salvage which they piled on Court Street just east of the
Livingston County Courthouse and just west of our insurance
building. The entire block of Court Street from Grand River
to Clinton was covered 0by this scrap steel.
In 1950 I was elected to the Board of Education of Howell
and the last four years I was president of the board. While I
was on the board we annexed 34 different school districts to
Howell; built new elementary buildings and the new high
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shoe horses, they worked on or repaired most anything that was iron.
Notice the hand lawnmowers, bottom right, in to be repaired .
school, bought busses to transport the annexed district
children to Howell; selected a new superintendent to replace
superintendent John Page who resigned after some thirty
odd years because of ill health; and sold the schoolhouses in
the annexed districts .
John Page used to employ the teachers paying them what
he thought they were worth to the educational system ,
handling the financial end of board. We provided for a wage
schedule with the teaching staff were demanding and for
someone to take over the financial chores. We put out several
bond issues securing very favorable interest rates as Howell
School District had a very favorable history.
I also have been a member of and presiding officer in the
Masonic Lodge, Knights Templar; and the Rotary Club, all of
Howell.
MAYOR CHARLES SUTTON
By CHARLES SUTTON
I was born on June 30, 1890 in Caro, Michigan . After
graduating from High School in 1910, I attended Bliss-Alger
Business College in Saginaw, Michigan , and then went to
work as a bookkeeper in a freight depot in Caro, and later in a
bank in Callings , Michigan. I saw an ad in the Caro
newspaper that the Bennett Hardware Store in Howell was
for sale and I told my father I would like to go into the hardware
business .
I bought the hardware business in March 1913a t the age of
23. The building was owned by Arthur Garland . He had a
tailor shop next door. I purchased the building in 1935 and
combined the two stores into one.
Upstairs in the store was an opera house and because there
was no heat, shows were only held in the summer. I
remember Jack Kelly's Stock Company brought in different
shows. The opera house was closed in the 1920's because of
fire regulations .
I married Cornelia Byerlien of Saginaw on May 28th, 1913.
We had one daughter , Caroline, who graduated from Howell
High School in 1932. She married Fred Ludwig of Howell in
1937. They have three children and live in Tucson, Arizona.
When I was 28 years old, I served two years as mayor of
Howell. During my term of office the Howell Electric Light
Plant , which was deteriorating, was sold to Detroit Edison
for $50,000. They rewired and repoled the city. The Howell
Electric Light Plant was located on South Michigan next to
the railroad tracks . In 1913, the Hamilton Brothers were
given a contract to put sewers in the city and to pave the
streets with brick paving.
I served in various church , service and professional
organizations. I was president of the Howell Chamber of
Commerce , Cancer Society, and Red Cross. I was first
president of the Board of Directors of the McPherson
The condensed factory during it's first day of business.
Hospital at its present Byron Road location; on the board of
trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Howell; and , the
Michigan Retail Hardware Association . I served on the
Board of the Huron Clinton Metropolitan Authority for 20
years , succeeded by Clif Heller . I also served as Commander
of No. 28, Knights Templar , three times . I served a second
tergi as mayor of Howell in 1952 for two years .
Living here in Howell there are so many memories such as
the Livingston County fairs on Sutton and Catrell Avenue, in
an area known as the Industrial Park . The fairs existed
during the 1920's and lasted 10 years . I enjoyed the 4th of July
picnics at the city park on the lake, and the ball games at the
fairground s. In the early summer days of the 20's they had
" Chautauquas " ( tent lecture series ) and sidewalk fairs were
popular.
During my life in Howell I saw many changes such as horse
and buggy to automobile , electric lights , gravel streets to
paved . In the early days the only eating place in town was the
hotel run by Mrs. Van Keuren and Son. The drug stores had
soda fountains. I remember Baron & Wines, E . K. Johnson &
Sons, and Fred Gorden .
Life in the 20's and 30's was easier and more full of living.
Close relationships were abundant.
My store was open on Saturday nights until midnight so
that the farmers could come into town, visit people, and shop
before they went home.
I remember the fire department cart with the hose that
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The Johnson House, a hotel owned by many people on the corner of
Michigan and Sibley, N.W. The milk wagon is making a delivery.
was driven by dray teams of horses . The driver of the cart 's
regular job was to drive freight from the depot to the merchants
but this was interrupted whenever the fire siren
sounded.
I remember a roller skating rink located where Mike
Hagman 's gas station is now located . This building also
served as a basketball gym and as a location for dances .
When I first came to Howell there were cobblestone curbs
and hitching posts, and the hardware store had acetylene gas
lamps. One had to pump up the pressure in a tank and then
light each lamp with a long pole with a lighted wick on it. Coal
stoves supplied the heat.
In 1952, during my second term as mayor , Howell held a
General McArthur Day in honor of the great war hero of
World War II. I had the honor of riding with him from Howell
to Brighton in a car, while Miss Crosby (a girl scout) was
chosen to ride in another car with Mrs. McArthur. Everyone
in Howell came out to cheer and wave to the General.
I spent 32 years in the hardware store , retiring in 1945.
I sold the store to Mr. Pyles and Mr. Heino who ran it for 20
years , Mr. Shaw is the present owner.
I married Mrs. Katherine Vanwinkle in 1962.
MRS. CHARLES SUTTON
By KATHERINE VANWINKLE SUTTON
I was born on June 28th, 1894 in Ann Arbor . My father's
name was William Doan Adams and my mother was Minnie
Grigg. I had two sisters . In 1913, after mother died, and my
two sisters married, father and I moved to Howell. Dad
bought the Bowman Store at 201 E. Grand River. Mr.
Bowman operated a variety store, but my father changed it
into a dry goods store.
I graduated from Howell High School in 1915, and later
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married Charles Van Winkle. We lived at 521 W. Grand River
and had three children . My husband, a real estate broker ,
died after 15 years of married life. My son, John Van Winkle
served in World War II and was killed in action . Son, Charles
Van Winkle taught school in Hartland , Michigan for 24 years
and lives now in California . My daughter , Nancy LaFlamme
lives in Howell.
My sister , Florence moved to Howell from Philadelphia
after her husband died. Her son, Louis Parmenter ran the
Livingston Hotel and two stores in Howell. They now belong
to my daughter , Nancy and her husband, Maurice
LaFlamme and it is all one store called Adams .
I married Mr. Sutton in 1962, 30 years after my first
husband died. We live at 1014 Bower.
RICHARD I. SLAYTON
MAYOR OF HOWELL
APRIL 1969-NOV . 1973
City of Howell General Fund owed to other city funds
$70,659.00 in April of 1969.
In November of 1973 funds had been paid back and
$423,582.00 to the good in a Capital Improvement Fund .
While Richard I. Slayton was in office the following improvements
were completed :
Constructed 12 city blocks of new pavement with curb and
gutter on East and West Sibley Street at a cost of $190,000.
Remodeled basement of Library for a larger Children 's
section at a cost of $65,000.
The Water Plant was enlarged in 1971 and 1972 at a cost of
$128,000 which included water treatment equipment and an
addition to the building .
Constructed a Public Works Repair Garage at a cost of
$35,000.
Remodeled the first floor of the City Hall at a cost of
$17,000.
Purchased a new fire truck at a cost of $39,000.
Replaced 361 street lights with new mercury vapor lamps
and installed seven additional new street lights .
Contract had been let and contractor is ready to start
construction on the West Side Interceptor sewers running
from West Street to Pulford Street and from Prospect Street
to West Street. This will help eliminate sewage backup in
basements. Cost of project is approximately $550,000.
On October 15, 1973 the City Council authorized our Consulting
Engineers, McNamee, Porter & Seeley, to prepare
construction plans to complete the 12" watermain loop
around the city and construct neeqed feeder mains to improve
water pressure and fire protection in the city. This
project is estimated to cost approximately $510,000.
Increased the number of trucks available for use by the
Department of Public Works with two new dump trucks and
three pickup trucks. Also increased the number of cars in the
Police Department from two to three.
After considerable discussion in the past few years, the
Michigan Department of State Highways installed a traffic
control light on E. Grand River at National Street and
1915-The paving of Grand River. First the street must be plowed,
then 8 inches of cement, and while the cement is still soft, lay down the
bricks.
widening Grand River from Fair Street to the railroad
overpass at a cost of approximately $225,000.
Constructed approximately 2,700 lin. ft. of new sidewalk on
W. Grand River Avenue to serve the high school and junior
high school. Replaced approximately 8,000 lin. ft. of existing
sidewalk that was in poor condition.
Purchased land for a parking lot on the southeast corner of
Sibley Street and Walnut Street. Cost $38,000.
There were four annexations of land to the City of Howell,
which are as follows:
Date
6 I 16 / 69
7 /1 4 / 69
8 / 28 / 69
3 / 20 /7 2
Location
Chevron Oil Co.-E. Gd. River
City property-Catrell Dr .
north of Ann Arbor Railroad
County Jail Property
Wm. Gilkes property-West of
the High School
Acres
2.7
5.9
24.7
27.2
Total 60.5
On June 26, 1972, the City Council adopted a ordinance
requiring owners of new construction to pay a water connection
capital charge of $175.00 per dwelling unit and a
sewer connection capital charge of $275.00 per dwelling unit.
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Margaret Dever eaux of Howell, Miss Michigan 1955 receives
congratulations from Mayor Howard Gentry .
Howell
By ROBERT E. PARKER
It has been a great honor to serve the City of Howell as its
Mayor, more especially because I am a sixth generation
resident of this city, having been born in Howell, educated,
and spent my complete childhood here, and shared the joys of
life of some of the best people in the world.
Prior to my election as Mayor of the City of Howell, I
served on the City Council and the Howell City Planning
Commission. During my term as Mayor, the city was able to
make great accomplishments by paving numerous streets ,
most prominently being North Michigan Avenue and Byron
Road. These streets attract a great deal of attention by
residents of the city and people of the surrounding townships
because they are heavily traveled as the north-south
corridors into the city. The City Council and its Mayor and
City Manager gave great thought as to how to best handle the
streets in the City of Howell, with the view in mind that the
citizens do not want special assessments , and noting that we
have an extremely close city budget as to expenditures as to
compared to income, with not a great deal of funds left for
street maintenance , up keep and repair. A .special report on
street paving program was prepared by the council on
February 10, 1975w ith the different alternatives that could be
utilized in the development of a street program that would
serve this community on a long term basis .
Although streets are of major concern to the city , the most
important project and the most needed project is that of a
new sewage treatment plant. The present sewage treatment
plant is not fulfilling the needs of the city and is causing
tremendous problems and the expense is such that Federal
Revenue Sharing will have to assist us greatly in providing a
new sewage treatment plant for the city .
During this time the city has been able to make great accomplishments
and has torn down the old mausoleum at the
city cemetery , and has beautified the cemetery with a
generous legacy from the estate of the late Dorr W. Frisbee .
At this time the City Council and Mayor decided to move
the fire station from downtown Howell to West Grand River
on property bought on what used to be the old McPherson
farm. The fire station is now nearly completed and is certainly
one of the most beautiful in the area.
A 12 inch water main loop and certain feeder mains have
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been provided to the city which will assist us in fire protection
and the possibility of lowering our fire insurance rate .
This has been needed for some time. West side intercepter
sewers have now been completed and our sewage lines
throughout the city are now in the best condition that they
have ever been.
The city must now look forward to the expansion of its city
limits , especially to the area of the west and the east.
As any community, the City of Howell will always have its
problems with the immediate needs, which at this time appear
to be a new sewage treatment plant , continuation of the
street building program , building of a new dam on the north
side of Howell Lake and more particularly , water main and
sanitary sewer for those residents on the north side of Howell
Lake and south of Highway M-59. The Marion-Genoa drain
and the old Howell County drain must be cleaned and this will
cost great expense to the city but are projects that must be
done to assist in our storm water drainage .
I am extremely pleased to have appointed several women
to the various commissions of the City of Howell, however, I
was disappointed that we were not able to get a woman
elected to the Howell City Council. Possibly some day their
abilities will be more fully appreciated and utilized by
everyone .
The City of Howell has pleasant memories to myself, my
family for many , many years . Everyone in this community
has seemed to have a close relationship with each other and it
has been a good place to work and to live. I can remember
every day going to the city park at Howell Lake to swim and
riding my bike as fast as it could possibly go down the hill as
one enters the city park . I noticed that even today , some
children are doing the same thing that I did some 20 or 30
years ago.
Another memory is that years ago children walked to
school and the only school was the West Board School on
Byron Road and the main High School building on South
Michigan A venue. All children walking to school had to cross
Grand River at Michigan Avenue and there the City Police
always had an officer stationed to help the school children
cross . On your way home it was always customary for
children to go into the McPherson State Bank , then located at
the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Grand River ,
to get a cold drink of water from the crystal clear water
drinking fountain at the bank . Today the bank is gone and in
pursuance of that old tradition, law offices of Parker and
Parker has one of those very same and identical drinking
fountains with its drinking water and today I noted children
come in and out of our law office during the school time to get
a drink of water . It does one's heart good to see a young boy
stand there and drink 12 cups of water and then go out
without saying a word , but most assuredly with a smile on his
face.
Another memory was that on Friday night in the City of
Howell all of the stores would be open and the streets and
sidewalks were jammed with the citizens carrying on their
banking , purchasing of goods and grocery shopping .
Everyone in town would be in Howell on Friday night , the
farmers selling their produce, people sitting in their cars
watching others walking up and down the street and
generally carrying on some type of interesting conversation .
My family would go up town " every Friday night, " and it
seems that this old tradition is gone now, the stores no longer
open on Friday night and modern day transportation has
allowed the housewife to grocery shop any time of the week,
rather than only on Friday night.
These are some of my memories of Howell, and as a young
man , I consider it the greatest place to live in the world ,
because the greatest people are here.
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Business and Industry
XLOPARKER
XLO Parker , one of the county 's largest employers , traces
its beginnings to 1910, when an enterprising licensed
stationery steam engineer, Andrew E . Parker returned to
Howell and opened Parker 's Machine Shop and Garage.
The first shop, located in the second block of West Grand
River , moved a short time later to 303 East Grand River ,
where it remained for several years.
In this second building , Parker operated a garage and
machine shop, with storage of automobiles . Customers
entering the shop were greeted by the aroma of fine leathers,
used in the upholstery of the early vehicles , combined with
the odors of soils and wax . A few of the line shafts from the
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Business, Industry
Coordinator
Fred E. Catrell, Exec . Adm . Howell
Area Chamber of Commerce for the past
nine years, formerly Howell City Clerk
and member of the County Board of
Supervisors . Fred likes people and since
coming to Howell in 1915 has been
interested in making the community a
better place to live , among other things
was promoting the planting of shade trees
in our City Park and along the streets
• especially to replace the beautiful elms I killed by the Dutch Elm disease . Most of
;; the BOO or more new trees planted
l" throughout the City are sugar maples :j which will add beauty and color to streets
, :;~ for many years to come .
original machine shop are still hanging in the present
structure on East Grand River .
During the early 1920's, Andrew E . Parker relocated his
machine shop operation to South Michigan Avenue, turning
the garage over to Ora Parker , a cousin. In his South
Michigan machine shop, Parker made dies , jigs and fixtures ,
did repair work and was one of the first in the area to use
acetylene welding. As a master mechanic he kept much of
the machinery in the area in working order .
Parker continued on from fixture building to the machine
tool business , joined in the 1940's by his two youngest sons ,
William R. and Robert W. Parker .
During World War II, they joined in the industrial
mobilization for the war effort. Under a sub-contract , they
produced all the driveshafts for the Alligators , the first
amphibian landing crafts used in the South Pacific .
The partnership , A.E . Parker & Sons, moved to its present
site on West Grand River in 1946, continuing in the machine
tool business and specializing in the manufacture of high
production machines for the automotive industry .
A.E . Parker & Sons Company merged with Ex-Cell-O
Corporation in 1968 and became the XLO Parker Division.
XLO Parker continues to manufacture special machine tools
and transfer machines .
WATSON AND O'LEARY BAKE SHOP AND DAIRY
The Watson & O'Leary bake shop and dairy at 113 E . Grand
River , a progressive business not afraid to experiment , has
enjoyed constant expansion here over the past 50 years ,
making its biggest leap forward during the past 10 years .
Hiram and Emma Watson came to Howell in 1912 starting
a cream station on State Street. Later they started making
butter and sold milk , customers bringing their own
containers . They were the first to pasteurize milk in Howell.
In 1924 they took their daughter and son-in-law into the
business and purchased the building on Grand River where
the business is now located .
Mr. O'Leary started milk routes (the first were horsedrawn
wagons ), wholesale butter and egg routes , and for a
number of years they churned as high as 2000 pounds of
butter daily .
Mr. Watson and Mr. O'Leary died in 1945a nd Mrs. O'Leary
has conducted the business since then , making changes as it
seemed best. Mrs . Watson died in 1961 at the age of 96.
Mrs. O'Leary sold out the milk routes , sold all dairy
equipment , and started a bakery shop, dairy and snack bar in
1952.
The biggest leap forward was in 1960 when the retail store
was enlarged and remodeled. As a result , the business has
doubled and draws customers from all directions .
Many customers still remember the peanut butter machine
which was used in both stores . Peanut butter was ground
from fresh peanuts roasted in butter , and you could have
your own container filled. In 1928t he firm started making its
own ice cream , selling a three dip cone for five cents.
GOULD,INC.
By T.B . BARNES, PLANT MANAGER
The original building now occupied by the office on
Roosevelt Street was built in 1914b y Spencer-Smith Machine
Company. The plant was built to machine cast iron pistons
and the first pistons on record were built for Ford tractors
and Model T automobiles . The plant was added to in 1919a nd
again expanded in 1924. The plant was operated by
Spencer-Smith until the early 1930's, at which time it was sold
to Arrowhead Steel Products Company of Minneapolis,
Minnesota . It was run by Arrowhead Steel until 1939a t which
time it was bought by Benz Brothers , who ran the company
until 1948. While the Benz Brothers owned the plant besides
cast iron pistons , they worked on the manufacture of engine
valves. They had some problems with the valves that are
unknown to this writer. However, in 1948 they sold the
Company to Gillett & Eaton in conjunction with White
Machine Works as it was known at that time. It is now known
as White Motor Company.
After the failure of the valve operation by the Benz
Brothers they began pouring aluminum pistons from
permanent molds for machining at this plant . Prior to this
date all machining was done on cast iron castings , which
were poured in Lake City, Minnesota, and were sent here by
rail car for machining .
In 1942, the aluminum connecting rod was introduced and
they began pouring and machining aluminum connecting
rods for compressors used in air conditioning units . During
the war , special government projects were handled in this
plant. Sleeves were manufactured for engines , pistons for
jeeps and medium trucks were manufactured for the
military also .
In 1958, Gould Inc . purchased the plant from Gillet & Eaton
and continued to manufacture pistons and connecting rods .
In 1964, the foundry burned to the ground. It was immediately
rebuilt and expanded. Prior to July 1 of this year this plant
was part of the Gould Engine Parts Division and since July 1
of 1975h as become a plant of the Foundry Products Division
of Gould.
Gould is a publicly owned company with over 22,000
employees and with 1974 sales of $740,000,000. The major
emphasis and direction of Gould Corporation is in the
electrical and electronic products industry which accounts
for about 45 percent of the total sales . This plant is an
important part of the Foundry Products Division and is
important to balance manufacturing capabilities of this
division, as well as to the economy of the Howell area.
Presentl y Gould supplies cast iron and aluminum pistons and
aluminum connecting rods to some of the largest manufacturers
of diesel and compressor engines in the country . We
also provide aluminum pistons for a limited number of
gasoline engines . Products in this plant are currently
distributed world wide.
REULAND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By DAVID H. ANDERSON
Reuland Electric Company, 4500 East Grand River ,
Howell, supplies a cross section of diversified American
industry with custom-made electric motors , gears , and
special drives, as well as electronic components.
More than 200 employees help produce some 30,000 motors
at the Howell plant each year . Motors range from 1
horsepower to 10 horsepower and are made to exacting
specifications . Other motors up to 100 horsepower are
produced at Reuland 's Industry , California plant.
Special features are offered in each Reuland unit to enable
it to do its designed job . Such custom service is made possible
with the " building block" concept , providing thousands of
combinations from basic components.
The Reuland plant has seen tremendous growth since the
opening of the Howell Division in 1953. Today , Reuland has
some 52,000 sq. feet in plant size at Howell.
THE BEE HIVE SALON
Founded in the summer of 1971b y Mas Mardigian , resident
of the lovely City of Howell. Serving the most attractive
women of the community , thereby doing our part in keeping
this city beautiful.
MASTER-CAST COMPANY
In May 1956, Robert M. Reid, who had built Utilex Corp. in
Fowlerville and was general manager , resigned and formed
a die cast company with himself as the only employee. The
"plant" had been a Bump Shop on Mason Road and owned by
Ralph Parsons .
One die cast machine , one punch press and a tapping
machine were purchased and Master-Cast was in production .
In July , the next employee was hired . He was John J.
Hughes, Jr. of Fowlerville and he is still with the company ,
serving as Tool Engineer.
In October, 1956 the first women were hired . They were
Teresa Bowen and Delores Ebert, both of whom are still
working for Master-Cast.
The company was incorporated in January 1957 and has
continued to grow since .
By April 1964M aster-Cast , while supplying parts to the Big
Three , now employed about 70 people. On April 15th,
however, a very serious fire wiped out the main production
area . Six weeks later , the plant was back in production and
lost no customers or contracts .
Master-Cast continued to grow and in 1973, it was decided
that an offer from Wolverine Sales Co. of Detroit to buy the
controlling stock would be accepted. Wolverine Sales has
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handled the sales for Master-Cast for some years . Since the
sale to Wolverine , Reid has remained as President , Tom
Patterson , president of Wolverine is Master-Cast Vice
President and Pete Dryer, Secretary and Treasurer of
Wolverine is Master -Cast Secretary-Treasurer . Reid, Patterson
and Dryer are the directors of both Master-Cast and
Wolverine . In Februar y, 1974, Paul Blinkilde was appointed
general manager and became Vice President in 1975.
Master-Cast supplies decorati ve and functional die cast
part s for Ford , Chrysler and General Motors. Master-Cast
now has in excess of 40,000 sq. feet and 110 employees. The
managemen t plans to a continued and orderly growth.
Eager's Cleaners
By DOROTHY EAGER
Eager 's Cleaners was started in September , 1939 by Ford
and Dorothy (Hughes ) Eager at 114 State Street, Howell,
Michigan . In 1941w e moved into larger quarters at 307 East
Grand River. That was probably one of the busiest blocks in
town. Citizen's Mutual across the street, also Michigan Bell
Telephone , Detroit Edison and on our side, St. Joseph Hall, a
bus station with busses every hour on the hour, the Howell
Theater , the only hamburg shop (namely Midget Sandwich
Shop) in town and the Kroger store .
Business flourished , the war broke out and dry cleaning
was classified as "essential ," inasmuch as it was impossible
to buy new clothes, we had to keep the old ones cleaned ,
among which was Rosie The Riveter's " Bomber Suits" that
she wore in the war plants.
In 1960 we purchased the property at 807 E . Grand River ,
where we remained until we retired our business.
One of the interesting things that comes to our mind when
we were working one evening, which we did a lot of during
the war , was Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams, caught in a
rain storm, stopped in to have his clothes pressed as he had a
speaking engagement next door at St. Joseph Hall at a dinner
dance .
Our families were long time residents in Oceola Township
and each have a road named after them, namely, Hughes and
Eager. Our children are Rebecca Eager Kennedy , James
and Mary Ann, with grandchildren , Loretta , Amy, Ted and
Jeff Kennedy , Debbie and Julie Eager .
The E.F. Young Meat Market
By ALMA M. E . YOUNG
AND MRS. FROMILDA YOUNG WILSON
A number of you will probabl y remember Mr. Young's
Meat Market on South Michigan Avenue. It was back of the
First National Bank adjacent to the harness shop and buggy
and farm implement shops of his two brothers, David L.
Youni; and William H. Young, Sr. The banks parking lot is
now where these stores were once located .
Perhaps you remember that on the left side of the market
as you entered you often saw large quarters of beef hanging
on larg e hooks. At Thanksgiving and Christmas times
turkeys and hams hung there . Chickens, geese , and ducks
were placed on the floor beneath on heav y paper used for
wrapping meat.
You may have been one of the youngsters who stopped in
the meat market and asked for a piece of bologna as told
about in the following article which appea red in the Detroit
News in August, 1943.
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DETROIT NEWS AUGUST 5, 1943
HOWELL, Mich., Aug. 5-Take it or leave it, but the
working man doesn't live as well as he did 25 or 50 years ago,
despite his high wages .
Assuming that prosperity may be judged by the kind of
table the worker maintains , Edward F . Young, of Howell, is
in position to argue the contention with anyone , for as
Southern Michigan 's oldest butcher (he thinks ) he is still
whacking out chops and cutlets upon his meat block at the
age of 83 years .
Sixty-one years ago, when Young started in the meat
business, the average toiler was lucky to make a dollar a day .
Now he pockets that much for an hour 's work at jobs that
require little or no experience .
But does he sit down to more and better food at night ?
"He certainly doesn' t," Young replied . " And I'm not
taking into account the shortages imposed by war and
rationing. His tastes are more exacting today , that 's all. "
59 YEARS , SAME STAND
For 59 years Young has operated his meat market in the
same building . He still uses his original beef hooks, although
he has outworn dozens of saws and cleavers and chopped up
several blocks. Today he supplies the needs of the fourth
generation of several families who were his first customers .
"Back in the old days bologna sold at 8 cents a pound," he
said . " It was mighty good bologna, too. Round steak was
three pounds for a quarter - stall-fed beef at that. We gave
soup bones to anyone who asked , and all sorts of trimmings
for dogs.
" Sweetbreads weren 't considered edible, and we gave
them away in large quantities ," he said . " Most people fed
them to their dogs. Liver was also free for the asking.
GAVE FORTUNE AWAY
" Considering the present price of calves liver , 80 cents a
pound, I probably gave away $20,000 worth of it before it
became marketable . Pig and beef liver were also waste .
You'd offer a customer a whole liver free of charge , and be
somewhat put out if he didn' t take it off your hands. Shortly
before World War I the public began to accept liver as a
delicacy .
"Beef tails , now a choice ingredient for soup, were tossed
into the refuse can if no one wanted them as a gift. The
butcher didn't have time to bother with them, or with other
trimmings ."
The American youngster of 30 years ago never went
hungry , according to Young. If he needed something to
munch on between meals , he merely walked into the nearest
butcher shop with a "gimme a hunk of bologna." The butcher
grabbed a ring off a hook, looped off a considerable section
and handed it over .
" Now with bologna at 30 and 35 cents a pound, you'd
probably call for the police," he said .
DEMAND CHOICE CUTS
" People today demand lean roasts and center cuts,
whereas in the old days they were satisfied with side pork ,
breast of lamb and the less expensive cuts . Nevertheless, I
believe they ate better then, considering their gifts from the
butcher and the quantity obtainable for very little money ."
Born at Kitchener , Ont., Young started in the meat
business because he "liked to cut up things ." It was nothing
in those days for a butcher to work 12 to 16 hours a day. Ice
provided his only refrigeration, and the box required constant
refilling. He made all his own sausages in his spare
time, frankfurters included.
During the Cleveland Administration Young bought sheep
on the hoof for $1 each, and sold roasts and chops proportionately.
He operated his own slaughter house then and
smoked hams and bacon with hickory bark . Now almost
anything is used by the average butcher-even corn cobs.
"Today, with war rationing, the butcher feels like a
jeweler," he said . "I never believed the day would come
when I would have to hide my meat for my regular
customers."
Beunnann's Furniture
The following was published in the Republican paper-
Howell in 1902. The grandson, Glenn Beurmann and his wife,
Elizabeth, started in the furniture business in 1907, in
downtown Howell in the store now occupied by the Livingston
Drug Store. In 1927 they moved to the building now owned by
Baldwin's Hardware, finally coming to their present location
east of Howell.
K. Miller Beurmann, son of Glenn Beurmann, and his son,
Miller L. Beurmann operate the present business.
FIFTIETH MILESTONE
OF THE WEDDED LIFE OF
MR. ANDMRS.C. E. BEURMANN
At their pleasant home in Genoa Township, Wednesday
afternoon, February 12, 1902.
As the Republican goes to press Wednesday afternoon Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Beurmann are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary
of their wedded life at their pleasant and commodious
home on the old farm in Genoa, where they settled in
1840. About one-hundred and fifty guests were present and
celebrated this auspicious occasion. Howell, Pinckney,
Owosso, Webberville, Williamston, Lansing, Flint, etc., were
represented.
The open hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Beurmann is well
known throughout the county and the large number of guests
have looked forward to this happy event with much anticipation.
Mr. Beurmann had rigs at both Brighton and
Chilson to meet guests and take them back again. At their
spacious residence the occasion was celebrated in right roy.:i:t
fashion. All went to have a good time and they were J.10t
disappointed.
Mr. and Mrs. Beurmann were remembered by many
presents both useful and costly, thus showing the high est,~em
in which this aged couple are held.
After an elaborate and bountiful wedding dinner had
receivered full justice at the hands of those present, extemporary
remarks were made by a number of the guests.
C. E. Beurmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, June 1,
1827, where his father, William Henry Beurmann, conducted
a merchandile business. When Mr. Beurmann was thirteen
years old, his father died in Germany and the mother moved
to America and came direct to Livingston County and settled
on the old farm, where Mr. and Mrs. Beurmann now live. In
the passage over they were ten weeks out of sight of land. The
timber was missing from only two acres of the old farm when
the family became pioneers in Genoa Township. The new log
house was dedicated Christmas 1840. After the death of his
mother, a number of years later, Mr. Beurmann came in
possession of the old homestead .
Fifty years ago, February 12, 1852, Mr. Beurmann was
married to Miss Fidelia Hoagland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Christopher Hoagland, who then lived in Hamburg Township.
Miss Hoagland was born in Steuben County, New York. She
came with her parents to this county about 1835. The union
has been a happy one. To them were born eleven children, of
whom six are still living, as follows: Charles E. Beurmann ,
who married Miss Mary Brown and now runs a livery
business in Howell. They have two children-a son, Cline,
who is taking a dental course at the University at Ann Arbor
and a daughter, Brownie, who is attending the Howell union
school. William Henry Beurmann married Miss Rachel
Walker and lives in Howell. Mr. Beurmann is in the farm
implement business . The names of their two sons are Glenn
and Kern. Glenn is clerking for C.A. Goodnow and Kern is in
the Howell high school. Edward Miller Beurmann is in the
employ of Geo. Hornung, Howell. He married Miss Stella
Knapp, of Howell. They have two sons-Max Miller and
Ronald. Mary Beurmann was married to Aaron C. Switzer, of
Marion Township. They have since moved to Flint and are in
the farm produce business . They have two daughters-Millie
Belle and Helen. Kinzie Beurmann has a clerkship in the
auditor general's office at Lansing. He married Miss Martha
Whipple, of Jackson. Bert Beurmann lives on the old farm
with his parents.
In addition to caring for his fine farm of 220 acres, Mr.
Beurmann has been active in politics. In 1876 he was elected
sheriff of the county, being the only successful candidate on
the Republican ticket. His majority was only one-hundred
and twenty. Two years later he was re-elected by a majority
of three-hundred and seventy-five. During his four years of
service Mr. Beurmann took twenty-six men to Jackson. In
1882, President Arthur appointed Mr. Beurmann postmaster
at Howell, which office he held with honor four years. At the
close of his postmastership, he moved his family back to the
Genoa farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Beurmann have been prominent in the
history, growth and development of Livingston County. The
auspicious event they celebrated Wednesday is a matter of
congratulation, not only to their neighbors and immediate
friends, but to all the people of the county. May they live and
prosper many years yet to come.
INDUSTRY IN HOWELL,MICHIGAN
COMPANY NAME YEAR . . EMPLOYMENT PRODUCT
Advance Glove Mfg. Co. 1973 25
1115 Sutton Ave ., Ph. 546-7942
Attention: Gary Fricke
Bruce Products Corps . 1929 25
500 N. West St . Ph . 546-0110
Attention: Stephen Bruce
Cast Forge Co. 1969 95
2440 W. Highland Rd . Ph . 546-3441
Attention: Robert Vess
Chem-Trend Inc. 1963 59
3205 E . Grand River Ph. 546-4520
Attention : Peer Lorentzen
Chevron Asphalt Co. 1953 5
1305 E. Grand River Ph. 546-0850
Attention : Russell File
Citizens Insurance Co. of
America 1915 260
645 W. Grand River Ph . 546-2160
Attention : Roy Westran
Cleveland Metal Abrasive Co. 1938 30
631 Dearborn St. Ph. 546-1820
Attention: Dean Smith
Cold Form Development Co. 1974 15
3400 E . Grand River Ph. 546-7800
Attention : Lou Mahoney
Cotter Electric Co. 1973 7
160 Catrell Drive Ph. 546-7000
Attention : Wm. or Terry Cotter
D & J Gravel Co. 1950 17
4950 Mason Rd . Ph . 546-2810
Attention: David Jonckheere
De-Go Tool Co . 1971 5
1045 Sutton Ave . Ph . 546-5293
Attention : Walter Zents
Plastic coating gloves
Metal Finishing supplies
Aluminum Die Castings
Industrial Lubricants
Emulsified Asphalt
Home Off ice -Citizens Ins.
Abrasive for Metal blasting
Cold Extrusions of Steel
Sales & Service of Electrical
Products
Ready -Mix Concrete and
Gravel
Tools, Di es, Fixtures
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Diamond Tibon Plating Co. 1954 49 Chrome Plating
604 S. Michigan Ph . 546-0150
Attention : John Beatty
Diversified Packages Div .
Pepsi 1972 40 Carbonated Beverage Can Mfg.
730 Isbell St. Ph . 546-6550
Attention: Sam Devos
Electric Apparatus Co. 1967 115 Howell Red Band Motors
409 N. Roosevelt Ph . 546-0520
Attention: Mark Goodman
Goodyear Retread Plant 1967 26 Retreading Tires
147 Morgan Dr ive Ph . 546-9360
Attention : David Vanderlinden
Gould Engine Parts Division 1914 100 Automobile parts & access .
197 N . Elm St . Ph . 546-0050
Attention : Terry Barnes
Hackett Corporation 1971 25 Tabulating Cards
1800 S. Burkhart Ph . 546-6530
Attention : Dona Id Haas
Haigh Industries Inc . 1969 50 Plastic Injection Molding
Plastic Products Div.
3240 W. Grand River Ph. 546-5250
Attention : Robert Gehle, Jr .
Haigh Industries Inc. 1965
Light Assembly D iv .
3280 W . Grand River Ph . 546-4767
Attention: Kenn th Thumser
Howell Concrete & Supply Co. 1974
339 Harmon Rd. Ph . 546-3480
Attention : Charles Ayers
Howell Construction Co. 1947
2450W . Grand River Ph . 546-1980
Attention : Owen Fisher -
Russ Rogers
Howell Gear-Div . of Teledyne 1948
Howell Penncraft
3333 W . Grand River Ph . 546-0300
Attention : Robert Erickson
54 Tube Fabricating and
Assembly work
13 Concrete Products &
Building Supplies
5 Road Builders
86 Machine Tools -Cutting
Howell Plating co. 1968 5 Chromate & Dichromate Plating
915 Fo w ler St . Ph . 546-0318
Attention : Walter Kleeb
International Paper Co.- 1967 160 Corrugated Shipping
Container Containers
1450 McPherson Park Ph . 546-1220
Attention : Frank Pratt
Livingston County Press 1843 31
111 N.Mich igan Ph.546 -1010
Attent ion : Richard Mill iman
Marsden Electric Co . 1972 30
317 Catrell Dr. Ph . 546-6300
Attention : Ray Marsden
Master-Cast Co. 1956 120
251 Mason Rd. Ph. 546-9700
Attention : Robert Reid
May & Scofield, Inc. 1934 64
627 S. Dearborn Ph . 546-5820
Newspaper -Commercial
Printing
Transformers
Die -Castings, Zinc
Metal Stampings
When the steam engine came into common use, it was no longer
necessary to have a sawmill by a river to get power. All you needed
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Attention: William Scofield
Michigan Metallurgical Prod . 1952 2 Castings -Brass , Alum. , Bronze
2160 E . Grand River Ph. 546-4370
Attention : Edward Sopcak
Millsite Tackle Co. 1915 3 Fishing Tackle
1455 N. Michigan Ph . 546-1390
Attention : Don or Jack Hall
Newell Companies Inc .
750 Mc Pherson Park Dr .
Ph. 546-8430
1974 4
Attention: Lyle Koehler
Nyatex Chemical Co . 1971 4
2112 Industrial Dr. Ph. 546-4046
Attention : Wm. A. Hulbert
Panhandle Eastern 1963 25
Pipeline Co.
3990 Crooked Lake Rd . Ph . 546-4770
Attention: Charles E . Gregg
Pepsi Cola Metro . 1970 22
Bottling Co.
755 s. Mc Pherson Park
Ph . 546-5370
Att ention: Charles Frame
Plastic Tool Co. of America
1033 Sutton Ave. Ph . 546-3220
Attention : John Miller
Seigle , H . D. & Sons
1953
1970
115 University Dr . Ph . 546-9344
Attention : Howard Seigle
R & D Screw Products 1943
810 Fo w ler St . Ph . 546-2380
Attention : Wm . or Norm Dymond
Reuland Electric Company 1952
4500 E . Grand River Ph. 546-4400
Attention: David Anderson
Roadway Tire & Rubber co . 1963
3505 W . Grand River Ph. 546-1530
Attention: Joon Moon
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Taylor Industries Inc. 1960 30
5835 Fisher Rd . Ph. 546-0450
Attent ion: Phil Taylor
Tri -State Hospital Supply 1970 25
Corp.
301 Catrell St . Ph. 546-5400
Attention : Nicholas Herceg
Warehouse -Newell Co.'s Inc .
(curtain rods)
Creative Adhesive Systems
M ich igan Headquarters -Gas
Storage
Canning of Pepsi Prod .
& Syrup
Plastic Tools & Fixtures
Tools , Dies, Fixtures
Screw Machine Products
Electric Motgors and Motor
Reducers
Industrial Rubber Castings
Plastic Products
Packaging plant for Hospital
Supplies
United Cabinet Corp. 1970 3 Warehousing -Kitchen Cabinets
1825 N . Burkhart Rd . Ph . 546-5275
Attention:
VCF Packaging Film 1963 91
1100 Sutton AVenue Ph . 546-2300
Attention : Edward Kiernan
XLO-Parker Co. 1968 360
( Div. Excellol
2280 W. Grand River Ph. 546-5330
Attention : John Trumpy
Cast Vinyl Film -Plastic
Sepcial built machines
was an open field with enough room . This picture is of an old steam
powered mill taken in the 1890's.
Scene from the first "Sidewalk Days" in Howell.
Chamber of Commerce
By MARGARET STARKEY
The Howell Commercial Club was started in 1910. Its
president was R.B. McPherson and Secretary , Riley
Crittenden. 1914-1915 they were known as the Howell
"Boomers Club." August Schmitt, William McPherson, Mac
Smith and Paul Uber were active members in getting
schools, pavement and lights. May 1919, it was changed to
Howell Board of Commerce, thru 1948. 1949 it was
reorganized and changed to the Howell Chamber of
Commerce and filed Articles of Incorporation for a
Non-Profit organization , with the Michigan Securities
Comm. Slogans for the City of Howell by the Chamber of
Commerce have been:
Howell the City of Homes 1915
Howell the City Beautiful 1930
Howell for Happiness 1938
Howell a Better Place to Live 1939
In 1942 Bruce Products Corporation burned and they were
pursuaded to stay in Howell by the Board of Commerce,
raising $6,000 to aid their rebuilding. In 1943 a membership
drive was held with Joe Brady as chairman. Campaign
resulted in 111 members. Dues were $5.00 for active
members and $2.00 for associate members.
The Board of Commerce erected "Welcome to Howell"
signs at the east and west city limits of Howell in 1940.
In 1945 they purchased the Howell Fair Grounds property,
28 acres for $5,000 with $500 down and interest at 5 percent,
for proposed factory sites .
During World War II , the Chamber of Commerce
sponsored War Bond Drives and sold bonds and Savings
Stamps. They also sponsored Scrap Drives. In 1947 they
sponsored a big V-J Day Parade.
In 1955 they hired the first full time manager , Charles N.
Hill of Lansing. To date , they have had five managers-Hill,
Phil 0. Pittinger , Harry Ginsburg , Col. Robert E. Benjamin
and Fred Catrell . Mrs. Stanley Starkey has been secretary
since 1956.
In September, 1973, under the leadership of Harold Shippy,
they purchased the property and house at corner of Barnard
and Grand River tor a permanent Chamber office, after a
Building Fund Drive from the membership .
PAST PRESIDENTS OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
1915-1919 C. S. Line 1964 Donald Rhode5
1924 Charle5 Sutton 1965 Fred Kowal5ke
1925-1931 Charle5 B. Monroe 1966 Harold Shippy
1931 Robert H. McPher5on 1967 Robert Reid
1932 E.N. Baldwin 1968 William Ladner
1937 Charle5 Sutton 1969 Charle5 W. lt5ell
1938 Jo5eph v . Brady 1970 David Ander5on
1939 E. N. Baldwin 1971 Allen Nequette
1940 Miller K. Beurmann 1972 William B. Scofield
1941-1942 Jerome E. John5on 1973 Robert Wood
1943 Joe Fo5ter 1974 Ann Bignell
1943-1944 Le5 Merritt 1975 Jame5 Steven5
1945-1946 Earl Thure5on
1946-1947 Charle5 B. Monroe
1948 Orland Young
1949 Howard Pyle5
1950 Milo Taylor
1951 Charle5 Sutton
1952 Ted Vogt
1953 William Sku5a
1954 Herb Sneed
1955 W. C. Collin5
1956 Clifton W . Heller
1957 Robert B. MacDonald
1958 Dougla5 Swann
1959 Jack Maul
1960 Dean Smith
1961 Harry Griffith
1962 Gerald Harmon
1963 Frank Bignell
1975 OFFICERS
James J. Stevens, President, N .S.I. Services
Jack L . Shuker, Vice President , Joan Carol ' s
Samuel M. Deyo, Secretary , Jack Brown & Associates, Architects
Thomas G. Cunningham , Treasurer , Yax Jewelers
DIRECTORS
Raleigh A . Garcia, Chem -Trend Inc .
R . Lee Goughnour, Dancer Co. Department Store
Ric hard L. Lavoie, VCF Packaging Films Inc.
James H . Leppek , XLO Parker Co.
Richard J . Marencic , Citizens Insurance Company of America
Mary E . Ryan , The Sewing Basket
Radney H. Tucker, Standard Office Supply
Robert L . W i llett , First National Bank
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Ann H. Binell, Station WHMI
Fred G. Catrell , Executive Administrator
Mrs . Margaret L. Starkey, Executive Secretary
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Special People
CITIZENS OF YEAR
Dr . Louis E . May ....
Paul Baldwin , Jr . .
Wm. McPherson IV .
Stanley Dickson
Charles W . ltsell . .
Clifton W.W . Heller ..
Fred G. Catrell ...
Joseph V . Brady ..
Robt . w. Withey
Fred Catrell
.. . 1957
. 1958
.. . 1959
... 196~
.. 1961
... 1962
..... 1963
. 1964
.... 1965
Robt. J. Akin .. . . ... .. . ..... 1966
Wm. R. Ladner ..... . ... 1967
Harold Shippy . ........ • .... 1968
Wm. B. Scofield . . . . . .. 1969
Robt. M. Reid ...... . ...... 1970
Marvin (Mike) C. Hagman .. 1971
Hollis Arnold . . . . . ..... . . 1972
Albert Latson ....
Charles H . Sutton
... 1973
. 1974
CITIZEN OF THE YEAR FOR 1963
(awarded at the annual banquet-Jan. 15, 1964)
By CLIFF HELLER
The person we honor tonight has a iife devoted to the
service of his fellow men . His influence for the general good
of this community is like a strong , quiet wind. Altho unseen
you can see its results , it is always there pressing , now
strongly , now gently , ever exerting its will. His store of
energ y seems endless. He thrives on work, he loves people
and has that wonderful ability to calm irate and unhappy
people.
I have never known him to ask for anything for himself , but
often heard him ask things for others . No doubt he has been
party to more deliberations and decisions that affect the
population of Livingston County than any other person in the
past 20 years .
Our subject was born in Brighton Township and reared on a
farm in Unadilla Township, later working for neighbors on
nearb y farms . A business course at Ferris Institute prepared
him for his later career . 1915-16f ound him associated with
one of the automobile pioneers , Mr. Lucius Wilson, both here
and in Vermont. 1916-17w ere largely occuped in the Detroit
Post Office and 1918 he was with Ford Motor Company.
Near the close of the war he took a position with the Howell
Electric Motors Company which continued for nearly 20
years , during which time the growth of the company was
very rapid and his responsibilities grew as well.
May 9, 1917, 47 years ago this spring he was married to
Lucy Cook, and to this union was born two daughters who live
in Lansing and Jackson , and one son, a Major in the U.S.
Army, now living in Kansas . There are nine grandchildren.
He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Howell
and numerous Masonic bodies. His activity in the Howell
Lions Club is well recognized. He is one of the organizers of
the Michigan State Planning Association and largely thru his
efforts Livingston County has one of the best planning and
zoning departments in the state , as a matter of fact it is being
used in the state as a model of county planning . He has acted
as the Secretary of the City Planning Commission since its
establishm ent in 1942 and serves the communit y well by
being an unofficial but important well spring of information
for the Commission and the Board of Appeals .
In the spring of 1940 he ran for public office at the
insistence of his friends and was elected as Howell City
Clerk . As a measure of his ability let it be noted that in the
next 15 years he ran for this office 11 more times and led the
ticket in a number of votes every time .
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In June 1943h e was appointed as City Manager and added
to his duties was that of City Assessor for awhile in 1944-45. In
1949h e was appointed General City Superintendent. Between
Jan. 1956a nd April he was Acting City Manager . He for many
years was the building inspector as well.
Combined with all this work were the additional duties of
being a city super visor . Taking office first Jan . 1945h e is now
one of the oldest supervisors in point of service . Elected
Chairman in 1948h e began the process whereby the detention
building was constructed and was a member of the
committee who actually oversaw its construction . He has
been Chairman of the Building and Grounds Committee since
1951 which has complete charge of the maintenance and
procurement of all county property , a highly important
assignment. During his term on the Board , the holdings of the
County have expanded and improved by the addition of new
buildings and modern equipment.
Our subject has served this city longer than any other
official elected or appointed (24 years ). He has served with
seven mayors and countless commissions and council
members. Respected , loved, esteemed , dedicated , selfless
are a few of the words attached to his name by those who
worked with him . The problems he works with and has
worked with are almost beyond comprehension .
Special assessments ; street construction ; condemnation ;
parking lots and meters ; fire protection ; sewerage dispos~l ;
building codes; charters and amendments ; DPW eqmpment
; taxes and taxpayers ; hospital administration ; parks
and recreation ; ordinances ; rubbish collection and disposal ;
Christmas decorations ; personnel problems; bookkeeping ;
budgets ; zoning-planning ; airport ; cemetery ; building
construction ; licenses ; state and federal matching funds ;
industrial park development ; police ; pensions ; storm
sewers ; elections ; sidewalks ; tree removal and planting ;
bond issues ; street lights ; municipal construction ; assessments
; land purchase. .
During the past year this community has been workmg
very hard to complete the development of an industrial park.
At the moment the arrangements are largely completed .
Much of this development was accomplished thru cooperation
with federal agencies based in Chicago and Detroit . The
details to be arranged are unbelievable except to those who
have had a close association with such projects . Coupled to
this was a bond issue in cooperation with the state highway
department. And in addition there were the arrangeme~ts
with engineers , contractors and land owners regardmg
easements and so forth . Our subject so conducted the
negotiations and preparation of the necessary arrangements
and subject matter and was so complete in his work that I
can confidently sa y the projects could not have been
accomplished without his work . Its effect on this community
will !:>fea r reaching , and so long lasting as to be a monument
to him .
He has a wonderful way with people, no one carries in his
heart any anomosity for this dedicated man who has devoted
so much of himself to the furthering of and the bettering of
this community and its future well being .
He comes from a line of people who live long lives . May his
be long and free from further pain and personal suffering .
I gladly surrender to you Fred Grant Catrell the honor of
being " Citizen of the Year ," truly you are "Citizen of the
Years ." Thank you.
(CHILDREN lNFORMATION) Martha Meier- 1035 S.
Penns ylvania Avenue, Lansing , Michigan ; Ann H~arer -
2347 W. High Street, Jackson , Michigan ; Fred - MaJor and
Mrs. Frederick A. Catrell , HQ 4th Armd . Div.; A.P .O. 326;
New York, N.Y.
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Hovey in back weighed over 400 lbs. He sat on a board in the car.
Every time they hit a bump, he broke the board.
The Early 1900' s
By C. S. LINE
It was early evening when I arrived in Howell, and a fine
rain falling, and not too encouraging an outlook. I checked in
at The Livingston Hotel, opposite Courthouse, and in morn
started to evaluate the town. It was the county seat, situated
at the crossing of the Pere Marquette and the Ann Arbor
railroad, and on the main road, known as the Grand River ,
C. S. LINE FAMILY IN HOWELL
1910 to 1930's
C. S. Line, who moved with his family to Howell in 1910 and
started the original Line's 5 and 10 cent Store, chose the
town-over several competitors-for four reasons .
1. Its citizens had just voted the town "dry," thus
eliminating 4 or 5 saloons.
2. There were good blacksmith facilities, to attract farmers
into town.
3. Howell was the center for a good Rural Free Delivery
<RFD) mail system for the neighboring farm population .
4. There were good schools.
Just before his death in California in 1960, at age 88, C. S.
Line wrote a complete chronicle of his life, starting with his
birth in Linesville, Pa. (founded by his great grandfather)
where he started his first Variety Store . Later he had opened
a store in New London, Ohio, and it was from there that he
started scouting for a place to spend the rest of his business
life.
His wife, Daisy Line, insisted that-wherever they settled-
their two small sons, who were just ready to enter
school, would start and continue through the entire 12 grades ,
in one town. Thus the choice of places where to live had to be
made with great care, both from the standpoint of a good
business community but also as a place to live and raise a
family.
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between Detroit and Lansing, 49 miles west of the former,
and 34 miles east of the latter; and the center of the blooded
Holstein cattle industry , and the metropolitan trade center
for 12 or 15 miles in any direction.
We had spotted southern Michig .. n as JUr gu, 1 for business
enterprise, after leaving New Lordon Nifh that in mind I
had written to several towns for data, among them Lapeer
and Howell. The former was 'wet' but Howell was 'dry ,'
having just recently gone that way, in a local option election,
eliminating 4 or 5 saloons. Though it was quite a bit smaller
than Lapeer, we gave it preference on that one point, of being
'dry ,' in our opinion, in bringing up two boys in that improved
atmosphere. I got a reply from Lapeer that the town would
welcome us and our business; a very encouraging letter , with
proferred co-operation.
To Howell I wrote to the " leading paper of the town" and it
was thrown to the " Livingston Tidings ," as the neutral
paper, as set against the Republican and Democrat, on opposite
sides of the political fence. I got a negative letter from
A. Riley Crittenden , editor of the "Tidings," and he afterwards
said the reason he wrote me in that vein was
because he didn't think there was room for another store like
ours, as the town already had two, Bowman 's and Hill's.
My "on the spot" investigation convinced me that Mr.
Crittenden's advice was wrong . I found that Howell had the
qualifications for which we were looking ; good schools, no
saloons , adequate blacksmith shops for the farmers , and a
network of RFD routes radiating over the contiguous
territory. As a result of my investigations, I said as Brigham
Young did when he looked over the Salt Lake Valley : "This is
the Place ."
Having made my choice, I set to work at once to make
plans materialize into action. The hotel I stayed at, fronting
the courthouse square, presented an inspiring view across
the street, with the numerous maple trees in full leaf , so early
was the spring that year . I found that a room in the hotel
block was for rent soon, as a picture-show therein had found
another location . I looked up the owner, who owned the whole
hotel block, a Thomas Gordon, Jr ., who proved to be mayor
of the town, and from him I got 100 percent cooperation then
and thereafter , in my many business dealings .
He leased me the room in question, at $25 per month , and in
consideration of my paying six months in advance , he got a
carpenter and according to my specifications the two front
display show windows were modernized, at no extra charge .
The two other front store rooms in the hotel block were occupied
respectively by the hotel office on the east and the E.
A. Bowman general store on the west. The Bowman store
carried a smattering assortment of variety goods in connection
with his dry goods, which I bought out a few days
later and added to my own stock of new goods from New
York, for our opening a few weeks later . This Bowman was
one of my competitors that Crittenden had in mind when he
wrote to me the previous month as to prospects in Howell. My
other competitor was V. E . Hill, at the other end of Grand
River , and he and his successor , Tom Martin, so remained all
my business career in Howell and I got along with both on the
most friendly terms .
I got a photographer to go out with me to a leading raiser of
the Holstein breed , to get a shot of John Worthington's herd ,
as basis for reproducing in a post post card through out
German connections , to add to the collection of local cards I
expected to stock . Each night I spent hours writing home my
operations so far , in the hotel office, until the night clerk
would remind me come midnight , that it was time to close.
In the meantime Daisy and the boys were staying back in
New London, until I gave the word to come, which I did soon
thereafter , and upon arrival, we rented accommodations at
Mrs. Wright 's boarding and rooming house, that, too, opposite
the courthouse, but on another street , until I should
have located our own domicile. This I at once set out to do,
and finally found a newly built house near the store , and
rented it for $7 a month .
It was located on South Barnard Street, just south of Grand
River , and was owned by Seth Ruppert. In addition to its two
stories, it had a full-sized floored attic, which our two boys
and their friends used for all kinds of grand play activities,
especially in bad weather .
Our household goods arrived from Ohio and, since they
were not many, they were brought over in one huge dray .
load, by a horse-drawn dray, and we were once more set up
for living.
There being but a nominal difference in the ages of our two
boys, we held Winfield back so they could enter school
together , and so keep along parallel through the rest of their
schooling, and further , it was our aim to locate our living
arrangements through their growing years that they might
continue with the same system from the primary grades
through to their graduation . Both of these objectives were
met. Their first primary contact was Goldie Holt, with whom
they started , and it was largely through her knowledge in
handling small children that the boys were given the initial
interest in the primary department, that carried through the
whole course, through to their graduation in 1922.
Goldie devoted her whole working life to the science of
teaching the primary grades-some 40 years and has to her
initial credit many of the successful men and women of
today. She, upon retirement moved to California , and has
called on us at our home in Altadena . We feel indebted to the
teachers of other of the earlier grades-Ethel Dean , Karen
Hansen particularly, in giving of themselves to impart the
urge to learn to their young charges, for they were exceptional
teachers , and our heart-felt thanks go to all three
mentioned, and the appreciation of our boys in acquiring a
measure of this world's success by reason of having been
started on the right track.
We opened what I called "The Home Goods Store" on
Friday, May 13th, 1910, and despite the weather and alleged
'bad luck' associated with the day and date , the opening was
auspicious. The months were reversed , as between April and
May, and it snowed in May.
From the Rupert house-our first in Howell-after less
than two years , we rented the Shields house on State Street
and held that down for some length of time as did the Rupert
house. It was here that Winfield and I made a trip to Detroit
and bought a pony, to which we gave the name of "Beauty "-
with small wicker phaeton, with harness and all else that
went with it, for $150. We drove it home; most of the way,
however, Winfield and I walked, to relieve the little beast, as
no pavements and hard pulling through dust and sand. The
trip took us three days , with overnight stops at two towns
between . The Shields place offered good accommodations in
the summer season, as back yard was enclosed but, even so,
Beauty at times would chew or tear to pieces clothes hung on
the line. The little rascal soon learned, when passing the
store, to not budge another inch until he had been fed his
chocolate cream . Come fall, we had no winter stable, so sold
"Beauty ."
More years went by, and we bought the old homestead,
called " The Hickey House" (N.E . corner of State and
Monroe) from Bruce McPherson. It was an over-size house,
but old, situated on a corner lot, entirely surrounded by
maple trees , and far too large for us, but we bought it for a
song, so to speak . It was while living here that we bought our
first car , a 4-cylinder Buick, as here we had a 'barn' in which
to store it. It cost us $555. We ran it 25,000 miles and used it for
5 years . (That was in 1916).
Our first family trip was to Mammoth Cave and back-
1,140 miles, which we made O.K. discounting taking along a
back rack of spare tires , for the best would blow out in less
than 2,000 miles. I remember that the 12 miles into the park
was 6 inches deep with mud, and so impassable that an old
couple that we met had turned around and gave up, as afraid
they couldn't make it through such a quagmire. We made it
however, and enjoyed the experience. Upon our return trip
home we stopped at the house, and was shown through by the
hostess guide across the river from Covington, the historic
house in which Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Toms
Cabin." At another historic spot, an old southern mansion,
we passed and stopped, known as " My Old Kentucky Home,"
where Stephen Foster wrote his never-to-be-forgotten
ballads . With our new car, of course, it behooved us to "take
the bit in our teeth" and drive into and through the city of
Detroit. When we crossed Woodward Avenue from Grand
Avenue, I ran into the rear wheel of a peddler 's wagon. A
policeman stood on the corner watching, but made no move
to challenge or arrest me inasmuch as no damage was done
other than denting my front fender .
Harking back to the late summer of 1910, the year we
located in Howell a 5 and 10 cent convention was held in
Cincinnati, which I attended, and it was then and there the
ground-work was laid for the later forming of a group of five
and ten cent associates into a buying organization to be
known as The Consolidated Merchants Syndicate , with
buying offices in New York, of which I became member no.
314, with an official rubber stamp----"C.M.S." The head office
issued voluminous weekly bulletins from manufacturers all
over the United States, in wanted goods in the trade, all by
makers, no jobbers. The service cost $300 a year. From the
time I went in, until we sold out to the D. & C., in 1942, I
continued as a member, with substantial benefits, I thought.
At the convention cited above, we were each furnished with
the official badge of 5 and 10 cent merchants, so we looked
very impressive. Theodore Roosevelt visited Cincinnati at
that time and we got notice that he would detrain at a
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Closing of the Strobel Grocery to start the building of the new Line
lOc store .
suburban station to avoid the crush at the union station. So a
bunch of us repaired out to that suburban station , but were
not allowed on the platform . However, "Yours Truly "
jumped down a 6-foot wall to make it, and once on the platform
and mixed with the official welcoming committee, I
was indistinguished from them, with MY official badge , and
so the police passed me right through with them . Therefore I
met and shook hands with the colonel, who greeted me with
his slogan , " De-lighted! "
The convention lasted three days, with much of interest
occurring, but when it broke up, I was loaded with all the
samples I could carry from exhibitors who didn't want to ship
same home. I had to change cars at Toledo, and by time I got
home that night, after 11 o'clock, I knew I had been
somewhere.
Continuing my main narrative , before the first world war
broke, Thomas Gorden proposed to sell me the whole
Livingston Hotel block, for $11,000, and I took him up, turning
in our big house at just what it had cost, as token payment-
$3,200. W. D. Adams, dry-goods merchant , who had bought
out E. A. Bowman , thereafter paid his $40 store rent to me,
rather than Gorden . Mrs . Van Keuren operated the hotel, and
I raised her rent slightly, from $70 a month to $1,000 a year.
Through the entire hotel regime of five years , I never made
any visible profit, with so much continual outlay for repairs
and replacements , but when war was on and prices inflated I
sold the whole outfit to W. D. Adams for $16,500,t hus cleaning
up a tidy profit over-all. Thereafter I paid my rent to Adams
instead of him to me. Gorden , by cementing basement and a
new floor, inside toilet, and other improvements over the
years , had raised my rent up to $30 a month, and after having
acquired ownership , I had started debiting the business with
$40, toward the 'kitty!
In the very early days of our Howell regime, we had always
heretofore in towns we had occupied, observed the formal
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closing time at 9 p.m. However, in Howell I inaugurated 6
p.m. closing of other stores, including our own, to coincide
with those in the dry-goods industry . I invented an alarm
clock arrangement set to turn off lights at 9 p.m., but we
closed at 6 every night except Saturday. The press and Board
of Commerce took my idea up and urged all to install the
alarm clock gimmick , which they did, and eventually, all
stores closed at 6 from then on.
Another early innovation in Howell was the installing of
gas cars on the Ann Arbor Railroad , with Howell as a ter -
minal , and sheds therefore overnight storage of the cars , as
they ran only in daylight hours . They would stop at any highway
crossing in the area, upon notice to the conductor and
·were quite a convenience . Daisy , I, and the boys, on a
Saturday or Sunday , would ride out to a pre-determined
crossing, to gather hickory nuts, or other seasonable rural
products .
In our early days in Howell we as a family began going to
Island Lake every Sunday . At first we made the trip on the
10:10 a.m. Pere Marquette train , which would stop at the
Island Lake "station " to let us off, and pick us up if we
flagged the engineer . But later we began hiring a surrey
from the livery stable, taking along oats to feed the two
horses, while we had wonderful picnic lunches of potato salad
and sandwiches , which Daisy prepared . On these Island Lake
trips, we were often accompanied by Anna Andersen , and
sometimes by the Hamilton girls , Thelma and Dorothy .
We leased a large part of the east side of the lake for $5 a
year. To have purchased it would have cost $200.
In the first years of our moving to Howell I was elected
president of the Chamber of Commerce and re-elected for
several terms thereafter, with A. Riley Crittenden as
secretary. It was during my regime in that capacity that
Howell was given city mail delivery, and Riley, the inspector,
and myself , with the driver, drove over the streets of
Howell, mapping out the respective routes of the three
original carriers , which still obtain to the present day, with
added routes , of course. Also, during my incumbency of
office on the Board of Commerce , or, Commercial Club, as
we called it, I was selected as one of a committee of three, to
solicit funds for a site for the Spencer-Smith Machine
Company plant, in which we succeeded; and the Spencer-
Smith on one side of the Ann Arbor tracks with its sister
factory, the Howell Electric Company , on the other side,
were then and still are , the leading industrial concerns in the
city. Howell, you may infer, was later incorporated as city ,
by popular vote . I was on that initial committee, too.
With the oncoming of the war years and for some time
thereafter, sugar was not rationed , but was in short supply .
We helped to satisfy that sweet-tooth longing that all
Americans seem to have, by supplying wholesome candies at
popular prices. We had experimented with it in a small way ,
enough to recognize that it was a legitimate stock in trade
that we should not neglect. Therefore we went into it in a big
way , with the latest in modern show-cases, several sets of
Toledo scales , glass dividers and everything that goes with a
well run and scrupulously clean department catering to the
most discriminating patronage . I acquired exclusive sale in
the city of E. J . Brach's products, of Chicago, with exclusive
also with independent makers through my C.M.S. connection
.
Also, I had a continuing agreement with a peanut
processing plant in Toledo, by which, if ordered a day in
advance and the goods were on the loading dock in 'roledp by
4 o'clock in the afternoon , they would come through to Howell
on the "Cannon-ball" freight and be taken out of the car in
Howell by my drayman the next morning, of a Saturday , thus
being received by us for that days sale, strictly fresh. People
came to know that candy or peanuts bought from us, were
ALWAYS fresh , and that slogan was never violated , and I
don't remember ever having not gotten our keg or barrel of
peanuts on time , each and every Saturday morning . We sold
a keg or a barrel each Saturday.
Our candy and peanut output was truly remarkable for a
small town. The two combined once in awhile rolled up into a
total of $125 for Saturday, which alone , constituted half the
whole weeks sale. I always had an alert girl on her toes
behind the candy counters on Saturday , and sometimes two
of them , with occasionally myself taking my stand there , for
it is close attention to weighing out candy in 5 and 10 cent
sale s that makes for either profit or loss, and we always had
the closest cooperation and attention to those little details ,
with periodical official inspection of our scales for fine but
honest measurement. We handled nothing but quality candies,
the hard kinds in great variety , selling at 10 cents per
pound; and choicest selection of chocolate creams at 40 cents
per pound. I remember once in Chicgao touring the Brach
factor y in person , I bought over $700 of chocolate creams,
without batting an eye, and they , nor any other sorts that we
handled were ever permitted to go stale , else they were withdrawn
from sale . We had fine cool and dry storage in the
basement , as Gordon had fitted it up. The candy department
was the most profitable part of our business , over the years .
I always thought that older help was more efficient and
responsible than the younger, with individual exceptions of
course , and with my wife, I had the old standbys , Mrs.
Burdick and Mrs. Hight, with Fern Pettibone , I thought I had
quite a team for the rush day of Saturday . Later on, when our
sons were at the University in Ann Arbor , I engaged them to
hitch-hike a ride up on Saturday to help, if they could get
away, and paid them $5 apiece , and really needed them
desperately . In visiting a fellow merchant , in Iowa, one time
who had a bevy of young girls flitting about, I told him my
regulars were 70 years. He threw up his hands in horror. A
year or two thereafter , he went bankrupt . Draw your own
conclusions. Mrs . Burdick was mother of Mrs. Roy Caverly ;
Mrs. Hight was mother of Bird Hight.
During our early Howell years , when my wife came down
on a Saturday to help out, she would bring the little fellows
down to the store and put them to sleep in clothes baskets
under the counters. In the days when we had the pony, they
would go off for the day on country roads, with their cousin,
Clarence Stevens, knowing they would be safely occupied for
hours , while she was at the store. On such occasions
customers would come in and say they had seen our boys,
with their pony, on such and such a road , when we would
reassure them that they had our permission . Clarence was
only five years older than Winfield, but that five years made
a big difference. Clarence was a born horseman , and he could
control "Beauty " with no trouble at all . However , when
Winfield tried to assume the role of boss , over anything to
which " Beauty " objected, she rebelled , and one time she
took a tiny bite out of Winfield's ear-lobe , and I think the scar
still remains . That was one reason we let Beauty go, for,
without Clarence , when he went home, we were not sure of
Beauty 's reactions when in a contrary mood.
While we were still in the Shields house , one Sunday the
boys decided to go for a walk down the Pere Marquette
railroad tracks , unbeknown to us, of their intentions , though
we had never restricted their reasonable actions in any way .
This was in the early forenoon. As dinner time passed , we
became concerned , and by mid-afternoon genuinely worried .
We confided in the neighbors and all turned out to hunt ,
walked around the lake , something that the boys and I had
done many times, and investigated all sorts of possibilities ,
but before I had decided to call up the authorities , in came
the pair, somewhat bedraggled and hungry , as they had
nothing to eat since breakfast. Winfield at the time was
probably 10 years old and Francis 1 ¼ years younger . It
seem s they started down the track not noting the passage of
time, and kept walking , walking , and walking, until they
cam e to the village of Brighton , which they knew was over 10
miles from Howell. Then, they became really frightened ,
with that 10½ mile walk back , but they buckled to it, and
made it, but it was a salutory lesson , better than a whipping .
We were so relieved that we made their bed (after stuffing
them with a good supper ) upstairs beside us , which they
thought was silly, to treat them as babies .
HOWELL SIDELIGHTS
We saw two total eclipses of the sun in this era, something
not seen in a lifetime by many people . The first one, a night
drive we made to Ann Arbor , picked up the boys in time to
drive to Midland , pick up Myra , then on to Evart , where
occurred the eclipse soon after daylight , then reverse back
home. The second one was years later , in New England , we
drove up there and got a good stance on a hill in New Hampshire
for the event , then toured horn via Lake Champlain and
Ticonderoga , and other historical points.
The milk factory (Bordens ) in Howell burned while we
were in the McPherson house, from where the fire was
spectacular. D. and I got up and went over , and how mad the
boys were afterward that we didn't wake them instead of
leaving them sleeping . This was a big loss to Howell, but it
was bridged for a time by shipping the daily milk to the
Lansing factory in glass-lined refrigerator cars .
Two years citizens appointed a "Fireworks " committee
the 4th of July , with Ed Garland , Dr. Huntington , and C. S.
Line members thereof. We collected several hundred dollars
and I contracted with Brown Eag_er of Toledo, to furnish the
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works, which I billed at cost, and Brown Eager sent a man up
to put on the exhibit. We negotiated with Henry Ford for the
orator of the day, but his secretary brushed us off.
In the years of 1915 and 1916 I took a series of cycling trips
with the boys: First, the round trip by bicycle between
Howell and Linesville, a total distance of about 700 miles .
This was in 1915. Francis was only 11 years, and legs so short
he had to have a smaller machine, tailored to his needs . We
made the trip without incident, and put up at the Travelers
Hotel, while in Linesville , and a day or two sufficed to let us
canvas the town and vicinity, call on friends and visit the old
haunts of their parents in earlier days before we hit the
return trail. The next year we biked to Chicago and
Milwaukee, and return .
At about this time a company was formed in Howell to film
and produce a moving picture and it was done, with a socalled
expert from Toledo to conduct operations . The star of
the play was Mabel Tallefaro , and the name of it was "Miss
13," or " A Fight for a Million." I went out on a country during
filming and saw a house blownup. It really was quite a
creditable production. The boys, in their travels in after
years, saw it in San Francisco, and claimed they recognized
me in the "Courthouse riot scene, " and so they might have,
for I was there . When the old central high school was ready
for demolition, it was used as the locale for a dramatic "fire"
scene, with smoke pouring from the windows.
It was at about this juncture that Marion Leroy Burton,
president of the U. of M., came up to our town to deliver an
important speech. Accompanying him was Ruth Bryan
Owen, daughter of " The Great Commoner, " who was to
make just a few " preliminary remarks." "Like father, like
son," goes the old canard. The same goes for daughter.
Anyhow, Ruth went on and on, and on, for an hour or more
until the time had long passed for Burton 's appearance, and
The Sunday auto club posing in front of the Hotel before taking off
on a Sunday afternoon drive.
he was a busy man , and had stolen his time for the special
occasion, but he had to make an appointment , and so was
forced to get up and leave , without uttering a single word. Of
course Ruth was properly mortified , but any number of
apoligies would not bring back that hour of time.
The decade of the 1920's brought exciting experiences,
changes, and adventures in our lives.
With two sons in high school, I was elected to the Board of
Education and served as its secretary for two years. The old
Central School building on Michigan Avenue had been torn
down and a fine modern new building erected on its site.
During the construction process a temporary structure had
been built on a large vacant lot across from our Sibley Street
home. Much of the work had been done by students , and my
son Francis was hired for the summer as a regular carpenter
to work on it. Claude V. Courter had been an excellent
superintendent for years and when he announced his transfer
to Flint, in 1922, it fell to the board to select a successor . After
interviewing many applicants, we engaged Mr. John Page.
When our sons graduated , at the head of their class, in 1922;
I felt that I should resign my seat on the board so that
someone with children in school could be elected in my place .
Our two boys, before entering the University of Michigan,
spent 13 months hiking to all 48 states of the Union. They
traveled 27,000 miles , catching many rides but having to hoof
it a lot too. Francis wore out six different pairs of shoes but
Winfield came home with his original pair, which had been
repaired many times . The boys worked their own way, in the
wheat harvest of the Dakotas , far underground for three
months in a silver mine in Idaho, icing railway fruit cars,
picking hops in Washington State, plus many other jobs.
Between their sophomore and junior years at the
University our boys took a similar 13-month trip , but this
time around the world. Last leg of their journey was acros s
the Pacific from Japan, and when their ship docked at
Seattle , Daisy and I had driven cross-country and were on
hand to meet them and make the journey back home with
them in our car . Both boys graduated from the University in
February of 1928, and in May and June, respectively, both of
them were married.
So the year 1928 neared its close . We had opened another
store on Grand River, in Howell, in the Gregory building,
known as the West-End store, to distinguish it from the
original store in the East End . The former store was given
into Francis ' hands for management , the original one being
managed by Winfield. Both jointly , within the next year ,
opened the Brighton store, after having built the building to
house it. All these enterprises were based on my capital,
name and credit, with individual management and
responsibility lodged solely in the hands jointly of Winfield
and Francis , with a tentative arrangement that all profit, if
any should revert to the two boys, 50-50. So the situation
stood, the year following their marriage .
It had been my custom in former years, at the close of the
December business, including the Christmas harvest, to
bring my big safety bank box home for family examination ,
with bonds, stocks, merchandise inventories and other
material possessions to evaluate, and that analysis of 1928
net, showed a net worth of some less than $70,000, which
represented the peal of material assets of my life, just prior
to the 1929 'c rash .' It was time to consider a long vacation, for
which see next page.
After selling our home ( the former Hickey-McPherson
place ) in connection with the purchase of the Livingtston
Hotel Block, we continued to live in part of the house until we
bought a smaller house at 209 West Sibley Street.
This place was nearer our work (we always walked to and
from our home to the store ) and we later remodeled it into an
attractive home .
Soon after we had located in the West Sibley home, a Rev .
E . C. Moore, with his wife and family, rented the premises
next door. His church , the Evangelical , was located just
around the next corner, but the church vacant lot was
directly across the street. On this lot, with the help of
parishioners , Moore in person planned and built a parish
house and parsonage , and he and family moved into the
latter , shortly. Our fortunes were largely tied up with the
Moores for many years, in their various successive moves ,
for we were with them ever in spirit, with many visits to
Detroit , Jackson , and eventually to Youngs Point, in Ontario ,
Canada. This latter church parish was some 440 miles from
Howell. We made the trek at least three times , crossing the
river at Port Huron , and thence via "The Kings Highway, " to
Laying the cement for paving in front of the Library.
our destination, skipping Toronto by three miles. Once we
deployed through the province of Quebec, with its quaint
customs and religious statutes on the cross , at every fourcorners.
Those days with the Moores were and are among our
happiest recollections . To pay in part for our entertainment
we took water trips out of Youngs Point, which is the center
of a far-flung water-world, we as hosts. I always contrived to
bring a roll of Canadian quarters, which we had accepted
over the counter at 20 percent discount, whereas they could
use them at par. We helped finance the daughter through
college.
The business boom of the early 1920's and unknowingly ,
speculation and people spending more than they earned was
laying the foundations for the worst and longest depression
this fair land ever had . Being 'cash', our business was not
particularly affected by economic ups and downs, but the
current decade embraced the most successful years of our
business life. As in our Linesville , Pa . and New London, Ohio
stores, post cards formed a substantial part of our income ,
which, with candy and peanuts, jointly, were our mainstays,
and the two departments I had in the front of the store , at
right angles from each other. We devoted ourselves to the
business and long hours, when the public wanted to spend its ·
money, and had it to spend. Withal, Sundays , after
Sunday School, we devoted to recreation and would sally
forth with our linen dusters and other sports paraphornalia
about the country highways and byways , for day trips. The
boys, under the tutorship of their gymnast instructor, attended
Sunday School, and as an incentive, the satisfying
gym exercises following.
In the early 1920's I was put up for mayor on the nonpolitical
ticket, but beaten by a small majority, 20 votes I
think, and so avoided a lot of grief.
It was in 1920t hat a committee got together to create a new
banking institution , this to be a national bank . The two
already in town were both state banks . They importuned me
to join them, which I did. They had already tentatively
thought to call the institution , when formed , " The Farmers
Bank ." I demurred, on the ground that it smacked as appealing
to a class , whereas we wanted to draw from all
segments of the populace, whereupon I suggested the name
of " First National Bank ," as of broader import and, with all
a substantial and solid name, and my suggestion was adopted
and the bank was formed and so named, with Louis Hewlett
as president , I as chairman of the board , and E . A. Fay as
cashier, with Will Reader as an officer . Therefore I put in my
$1000,w ith a like sum from 100 others, making a total capital
of $100,000, and it served its clientele well, until the bank
closings of 1933, after which a reorganization took place .
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World War I The men of the first draft of W .W. I march from the Court House
toward the main four . From there, they went to the station at the Pere
Marquette (now C&Ol to entrain for Detroit to be outfitted.
The U .S. Navy " Jackie " band plays at the main four to promote
enlistments and the sale of Liberty Bonds .
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While the boys were over there, groups of women got together to knit scarves and mittens for the boys .
World War I
By FRANCIS RAYMOND LINE, COPYRIGHT 1975
My years as a teenager were filled with the exciting routine
of a small farming community in southern Michigan,
surro unded by tantalizing woods and lakes and winding dirt
roads. It was not only the time of my own teens, but also the
teen years of this aging twentieth century.
Teen years are both miraculous and monstrous. They seem
to live themselves out as a beautiful melody of bewildering
discords . They are sometimes a tempting goulash of dreams
but can almost instantly turn into a Noah's Ark of wild
beasts. The teen years are a confusing, wonderful, and
furious period of life. I suppose all of living is both sweet and
sour, but it seems to smart or tingle more during the time of
the teens.
All of this was true of me as a young boy, who now looks
back at himself from a vantage point of three-score-and-ten
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The hair got short at boot camp .
enlightenment. It is equally true of this wheezing twentieth
century, which is also turning gray at the temples .
This century's teen years-particularly from 1914 through
1919-were critical for America and the world. My own teen
years paralleled them closely as I grew into long trousers
while going to school and working in my father's store in that
little town hemmed in by lakes and pastures . These were
precious , pregnant , poignant times-the Years of World War
I. The nation, the world, and I-even the quiet town where I
lived-w ere all making-and being made by-history .
This is a teen 's eye view of those times in that small town.
THE YEARS OF WORLD WAR I
The first World War didn't really Legin for me when that
bullet killed Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 and got all of
Europe clawing at each other . For me, it started with the
Hughes-Wilson Presidential Campaign , fought out amongst
the farmers and business people of Livingston County, of
which our town was the county seat. I was nearly 13-a 7th
grader in Howell's old Central School on South Division
Street. When we all became more sophisticated after the
war, a fine new school was built and the name of the street
changed to Michigan A venue.
Europe had been fighting for two years and stirrings of it
sometimes seeped into my consciousness . The family of my
close friend Herb Pfau had memories and relatives in
Germany, and he paid more attention to what was going on
over there than I did. I first learned about the Battle of
Jutland from him. But to me, the fighting seemed a long way
off .
My folks ran the Five and Ten Cent Store next to the Hotel
Livingston across from the Courthouse . On Saturday nights ,
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It's over-over there . And the boys came marching home.
especially, the hitching posts at our end of town were nearly
always filled. Farmers liked to hitch near our place because
our store carried a lot of the things they needed-suspenders ,
work socks, pitchforks, and things like that. The farm wives
always needed percolator tops, a galvanized bathtub, or
sometimes a pair of spectacles which we sold and fitted for a
dollar a pair. They tested the glasses with fine print in one of
the Bibles which we also carried . One woman once got so
interested in reading the Bible that she bought that too. Our
place was really a Variety Store, although probably over half
the things in it cost only a nickel or dime. Near threshing
time the farm women would come in and stock up with a
whole new supply of huge Dennis coffee cups along with
plates and dishes.
But Saturday night meant much more than stocking up for
the week. Our store and the wide sidewalk in front of it were
usually crowded with people just visiting and enjoying
themselves. Saturday night was a sort of business-mixedwith
socializing occasion along the two blocks of stores on
Grand River Street. It was the chance, also, to catch up on
news. Mostly, the news was about things close to home such
as the late corn season or the runaway team out on the
Pinckney Road. There was increasing speculation about the
self-starters on some of the autos beginning to appear in
Howell.
One huge event, in 1915, upset that calm for a while. German
subs sank the Lusitania , with a lot of Americans on
board. Grand River Street shivered with excitement and the
rural party lines were overloaded for several days . But after
that , things settled back again toward crops and weather and
wondering if the hitching posts would be taken away from
Grand River if the street was ever paved. I don't remember
very much about what went on in Europe , until late 1916.
Then the big thing happened-Charles Evans Hughes
challenged Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency . Wilson
promised to keep America at peace. "Be prepared," was the
slogan on the other side. The Detroit papers began printing
big battle stories . War talk mixed heavily with the Saturday
night socializing along Grand River. People began heating up
about politics . In all the election excitement, the European
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fighting seemed to creep closer and closer. Outcome of that
election began to mean a lot to everyone in Howell. The
stakes were high, and pretty soon the tensions in Howell were
too.
We kids got more excited over the election than over the
war . I think we took it more seriously than the grownups , and
fought over it every morning on the school grounds . Not with
our fists, but hit-the-ground hard wrestling . We were in
earnest.
We even went to school early so there would be longer to
fight. This is the only time I can remember doing that sort of
thing . My father later became a Republican, but for that
election he was a Democrat. Our folks didn't want America
to go to war .
I had one brother , Winfield, who was in the same grade
with me. He and I, and Carl Weinmaster, were the main kids
on Wilson's side. Carl was the blacksmith 's son, and almost
as big and strong as his father. His arm muscles swelled and
rippled like the big bubbles in the pans of chocolate fudge we
used to boil on the kitchen stove . We (my brother and I and
Carl 's muscles ) nearly always had the political advantage .
Wilson would have been proud of us.
After the polls closed on election night , my father went
downtown to get the returns . I don't know where he went , or
how those returns came in. No radio or television , of course , I
suppose the telegraph office, or one of the weekly papersthe
Livingston Republican or Livingston Democrat-was
getting tabulations.
My mother and my brother and I stayed up late, but Win
and I were deep in sleep when my father came home . Next
morning he woke us up early and sat on the edge of our bed.
" Hughes won," he told us. " I just hope the country will give
him better support than they've given to Wilson." Pop's face
looked pretty grim .
But soon we weren 't so certain that Hughes had come out
ahead . The Detroit papers, each day , brought later news of
the results. Wilson began nibbling away at Hughes ' apparent
victory . We would grab the Detroit News just as soon as it
came each afternoon , to see who was in the lead . I think it
was about three weeks before final returns dragged in from
some isolated mountain county in California, that at last kept
Wilson as president.
Wilson won all right, but the European war began getting
even bigger and closer. Germany announced "unrestricted
submarine warfare ." The people in Howell, and the farmers
on Saturday nights , talked about it a lot and wondered what it
would mean.
It meant WAR. The lakes and the pastures around Howell
were just shaking themselves loose from winter when, in
early April of 1917, extras came out from Detroit with huge
scary black headlines : Congress Declares War on Germany .
From then on, with the grownups-but especially among us
kids-the name of Kaiser Wilhelm fell below that of the devil
himself . He WAS the devil. He became the favorite villain in
a lot of the games we kids played after school. A picture of a
German military spiked helmet almost made us throw up.
War effects started showing up in Howell right away . Little
red-bordered service flags, with a blue star on white, began
appearing in the windows of homes-and some stores .
Before fighting was over, a couple of fellows from our
class-Floyd Hubbell and Joe Mevis-had enlisted . Outside
our school, hanging alongside the American flag, an enormous
Service flag, as big as our livingroom rug , told
everyone that our school had done its share . The flag had
seventeen blue service stars .
Just before Christmas , 1917, a rumor spread that an airplane
was flying every night from Clements Field to Camp
Custer and passing right over Howell. I had seen an airplane
once before-i t had been shipped in and uncrated for an
exhibition flight at the County Fair . But for the first three
days the pilot had been too frightened to go up. The wind was
too strong , he said . But the last day of the fair he took off
from a field near the racetrack and made some perfect
circle s up above the grounds before landing . Pop said it was a
dandy .
Not all the boys came marching home . Some were brought home in
a long box .
And now, to think that a plane might be flying over Howell
every night. The alley behind our store, after dark , was filled
with soft velvety blackness . It was a quiet, deserted world
back there , which wasn 't visited much at night unless
someone had to go to the privy . But I would go out there ,
sometimes for a long time, to search the sky. Once I was sure
I saw the plane's light, but when it just stayed there in the
blackness and didn't move for ten minutes, I concluded it
must be a star . Things like that , though, got us excited .
A World War is a brain-searing experience , especiall y for a
sensitive young boy. Some of the things that happened
pounded deep and forever into me, and landed eventually in
the history books of the world. Those were fated times .
But through the distorted magnifying glass of sixty years ,
some minor events can become large , while important
happenings can get blurred or misplaced , or even lost
completely. Exact dates and chronology have a way of
floating around through the brain and landing on the wrong
pages of the calendar .
When I started rummaging through my memories with the
tweezers of recollection , I was able to reconstruct a sweeping
general picture of the big news storie s, the day-to-day minor
problems (though large to us) which the war brought on, and
the grim or exciting happenings that made Howell an important
part of the picture canvas of World War I. I wrote it
all down, and am glad I did, although my mental calendar of
those years was still too scrambled .
Then I replaced the memor y tweezers with a fine tooth
comb, like one of those black, flat hard-rubber combs that
my father used to use. It is amazing what fragments can be
caught by fine-combing the memory. Back there-wa y back
sometim e- I had kept a boyhood diary - at least a sporadic·
one. There was no recollection that it had ever been
destroyed.
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From combing through memories, I turned physically to
digging through several large long-forgotten boxes, stored in
my California home.
I found it! A daily diary from December 8, 1917 through
December 30, 1919. It is a miracle almost too historically
important to be true. I have a personal record of those most
important history-jammed teen years of the century. It is all
written out in longhand in daily five or six line entries ,
sometimes much longer, occasionally even a page or two
fully describing important days or events. History books tell
what happened in the world at large; this diary tells what
happened in ME, and in the little town where I lived, against
the background of World War I.
From December 17 on, my calendar is scrambled no
longer; I can be sure of events and chronologies, and can
make faces at the tricks which recollection plays. Now all I
need do is rewrite the pages from here on, sharpening the
data and correcting the dates, but leaving the all-important
memory -pictures intact. This I shall proceed to do.
Thank God for fine-tooth combs . And long-forgotten
storage boxes.
The first blizzard of entries blanketing different pages of
my diary like a January snowstorm was about coal, cord
wood, and store closings.
My brother Winfield and I were down at our store every
day, helping out. We would open up about 6 o'clock almost
every morning and do our studying, then when our father
came about 8 a.m . we'd head for school. We stayed open
late-often until 11 p.m. on Saturdays-to accommodate the
farmers who couldn't start the long drive into town until the
chores and milking were finished.
But on January 16, 1918, my diary notes : "In afternoon we
found that we had to open from 9 a.m . to 8 p.m. because of
fuel. I made a sign stating this. "
And on the following Monday: " Stores are closed today to
save fuel."
There were many Monday "coal" closings. The thing I
remember most is how the coal scarcity affected us at home.
We were living in the 10-room old McPherson house at 607
North State Street. Ii was heated by a grizzly asbestos-lined
coal-burning furnace, in the cellar. On February 6 my diary
says: "Ran out of coal. "
We did most of our living that winter in the large kitchen,
which was heated by a cooking range that burned either coal
or wood. With a hand-pump at the end of the sink we could get
soft water from the cistern , and the stove had a five-gallon
reservoir at one end where water was heated every time we
built the fire for cooking. So we fared well.
When bedtime came, with plenty of quilts and a hot water
bottle apiece , we could sleep in the unheated bedrooms . Win
and I nearly always slept on an open sleeping porch, anyhow.
But on February 20, according to the diary: "Win (Winfield,
my brother ) split wood after school. I slept in kitchen on
lounge because I had a cold and it was cold in our regular
bedroom. "
With sporadic regularity we got cord wood and my brother
and I did a lot of wood-splitting. Down in the store basement
we also split mountains of kindling . Almost all goods at the
store came packed in heavy wooden boxes, sometimes five
feet square, made of thick boards . Usually we sold those
boxes for five cents apiece, or much cheaper for a drayload,
but that winter we split up hundreds of them (it seemed like
thousands) for firewood . The lumber in one of those large
boxes, today, might cost twenty-five dollars .
Apparently the stores closed every Monday because of the
fuel problem . On Monday, February 11, 1918, I wrote in my
diary :
"Closed today. After school, Win and I went to Red Cross
auction where Papa was . They sold 25 dozen eggs for not less
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then$5 a dozen; two at$10 a dozen. Papa bought some things.
Mamma sewed at Red Cross."
A sort of a sick joke was going around during those days of
shortages. I dimly recall it : "You may have cream in your
coffee, you may even be able to afford egg on your vest, but
you can't get coal."
But one day we DID get 500 pounds, from Ralph Woodruff's
Lumber and Coal Company. That is only a quarter of a ton
and I don't think it went very far in heating a 10-room house.
We probably just used it in the kitchen stove.
In March , one day after school, almost the whole school
went down to see our manual training teacher , Mr. Yeakey,
off on his way to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was the kind of
man that the army would want first of all-one of our most
popular teachers . We didn' t know what we would do without
him .
Mr. Case took his place . Nearly everybody was knitting at
that time-mostly socks for the doughboys in France . But
when Mr. Case spent most of our manual training hour
knitting , we boys said some pretty strong things behind · his
back. It would have been hard for anyone to replace Mr.
Yeakey , even without shuttling those long steel knitting
needles.
I guess that Mr. Yeakey left by himself , but most of the new
soldiers went in groups. The departure of the boys for Camp
Custer , which government workers had thrown up in a frenzy
over near Battle Creek, became the most important part of
the war , in Howell. For us boys, it was exciting; for the older
people, especially parents of the fellows who left, this was
what brought the war right into Howell itself .
School would close, and there would be a band as the boys
marched down to the Pere Marquette depot. The station
platform was jammed with parents, relatives, and onlookers.
We boys (I was 14 by then ) would climb up on the big red box
cars to get a better view of it all. Even the girls would climb
up so they could see . They had to be careful, though, to hold
their dresses down as they went up the iron rungs on the ends
of the cars.
As the train pulled out, a lot of the people in the crowd were
crying . That seemed strange to us; I was too young to grasp
how serious a moment this was. To us, the band music, the
bugles and flags , and the mournful "good bye" of the train
whistle as the engine shot out steam and prepared to departall
this brought gooseflesh rather than tears to us kids .
I don't know whether my diary lists every time that the
soldiers left-a 14-year-old boy sometimes forgets even the
most exciting events . But I recorded that 33 soldierboys left
on April 1, 1918, 22 on April 29, 66 on May 29, and about 30 on
August 26. There were probably many more who went, but
even that was a lot of soldiers from one small Michigan town.
I suppose these months were the times that we learned
those war songs that are still floating around in memory ,
mixing flecks of sadness with sparks of excitement. It 's a
Long Way to Tipperary , Keep The Home Fires Burning , Over
There, There 's A Long, Long Trail A Winding, Tell Me Why
Nights Are Lonesome, etc. We would sing those songs at
school assemblies, dances , picnics and parties , when out
riding-everywhere . We loved them .
That is what we did a lot of the time-just sing-when
groups of us boys and girls got together or went riding-
Margaret Nichols, Zoe Lott, Juanita Eastman , Josephine
Peavy, the Dutton girls, along with Win and me and other
boys.
At one of the rare vaudeville nights at the Temple Theater .
just below our store on Grand River, a stage singer tried to
teach the audience a new war song :
"Just as Washington crossed the Delaware,
So will Per-ish-ing Cross the Rhine ."
He drew out that word "Per-ish-ing" so long that it was
some time before I realized that he was singing about
General Pershing , who commanded our American
Expeditionary Forces in France . We boys had dimly heard of
Pershingseven before the war . When the Mexican bandit
Francisco Villa raided a little New Mexico border town
President Wilson had sent Pershing down into Mexico to find
and capture Villa. The name of Pershins had brushed our
memories slightly , but "Pancho Villa" became a byword or a
" boy-word" with us, and a kid was lucky if he could be
"Villa " in bandit games we played . In 1915, Pershing 's wife
and three daughters had been burned to death in a fire at San
Francisco 's Presidio .
Patriotic speeches in Howell were as important as patriotic
songs. On March 21, 1918, according to my diary :
" Win and I, Gerald (Hubbell) , Lewis (Nooney), and
Donald (Tupper ) went to the Presbyterian Church to hear a
speech by Gunner Depew. He told all about his life in the
trenches . There was a silver collection. Win and I put in ten
cents each. "
That speech must have rated high on our scale, for ten
cents was a lot of money; that's what Logan Papworth had
paid us the past summer for an hour's hard work hoeing and
weeding onions. We were later raised to twelve cents an hour.
An hour's wages in a collection plate today might be $5.00.
Less than a month later, on April 14, this entry appeared:
"After supper, Win, Papa , and I went to the Presbyterian
Church to hear ex-Gov. Osborn speak on " This War, Our
War." There were over a thousand there. After he got done,
those who wanted to could go up and shake hands with him .
Rod Hubbell and I went up. He shook hands with us and then
cracked our heads together and slapped us on the back ."
I wonder, now, if the Presbyterian Church (we called it the
" new" Presbyterian Church then) would really seat a
thousand . Most of the war gatherings were held there and
that is often the figure I gave in my diary. Maybe it just
seemed like a thousand. Anyhow, the church was jammed.
October 13, 1918: " We went to the Presbyterian Sunday
School. Burr Hoover, a sailor , taught us and he told us a lot of
stories of camp life." Five days later my brother and father
went to hear Bill Dickson tell of his adventures in the war .
Every month or so the stores would close because of a
Patriotic Day. Sometimes there would be bands and marching.
On May 24, 1918, I recorded :
" We were rushed at noon. We closed at about 12:30 because
this is Patriotic Day. At 1 p.m. all the schools of the county
and a soldier 's band from Camp Custer marched down to the
fairgrounds . I watched the foot races , heard the band and
saw the ball game. Howell beat Pinckney 7 too . There was a
speech at fairgrounds by Ca pt. Dr. Inches ."
My dairy is sprinkled with mentions of " Patriotic Days "
but this is the only time I gave any details of what happened .
The coal shortage went right in tandem with a gasoline
shortage. On April 18, 1918 I wrote in my diary : " We were
going for a little auto ride but have but a little gas and there is
none in town.' '
We had bought our first automobile-a little 4-cylinder
Buick-shortly before America declared war. We never used
it to go to or from the store. There had been a few trips , and
one of our greatest pleasures was to take a family drive in or
near Howell on a Sunday afternoon. But in September the
" Sunday Auto Law" went into effect. The first Sunday-
September 2-was optional but after that , Sunday driving
would be illegal.
This law came suddenly. My uncle was visiting us and we
had agreed to drive him to Detroit , so he could catch the boat
for Cleveland. Since we were given a choice that first Sunday,
we drove him as far as Farmington where he could get a
street car the rest of the way.
Starting in February of 1918-and for quite a while after
that-our Presbyterian Sunday School class met at the home
of our teacher , Vern Wink. I suppose this was due to some
sort of shortage, but I don't know what.
They called it 'The Great War'
WORLD WAR I 1917-1918
Howell's share in the five Liberty Loan campaigns and the
four campaigns to raise money for the Red Cross was in
general charge of Homer Peavy , Don W. Goodnow and Henry
H. Wines.
All the quotas were met. The third and four Liberty Loans
were oversubscribed four times .
At one time the Red Cross had a membership of 6,240 in the
county.
According to the County Draft Board reports about 460 men
were drafted from Livingston County.
There were 120 men in service from Howell City.
A great segment of the population of the county was in
active support of the war effort thru the Red Cross and
activities such as War Bonds, War League , Speakers
Bureau , Council of National Defense , Home Guards , High
School Volunteers and Boy Scouts.
WORLD WAR I
LIVINGSTON COUNTY ROLL OF HONOR
Army, Floyd Howard Abrams, buried at Deerfield Center;
Army, Leon Ellsworth Allen, killed in France , buried in
France ; Marines , John Avis (Genoa Twp.), killed in France ,
buried in France ; Army , William Edward Brimley, killed in
France , buried in France ; Army, Jesse Barton Cooley, killed
in France, buried in France ; Army, Cornelius J . Devereaux ,
died of injuries , buried in France ; Army , Jay Taylor. Glen? ,
buried in France ; Army, Joseph Vincent Haas, killed m
France, buried in France ; Army , Harold Wilson Hardy
(Oceola Twp.,) buried in Howell; Army , John Hendrickson,
died of disease buried in France .
Canadian Army , Earl Edwin Hicks, killed in France , died
in France; Army , Clarence Alexander Hull, died of disease ,
buried in Hamburg ; Army , Emmett Lee King, died of
disease buried in Unadilla ; Army , Raymond Leighton,
killed i~ service accident , buried in France ; Army, William
McKinely, died of disease , buried in Deerfield; Army , Joseph
Mackinder, killed in France , buried in France ; Air Force ,
James Gordon Owens, buried in Ionia , Mich.; Army , Albert
Laverne Roberts , (Marion Twp.,) , killed in France, buried in
France ; Army, Clare W. Rorabacher , killed in France ,
buried in France ; Army, Orson A. Rose , killed in France,
buried in France .
Army, Ray Thompson, killed in France , buried in F~anc~ ;
Navy and Army, Ray Skutt, died of disease , buried m
Fowlerville; Navy , Cleve M. Tanner , died of disease , buried
in Fowlerville ; Army , Dugrange John Tiffany , died of
disease , buried in Howell; Army, Charles Washburn II , killed
in France , buried in France ; Army , John Douglas Watson,
died of disease, buried in Unadilla .
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Later in the year, schools and churches and just about
everything began closing down, but for a different reason -
Spanish influenza. Howell was caught in the epidemic
which-for many of the people at home-became nearly as
scary as life in the trenches.
Closing laws for public gatherings were put on, lifted,
reinstated, repealed , back and forth. According to my diary
there was a double switch on Sunday, October 20, 1918:
"Churches all over the state are closed because of influenza.
Gasless Sunday is no more. We went over to Lansing
and visited Aunt Myra. We had a puncture." (I doubt it we
ever drove more than ten miles from home without having a
puncture . Once we had five between Howell and Brighton) .
Because of the flue epidemic our school was closed once for
a week (when too many teachers were sick) and once for
over a month.
My whole diary through this war period is sprinkled with
entries: "School closed because of flu." "Schools reopened."
" Churches closed." "Ban on all public meetings ."
"Ban taken off," etc. Without aid from the diary, those
closings (but not the specific dates) were vivid in my
memory-especially the enforced school vacations , which
were like an extra helping of dessert for all of us kids.
After writing these recollections, I looked up "influenza" in
the encyclopedia and learned why my diary had that
multitude of "ban on" and "ban off" entries . The encyclopedia
has three full two-column pages about the
Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19a nd relates that there were
three distinct sieges of it which swept almost the entire
world. It hit our soldiers in France, and soon struck down the
German army. Finally even the remote islands marked only
by flyspeck dots on the map of the Pacific felt its effect. One
siege would sweep the world and stop, then another would
commence. I had always called it an "epidemic." "Pandemic"
means "Affecting the majority in a whole country or
countries ." After all these years I have learned a new word
and have discovered that I have lived through a "Pandemic
.''
My cousin wrote us from Massachusetts: "We opened the
door and In-Flew-Enza." All of that family-six of themwere
down for days. Our family were lucky not to get it.
Spanish influenza was one of the tragedies of World War I
and (according to the encyclopedia) largely brought on
because of war conditions.
Epidemics , pandemics, tragedies , catastrophies and
strange phenomena never seem to come singly, and in 1918
they arrived in Howell and huge bunches, like those clusters
of weird-shaped balloons that hawkers used to sell at the
county fair.
The strange happening of Thursday, March 14 set the mood
for some of the natural phenomena of that year . On that day ,
in my diary, I wrote :
" Rainy and dark today. In arithmetic class it was so dark
that you could just make out the form of the teacher and
couldn't read your book at all. Papa said it was the darkest he
has known it. Itgotlighter after a while. At 4:30 p.m. it began
to snow and by night the ground was covered nearly ½ inch.' '
Eleven days later, on March 25: "In the afternoon the wind
blew Schroeder and Rutka's (hardware) glass-plate window
in. There was quite a bad fire on the Byron Road." And next
day "After school, there was a fire at Eastman's not far from
our house. It just burned the roof a little."
On April 19, we drove over beyond Brighton to see the
havoc left by a cyclone the week before. It had made
playthings of several barns, missed nearby houses completely,
then-just as though it was some crazy Ku Klux
Klaner on an anti-Roman crusade, it had pounced on a
Catholic church, toppled its spire to the ground, then leaped
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the road into the Catholic cemetery and played marbles with
a lot of the gravestones. It almost seemed as though the
breath of war was blowing down our necks .
The worst upheaval came in January preceding these other
hooliganisms which Dame Nature had been dreaming up.
Those had just been teasers. The snow had been heavy much
of the winter and when we couldn't get the car out of the barn,
because of snow, we ran the engine to keep the battery up. All
I seem to have done, according to my diary, was to have
shoveled paths and sidewalks at home or at the store.
But King Winter really joined Mother Nature in bringing on
what happened on January 12, 1918. In my diary I wrote:
"At about 5:30 p.m. it was 2 degrees below and at 6:30 it
was 10 degrees below. During the night it reached 25 degrees
below. There was 18 inches on the level and Mr. Garlock said
at his house it was 7 or 8 feet deep in drifts. In front of our
store it was a yard deep.
"There was a very heavy wind which lasted through the
day . Papa froze both ears coming downtown and they swelled
to double their size. (We always walked to and from our store
on Grand River opposite the courthouse and our home at 607
N. State Street) .
"Mama didn't come down. Papa went home at 4 p.m."
Win and I stayed at the store and played games, read , and
got our own supper . In the evening we had a little trade from
agents (staying at the Hotel Livingston) and County
Supervisors who could not get out of town because of drifts .
The Detroit papers weren't delivered on either Saturday or
Sunday. On Monday, my dairy continues: "We got up at
about 7 a.m . and shoveled off. I earned 10 cents for shoveling
Mr. Adams walk (W. D. Adams Drygoods Store next door to
ours ). About 10 a.m. the Pere Marquette snow plow went
through and the first train through , since Friday is expected
today . One train started from Toledo Saturday but got stuck.
Late in the p.m. Win and Alex Gregory and I went out to the
town line road (near the Ann Arbor Railroad-Grand River
Street crossing) where we saw a snow drift over 20 feet deep.
We had to stoop to get under the telephone wires . We played a
while and then came back."
The next day a bunch of us boys went out to play in the 20
foot snow drift and made a large snow-house; five days later ,
on another trip there, we began making a large tunnel under
and through the drift and got dry over a fire which we built
right on the snow.
A world of snow is a world of peace. Surrounded out there
with all that whiteness-encasing us and stretching
everywhere as far as we could see-with no sounds other
than our own voices and laughter-we forgot that war
existed . Maybe we imagined we were Admiral Peary who
had discovered the North Pole nine years before. But certainly
we weren't playing war there on the snow drift. That
snow was a blanket of pure enjoyment.
Snow and cold hung on for a month. On February 3, three
weeks after we'd first discovered the drift : "After Sunday
School, Papa and we boys went out to our cave in the snow.
While coming back, a blizzard came up.' '
Two days later was the climax . On February 5 I wrote : "28
degrees below this morning. Coldest day of the year . This
winter is the worst winter known."
That winter siege had been hard on my father's ears; it had
been a painful experience-combined with the problems and
tragedies of war-for most of Howell's adults. But for us kids
it had been a blizzard of joy. A heaven-sent 20 foot snow-drift
had come along right while school had been closed most of
the time, because of coal shortages and pandemics .
A few weeks later, in a mood of apology, Madam Nature
gave us a thaw. But she over-exerted herself and turned all
the melting whiteness into swirling, dirty browns . We had
floods, which meant more thrills for us kids in Howell. The
"Shave and a haircut two bits" some of the ordinary necessities of life
are performed here .
Shiawassee River, just north of its crossing with the Grand
River Road , was a wild and favorite spot of ours . The river
flooded, which made skating possible there , something we'd
never had before . But it was different than on Howell Lake.
The ice was thin and we almost fell in.
Two days later we kids had to unclog a sewer so that
melting snow and rain wouldn't flood our yard and house.
The onslaughts from nature were hard on the grownups,
but fun for the kids. The war news-which kept coming in
midst the blizzards and cyclones and floods-was hard and
sobering for everybody.
At noon on February 7, 1918, word reached us in Howell
that an American troop transport, with 3000 soldiers on it,
was sunk by the Germans. 1900w ere saved . Two days later I
wrote in my diary: "90 Michigan men were on sunken
transport. None from Howell." War and tragedy were
stalking toward us in Seven League Boots.
On August 22, in the evening, Howell's new Service Flag
was dedicated and a lot of important people gave speeches
from a stand erected at the main intersection . My diary drew
a blank and doesn't give details . But my memory does. The
War Boots were thumping awfully close.
Bad news was coming from the battle fields in France .
Some big campaign had foundered . Then in late afternoon, as
I recall it, word seeped in from somewhere that Howell
soldiers had been killed in the big drive overseas.
My Uncle Fred-a minister-was visiting us and he gave
one of the evening speeches . It was a muggy hot night-the
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kind that makes the corn grow so fast you can almost see it.
And it was a sad night. The whole feeling and mood of the
town was strange. The air and the sky were filled with a
quiet, heavy dread .
If anyone mentioned weather it was just for talk. If anyone
asked about crops, it didn't really matter and they didn't
expect an answer. The thoughts along Grand River Street
that midsummer evening were far over across the ocean . Not
corn growing in Howell, but poppies growing in Flanders
Field was what we were probably thinking of.
The war had reached Howell. From then on, gold stars
began to replace blue ones on the Service Flags .
On Sunday, March 31, 1918, something new happened in
America for the first time ever-Daylight Savings Time .
Things like that were exciting to Win and me . We couldn't
even think about waiting till next morning to turn the clocks
back . Setting the alarm for 2 a.m., we got up and changed all
the clocks in the house at the exact instant the new time law
went into effect. Of course it woke up our folks too, but they
didn't care . At least, I don' t think they did. We were taking
part - even if in only a small way-in real history.
On May 1, 1918, more history was made . As a means of
saving grain to ease the war -time food shortages , and in
order to achieve greater efficiency in war production, there
had for some time been agitation for prohibition . On May 1,
Michigan went " dry ." Largely for these same reasons ,
Congress voted national prohibition into effect long before
the Volstead Act was passed .
The government took over control of all the railroads in the
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United States and William McAdoo was put in charge of
running them . He was President Wilson's son-in-law. Herbert
Hoover was appointed food controller for the nation . In 1918,
the telephone and telegraph service was taken over by the
Federal government. What I remember most-and was
really upset about-was when the government formed the
Railway Express Agency- abolishing the names of Adams
Express and Wells Fargo . For us kids, the Wells Fargo
stages were a big part of wild West United States history , and
we resented having the name disappear.
imagine nearly everybody was buying Liberty Bonds
and Thrift Stamps . My diary is sprinkled with entries about
them . In that war the patriotic fever in Howell was as high as
the winter thermometer was low.
On March 19, 1918, I wrote in my diary that Winfield and I
sold some Thrift Stamps to an agent that came to sell store
goods to our father . On June 9, the entire membership of a
secret club of ours- Lewis Nooney, Alex Gregory , Robert
McPherson, Charles Platt , and Winfield and I-went down to
Rodney Hubbell's for a Sunday birthday dinner and gave Rod
two Thrift Stamps as a birthday present. On June 24 we
closed our store from 9 to 10 a.m. to make "W.S.S. pledges ."
(I suppose that stood for War Savings Stamps ). My diary of
September 3 says: "We all bought some bonds last Saturday
of the 4th Liberty Loan. " My diary had various other entries
throughout 1918 about our paying for Liberty Loans .
A separate diary notation listed my brother 's and my total
financial assets later on in high school. My list was as
follows, and his was the same , for we always divided our
money and earnings in exactly equal parts:
Howell Motion Picture Stock
(non-valid, perhaps )
1919W ar Savings Stamp issue
1918W ar Savings Stamp issue
2nd Liberty Bond issue
4th Liberty Bond issue
Howell Public School Bond
(Part of a $500 bond I'm buying of Papa)
$ 10.00
100.00
100.00
50.00
50.00
100.00
$410.00
For some reason, no mention appears in the diary of my
most vivid recollection of all concerning Liberty Bonds. An
old couple up near our place-apparently well-to-do, for they
lived in a large white house and went to Florida every winter-
hadn 't bought enough war bonds to satisfy some of the
young town blades . One morning their white house was
streaked with wide continuous daubs of yellow paint.
Carl Weinmaster, Sr.-the blacksmith-had come from
Germany . Misguided youths one night went around to his
house, nailed a flag on his front porch , then made Weinmaster
come out and kiss it. "I love the flag," he said . In
effect, " I'm an American now. I'm for America ." He was
really mad at those fellows next day .
During the Sunday bans on auto driving, if cars were
caught on the road, sometimes gangs of older boys would
stop them and tip the autos over.
War is a lot like that Spanish Influenza plague that swept
the world in 1918; few places escaped the flu, and not very
much escaped the effects of war. In Howell, the war changed
our driving habits, our church going, what we read and
talked about, what we ate, the songs we sang, the things we
did in school. Not very much remained untouched.
The war had a big effect on the games that we kids played .
Long before World War I, of course, we had built snow forts
and had snowball battles, sometimes raiding the other fort
and pummeling the enemy with quick-packed snowballs to
the body and often loose snow down the neck. All of that was
just good winter fun.
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But the real war-the boys leaving for Camp Custer, the
bands , the news from the front with stories of artocities and
deaths , the marching and the speeches-turned us kids more
and more toward real war games. Sometimes snowball-tosnowball
fighting was replaced by eyeball-to-eyeball conflicts
, in which we actually inflicted less bodily pain , but
generated much more realism and sometimes even hate ,
with our imaginary gattling guns and bayonets .
More often, the war play showed up in the enormous
amount of marching, signaling, and drilling which we did. A
brief March 12, 1918 diary notation gives an example : "After
supper, Herbert Galliger , Duane (Beurmann ), James
Adams, Maurice Purdy, Chuck (Platt ) and I went out and
marched. James had a drum and Maurice a fife." Things
such as that happened often.
The secret club which some of us formed tells it best. My
diary contains the original "charter" and all the regulations .
It not only shows the military bent of our minds which those
war times brought on, but it also gives a delicious and important
insight into the secret world of teenagers of any time
or place . I'll give it all, even to the misspelled words.
THE CLUB
I. The members will be Francis Line, Lewis Nooney,
Winfield Line, Robert McPherson, Charles Platt , and Alex
Gregory.
II. The club will have various duties and pleasures such as
the following.
Meetings-The association will hold meetings when it is
called by a majority of the members. A president will preside
over the meeting, Francis Line first , Lewis Nooney second
and so on as named above . The president has complete
control over the meeting and each member must obey him . If
any member finds fault with what he does, that person may
tell his views to the club and the club will decide who is right ,
the president or the fault finder . During a meeting , the
person who stands up first has the floor and he may talk until
he sits down. Two people must not talk at once.
Camping-During the summer and possibly during the
winter, the club can go camping out in the woods or go on a
hiking or river trip .
Perhaps the club can raise money doing numerous things
and buy a camp outfit and other things . When camping , a
boss will be chosen who will see that things go along allright.
Race s, etc .- The club can practice up on the ballgrounds
between themselves. They can have short and long races ,
jumping and leaping feats, bicycle races , etc. etc .
Each member will choose the thing he can do best and then
the club can challenge the 75h grade to race or jump with
them and the winning side will receive a prize.
Military-Although the club is rather small they might
form a small army of themselves and practice marching,
bayonet charging, etc . They could learn how to signal, spy,
scout and do other army antics.
II. Clothes-Khaki pants and coat and if possible , leggins.
A brown shirt or waist with sleeves rolled up and neck turned
down with a bandana handkerchief loosely around the neck.
Boy scout hat. These kind of clothes would be worn in summer
at camp or at drill.
III-At the first meeting a name for the club, signals ,
codes, flag or banner , motto , password , etc. , should be
chosen.
Signed
1. Francis R. Line
2. Lewis Stalter, Esq .
3. Winfield Line
4. Alex Gregory
5. Robert H. McPherson
6. Charles A. Platt
Nick Names
1. Prowling Pete
2. Detective Jack
3. Bloody Bill Line
4. Texas Lee
5. Colorado Dick
6. Deadshot Dave
Off and on through most of 1918, we kids were marching
and playing war games after school. We did it on our own,
because it was our idea of fun. In September , everything
changed ; we had to start doing it for real. Every boy in high
school had to join the Cadet Training Corps. Our whole world
became different-more serious somehow, with almost a
t~uch of tragedy lurking in the background. You could almost
hear the echo of those War Boots along Grand River Street.
My brother and t were examined for the new military
training just one day before his 16th birthday. I was a little
over 14½. After supper on September 25, 1918, we walked
leisurel y down to Dr . Browne 's office, thinking we'd be
through in a few minutes so we could go over to the library .
We weren 't finished with that physical exam until 9 p.m.
I didn't know much about doctors . When I was 8 or 10 years
old, kindly, enormous , soft-spoken Dr . Baird , who lived
across the street from us, had come over to feel my forehead
when we thought I had the measles . Or maybe it was the
mumps. We had talked about how a young boy didn't need a
doctor very much if he was in normal health . Once Dr. Harry
Huntington took a fleck of dirt out of my eye. He charged me
fifty cents, which seemed high to me, since I had gone to his
office to have it done. That was all I knew about doctors .
Then came this compulsory Military Training examination.
Dr. Browne poked and pushed and probed and pounded in
places which I didn't even know I had until then. Once or
twice he shook his head up and down and smiled . A couple of
other time s he shook his head back and forth and scowled.
His helper scribbled figures and stuff furiously on a large
sheet of paper and-at certain of the entries-shook his head
up and down, and at other entries shook it back and forth. He
also smiled and scowled. I didn't do either . I just shook. I was
scared.
Always before that-and ever since-I have been 100
percent healthy . But that night , all of the doctor 's probing
and pushing had set my heart to pounding, my hands to
sweating , and my fright-juices to flowing, until I guess I
didn't come out very well on the test. But I passed , and was
inducted into the Military Training Civilian Cadet Corp of
Howell High School. All regular physical education classes
were disbanded, and military drill and training took their
place . It was the war event that most affected every Howell
boy permanently , and which was sunk deepest into my
memor y.
The teachers , by some sort of secret ballot, chose the officers
from our student body. Francis Flynn was made
captain ; he was a senior whom I hardly knew at all. The
lieutenants-all juniors or seniors-were fine fellows that I
knew real well-Donald Wines, Browning Browning, and
George Hacker . I was made a corporal-the only freshman
officer . Lucky for me that Dr. Browne hadn't done the
selecting .
This was my squad - Front Rank, No. 1, Wilton Bohn, No. 2,
Mauric e Purdy , No. 3, Sherman Carlson , No. 4, Francis Line.
Rear Rank-Leo Gregory, Alger Gurden, Charles Platt .
On October 25 I received my official instructions and not
only studied them diligently but learned them by heart. I can
vividly recall how we khaki-clad kids had to go around
saluting nearly everything in sight. Here is why :
Corporal Line , 3rd Squad, Company C.
Your instructions are as follows:
Salut e all teachers, young and old ladies , members of the
school board , your officers , and Seniors .
You're to report to your sergeant the absences of your
squad at the command Report.
You are to obey your officers and respect them as officers .
Signed. Lieut. D. B. Wines
Those saluting instructions covered just about everybody
in town, since Howell didn't have a dog-catcher . There were
demerits for failure to salute, but no penalties for saluting too.
often. To play it safe , we went around even saluting strangers
who visited town, especiall y if they were young or old ladies .
I suppose we didn' t dare take a chance on figuring out if a
lady was just somewhere in between . Why risk a demerit ,
especially since the saluting was sort of fun, anyway.
But there was little fun in the drilling ; it was serious ,
monotonous, and hard . We had heavy , cumbersome wooden
guns and- a little later -regulation khaki military uniforms .
The uniforms were tight and uncomfortable , especially the
close-laced leggings and the rigid buttoned -up collars of the
arm y coats .
There was regulation arm y drill once or twice a week,
sometimes by a real arm y soldier but usuall y by our own
officers . Those cumbersome guns were clumby-and so were
we, to start with. I guess that 's why we kept at it hour after
hour-
" Present ... arms. " " About. .. face ." " Right
shoulder . .. arms ." " Charge ."
Our arms were so sore at quitting time that we scarcely
had the strength to salute anyone on the way home-unless it
was a young lady.
After learning to shoulder arms and all the other things like
that , we'd march along the Howell streets , and often for
several miles into the country , along east or west Grand
River . Francis Flynn was a stern captain , but not too well
liked- at least in our opinion-not too good an officer . Out in
the country he'd call " at ease " and a lot of the fellowsfollowing
Flynn 's example-would light up cigarettes .
Smoking was rather " new" then-illegal of course , for
minors- and the parents and townspeople didn't like it a bit.
I guess they had a point. Of the fellows I've been able to
keep track of, among those who started smoking in their
early days in high school, every single one died ten or twenty
years ago, or more .
A boy in my squad of eight died right after our Corps was
organized-I think of Spanish Influenza , although I am not
certain . We had a military funeral for him and my squad
acted as pall-bearers and pretended to shoot our wooden guns
over the coffin. For a couple of months , every time that I, as
corporal, saluted Lieut. Wines or my sergeant to announce
the number present in my squad , I had to say : " Cadet Taft
absent , sir ." Everyone knew he was absent , but it was
" regulations. "
An hour after the noon whistle blew in Howell on November
7, 1918, that milk factory whistle started blowing again , but
this time it didn't stop . At least , it would hesitate for only long
enough to make us think it was going to quit , then start
penetrating the air again - short blasts, long blasts, then
enormous belches of hiccuping sounds as though it was
coming from the belly of some wounded giant.
By this time our Cadet Corps was called out from school on
the double. Quicker than we had ever done it before we fell in
on the school grounds , shouldered our wooden guns , and
marched down to the main corners, then west on Grand
River .
Great crowds were assembling - jamming the streets as
we marched through. All traffic was stopped. Flags began to
appear . Someone was even passing out small flags to the
crowds . People were shouting and hugging each other . We
marched down toward the library , about-faced , and marched
back . Things were delirious . Captain Flynn and our
lieutenants bellowed marching orders , trying to be heard
above all the roar and confusion.
We kids marching had no idea what everything was all
about. There were plenty of tears in the crowd, but we had
sense enough to know that all that hubbub wasn 't due to some
battlefield catastrophe . For the sixth or eighth time we
marched east , again approaching the main intersection .
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There ahead of us, A. Riley Crittenden-hands high in the
air-was holding up a Detroit paper for us to see. As I recall,
the whole top third of the page had just one word: " peace ."
THE WAR WAS OVER! As we marched, we didn't bat an
eye or let out a whoop. But that was one of the most emotional
moments that I'll ever remember in Howell.
That night some of the older fellows hung a stuffed dummy
of Kaiser Welhelm in the streets and set it afire. There were
all kinds of celebrations. According to my diary "Win and I
and Alex Gregory went riding with Dorothy and Helen Dutton
<the Methodist minister 's daughters) and some other girls."
We sang a lot of the special songs that night.
Actually , the war wasn 't over-not quite . That had been the
false Armistice. A few days later-November 11-the milk
factory whistle blew again. We did more marching. There
was cheering , and a lot of the same excitement. But that first
day had been the biggest moment of my boyhood in Howell.
America was at Peace .
The War and America's preparations for it-even including
all the things that went on in Howell- were like the
giant snowballs we kids would roll down Greenaway's hill.
The ball would pick up more snow and more speed all the way
down. When it hit the glassy ice in the pond at the bottom , it
was a mammoth thing and it just kept on going-getting even
larger-on across the ice.
Effects of that war were just gathering speed on Armistice
Day, and they didn't stop on November 11, 1918. Almost
everything that had been started just kept right on going.
Even some new things were begun. They got bigger and
worse, clear on into the middle of 1919.
I couldn't possibly have remembered or realized that
sequence of some of these events if they were not recorded in
my diary. A lot of the things that happened after Armistice
Day I wou!d have sworn- except for the diary evidence-had
occurred before the war was over .
Our military uniforms actually came on the morning of the
real armistice, November 11. We marched in those suits for
the very first time on that day and, according to my diary,
continued marching " after supper until about 9 o'clock ."
Our military hats didn't arrive until November 14. I
recorded: " Mine didn't come. We had competitive drill ,
judged by Mr. Daily and Mr. Case. Co. A got first. "
On Friday night, November 15 we went to a Military Ball in
the Ladies ' Club Rooms. Winfield did guard duty there for
half an hour, and we didn't get home until midnight.
Sunday , November 17 was Victory Day, with a one-milelong
parade in which we cadets-now with our full uniforms
and even our hats-took part. Rain dampened the end of the
month .
And on Tuesday, November 19, 1918, more than a week
after the armistice , my diary reads: " Girls started Military
Training today ."
Our boys Military Training continued right on, with new
drills and activities being added which became more warlike
all the time . On January 7, 1919, just two days before my 15th
birthday , we marched nearly five miles out into the country
and executed a blood-curdling exercise in hunting and
tracking down eight "deserters" of our own number . It was
all mock, of course, but it had more of the flavor of real war
than anything we had been up to yet. And the war had been
over ever since early November of the year before. The War
Boots still seemed to be stalking along Grand River .
Toward the end of January we received orders to start
drilling with the 2-arm Semaphore Code. That was sheer fun.
Throughout the winter , after learning the code, we would
signal to one another for long distances on country roads
and-best of all-across Howell Lake. This was, to us, just
like relaying life-and-death army messages from one
trench to another across the fields in France . War didn't
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seem to have ceased a bit according to our Military Trainings
schedule .
My diary entries for Thanksgiving Day of 1918-following
close after the armistice-and for Thanksgiving of 1919,
make me realize that it took nearly a year to wind down that
war. No mention of peace appears on Thanksgiving Day,
1918, but I refer to November 27, 1919 as " the dawn of the
greatest Thanksgiving the United States had ever known."
More than a year after hostilities ended , I guess peace really
had come to America and the world . And to Howell.
But the true climax , for Howell, was just ahead . The
historical high point of all those war years came on Friday,
December 12, 1919. I wrote:
" At 8:25 p.m. our family went down to the Presbyterian
Church to attend the second number of the lecture course
which was a speech by ex-President Taft. The church was
crowded to overflowing, 1000o r more people. At 8: 15 ( sic) the
ex-president was introduced by Mr. L. E . Howlett and he
proceeded to talk upon the subject of the League of Nations ."
In my dairy I outlined the entire speech. Taft had been
scheduled to come to Howell on an earlier date (perhaps
during the war) but that appearance had fallen victim to the
influenza ban on public gatherings . Taft made reference to
this.
William Howard Taft , in 1912, had been defeated by
Woodrow Wilson for a second term in the White House. He
was a Republican , many of whom were unalterably opposed
to America 's entry into the League of Nations. Yet Taft's
whole speech in Howell was to urge the United States to join
the League , which President Wilson had been instrumental in
founding and for which, as president, he was making the
fight- literally-of his life. Just the month before Taft spoke
in Howell, Wilson-while on a nationwide speaking tour
urging League membership-had had a complete nervous
collapse and was never again able effectively to lead his fight
for the League or adequately carry on his presidential duties.
The Republican Taft , in Howell, was in fact acting as a
spokesman for the Democratic President , Wilson. Taft laid it
on the line to us that night. In some respects it was the most
critical moment in national affairs that Howell had ever
experienced . More than any of us ever realized at the time,
the whole future history of the world-and whether America
might in another generation be at war again-literally hung
in the balance as ex-President Taft spoke to us there in the
Presbyterian Church.
One by one, he explained Wilson's famous 14 points. He tore
relentlessly into the opposition. I wrote : "Mr. Taft had a
peculiar laugh which was very amusing. He talked in a slow,
clear voice but if he chose his tones were very base and
gruff."
In light of the words with which Taft closed his Howell
speech, it seems strange-and a bit prophetic-that I should
have re-discovered my diary , relating that speech , 56 years
after it was given . Here is what I wrote in that diary of
December 12, 1919:
"In his closing words Taft said that if in fifty years when
we boys were grandfathers , our grandsons came home from
school and said, 'Grandpa , our professor says that the
League of Nations is a great thing nowadays and that years
ago there was a great struggle about it. You were a boy then .
Were you for or against it,' we would say, if we had opposed
it, either of two things . 'Now run along sonny, you don't
understand such things' or-we would have lied about it."
Three weeks before Taft's Howell speech , the United States
Senate in a preliminary vote on the League of Nations , had
turned it down. Three months after that Howell speech, the
Senate took its final vote-again negative . America never
joined the League.
There was no Soviet Union in 1919. The sun was just star -
ting to set-although no one realized it yet-on the British
Empire. America was about to take over the leadership of
the world. With what was soon to be the strongest nation on
earth outside of its membership, the League of Nations never
had a chance.
My diary of December 12 concludes : "After the speech Mr.
Taft shook hands with a few people but soon retired. Papa,
Win and I were fortunate enough to shake with him, I being
the last of the crowd to do so. He finished speaking at 10
p.m." Taft spent that night in Howell at the home of one of
our secret club members, Bob McPherson , who had an opportuni
ty to talk with him in person .
Nearly a quarter of a century later I would recall this
Howell visit of Taft's to Mrs . William Howard Taft , in
Washington, D.C., when she came back stage at Constitution
Hall to shake my hand and congratulate me on a film lecture
I had given concerning the outbreak of World War II.
Right now I am wondering : IF the Republican ex-
President Taft and the Democratic President Wilson could
have prevailed-if America had joined the League of
Nations-perhaps there would not have been a Second World
War. The final Senate vote was whisker-close . Letters and
input from Howell voters to Washington might even have
made a difference . The history of the entire world was
hanging in the balance that December night in Howell.
Small towns are really important.
EPILOGUE
Right now I am wondering if the Republican ex-President
A crowd assembles at the depot to send off the second group of
draftees .
Taft , and the Democratic President Wilson could have
prevailed-if America had joined the League of Nationsperhaps
there would not have been a second World War. The
final Senate vote was whisker-close . History was hanging in
the balance that December night in Howell. World War I cost
36 million lives and unbelievable tragedies.
In writing about Howell's part in that war, I have been
reading deeply as to its causes-and the mistakes made in
trying to establish the Peace .
One cause of World War I was the dislocation that grew out
of the Napoleanic Wars and their aftermaths . Another cause
was the racial hatred among many of the European nations -
particularly in the Balkan States.
After World War I was over, just a few wise steps-if
taken-would have averted the second conflict. American
membership in the League would have helped.
Now we have finished several more dem' oralizing wars.
Others loom ahead. Each war has its seeds in the last one.
Each could so easily be prevented, with just a few sane steps ,
if wisdom prevailed .
Kids are growing up in Howell right now who can have the
answers to what lies ahead . Maybe about 40 years from
now-in the teen years of the 21st century, the years 2013
through 2019-some fine man or woman will run across a
yellowed copy of this chronicle in an old attic trunk and say :
"Golly, I grew up in the Howell that fellow was writing about.
And I'm glad I put my whole weight and life on the side of a
saner, more peaceful world."
Howell is a wonderful place to begin.
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Howell in the 1900' s
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Paul Bennett explains how the little league will operate .
Scene from the spire of the Presbyterian Church looking N .W . on a
cold winter day in 1910.
Top Citizen's Mutual employees in 1927.
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The Lions Club put on -;;;in strel shows in the early 'SO'S
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The Sunday afternoon driving club assembles in front of the library .
They drove in groups on the country roads to help each other out of
ditches and to fix tires.
Law Enforcement
Howell was made an incorporated village by an act of the
Legislature of Michigan (approved March 14, 1863). The first
charter election was held on the 4th of May, 1863.
A Town Marshall wasn't appointed until 1870. When the
village was incorporated an act of incorporating; the officers
had to be elected, all but the street commissioner , a
treasurer (who shall be marshal] by virtue of his appointment
as treasurer), these officers be appointed by the
Common Council. This act was approved March 4, 1869.
The following names and year of men who held the office of
treasurer and marshal] of Howell:
1870-H.C. Briggs
1871- Leonard N. Fishbeck
1872-Henry A. Whipple
1873-Hiram Hopper
1874- William Barnard
1875-William T. Barnard
1876-Record obscure
1877- Arthur F. Field
1878- Thomas Clark
1879-Thomas Clark
1880-Thomas Clark
1881-Thomas Clark
1882-Thomas Clark
1883-Thomas Clark
1884- Thomas Clark; Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1885-Thomas Clark, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1886- S. B. Rubert, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1887-S. B. Rubert , Night Watch-Walt S. Papworth
1888- Jerome Wilbur, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1889- Thomas Clark, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1890-Lyman V. D. Cook, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1891- Lyman V. D. Cook, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
1892- T. J . Winegar, Night Watch-Thomas Clark
Mr. Winegar only served a short time as Marshall , Byron
Phipps was elected to vacancy .
1893-Stephen Fishbeck, Night Watch-Thomas B. Clark
1894-M. J . Dempsey , Night Watch-Byron D. Langworthy
1895-M. J . Dempsey, Night Watch-Byron D. Langworthy
1896- Henry Pettibone , Night Watch-Will R. Knapp
1897- Jerome Wilbur, Night Watch-Edgar Corson
1898- Eli L. Snyder , Night Watch- John Daniels
1899-Eli L. Snyder , Night Watch-John Daniels
1900-Eli L. Snyder , Night Watch-John Daniels
1901- Eli L. Snyder, Night Watch-John Daniels
1902-W illiam J . Culver, Night Watch-John Daniels
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Law Enforcement
Coordinator
Mary B. Beeman was born in New
Orleans , La ., she lived there 20 years, she
married John L . Beeman of Howell, while
he was in the Navy in 1945 and moved to
Howell. They have three sons, John, Tom ,
David , one daughter, Mary E ., four
granddaughters , two grandsons . She has
been em ployed at Hi II crest Center 20
years. Her special interests include
American Legion Auxiliary . She is a
member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church .
1903-Thomas Clark, Night Watch-William J. Culver
1904-H. H. Collins, Night Watch-William J . Culver
1905-Freeman Rorabacher, Night Watch-William J.
Culver
1906-Freeman Rorabacher , Night Watch-William J .
Culver
1907-William J . Culver, Night Watch-William J . Culver
1908-Freeman Rorabacher , Night Watch-William J .
Culver
1909-Freeman Rorabacher, Night Watch-William Culver
1910-Daniel Ratz, Night Watch-William J. Culver
1915-Roy Sears, elected Constable
1921-1935-Roy Hardy , Chief
1935-1949-George Sargison , Chief
1949-Bradley, Chief
1950-Risdon, Chief
1951-55-Fred Crowenwett, Chief
1955-196-1Karl Welcker , Chief
Howell Police Department
1956-1975
In December 1956, Earl Anderson was appointed Public
Safety Director of the City of Howell. As an aid to the Police
Department , which then consisted of the Chief of Police and
four patrolmen, Mr. Anderson formed a group which would
be known as the Howell Police Auxiliary . The group consisted
of twelve volunteer officers, who were provided with
uniforms and whose purpose was to act as backup men in the
patrol units. These officers attended law enforcement classes
conducted by instructors from the Michigan State Police , the
FBI, and other law enforcement agencies .
On August 5, 1961, Reginald Evans, until then a Sergeant ,
was appointed Chief of Police. Chief Evans served in this
position, along with four patrol officers, until June 30, 1965,
when he resigned his post for another position.
On August 16, 1965, Tholan Wiles was appointed Chief by
John Deppen , then the City Manager . Shortly after Chief
Wiles' appointment , an additional patrolman and the
department's first female officer were added to the force ,
bringing the total department personnel to seven .
Due to the aggravation of a previous injury , Chief Wiles
resigned from the Police Department and retired on July 10,
1972. Sgt. Charles Mason was appointed as Chief by City
Manager Roy Trim, a position which Chief Mason still holds.
At the time of Chief Mason's appointment , the department
included the Chief, one Sergeant, five patrolmen and one
policewoman . Auxiliary officers numbered twenty-five men.
Currently, the department consists of the Chief of Police ,
one Lieutenant, who acts as administrative assistant to the
Chief, one Sergeant , in charge of the patrol shifts , five
patrolmen , all of whom have completed the seven-week
Basic Law Enforcement Course required by the State of
Michigan, one Traffic and Safety Officer, who also acts as a
patrolman , and one Policewoman . The Auxiliary now has 30
officers , five of whom are women . The department 's
equipment includes a full-time detective bureau, two
marked, one semi-marked and one unmarked vehicles, and a
well-equipped darkroom for processing crime scene
photographs .
The fountain which stood on the ma, ·n four corners in front of the
drug store . Organizations
Organizations
HOWELL AREA COMMUNITY CHEST
By VINCENT WHITE, WM. McPHERSON IV AND MRS.
MAX WILTSE
The Howell Community Chest (original name ) originated
in 1938 as an association with William McPherson IV, John
Page and Paul Uber taking active parts. Its purpose was to
consolidate all fund drives into one yearly drive and thereby
eliminate constant requests for donations by the various
agencies during the year with the resulting confusion and
resentment of the people. A cross section of churches ,
merchants, industry and all occupations was the goal in
selecting board members . The original president was John
Page and the board consisted of nine members . The budget
was approximately $4,000.00 and the territory covered was
primarily the city of Howell.
In the late 1940's, the board was increased from nine to
thirteen members . The area was expanded to include Genoa,
Howell, Marion and Oceola Townships at that time . The
name was then changed to " The Howell Area Community
Chest. " The by-laws were patterned after those of Ann
Arbor 's Community Chest.
The present president is Charles Itsell and the budget is
approximately $70,000.00. All board members have been and
still are volunteers from various local interests and serve
without pay .
LIVINGSTON COUNTY NURSES CLUB
By HELEN BAUER AND FRAN RATHBUN
The Livingston County Nurses Club was first a dream in
about February , 1950 when a meeting of R.N.'s were called
together by Virginia Cotter . This was a social meeting held in
the American Legion Hall on N. Michigan Ave. (upstairs ).
We all felt the need to get together and relate experiences .
Several meetings were held socially and then we decided we
needed a purpose in life to exist as a group so we formally
organized at our November meeting and had a nominating
committee to present candidates for election and a By-Law
committee to draw up a set of By-Laws for the group to approve
.
This committee was chairmaned by Fran Rathbun . Ethel
Hall was our first president , elected in January , 1951. We
were well on our way to our present organization. We first
held our meetings the first Friday of each month . Later
changing to the second Monday. We recess for July and
August as vacation months . Through the years we have met
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Organizations
Coordinator
Joanne Fay Young is the wife of Jim
Young and their children are Laurie, Sue,
Doug and Carol. She works part-time
doing bookkeeping for Howell Auto Parts
and her outside activities include Girl
Scouting and volunteer work for school
and band.
in many of our members homes and many of our early
meetings were held at the Michigan State Sanitarium later
holding several meetings in the McPherson Community
Health Center after it was built.
Our dues have always remained minimal and due at the
beginning of each new club year . Election usually in May
with a picnic for our June meeting and the new officers
starting with the fall work . We have had some very interesting
programs throughout the years . One highlight, a
trip to Upjohns Drug Company in Kalamazoo for the entire
group . Many doctors have graciously given of their time to
bring us up to date on new methods and developments in our
profession .
The State Districts that we were supposed to belong to was
first the Lansing District and now the Ann Arbor
(Washtenaw ) District. It has been hard for most of us to join
and be so remotely connected with our professional needs
and this club has in a little way filled part of this need. Some
of our girls , however , each year do join the districts. A
concentrated drive has been held various times with state
representation from the Michigan State Nurses Association
talking to us but we never seem to reach the organizational
stage .
We have had several projects as a club through the years .
We sponsored the Future Nurses Clubs in our county high
schools. Our big project now is our Nurses Scholarship Loan
Fund . This fund was started as a joint project with the
Livingston County Medical Auxiliary in about 1960. Our first
joint co-chairmans were Mrs . Floy May from the auxiliary
and Mrs . Joan Smith from our Nurses Club. The project got
underway with a card party and bake sale at the (new)
Armory when it was newly built and was a smashing success
as over $500 was cleared this one evening alone .
In about 1968 our joint efforts came to an end as the
auxiliary disbanded and we nurses carried on alone from
then on. Through the years we have had many money making
projects to help this fund such as bake sales, auctions ,
dances , etc., at the present time we are taking a collection at
our meeting rather than have sales. Mary Rose and our
executive officers are supervising this fund at the present
time .
This resume is very sketchy but several nurses have been
contacted by your committee and to our knowledge this is our
beginning . For some reason our secretary minutes do not go
back beyond 1964 so all our dates may not be authentic but to
the best of our research and our memory .
1975-76 Officers, President , Joy Sullivan ; Vice President ,
Rosemarie Boos; Corresponding Secretary, Helen Bauer ;
Recording Secretary, Dorothy Cotter ; Treasurer , Helena
Cook, 15 scholarship loans have been granted . 1976 is our 25th
anniversary . We have 50 active members this year .
V.F.W . AUXILIARY NO. 3671
By CATHERINE SMITH
The Barnes, Lyons, Roberts Auxiliar y to Post No. 3671,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States was granted
its charter on June 18, 1940. Frances Wigglesworth was its
first president.
The auxiliary 's objectives are to insure the national
security ; to speed the rehabilitation of the nation 's disabled
and needy veterans ; to assist the widows and orphans of
veterans ; and to promote Americanism in patriotism and
constructive service in the community . The cross of malta is
the official emblem of the V.F.W. Eligibility shall be limited
to women not less than 16 years of age and citizens of the
United States . They can be any female relative of honorably
discharged men who served in the Armed Forces entitling
them to the award of a campaign badge. Female members
who have also served overseas besides their mothers, sisters ,
or daughters are eligible .
Several activities the auxiliary works on include cancer,
legislative, Americanism , hospital, youth activities, community
service, national home, etc. These activities are set
up and governed by the District, State, and National
Auxiliary levels. Money making functions by the auxiliary
help to support and foster all the work we do.
The current 1975-1976p resident is Catherine Smith .
SWEET ADELINES
By JANET ALLEN AND KAREN MILLER
" Livingston Lakes " Chapter of Sweet Adelines, Inc.
started recruiting women in 1969. It was officially chartered
October 9, 1970, Fay Dukes, founder and president and 20
members , eight of whom are still members .
Our first director was Dan Rafferty who was followed by
the late Tom Rafferty . Under their leadership, Livingston
Lakes Chapter placed seventh , third and second in the
Annual Regional Competitions.
Our 1975-76 director is Jodi Billington from Farmington
Hills, Mich. Working with her as current president is Karen
Miller. Our chapter has two registered quartets: "The
Charmonizers " and " The Nota-Dames" who voluntarily
perform with the chorus and on their own.
Sweet Adelines, Inc. is a non-profit international
organization for women who sing four part harmonybarbershop
style . Each chapter is an asset to its local
community providing a service by performing and entertaining
for charitable organizations and at civic events .
Sweet Adelines Chapters promotes harmony among women
both vocally and spiritually .
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
By GLE N W. FOGLE, GRAND KNIGHT; FRANCIS
DANIELS , PAST GRAND KNIGHTS; AND JAMES HA YES ,
IMMEDIATE PAST GRAND KNIGHT .
The Order of the Knights of Columbus was founded in 1882
as a fraternal benefit society for catholic men and, has long
been one of the most effective religious and charitable lay
associations in the United States. The Knights honor their
patron , Christopher Columbus, with countless projects of
major importance on the national level and , serve as a
vehicle for their more than 1,200,000 members to channel
their funds and collective energies into important good works
for the church and nation . An insurance program is available
to all members to provide for their families in the event of
death or disablement of the member .
The local Council was chartered in October of 1927a nd was
then known as Howell Council No. 2659 with Christopher S.
Hupert serving as the first Grand Knight and Father John G.
Crowe as Chaplain . The Council, comprised of fifty-five
charter members, had its meeting hall over Watson &
O'Leary 's Creamery, now known as O'Leary's Bakery and
Dairy Bar . After several other temporary quarters the
Council purchased land and, with members doing the actual
construction work, built its first self-owned meeting hall in
1949o n Golf Club Road at Earl Lake. The building now houses
a tavern known as Lakeside Bar. In 1963 the Council purchased
land on East Grand River Avenue, one and one-half
miles east of Howell, and , again with the members doing the
construction work, built its present quarters.
On April 27, 1966, by a vote of the members , the Council
name was changed to Father John R. Day Council, honoring
Father Day, who was Pastor of St. Joseph 's Parish until his
death, and was a Chaplain in both World War I and World
War II. His experience as Chaplain was unique insofar as he
served as Chaplain in the first war as a Methodist Minister
and in the second as a Catholic Priest.
This Council sponsors a local Boy Scout troop, makes
contributions to Hillcrest Center for recreational benefit of
the patients ; helps, along with other Councils, support
Boysville, a home for boys at Macon, Mich. The Council is
involved in other local charitable projects , the most recent
being the donation of a Fetal Heart Monitor to the McPherson
Health Center at a cost of over $6,000.00.
As of July 1, 1975, the beginning of our current Council
year, Glen W. Fogle was seated in office as Grand Knight.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS LADIES COUNCIL
By MRS. EDGAR GLYNN
The K. of C. Ladies Council No. 2659 started on March 16,
1964 and was chaired by Mrs . Lloyd Neu with 18 ladies
present. Mrs . Anthony Wenzel was elected the first
president ; Mrs . Joseph Wildes, Vice-President and Mrs .
Milton Cameron, Secretary-Treasures . In August of that
same year Mrs. Lloyd Neu was appointed President due to
the resignation of Mrs. Wenzel and remained in that capacity
until January, 1969.
Somewhere along the years the name of the organization
was changed to the K. of C. Ladies Auxiliary.
The purpose of the organization was to help the Knights of
Columbus men furnish the new club rooms, assist them
whenever called upon for their social affairs, get acquainted
with all the wives of the K. of C. members and form their own
social affairs . The Ladies Auxiliary catered various social
functions, gave card parties , ran booths at the picnics and as
a result they were able to help furnish the club rooms and
kitchen and place curtains and drapes in the halls. They also
contributed time and effort for various local charities .
In June , 1975, Mrs . Edgar Glynn was elected president and
Mrs. Richard Idzikowski is the new Secretary-Treasurer .
LIVINGSTON KENNEL CLUB
By RACHEL BELL
The Livingston Kennel Club was established through the
interest of Mr. Lee Townsend. Originally founded under the
name of Livingston County Kennel Club, Mr. Townsend felt
that this growing area was in desperate need of an all breed
club. He inserted an advertisement in the local Howell
newspaper and the response to his invitation to meet at the
Howell Recreation Center was very gratifying.
The first meeting was held in conjunction with the meeting
of the Michigan Association for Purebred Dogs in January,
1969. Mr. Townsend was selected as the first president. Six
charter members currently active in the club are Harry and
Phyllis Eastin, William and Delores Gidday, and Don and
Jean McColl. Work was begun on the constitution and a
designated time was agreed upon for monthly meetings. The
meeting was held every first Tuesday of the month in Howell
at the Howell Recreation Center.
The first fun match was held on Memorial Day, May, 1969,
at Hartland High School. The total entry in classes and
obedience trials was 386. This was the very first event of its
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kind for Livingston County and was welcomed by the local
residents as well as seasoned dog exhibitors.
In the fall of 1969, the club decided to help introduce
obedience classes to Livingston County. At this time there
was no available class where one could receive help with
their dog without having to travel many miles to another
county. By the fall of 1970 a ten week course in Beginner's
Obedience and Conformation was being offered .
A monthly newsletter , started in 1970, is sent to all members
. It informs club members of club activities or any
worthy news pertaining to purebred dogs and American
Kennel Club activities .
Up to the present time members have sponsored 12 matches.
Because of the combined efforts of each and every
member of the club these matches have been a tremendous
success . Our goal in the near future is to obtain a Sanctioned
A Match which is the preceeding step towards a pointed
American Kennel Club show.
The officers for 1975-76a re : President, William Gidday;
Vice President , Harry Eastin; Treasurer , Phyllis Eastin;
Recording Secretary , Delores Gidday .
The objectives of the Livingston Kennel Club are :
{a) to encourage and promote the breeding of purebred
dogs and to do all possible to bring their natural qualities to
perfection .
(b) to urge members and breeders to accept the standards
of the breeds as approved by the American Kennel Club as
the only standard of excellence by which all breeds shall be
judged .
(c) to do all in its power to protect and advance the interests
of the breeds by encouraging sportsmanlike competition
at dog shows and obedience trials under the rules of
the American Kennel Club.
The Livingston Kennel Club is involved in many community
services . Obedience and conformation classes, held
each spring and fall, have been very successful. Also, twice a
year , matches are held and are open to all breeds in conformation
and obedience. A referral service, the Breeder's
Registry , informs the public of qualified breeders in their
area and serves as an information center . Recently , the club
was called upon by the local townships to draw up an ordinance
on kennels, private, boarding, etc .
Cohoctah Township accepted the ordinance as we
presented it and other townships in our county are planning
on our assistance . Several club members are active in
raising and working with Leader Dogs for the Blind. At each
club meeting we are trying to have something of interest to
the communit y as well as our own club members. Invited
lecturer s have spoken on various topics such as pertinent
legislation , breeding, genetics, judging , diseases , and dog
nutrition .
In the past , members have written articles for the
Livingston County Press and have been on the local radio
station explaining dog shows, fun matches, etc. For the
public's knowledge, books have been donated to the local
libraries . The Livingston Kennel Club will continue in its
efforts to serve the community and thereby promote the
goals of the American Kennel Club.
Guests are welcome to attend our general membership
meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at the Howell
Recreation Center. For further information contact P.O. Box
123, Howell, Mich., 48843, or refer to Breeder 's Registry ad in
the Livingston County Press.
HOWELL JAYCEES
By DENNIS MOWREY
The Howell Jaycees were organized largely through the
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efforts of its charter president, Howard Kieft and Paul
Baldwin . The year was 1948 and for 27 years the Howell
Jaycees have led the community of Howell to unforeseen
heights .
The courthouse lawn has been the scene of many Jaycee
projects and not surprising the first project , a turtle race,
was held on the courthouse lawn. While the first project
might have been a slow start, by 1953 the Howell Jaycees had
chartered the Brighton and Durand chapters. Their other
activities were the Livingston County March of Dimes ,
Christmas baskets to the needy, Cub Scouts , annual Easter
Egg hunts and Fishing Derbys for the children. Ed
McPherson ran the 1953J unior Golf and Tennis, the Chrysler
Corporation aided and supported the Howell Jaycees Road-
E-0 and the Voice of Democracy was another project for the
Howell teenager in 1953. These projects all required money
and to keep them rolling the Howell Jaycees had a moneymaker
in the annual Home and Builders Show.
The March of Dimes and the fight of polio kept the Howell
Jaycees busy during the late 50's and into the 1960's. In 1960
Doc Pat May was bringing in people from across the state
with the first Melon Festival. The 1964 Howell Melon Festival
was handled by the Howell Jaycees and chaired by Al Latson ,
from 1964 the Howell Melon Festival has been coordinated by
the Howell Jaycees. The programs and projects today still
require money and the Oktoberfest is the biggest income the
Howell Jaycees have and with the most fun.
Along with the communities of Brighton and Durand the
Howell Jaycees extended Jaycee chapters in Milford,
Hartland, Fowlerville, Webberville, and just last year Perry .
These communities are now experiencing the same type of
growth and activities as has been shown in Howell these past
27 years .
New projects come along with new people and give added
interest to older members . Clayton Fryer introduced the
First World Brotherhood Day in Howell, yes, around the flag
pole on the good old courthouse lawn. The Boy Scout Jamborette,
a camping outing for the mentally and physically
handicapped scouts in Michigan and the first one held east of
the Rocky Mountains was accomplished through the efforts
of Howell Jaycee, Bob Hath, the Special Olympics by Dave
Farabee . The annual Christmas trip to the Howell State
Hospital, Pee Wee Football and Basketball , the fishing
derby , Easter egg hunt are now traditional Howell Jaycee
projects .
More recent projects the Howell Jaycees run and promote
for their community are the Jaycee Park, Bag It Don't Burn
It , Junior Champ, Burns Awareness , Bicentennial ,
Halloween Party .
The names keep growing each year and more money is
raised and returned to the community , the one element
remains the same and that's the Howell Jaycees enthusiasm
and their motto . . .leadership development through community
involvement.
President of the Howell Jaycees for 1975-76, Dennis
Mowrey.
HOWELL JAYCEE AUXILIARY (JAYCETTES)
By CAROL EATON, JEAN GEHRINGER, JEANNE
McDOUGALL AND PAT WINSHIP
The Howell Jaycee Auxiliary was formed in 1950 and will
celebrate its 26th year of service to Howell during the
bicentennial year. From its first president , Betty Devereaux
(Mrs . William ), to its current president , Jean Gehringer
(Mrs. Richard ), the Auxiliary has served the community of
Howell and helped make it a better place to live. They also
help the Howell Jaycees in their community service areas .
During their 26 years they have run several money making
projects . They ran concessions during the Home Builders
Show for most of the years that it was held. They've held
benefit dances and helped raise money for the Band
Boosters . Their newest money maker is the Children's Only
Christmas Shop started in 1973 which also includes a bazaar
and bake sale.
Their profits have been divided in many different areas of
the community . They have contributed to McPherson
Community Hospital almost every year. They have bought
toys, games , books, record players, made curtains and
decorated the pediatric ward at different times. They have
held benefit dances for the hospital to raise funds and buy
incubators. They have contributed to Hillcrest Center ,
Livingston Manor and the Drug Council. They have also
bought playground equipment and picnic tables for the
Howell City Park as well as given money to the Recreation
Department to purchase equipment. They have bought many
books and periodicals for the Howell Carnegie Library, the
most recent being a set of Bicentennial Books. They spent
many years supplying needy families with clothes and food.
They have run babysitting clinics, expectant mothers
classes , baby contests and sponsored several Girl Scout and
Brownie Troops .
In 1968-69t hey began the Helping Hands program in the
community . This is a program to prevent child molestation
and gives children a safe home to go to. Approved homes
display a picture of a hand in their window. In 1969-70t hey
built a life size paper mache pony and started running the
Patch the Pony program through the schools. Every year
Patch the Pony visits all the elementary and nursery school
classrooms in Howell and teaches the children to beware of
strangers and gifts they offer. Patch teaches them the
slogan , "Nay, Nay, From Strangers Stay Away." Both of
these prevention programs are still running strong.
For over 20 years the Jaycettes have assisted at all the
Blood Banks run in Howell. In February 1975 they took over
the entire responsibility of coordinating the Blood Bank three
times a year. The Auxiliary ran the Children 's Story Hour at
the Howell Carnegie Library for several years and also
assisted the librarian in arranging, sorting and repairing
books. They have helped many years with the polio campaign
, Mother 's March for the March of Dimes and this year
are in charge of the Cystic Fibrosis program in Howell. They
currently run a craft program at Greenbriar Convalescent
Home once a month and pick up lunch every day for the
Senior Citizens group in Howell. They also run a children 's
parade during the summer for Howell's children. These
began in 1974.
During the Howell Jaycettes 26 years they have extended
Jaycee Auxiliaries into 12 other communities including
Brighton , Hartland, Pinckney, Fowlerville and Lansing .
The Howell Jaycee Auxiliary has grown along with the
community of Howell through the years. They started in 1950
with seven Jaycee wives and currently have a membership
of 50 young women dedicated to serving Howell and making it
a better place to live.
AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
By PEG SHEAR
The Achates Charter Chapter of the American Business
Women's Association was chartered in June, 1972, in Howell
with 29 charter members . This chapter was founded by
Carolyn Lipp, who had moved to Howell from North
Carolina, only to find there was not an ABWA chapter locally
in which she could transfer her membership . She then set out
to sign up a minimum of 25 new members , which is required
nationally to charter a new chapter . The chapter installation
ceremony was held at the Holiday Inn in Howell with officers
and members from the Pontiac chapter conducting the
honors. Carolyn Lipp was then installed as the chapter's first
president.
The purpose of the American Business Women's
Association is to further women in business and to improve
employee-employer relationships through education .
Annually the organization honors a "Woman of the Year,"
selected on the basis of business accomplishments, and
activities in her church and community, and a "Boss of the
Year, " selected on his / her working relationship with the
association member-employee. Nationally the association
has in excess of 750,000 members and awards more than a
half million dollars in scholarships and grant to women for
educational purposes .
In the last three years , the chapter membership has grown
to75 members. Since the inception of this chapter three years
ago, we have given scholarship monies to five local girls ,
totalling over $1100.00.
The 1975 president is Margaret "Peg" Shear and the 1976
president will be elected in September.
LIVINGSTON COURIER CHAPTER OF QUESTERS,
INC. NO. 261
By JOY SCOFIELD AND BARBARA ITSELL
Questers Incorporated , founded in 1944, is a national , nonprofit
organization composed of almost 800 chapters in the
United States and foreign countries. It is dedicated to the
purpose of the study of antiques through group and individual
research, and the donation of funds for the preservation of
memorials and historical buildings .
In May of 1966, a group of Howell women, drawn together
by their common interest in antiques and all that they
represent , decided to organize and apply for affiliation with
this national organization . By September of that year, the
group had been registered as The Livingston Courier Chapter
of Questers, Incorporated , No. 261, and began holding
meetings on a monthly basis.
Traditionally , the name of each Quester Chapter reflects
something of both historical significance and local interest.
This chapter chose the title of the earliest newspaper in the
area. " The Livingston Courier " was first published on
January 10, 1843. The operation was moved from Brighton to
Howell nine months later where publishing continued until
April, 1857. Each member of the chapter has a program
handbook that has a reproduction of a portion of the June 12,
1843 issue for its cover .
Mrs. Terence Beebe (Barbara ) was the first president of
the chapter . Then, as now, an executive board , appointed
annually, guided the chapter. The membership is limited to
twenty individuals who meet at members ' homes. Programs
are varied and include such things as field trips, guest
speakers, craft workshops, and presentations of research by
members. This year there will be much reference in the
program to the fact that this is the Tenth Anniversary of the
Chapter. Current president is Mrs. David Itsell (Barbara ).
In the fall of 1971, the Livingston Courier Questers par -
ticipated in the presentation of the designation sign for the
Depot Museum and the Livingston County Historical Society.
In commemoration of the Bicentennial, the Livingston
Courier Questers began working on a quilt in January of 1975.
The pattern for the quilt is " The Dresden Plate, " and is done
in red , white and blue. The finished piece will be the focal
point of a window display being prepared for a contest
sponsored by the National Questers Organization . This
display will feature documented original and reproduced
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artifacts of the 1776 era, and will be on display in the downtown
Howell area during the Bicentennial festivies. After
this, the quilt will be given to the Livingston County
Historical Society.
As a part of the National Questers Program , the chapters
not only work on their local levels to preserve the past, but on
a broader base as well. The National Headquarters at 210
Quince Street in Philadelphia is a beautifully restored home
that still boasts the original exterior . Of still greater importance
is the extensive Elizabeth Jessie Bardens Library,
housed within, and named after the founder of the
organization . The library is open to the public and is the only
library of its kind in the United States . It contains reference
books, magazines , periodicals , and literally thousands of
study papers on every subject imaginable concerning antiques.
Because many people had expressed an interest in
becoming Questers, the Livingston Courier Chapter hosted
an open meeting at the Howell Township Hall in March of
1975. Out of that event two new local chapters were
organized: " Spring's Red Bird ," and "The Court House
Squares ."
It would appear that there are many in the Howell area
who subscribe to the Quester motto: "Its' Fun to Search, and
a Joy to Find!"
COURTHOUSE SQUARE QUESTERS,
CHAPTER NO. 745
By MARGUERITE VAN LOON
The Courthouse Square Chapter No. 745 was sponsored by
the Livingston Courier Questers and officially organized on
March 27, 1975. It was deemed necessary by the state
organizer to form this new chapter due to the enthusiastic
number of local citizens who wished to join a Questers group
and devote a part of their life to the research, study and
preservation of antiquities .
The name of the chapter was carefully selected by the new
membership in dedication not only to our own Livingston
County Courthouse but to the historical significance of the
thousands of courthouses across our land and the part they
played in this country's development.
The Courthouse Square chapter's history is brief due to the
fact that it is so very new at this writing. However, we have
allied ourselves with the purposes and ideals of the Quester
organization and hope that we may serve our future
generations by leaving to them an inheritance of beauty and
grace which may be found in our country 's past.
Listed below is our first board of executives : President,
Mrs. Alfred Van Loon (Marguerite ); Vice-President, Miss
Isbelle Parker; Recording Secretary, Mrs . Robert Armour
(Meta ); Treasurer, Mrs . Theodore Vernier (Nancy);
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs . Cedric Matthews (Jeanne);
Historian , Miss Mary Reed .
Charter members and their individual duties :
Parlimentarian , Mrs . Roscoe Stuber (Darbi) ; Program
Chairman, Mrs. Robert Matheson (Julie) ; Publicity
Chairman, Mrs. Theodore Malafouris (Pat).
SPRING'S RED BIRD QUESTERS,
CHAPTER NO. 744
By POLLY HOLSTED
The beginning was a long time ago, back in 1840, over one
hundred and thirty years ago. The place was a small town in
southeastern Michigan, named Howell. The hotel known as
the old " Stage House," was being built by Allen C. Weston,
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who was the proprietor of a stage-line or of some kind of
conveyance running between Detroit and Howell, which he
had established in 1838. Before the house was completed, Mr.
Weston's eyesight had become badly impaired, making it
difficult for him to stay in business . Realizing this, he exchanged
the stage house and stand with a Benjamin J.
Spring , for property in Howell that was owned by Mr. Spring .
Mr. Spring moved to Howell in 1841, completed the house
and opened and kept it for the purpose intended by Mr.
Weston. He, also ran a stage-line between Howell and Detroit
making three trips per week. He built and put upon this line a
clumsy open stage-wagon, which he named the " Red Bird "
and which became well known, and somewhat famous in its
day.
The Honorable J. W. Turner described the wagon as having
been a vehicle of a bright and tawdry red color, compactly
built , for it had to serve not only as a stage on dry land, but
also to perform the service of a yawl, through what was
known as " the rapids ," in the vicinity of Detroit.
His pet , the " Red Bird ," was often driven by Spring
himself, who was more than a little proud of his skill as a
reinsman . His pride however , received a heavy blow in the
summer of 1844, in the following way:
He was returning from Detroit on the " box" of the "Red
Bird ," and arriving rather late in the evening, drove his
horses directly into a hole which had been dug during his
absence for the reception of a flagstaff to be reared on the
following day . This was to be in honor of the Democratic
Presidential candidates, Polle and Dallas . The hole, which
was near the front line of the present courthouse square, had
been left unguarded , and it was not through carelessness or
lack of skill on the driver that the accident occurred .
However, it furnished an opportunity for the perpetration of
innumerable jokes at Spring's expense, much to his disgust.
He finally sold his stage-line and hotel. The hotel was never
again used as a public house .
It was destroyed in the great fire of September, 1857.
Spring's Red Bird was organized March 27, 1975. Our first
and present president is Polly Hoisted.
HOWELL AREA JUNIOR BASEBALL
By WILLIAM SCOFIELD
Howell Area Junior Baseball had an austere beginning in
1956. With an ideal, Paul Bennett and the Howell Area
Recreation Commission created one four team league of
approximately 60 boys. They were equipped with colored Tshirts
and caps and played one night a week. This limited
program led to the forming in 1957 of the Howell Area Junior
Baseball Association.
Its objectives were to implant in boys of the Howell area
the ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty , loyalty , courage
and reverence so that they might be finer, stronger and
happier young men. These objectives were to be achieved by
providing supervised, competitive, baseball games, where
the stress of winning the game was secondary to the instilling
of good principles.
Paul Bennett was the associations first commissioner and
Bill Scofield its president for the first two years.
One of the biggest cooperative civic events ever staged in
Howell, at the time, occurred Sunday, December 1, 1957. On
that day some 25 men with trucks , bulldozer , dragline and
scraper started the new junior baseball field where it now
stands. Under the direction of Ralph Nauss over 300 loads of
fill dirt were deposited on the new diamond , thanks to Wayne
Fosket , L. E . Chapman, Arnold Erb , D & J Gravel Co.,
Harmon Block Co., and the City of Howell. Stanley Kroll
donated the fill dirt. To run the equipment over 250 gallons of
gasoline were donated by many of the local gasoline dealers .
It was estimated that over $15,000.00 of labor and equipment
were donated on this one Sunday at a cost of coffee and
donuts.
The first game was played on the new field on June 30, 1958.
Two leagues of 150 boys in a major league with boys 13
through 15 and the minor league with boys 10 12 started the
season . The initial budget of approximately $5500.00i ncluded
complete uniforms and equipment. After this initial investment
, which was made possible by the service clubs,
individuals , business and industrial contributions and money
making projects , the budget approximated $2000.00 per year.
To recognize the vast amount of time , effort and inspiration
given by Paul Bennett to this program the new field
was dedicated as Paul Bennett Field .
The program continued to grow through the years. By the
early 1970's the field needed complete rebuilding and new
fields were needed to accommodate more boys. Jess Mack
came forward and through his efforts the field was rebuilt
into a first class ball park. New fields were built and the
program received a needed shot in the arm .
Today in 1975, 750 boys from seven through seventeen are
playing baseball in seven leagues of forty-eight teams . An
annual budget of approximately $10,000.00 covers the cost.
This program in its 19 years of existence has benefitted
several thousand boys. It was made possible by untold hours
of time and effort contributed by so numerous men and
women, moms and dads of the Howell area that it would be
impossible to name them all here.
HOWELL LIONS CLUB
By D. R. WINES
The presentation of the first charter to the Howell Lions
Club was made May 15, 1939.T he original club consisted of 31
members . Its first president was Russell D. Woodruff; first
vice president , Herbert T. Proctor ; second vice president ,
John R. MacDonald ; third vice president, Jay P. Sweeney;
secretary , Herman H. Heeg ; treasurer, John F . Scully ; Lion
Tamer , Tom Blevins, Sr. ; and Tail Twister , Frank D. Bush.
Our name and what it stands for:
L-Loyalty to country , community and home
I-Individual integrity in thought, word and deed
0-0ur flag, our language
N-New ideals , new hopes, new ambitions in business and
profession
S-Service that is founded on the Golden Rule
The major project of Lions International is working with
the blind . Glasses have been donated to needy persons, the
blind entertained by the Howell Lions Club, leader dogs, free
of charge, supplied to those blind persons requesting one and
the Michigan Lions eye bank is used for eye transplants.
President of the Howell Lions Club for the year 1975 is
Donald E. Rink.
HONKER CHASERS, N.C.H.A.
By MRS . HAZEN MERROW
The Honker Chasers, N.C.H.A. Chapter No. 38, had its
origin in 1966 under the direction of Marjorie Shulkins
(Miner ) and Ken Stumph. The constitution was adopted at a
meeting held April 6, 1966 in the community room of the
Brighton State Bank. The name Honker Chasers was also
chosen at that time . Hunting vests were decided upon as the
official vest at a meeting on June 16, 1966.
The chapter charter was presented at a potluck supper on
June 21, 1966 at the Possum Hollow Picnic Grounds in Kensington
Park. The officers at this time were: Don Hollums,
President ; Ron (Shirley ) Jackson , Vice President ; Ruth
(Dale ) Duncan , Secretary ; Shirley (Ron) Jackson ,
Treasurer ; Mickey (Joan ) Nauss , Board Member ; Clifford
Foulks , Board Member . Charter members also included: Ed
and Jean Neubeck, Jack and Wanda Kinloch, Bob and Jackie
Chenoweth, Lamar and Rhodora Wood, Dick and Judy
Mortemore. (The Woods and Kinlochs are still members of
the chapter ).
On March 12, 1967 the chapter adopted the Canadian goose
as their symbol, sky blue and grass green as the chapter
colors, and the motto, of course , " The Friendliest People in
the World." The back patch created at this time was circular
in shape, incorporated the chapter colors and depicted a
goose flying over a lake, with "Honker Chasers " printed
around the top edge and "Michigan 38" at the bottom .
At the present time Mr. William (Bill) Hart is the chapter
field director. Our current board of directors consists of: the
president of Honker Chasers for 1975 Harold Coddington and
the president for 1976 will be Carl Peterson.
The Honker Chasers , now numbering 20 family units , meet
once a month , the third Friday weekend, for a camp-out and
business meeting . Each month a committee of two couples
choose a campsite and acts as host and hostess for the
weekend . They supply the coffee for morning coffee break ,
each family contributing whatever else they desire . The
committee also plans a social time . The past year this has
included such activities as games, horseback riding, a
scavenger hunt and square dancing . Small groups usually
take short hikes during the weekend . And, of course , the
campfire is always enjoyed on Friday and Saturday evening
as weather permits. Saturday everyone shares together at a
potluck meal at 1 :00 p.m . in the winter months at 5:30 p.m . in
the summer months. A business meeting is held following the
meal.
Honker Chasers camp eleven months of the year. In
December a Christmas party is planned, featuring a potluck
supper, games and gag gifts distributed by Santa and Mrs.
Claus. The Christmas tree is decorated with homemade
ornaments brought by the chapter members . Food and toys
are collected for the Salvation Army .
LIVINGSTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
By HELEN F . LEWIS
Our society came into being as the result of a problem
facing the local Daughters of the American Revolution
(DAR). They had been requested to find new quarters for
their museum which had been housed in the Howell Carnegie
Librar y since 1910. Expansion problems had forced the
library into utilizing the area being used for their historical
display .
The DAR, at that time, had neither the funds nor the
membership to undertake such a move. They contacted Mr.
Norman Pettibone, who generously volunteered temporary
storage for their historical collection, and asked his help in
finding a permanent home for it. It was felt that an
organization interested in preserving our local heritage , open
to everyone, could better cope with the operation of a
museum. He contacted a group of interested persons, and an
organizational meeting was held in the Old Howell House on a
Sunday afternoon in 1968. That same year our society was
incorporated .
Our first officers were Norman Pettibone, President ;
Jerry Crane , Vice-President ; Janet Rohrbacher , Secretary ;
Rebecca Hewlett, Treasurer . Director was David L. Kuehn
and Trustees : Nellie Lansing Glenn ; Wilton Chamberlain;
and Edwin C. Lewis.
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Our charter members were Nellie Lansing Glennn
(deceased) ; Norman and Barbara Pettibone; Wilton
Chamberlain; Donald and Rebecca Hewlett ; Edwin and
Helen Lewis ; Kristin Heinig; David Timmons ; Esther N.
Clark ; Dorothy Jean Blanchard; Janet Rohrabacher; Mrs .
Bonnie D. Page (deceased) ; David L. Kuehn; Jerry L. Crain .
We felt that our first priority was finding a permanent
home for our museum. It was suggested that we contact the
Ann Arbor Railroad regarding their depot, as many other
communities were obtaining these unused facilities . Much to
our delight, they were very receptive. As they knew our
purpose was to restore and preserve the building, they
proposed a very nominal price. Our next move was a project
to raise the necessary funds.
It was decided that an old-fashioned auction sale be held.
Antiques and usable items were solicited from all over the
area . Committee members collected and hauled items for
most of the year . The auction was slated to be held at the
farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rose. The big day dawned
and members appeared to work, dressed in costumes of the
1890's. It was a tremendous success, and we were able to
purchase the depot outright on January 30, 1970.
Our museum now houses the items originally in the DAR
collection, as well as many more obtained since our formation
from enthusiastic contributors. Among them are
artifacts from original settlers, and other rare old items that
contribute to making it one of the finest small museums in
the state.
As an annual fund raising project, we have a Flea Market
and Open House at our Depot Museum each year during the
Melon Festival. It is becoming increasingly more popular
every year ; and our profits permit us to operate our museum
with open house summer week-day afternoons, and
scheduled tours during the rest of the year . Our dream is to
be able to have our museum open year-round.
Another project that has given us great satisfaction, is the
reprinting of the 1880 History of Livingston County,
Michigan. A committee of members completely indexed the
book, and this was added to the reprint. The demand for the
book is very gratifying, and we feel we accomplished
something very worthwhile.
We recently contacted a very talented local artist, James
Ross, and he has generously agreed to provide paintings of
local scenes and buildings , with the object of having them
reproduced as colored prints for framing. These will be
available through the society in 1976 as a Bicentennial
project for the year.
Our society is vigorous and growing, with a total membership
of 191, as we attract members of all ages . Our officers
for the 1975-1976 fiscal year are Chester Clark ,
President ; Mary Reed, Vice-President; Helen Lewis,
Secretary ; Rebecca Hewlett, Treasurer . Permanent
Director is Norman Pettibone and Trustees: Mrs . Esther N.
Clark, Mr. Julius Zink and Mrs. Ruth Hasbrouck.
Our meetings are currently being held the third Wednesday
of the month at the Howell Township Hall at 7:30 p.m .
(except for July and August recess). We are looking forward
to a long and useful service to our county in preserving its
heritage .
HOWELL PRESCHOOLERS, INC
By VICKI A. REPIK
Howell Preschoolers, Inc . was founded in 1958b y a group of
mothers who wanted to provide a preschool learning experience
for their children. Family participation is an important
part of each child's learning experience in this
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cooperative nursery. The overall goals listed by its Board of
Mothers are:
1. To provide a variety of group experiences for children to
participate in, to learn cooperation with others, and discover
their own interests and
2. To enhance each child's feeling of self-worth through
successful participation in a group and as an individual.
Mrs. Mary Tobias was the first teacher and due to a highly
successful first year, Mrs . Ann Andrews joined her in
teaching the following year. At present, Sally Campbell , who
has been with us 12 years and Martha Hubbel, who has been
with us eight years, are teaching our youngsters. For the
1974-75s chool year, 105 children were enrolled.
Mrs. Ruth Miller was the first president of the Board of
Mothers . Mrs. Doris Ostrander is the president for the 1975-76
school year.
Special points of interest: We have developed a preschool
curriculum guide entitled Getting Acquainted With My
World, which outlines units and daily lesson plans with goals,
concepts , activities , and resources stated in a manner
conducive to the stimulation of ideas and is also adaptable to
any preschool program . This text is available to parents at a
nominal charge.
We established a scholarship fund to be awarded annually
to youngsters in the community who would otherwise not
have the advantage of the worthwhile experience of nursery
school. Donations from the community are acceptable and
most welcome .
PHILIP LIVINGSTON CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
By ESTHER NEWCOMB CLARK
Philip Livingston, patriot was the name chosen by twelve
women with proper credentials to organize a chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. Philip Livingston
was born in 1716 and died in 1778. He graduated from Yale
University in 1737, was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, also a member of the First and Second
Continental Congress in New York and later served as a
congressman and senator from that state.
The first meeting of the chapter was held April 19, 1908,
which was the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Lexington .
The membership increased rapidly, and the work of the
chapter has followed that of the National Society, its
programs have covered the history of the country both
national and local and its progress through the years , with
meetings devoted to every phase of patriotic work,
genealogy , art, literature and government. National Defense
has been an outstanding topic of discussion. The meetings
have always maintained the dignity of the original conception
of the society, each member realizing the honor of
her heritage from the founders of the United States.
Philip Livingston Chapter DAR has given generously to all
national projects of the society, and during World Wars one
and two the work of each member in every patriotic effort of
the community was outstanding .
In 1909 the DAR museum opened in the Carnegie Library,
relics were donated by many local people. The museum was
listed with the Michigan Historical Society, but as the City of
Howell needed and demanded the space in the library , the
chapter had to find new quarters. We joined with the
Livingston County Historical Society, and are very proud
that our relics and momentoes are being seen and enjoyed at
the Depot Museum at the foot of Walnut Street in Howell City.
Flag Day has from the first been observed by the chapter .
On June 14, 1911 two flags were presented to the Carnegie
Library, and in 1915, a memorial tree was planted on the
library lawn . Flag Day, 1916 the first historical marker was
unveiled at the site of the first schoolhouse in Howell. Flag
Day, 1924, a boulder was placed by the chapter at West Grand
River and Prospect Streets marked the Old Indian Trail.
Again in 1937 on Flag Day, two boulders with placques were
placed with proper ceremony, at the sites of the homes of the
two men from Livingston County who had been governors of
Michigan, Kingsley Bingham in Green Oak and Edwin B.
Winans in Hamburg Township.
Constitution Day has always been marked with special
programs . Good Citizen Girls have been selected from the
five Livingston County high schools since 1930, to be
recognized at State Conferences with other Michigan
students. The membership has influenced many people with
its exemplification of the seven words of DAR Purpose-
" Historic Preservation-Promotion of Education-Patriotic
Endeavor ."
HOWELL LODGE NO. 38
FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS
by CLIFF HELLER
Organized November, 1849 in Howell, Mich. with 16
members receiving the charter on January 15, 1850.
The first Worship Master was Amos Adams, well-known
hotel keeper and land surveyor here, followed shortly by Dr .
Gardner Wheeler beloved and skillful physician.
Freemasonry is a world-wide brotherhood, a system of
morality , veiled in allegory and illustrated by using the
working tools of the builder as symbols to teach men how
good and pleasant a thing it is for Brethern to dwell together
in unity. Lodges hold strictly aloof from discussions of
religion or politics . Each state has its own organization of
officers and laws.
Howell Lodge has had one of its members as Grand Master
of Michigan , Hugh A. McPherson, 1918. He also served as
Grand Treasurer for 25 years (1920-1945.) Rev. Clyde Donald
served as Grand Chaplain from 1934-196.7
The present Worship Master is William E. Kerr.
Howell Lodge No. 38 is the parent lodge of Fowlerville and
Pinckney Lodges.
The Masonic Temple here is one of the newest and best
equipped in the state .
The Masonic Home at Alma has been the recipient of many
donations from the membership.
The members of the order, living by the principles laid
down by it have been a quiet and strong force in the community
for its moral and spiritual development.
Nearly 1100 men have been members of the order here in
Howell since 1849.
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
By LUCILE S. BROWN
The Order of the Eastern Star is a branch of the Masonic
Order . Both men and women may be members . Its teachings
are based upon the Bible. It seeks to provide aid to needy,
both youth and elderly. Through the Grand Chapter, our
chapter has contributed to the Masonic Home, the Eastern
Star Villa and scholarships for college students.
On March 6, 1867, the Howell Eastern Star Family was
organized with 14 members. The society grew and at one
time had 60 members. The group continued for one year.
Howell Chapter 118, Order of the Eastern Star was instituted
in 1894 and continued until 1898.
Howell Chapter 372, Order of the Eastern Star was instituted
Sept. 8, 1908 and the charter was granted Oct. 15,
1908. Rosadel Lansing was the first Worthy Matron and Dr .
Charles Skinner was the first Worthy Patron . Other Charter
members were William E . and Mabel Beach, Frank Lansing ,
Charles and Maude Gough, Fred and Marion Lewis, George
and Mary Payne, Fred and De Folia Schroeder, Flora
Skinner, Julia Teasdale, Amos and Carrie Winegar , Edith
Wines, Royal and Frank Hardy, Edith Greene, Wilbur and
Minnie Johnson, Walter and Grace Knapp , Henry and Carrie
Rola son and Albert Smith. Henry Wines was the first initiate .
This chapter has continued to grow and at present has a
membership of 397. Allyson Davis and Richard Davis are the
1975-76W orthy Matron and Worthy Patron of the Chapter .
Howell Chapter has been represented in Michigan Grand
Chapter by Grace Hall as Grand Ruth, Mary Merrow as
Grand Esther as well as Grand Committee Members and
Grand Representatives.
FARM BUREAU
By CLAUDINE JACKSON
The Livingston County Farm Bureau was organized in 1918
with Jim Hayes as the first president. It was a part of the
state Farm Bureau which is a voluntary organization of
farmers banded together to do for agriculture those things
that farmers cannot do as individuals.
The county has always been an active participant in the
programs of the state and national organization. They have
been involved in the legislative programs in Lansing and
Washington.
Each election year they have sponsored political education
programs hearing candidates from both political parties .
Issues of the times have been covered by policies written at
the county level. Some of these policies express concerns
within the county which affect the lives of the farm families .
Vance Miller, Hollis Miller, Gale Hoisington, Claude
Burkhart , and Andrew Jackson went to Illinois to study their
insurance program with a delegation from other counties in
the state . Results of the state wide study was the
establishment of Michigan Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance
Company. Later Farm Bureau Life and Community Services
was organized. The company issues insurance policies
particularly adaptable to farmers .
The county has had good community group participation.
They have had active committees in Junior Farm Bureau ,
and later in Young Farmers program . They had one of the
first Farm Bureau Women's organizations in the state.
Land use is a real concern to agriculture , the county Farm
Bureau has sponsored meetings on land use.
Men from Livingston County who have served on the state
Farm Bureau Board of Directors are: Edward Fritch ,
Robert Smith, and Andrew Jackson .
Henry Hudson is President of the Livingston County Farm
Bureau in 1975.
FARM BUREAU WOMEN
By CLAUDINE JACKSON
The Livingston County Farm Bureau Women were
organized in 1946. Mrs . Claude Burkhart hosted the meeting
on July 31 at her home with 26 present. Mrs . Marjorie
Karker , State Coordinator of Farm Bureau Women's
activities , was present. Mrs. Burkhart was the first
Livingston County Women's Chairman .
The county unit is a committee of the Farm Bureau and
helps to carry out the policy and programs of the total
organization . The county had a special goal and interest in
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health . They worked for the establishment of the McPherson
Community Health Center , giving of their time, talent and
money to help the county realize this dream . They took the
position that both medical and osteopathic doctors should be
able to practice at the hospital.
The Hospital Women's Auxiliary was originally sponsored
by Farm Bureau Women. They worked with the Sister Kenny
unit. They sold slow moving vehicle emblems and "Health
Charms."
Health has continued to be one of their concerns as
expressed by working with cancer detection , hearing tests ,
and numerous preventative health measures. They have
developed first aid kits for the farm, and have sponsored
First Aid classes .
Policy development is an important part of Farm Bureau,
and the women have always been involved in helping to
establish and implement the organizations policy.
Legislation is the keystone to Farm Bureau , and the
Women are directly involved in this process. They write
legislators on issues confronting agriculture, and the
community in which the farm family lives. Each year they
sponsor a Legislative Seminar to Washington D.C.
Interest in the youth has been expressed by a Citizenship
Seminar held each year. Students are selected from each
county and given a scholarship by the women. They have
established a Marjorie Karker scholarship at Michigan State
University available to students from Farm Bureau families
who are enrolled in veterinary medicine , agriculture , or
human ecology. The women helped raise funds for the 4-H
Camp Kett project.
Improved consumer understanding is a concern of the
Women's group and they have had mall displays , farm tours ,
rural-urban luncheons , and news articles to give greater
understanding of the role of agriculture .
The motion to have a State Farm Bureau Women's
Committee was made at the state annual Farm Bureau
meeting by Mrs . Claude Burkhart, and carried .
Women who have served as chairman of the Livingston
County Farm Bureau Women are : Mrs. Claude Burkhart,
Mrs. Hannes Musch, Mrs. Sherman Richards , Mrs. Homer
Armstrong , Mrs. Henry Roggenkamp , Mrs . Harry Elliott ,
Mrs. Clayton Anderson, Mrs. Jesse Spalding , Mrs. Roger
Hosley, Mrs. Clifford Van Horn, Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Mrs .
Henry Hudson, and Mrs. Rex Wilson.
MODERN MOTHERS CHILD STUDY CLUB
By SHARON La VOIE
The Modern Mothers Child Study Club was first organized
in 1957. Our first president was Doris Fellows.
The purpose of our organization is to associate together for
parent education and child development, to discuss childhood
problems and to establish bonds of friendship .
Our new president for the year 1975-76i s Sharon LaVoie.
Our club has a main project every year that we work on.
We have helped the children at the Rickett School in
Brighton. We have made cookbooks of all our favorite recipes
and this year we made the decorations and baked a cake for
the Senior Citizens Valentine Party. And, every month one of
our members donates the cake for their birthday party.
JACK AND JILL CHILD STUDY CLUB
By MRS. MARGE WILLIAMS
AND MRS . JOAN WILKINSON
It was originally Tiny Tots II Child Study Club. The name
Jack and Jill Child Study Club was selected in October 1958,
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with Mrs . Kathleen St. Onge (Richard ) as the first president.
Our purpose is to associate together for the purpose of parent
education and child development. We try to gear our
program toward children, social activities and individual
interests as wives and mothers.
We have helped out many needy families , given to Special
Education at Northwest School, library for new books, made
lap robes for Greenbriar Convalescent Center , Co-op Nursery
School, Maxey Boys Training School and our taco stand
at the Melon Festival. Each year a member of the year is
voted on, based on her outstanding work, along with attendance
, promptness, attentiveness to program,
cooperation, willingness to volunteer , participation ,
dependability , contributes towards betterment of club and
courteousness.
We are affiliated with the Michigan Child Study Club
Association. Our president for the 1975-76y ear is Mrs . Joan
Wilkinson (Herman ).
PINS TO PADDLES CHILD STUDY CLUB
By MARILYN ARMITAGE AND ALICE MILLER
Pins to Paddles Child Study Club is thirteen years old this
year. The first meeting took place in October , 1962, and the
charter was received in April, 1963, from M.C.S.A.
The first were Judy Penzien, president; Rebecca Kennedy,
first vice-president; Nancy Cook, second vice-president ;
Marilyn Recker, recording secretary and Beverly Kulick,
treasurer .
Six charter members are still active and three hold
associate memberships . Active members are Vicky Fournier
, Betty Goniea, Alice Miller, Marilyn Recker, Juliette
Redinger, and Carol Sherston. Associate members are
Vivian Grove, Rebecca Kennedy and Judy Penzien.
The first program was titled "Toilet Training." From that
basic start the topics and speakers have been varied and
included many aspects of child rearing and information
valuable to our members . Clergymen , doctors, social
workers, phychologists, and our own members have
presented the informative programs .
The club has contributed to the community by sponsoring a
Girl Scout Troop, leading the March of Dimes for Howell, and
contributed to needy families .
Pins to Paddles has received two awards for program
covers, and first place for content of the booklet form
M.C.S.A.
With this strong foundation, and dedication of the members,
the club will have continuing success.
The president for the 1975 year is Mrs . Frank Callahan .
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
DEVEREAUX UNIT 141
:By LOUISE SILVER
The Auxiliary was organized March 20, 1931, with 27
chartered members.
The first president was Rena Hubbell. Ten members still
survive, two members Mable Phillips and Esther Clark are
still members , 1975 membership was 134 members.
The purpose of the organization is to help the veteran and
his family, our special program is our Poppy Sales. Poppies
are made by hand by hospitalized Veterans , the money is
spent for child welfare and rehabilitation only.
We also have a number of other committees, such as
Civilian Defense, Community Service, Education and
Scholarship, Foreign Relations, Girls State, Legislation and
Americanism. The president for 1975-76w ill be Louise Silver.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
By ROSCOE STUBER, M.D.
The Livingston County Medical Society was granted a
charter by the Michigan State Medical Society on September
20, 1902. I was unable to get a list of the charter members
from the State Medical Society and the secretary of the
society who signed his name on the charter was R. H. Baird
but unfortunately the signature of the president of the society
was illegible and no one could seem to tell me who the initial
president was of the society .
We have records of the Livingston County Medical Society
dating back to 1934. We also have a copy of the charter which
states that this charter is accorded in recognition that the
society by its constitution and by-laws and by the high ethical
standards and professional conduct of its members qualifies
with similar constituted societies of other counties as a
worthy component of the Michigan State Medical Society.
Throughout the years the Livingston County Medical
Society has been very active in the affairs of the State
Medical Society and has had active representation in the
House of Delegates . In our minutes we have records of Dr.
Harry Huntington , Dr. Harold Hill, Dr. Edwin Woodworth,
and most recently, Dr. Thomas Barton representing our
county in the State House of Delegates . Many of our members
have also served on other state committees and have
made real contributions to the activities of the State Medical
Society. Dr . Phillip Schmitt is the president of the Livingston
County Medical Society for the 1975-76 year and has continued
to maintain a series of monthly meetings where we
have had professional speakers from Lansing, Detroit and
Ann Arbor throughout the years and have had an excellent
educational program . This is associated with each of the
dinner meetings.
Our county has for many years maintained a very high
percentage of its members who attend every meeting of the
county medical society and who have actively participated in
the program and served as officers of the society.
There have been two families who have had several
generations of physicians serve the Livingston County area.
When Dr . Harry Huntington retired in 1955 he marked the
third generation of Dr. Huntingtons to serve the people of
Howell. The first Dr. Huntington came to Howell in 1843f rom
New York State having served a medical preceptorship with
a physician in Farmington . The second Dr . Huntington went
to medical school at the University of Michigan and later Dr.
Harry Huntington, whose widow still resides in Howell,
served the Howell community for over forty-three years. His
grandfather was in practice for fifty-six years and his father
for fifty-two years in this community.
The Siglers have also had three generations of physicians
in this area, Dr . Hollis Sigler who died in 1962, his father, Dr.
Claude Sigler and his grandfather, Dr. Fred Sigler. Dr. Hollis
Sigler 's maternal grandfather was also a doctor in this area.
Innumerable stories have been told about the Dr. Siglers,
Dr. Janette Brigham, the two Hendren brothers and Dr.
Glenn in Fowlerville, Dr's Mellis and McGregor in Brighton
and Dr. Ray Duffy in Pinckney . More recently an entire book
could be written about the exploits and tales of Dr. Louis E.
" Pat " May, the founder of the Melon Festival in 1959 which
has become one of the most successful, fun-filled festivals in
our area .
Physicians throughout the years in Livingston County have
maintained a keen interest in community and school activities
and have actively engaged in many other clubs and
services. Until approximately 1962 the Howell area was
served entirely by general practitioners. Since that time with
the advent of a full time radiologist , we have had a number of
surgical and medical specialists come to our community. We
now have several specialists in general surgery , obstetrics
and gynecoloty, vascular and thoracic surgery and internal
medicine and psychiatry represented among the members of
our county medical society . The Livingston County Medical
Society plans to continue with service to the members of the
Howell community with an increasing scope of patient
services in the future.
THE WOMEN'S CLUB
By MRS. CALVIN GATESMAN
A history of the Howell Women's Club as prepared by Mrs .
L. E . Howlett, states that the club was established in 1891 and
was federated in 1895.
To quote : the atmosphere in which the "Women's Club"
was formed, is, a prosperous, well kept, aristocratic village.
Its fenced in houses were spacious, bordering on the palatial
and almost entirely resident owned. Its inhabitants were
intelligent, substantial, conservative, church going people.
Its social leaders were courteous , dignified, formal and
charming.
After serious consideration , the following constitution was
signed by fifteen charter members: Mrs . S. M. Armstrong ,
Mrs . C. D. Austin, Mrs. Geo. Barnes , Mrs . H. W. Beach , Miss
Ella Burt, Miss Mollie Burt, Mrs . F . G. Hickey, Mrs. W. C.
Huntington, Mrs. F . E. Lansing , Mrs . F . G. Lee, Mrs. R. H.
Person , Mrs . A. A. Platt , Mrs . E. S. Porter , Mrs. A. Van
Patton , Mrs. W. P. Vanwinkle.
Some of the by-laws of the constitution are: Membership in
this club shall be terminated when a member shall be more
than three months in arrears with yearly dues, or shall have
failed three times within a year to perform the literary work
assigned her , or shall have absented herself from four
counsecutive meetings without sending excuse to the
president. All members shall consider themselves honor
bound, to attend every meeting of the club and to prepare
themselves on the topic under discussion .
The meetings of the Howell Women's Club had been held in
the homes of members, until the membership increased to
sixty, when they looked for rooms in which to meet. Those
first meetings were over Swann's Store, when it was located
on N. Michigan Avenue, in the vicinity of the Livingston
County Press. This was leased by the year, signed legally
from a Wilson family. Later they moved to rooms over Dr.
Hill's office and between 1936-1938w ere given permission by
the city council of that time , to have the rooms , downstairs in
the Howell Carnegie Library, for as long as the club functioned.
Swann's Store was located on what was known then as
East Street , not Michigan Avenue.
The fountain on the Carnegie Library lawn was donated by
the Howell Women's Club.
Programs in those early years were similar to those of the
present: literary, historical and musical and at one time
owned a piano. Marian Earle and Florence Burkhart often
entertained with their beautiful voices.
Gloves were always worn to meetings and formal dinner
parties were held in homes with husbands and men folk. No
whispering was allowed in meetings and the president was
always addressed: "President in the chair ." There was a
committee on " pronunciations" for each meeting, and
tardiness was unpermissable . Each meeting was an occasion
.
One subject, "Life and Sex," caused lively discussion and
they also discovered that " Uncle Tom's Cabin" first appeared
as a serial in magazines of that day .
As a bicentennial conclusion: "The Star Spangled Banner "
was sung very frequently .
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CORINTHIAN SHRINE NO. 52
By CATHERINE HARTMAN
Corinthian Shrine No. 52 was instituted December 11, 1947
at Howell, Mich. under the auspices of Supreme Watchman
of Shepherds Charles E. Merrill assisted by Bernice Merrill.
The first Worthy High Priestess was Nellie Seaton and the
first Watchman of Shepherds was Joseph Himmelspach .
The White Shrine of Jerusalem is a fraternal organization .
On February 23, 1949 a drill team was formed with Lottie
McGill as president. The drill team under J . Himmelspach as
captain , made many formations such as star , cross and
crook emblems of the order . The team added much beauty to
the ceremonials.
The present Worthy High Priestess is Stella Lovas , Watchman
of Shepherds Donald Wade.
We meet twice a month, second and fourth Thursdays at
the Howell Masonic Temple . We visit many other Shrines and
we invite other Shrines to visit us and take part in our
ceremonial. Many lasting friendships are formed through
these meetings .
We are twenty-eight years old and we have 28 living
charter members.
RAINBOW GIRLS
By DEBBIE GROVE
Howell of Livingston County Assembly No. 61 of the
International Order of the Rainbow for Girls was founded in
March of 1951. It is only one of the hundreds statewide and of
thousands world-wide.
The first Worthy Advisor was Betty Shelters and the first
Mother Advisor was Isobell MacDonald. Our sponsoring
body is the Order of Eastern Star , and the Worthy Matron
and Worthy Patron who were responsible for founding the
Order were Elizabeth Griffith , Worthy Matron , and Maurice
Coles, Worthy Patron .
Ours is a character building organization for young women
between the ages of 12 and 18. It also teaches responsibility,
because in each four month term , the Worthy Advisor must
have a moneymaking project, a service project , and a fun
project. Some of our service projects have been taking
refreshments to the patients at Livingston Manor , taking
tra y favors to the patients at Greenbriar and the State
Hospital, and making "s oap" Bibles for the patients at
Greenbriar . We have also planted flowers at the library .
Some of our moneymaking projects range from car washes ,
bake sales , ice cream socials, and the list goes on and on. Fun
projects are anything from bowling, picnics , and swimming ,
to roller skating, camping, and slumber parties.
We have three terms of four months each, per year: the
winter term , January -April ; the summer term, May-August ;
fall term , September-December . The Worthy Advisor for the
summer term of 1975 is Debbie Grove. The Mother Advisor
for the year 1975 is Mrs . F . June Jackson .
Each year a group of giris and some of the advisors travel
to Grand Rapids to attend Grand Assembly . This is when all
of Michigan's Rainbow Assemblys get together to exchange
ideas and to observe the Grand Officers as they perform the
Degrees of our Order . Grand Assembly is held the last
weekend in May, and it gives the Worthy Advisor a chance to
give and receive ideas for projects, and all the girls a chance
to meet new people.
In order to become Worthy Advisor a girl must first pass
through the stations of Faith , Hope, Charity , and Worthy
Associate Advisor. In order to do this she must write a Jetter
to the advisory board stating that she would like to run for
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office, she must then be elected by the assembly to take the
office and she then proceeds through the three other stations.
Being Worthy Advisor entitles her to appoint the officers to
fill the bow stations and the various other stations.
It is possible for each of the girls to earn a gold merit pin on
which can be hung seven bars, the colors the Rainbow. The
bars are earned by various activities such as church work,
school work, community work, and outdoor activities and
must be earned in order . They can also earn a pot of gold
which follows the bars , and a gold wreath that surrounds the
pot of gold.
Rainbow is a very worthwhile organization . It combines
responsibility , religion , and helps build good character.
HOWELL COMMANDERY NO. 28
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
By CLIFF HELLER
Organized April 7, 1870 at Howell, 14 charter members , all
from Livingston County.
The first commander was Sardis F . Hubbell, prominent
attorney and first village president from 1863 to 1872, also
first president of Livingston County Pioneer Society
organized in 1871.
The Knights Templar Order is a branch of Free Masonry
predicated upon the Christian religion and the practice of
Christian virtues . The members ·dress formally in uniform on
public occasions .
The order has a "National Educational Foundation " whose
purpose is to lend money to college students to complete their
college education.
There is also an " Eye Foundation " for research, treatment
and for I or hospitalization of diseases or injuries of the eye in
an effort to prevent blindness available to anyone unable to
pay .
The present commander is Andrew B. Krogstad .
Howell Commandery has had three Grand Commanders of
the State of Michigan , Albert E . Smith, 1923, Stanley G.
Wilson, 1955, William R. Parker, 1975. Its drill teams have
won man y state and national honors since first competing in
1905. Field Days were held in Howell from 1906 to 1925 attended
by other commanderys coming here on special trains .
The drills were performed on what is now Page Field and
were accompanied by numerous bands . Large crowds were
attracted to the drills .
For many years they held a Christmas party at the
Michigan State Sanatorium for the children patients .
The order is a strong and active part of Freemasonry in
Livingston County and has had about 500 members since its
inception here .
MARION COMMUNITY CIRCLE
By MRS. KENNETH BUCKNELL
The Marion Community Circle started out originally as the
Marion Helping Hand Circle when back in 1923 Mrs. Ed Nash
of 1863 Pinckney Road invited the ladies of School District
No. 3 to her home with the idea of organizing a neighborhood
club. It was decided that this would be called the Marion
Helping Hand Circle , whose purpose was to send flowers and
cards to the sick and help those in need whenever possible .
Members of this first group included : Mrs . Joseph Keddle,
Mrs . Guy Borden, Mrs . Henry Hibner , Mrs . Arthur White,
Mrs. Frank Sharp , Mrs . Herbert Lane, Mrs. Frank Wright ,
Mrs . Wes Witty, Miss Estelle Musson, Mrs. Guy Wright, Mrs.
Lucy Sorg, Miss Carrie and Ethel Francis, and Mrs . Arthur
Wright.
As the circle flourished, the members gradually took on
activities such as making quilts for the needy, having bake
sales, serving and sewing for the Red Cross and for families
in need.
Monthly meetings were held with a planned program .
Music, poetry, special topics of the day and all sorts of hand
work were the order of the day. Sometimes potluck luncheons,
dessert luncheons and refreshments at the close of
the afternoon were served .
During the period between 1930 and 1938 more names were
added to the membership: Mrs. Max Musson, Mrs. Burla
Keddle, now Burla Bucknell , Mrs. Webster Alstott, Mrs .
Marjorie Musson, now deceased, Mrs . George Buell, Mrs.
Leah Buell, Miss Anna Craft, Mrs . E. J. Carr, Mrs. Vera
Craft, Mrs. Mame Hoisel, Mrs. Alfred Rossington, Mrs.
Ernestine Spalding, and Mrs. Joe Young.
Later in the 50's, Mrs . Frank Dorsey, Mrs. Betty Sorg, Mrs .
Delores Dorsey, Mrs. Duane Meyer, Mrs. Lloyd Lounsberry,
Mrs. Herbert Grainger , Mrs. Mary White, Mrs. Pat Alstott,
Mrs. Richard Streng, Mrs. Richard Ballou, Mrs. Ed Sopcak,
Mrs . Clayton Musson, Mrs . Olive Coddington, and Mrs.
Harold Coddington joined the circle.
Now it is in the 70's, many of the farms have been sold or
subdivised and we have more new members, some the
children and grandchildren of earlier members. The
Wright's Corner Community Circle has joined with us and we
have added the names of Mrs. Ross Keddle, Mrs. James
Liddy, Mrs. Tony Bolek, Mrs. Phylis Watkins, Mrs. Howard
Dankers, and Mrs . Don Klein to our roster.
Today the circle still meets on the second Thursday of the
month . The objectives remain the same, and much good
work is still done. Present officers are Mrs. Burla Bucknell,
President; Mrs. Webster Alstott, Vice President; Mrs. Ed
Sopcak, Secretary and Treasurer . Miss Anna Craft our ·
flower committee chairman.
HOWELL BOOK CLUB
By MRS. CALVIN GATESMAN
In 1932, Mrs . Bird Hight (Ina ), Mrs. C. Arthur Robitaille
(Almeda Tubbs ) and Mrs. Calvin Gatesman (Lillie) met at
the home of Mrs. A. V. Smith, (Beryl), to discuss forming a
Book Club. These young women were especially interested in
books and reading.
A following meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Bird
Hight. Each of the above ladies had invited a guest. At this
meeting , the Howell Book Club was officially formed. Mrs.
Calvin Gatesman was elected president.
In time more members were invited to join. The membership
was to be retained at twelve and it is today. The club
meets in the homes of members. Eligibility for membership ,
is a book review yearly, or a guest reviewer provided .
Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month, twelve
months of the year.
HOWELL MUSIC CLUB
By MRS. CALVIN GATESMAN
Mrs. Annette Wiggins was the founder and very energetic
promoter of the Howell Music Club. She was a very accomplished
musician. The first meeting , not yet officially
organized, met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nesmith ,
on Higgins Street. The following people attended this first
meeting: Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Schott , Mrs. Wm. Caverly ,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kurkowsky, Mr. and Mrs. Casey Wiggins,
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Allen (Sarah Beattie), Mrs. Clarence
Earl (Zoe), Mrs. Axel Hedberg , Mrs. Lillian Wilson. Also
considered to be charter members , may be added the names
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams, Mrs . Maybelle Hildebrandt ,
Miss Elizabeth Griffith, Mr. Paul Weinmeister , Mr. and Mrs.
D.S. Yoon (sister of Mrs . Grace Line).
The date was February 8, 1952. A few of the above members
are still in the club. New members have been added
from time to time. The first president was Mrs. Wiggins.
Other presidents have been: Mrs. Laura O'Leary, Mrs.
Stanley Hoffman , Mrs . John Thede and Mrs . Calvin
Gatesman, to mention a few.
The intent of the club is to present excellent music, vocal
and instrumental. Eligibility for membership , is performance
musically . The endeavor of the club, also according
to their constitution , is to help performers to improve
themselves.
Music of composers , Beethoven, Bach , Brahms, Grieg and
many others , exemplify the true ideals of the Howell Music
Club. Compositions by the many outstanding composers ,
both old and new, vocal and instrumental, are included in the
monthly programs . Opera has also been included.
The Howell Music Club is federated . It meets the second
Friday night of the month , October through May, in the
homes of members .
LIVINGSTON COUNTY REPUBLICAN WOMEN
By MRS. HAROLD DIBBLE
Seventy-two women representing the various townships of
Livingston County met at the Presbyterian Church in Howell,
on February 20, 1952, for the purpose of organizing a
Republican Women's Club. Mrs . Tom Leith of Brighton acted
as chairman .
A new Republican song was sung by four girls from Howell
High School led by Mr. Keene Stollsteimer.
Mrs. Mary Streit, vice-chairman of the State Central
Committee explained the set-up of the State Republican
Organization and stated the purpose for which these women
had met. Women must become factors in politics was her
theme . She listed the many ways women can educate
themselves and help others understand the political issues of
the day .
Mrs. Katherine Gibson, president of The Republican
Women's Clubs of Michigan spoke as did Congressman Wm.
Blackney .
A motion was made to form a club, a nominating committee
was appointed and the following ticket was presented
and elected: President , Mrs . Carl Kurkowsky ; Vice
President, Mrs. Claude Burkhart; Secretary-Treasurer ,
Mrs. Leslie Merrit.
In its early meetings the club expressed its purpose to
synchronize its efforts with those of Republican Men for
County work.
Meetings were held throughout the county and efforts were
made to meet and know candidates on local, state and
national levels .
In 1975 the club, under the presidency of Mrs . Harold
Dibble of Fowlerville, conducted their tenth annual homes
tour . This event has become a symbol of club effort and its
representation to the public.
FAMILY LIVING CHILD STUDY CLUB
By MRS. DON BUSHREY
The Family Living Child Study Club was started in 1955
under the name of Teen Age Child Study Club. Mrs . Clifford
Marr was the first president. Many of the members were
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former members of the Junior Child Study Club whose
children were in grade school. When their children became
teenagers they felt the need for a change and the new club
was formed with 25 members.
In 1961 most of their children were grown and the name
was changed to Family Living Study Club. They have
remained members of the Michigan Child Study Club
Association and have always used their study material along
with other special interests . The purpose of the club is to help
our families to better understand our children and family
situations and to work in our community for the best interest
of all citizens.
Their special project for many years was to sponsor a
candlelight buffet dinner at the Citizens dining room after the
annual high school Jay Hop. Since that was discontinued they
have done charitable work at Howell State Hospital,
Greenbriar Convalescent Home and Maxey Boys Training
School. The 1975-1976p resident is Mrs. Don Carter.
HOWELL REBEKAH LODGE NO. 345
By MRS. THELMA BUELL
Howell Rebekah Lodge No. 345 was instituted November
23, 1899. At that time there were 26 members. From old
records it is believed that Sunbeam Rebekah Lodge No. 122
instituted in 1889 joined with the Howell Rebekah Lodge in
April of 1914.
The Rebekah Lodge helps to maintain the 1.0.0.F. and
Rebekah Home at Jackson, Mich. This is for Oddfellows and
Rebekahs who are no longer able to take care of themselves .
We also help maintain the visual eye bank and the camp for
children at Big Bear Lake.
At one time there were about 100 members but we are now
down to 23 members. Our meetings are held in a private
home and Dorothy Johnson is our Noble Grand.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY GARDEN CLUB
By MRS. ELLWOOD HENEKS
The Livingston County Garden Club was started in 1932,
president, Mr. Clarence Faunce .
The purpose was to promote interest in flowers and gardening
and to beautify Livingston County and City of Howell.
President for 1975-197,6 Mrs. Ellwood Heneks (Mary), 1131
Willow Lane, Howell, 546-3256.
The club has made favors for Hillcrest and Greenbriar and
all hospitals in the county. It has sent teachers to Higgins
Lake Conference to teach young people about gardening in
our schools, given money for Howell Library and downtown
sidewalk flowers. It has sent money to Michigan Nature
Association to replace pine trees, Extinct pines fund,
Audibon Society to save our Kirkland Warblers.
BETA SIGMA PHI INTERNATIONAL
IOTA OMEGA CHAPTER
By MRS. EDWARD GARLAND
It was started in the summer of 1967 by four women who
had been members in other cities. These charter members
were: Judy Cowan, Eppie Garland, Marge Watson, and
Marilyn Wells. Two of these women are still members today :
Eppie Garland and Marge Watson.
The first officers were: Marilyn Wells, President ; Lois
Hess, Vice President ; Marge Watson, Recording Secretary;
Eppie Garland, Corresponding Secretary; Judy Cowan,
Treasurer ; Sue Sulka, Extension Officer.
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Purpose: Beta Sigma Phi is an organization for the social
and cultural advancement of women. Through the years
since its founding in 1931, Beta Sigma Phi has taken its place
among outstanding women's organizations of° our time.
Today there are nearly 200,000 members all over the world.
Howell's local chapter has 30 current members. The
president for 1975-1976is Nancy Hibner.
Over the last eight years, Howell's Iota Omega Chapter of
Beta Sigma Phi has donated many items to the pediatrics
ward at McPherson Community Health Center. Among these
items was: a Recusianne , bubble top crib , table , chairs ,
books, toys, play pen pads , large wagon for transporting
children and a juvenile wheel chair .
The members of Beta Sigma Phi feel that in order to lead a
fuller , richer , and more useful life, they must know them -
selves and be true to their own personal ideals and goals .
Howell's Iota Omega Chapter offers its members this opportunity.
V.F.W. POST NO. 3671, HOWELL
By CAROLYN SMITH
The Barnes, Lyons, Roberts V.F .W. Post No. 3671 was first
organized on April 21, 1939. The charter was given to the 27
members who were commanded by Major I. Bravener.
During its first year, Major I Bravener left for Lansing and
the commandership was taken over by Howard Newberry
who continued for another year.
The purpose of the V.F.W. shall be fraternal, patriotic,
historical , and educational; to preserve and strengthen
comradeship among its members ; to assist worthy
comrades ; to perpetuate the memory and history of our
dead , and to assist widows and orphans , to maintain true
allegiance to the government of the United States of
America, and fidelity to its constitution and laws; to foster
true patriotism; to maintain and defend the United States
from all her enemies, whomsoever .
Any male who served honorably as an officer or enlisted
man is eligible for membership . He must have served during
a foreign war or conflict that merit the issuance of a campaign
badge by the United States Government and he must
also be a United States citizen.
Several activities of the post include helping veterans ,
widows, and their orphans in any way that they need it.
Money making functions by the post help to support and
foster all the work we do.
The current 1975-1976c ommander is Allen V. Clark.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY TOASTMASTER CLUB
NO. 1538
By MASIS MARDIGAN
Meeting at the Salvation Army Building, State Street,
Howell, Michigan
A group of men and women who meet regularly in
congenial fellowship to provide members with opportunities
to improve their abilities to speak, to conduct meetings and
to develop leadership abilities.
Our charter was granted in April, 1975. The charter
presentation was made in June, 1975 by the area governor,
Ray Trappen of Portland, Mich. The place of presentation
was the Salvation Army Building on State Street , Howell.
Many members and their guests attended the dinner and
charter presentation.
Masis M. Mardigian, the first president of the Howell club
received the charter on behalf of the membership . The first
elected officers of the club were: President , Masis Marshe
enlisted Betty Cook's (Mrs. Lloyd) great help with her
talent at the piano.
, M_any ~enior citi~en · groups were being started under
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digian; Educational Vice President , Eric Davison;
Administrative Vice President , Kenneth Quigley; Secretary ,
Marye Klostere ; Treasurer , Betty Nelson; Sgt. of Arms, Ted
Duggan.
The present club was founded by Harry Ginsburg and Ted
Duggan. It was co-sponsored by Citizens Insurance Company
and the First National Bank of Howell. The first meeting was
in the fall of 1974 in the Salvation Army Building.
The present club was formed after the fade out in 1969 of
the previous Toastmasters Club in Howell. It bore the same
number , 1538 as the present club and was founded in 1954 by
Art Smith and Winston Reynolds and was sponsored by
Citizens Insurance Company of Howell. Membership is open
to men and women over 18 years of age . Throughout the
years many people have enjoyed the leadership training
received through Toastmasters .
MICHIGAN MILK PRODUCERS ASSN.
By CLAUDINE JACKSON
The Michigan Milk Producers Association was organized
in 1916. The first office was located on North Michigan Street
in Howell. M. P . Hull, a Lansing banker , served as the first
president. R. C. Reed , was the first secretary , and H. W.
orton was the first treasurer ; both of these men were from
Livingston County.
Farmers organized to bargain for the price of their milk.
Livingston County was considered the " Holstein Capitol" of
the U.S. during this era , so there was considerable production
of milk in the county .
The organization was expanded to include all areas of
Michigan and the offices were headquartered in Detroit. This
was the market center for milk .
In 1958a n office building was erected at 24270W est Seven
Mile Road , Detroit.
The first Milk Messenger was published by the Fowlerville
Review in the early 1920's.
Men from Livingston County who have served the
organization on the State Board of Directors through the
years are: Harry Calkins, C. D. Parsons, Andrew Jackson
and Glenn Hanson .
Presently the organization is under the leadership of Glenn
Lake.
HOWELL FARMERS CLUB
By MRS. GEORGE HEEG
My father , Wm. H. Peavy , Sr. read this article , (from his
mother's memory , Mrs. Adelbert F. Peavy ) at the Howell
Farmers Club banquet March 1918, held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs . Tracy Crandall. This home was the old homestead
of Ada Crandall's parents the Eugene E. Howe's where the
club was organized .
I called Mr. Merle Weaver who belongs to the club, he told
me Mr. George Catrell, 304 N. Hesse St. is the president.
Late in the winter of 1896 and 7, a few of our most
progressive farmers of this township having read in the
Michigan Farmer reports of various Farmers Clubs printed
from time to time, conceived the idea that a Farmers Club
for Howell Township both from an educational as well as a
social standpoint would be a fine thing, got their heads
together and sent out a call to meet at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E . E. Howe on March 10, 1897 for the purpose of
organizing a Farmers Club. On that date 18 people responded,
among them being Mr. and Mrs . A. F . Peavy , Mr. and
Mrs. R. R. Smith, Mr. and Mrs . Salmon Hildebrant, Mr. and
planned potlucks to celebrate birthdays and holidays ; had
travel~gues by anyone we could catch home from a trip . We
took trips to the Royal Oak Zoo, Kensington Park , went on
ln. 't!-..t.n11rC'• h,;,rl C!T\o,,;,l,or eo n.n tb.o. hi .CL.tn..-..:r n.f Un. '--U.011 ,.,..;,.,;,...
Mrs. W. C. Howe, Mr. and Mrs . Henry Andrews, Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Howe and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Latson , after a
short discussion on ways and means they came to order and
proceeded to elect the following officers for the coming year,
President , A. F. Peavy; Vice President , E. E. Latson ;
Recording Secretary , Mrs . W. E. Howe; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. R. R. Smith ; Treasurer , Mr. Salmon
Hildebrant ; Directors , R. R. Smith and W. C. Howe, committee
on constitution and by-laws; R. R. Smith and E . E.
Howe, Program Committee ; Mrs. E. E. Latson, Mrs . S.
Hildebrant and Mrs. H. Andrews , the committees got
together and did their work and at the invitation of president
Peavy adjourned to meet at his home, April 7, 1897 which of
course was the first regular meeting . To prove to you that
they were an enthusiastic bunch of organizers the reports
show that from 18 charter members our membership increased
to 122 at the end of the first year.
At the first annual meeting which was also held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs . E . E. Howe there was 150 present including
representatives from the Marion Club, the townships of
Oceola, Brighton , Genoa and Cohoctah, also the northern
part of the state was represented in the person of Dr . E . T.
Abrams of Dollar Bay, this meeting being the largest in the
histor y of the club up to that time and having a fine program
with our present genial toastmaster as the star actor, with an
excellent paper on the subject of " Cranks" and while
claiming not to be a crank himself showed his ability to
handle all kinds and species from that on the side of a grindstone
to the worst of all, the one idea crank.
Another important subject which received a considerable
amount of attention was " Womans Suffrage " by Mrs . J. S.
Brown. Of course all of you who know Mrs . Brown can
readily guess that the paper fell in able hands , the discussion
of this paper was so animated that President Peavy in his
concluding remarks said he almost wished he had been born
a woman . Before I pass from this the first annual meeting
will say that there was no deaths in the membership up to this
time , but in the following 20 years there has been from one to
four each year making a total of 50 to the present date, of this
number 20 were women, 24 men and six children . To get our
minds off the sad part of this paper let me give the market
prices quoted in the Livingston Democrat for March 9, 1898,
the paper from which I took this report , wheat 91 cents ,
shelled corn 30 cents, oats 25 cents , beans , 70 cents , rye , 46,
good fresh butter , 15 cents and eggs, 13 cents , lard , 7 cents ,
hogs on foot $3.00 to $3.60, dressed chickens , 7 to 8 cents ,
clover seed, $2.60 and 6 bars soap for 15 cents . Our first annual
banquet was held at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs.
D. M. Beckwith in west Howell on Dec. 29, 1898 at which time
125 people were served such as only the ladies of Howell
Township know how to and are capable of doing.
Mr. Beckwith as toastmaster kept things lively from start
to finish. The toasts responded to on this occasion were of
such high character and thought that it would be impossible
for me to repeat any of them without feeling that I had
neglected the balance . I think in our 21 years of existence
there has been 231 meetings including the present.
We include in our membership, farmers , stock buyers , exrepresentatives
, ex-farmers, both tired and retired
representatives, editors for free advertising , school marms
to keep us cheerful, music teachers to take the place of the
phonograph , people who are willing to talk and those who
couldn't talk if their life depended on it, in fact no intelligent
person was ever denied membership . The first death on
which resolutions were written was that of Miss Eda Latson
which occurred on Dec. 2, 1899a nd the last I think was that of
W. C. Howe.
If an inanimate body could have feeling or thought I think it
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would be a source of satisfaction to this house to think that
the Howell Farmers Club was born and came of age under its
hospitable roof.
Our club presidents in order of service are: Mr. A. M.
Wells, 6; Mr. S. M. Yerkes , 5; D. M. Beckwith , 3; Mr. W. W.
Lerittender , 2; A. F . Peavy , 2; Mrs. J . S. Brown, 1, Total 21.
The president of the Howell Farmers ' Club for 1975 is Mr.
George Catrell.
THE HOWELL DELPHIANS
By GRACE HORNER PARKER
The Howell Delphian Chapter was organized in the
assembly room of the public library on January 9th, 1919,
with 15 charter members present. Mrs. Cline Beurmann was
elected president, Miss Grace Horner , vice-president and
Miss Phoebe Herbst, secretary-treasurer. After a few
meetings, Mrs. Beurmann 's husband was discharged from
the army, they returned to their home in Grand Rapids and
Miss Horner acted as president for the balance of the year
with Edna Louise Parker , vice-president.
The material for the first seven years of our programs was
furnished by the Delphian Society of Chicago, Ill. During
these years we studied art , history, poetry and music. After
nine years the Delphian Society no longer offered program
outlines and assistance and it was voted to change the name
of the organization to The Howell Delphians and to go forward
with programs planned by the advisory board which
consisted of three members elected to assist the regular
officers , and through the years we have had a great diversity
of program subjects .
The Delphians were federated in 1922 and in 1930-31 the
Delphian Singers, a chorus of twelve women, with Mrs.
Caroline Benson as pianist and director , was organized.
During the years these singers, as well as the drama and
poetry groups, were often asked to entertain other
organizations.
At the time of their 25th anniversary, the Delphians had a
membership of 78 and were divided into eight departments,
namely - Art, Drama, Home, Literature, Music, Patriotism ,
Red Cross , and Social Welfare . Among financial operatio_ns
we have furnished a room at the McPherson Memorial
Hospital, contributed to Red Cross, Christmas Seals Cancer
Drive, Salvation Army, Nurses Fund, Boys' Training School,
and Girls' Town. We still participate in some of these
projects and at Christmastime we give a gift, usually money
to the State Hospital , Hillcrest.
At this time, Sept. 1975, we have a membership of 43 and
are divided into two departments - Department of Education
and Department of International and Public Affairs . The
officers are : President, Mrs. Don Williams ; Vice President,
Mrs. Merle Meeden ; Secretary , Mrs. Ford Beckwith ;
Treasurer , Mrs . Clyde Maas .
THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE
By MARGE MAHONEY
The Livingston County Youth Theater is a most unique type
of community theater , in that its entire membership is
comprised of youngsters under the age of twenty (20) years.
This is unlike the usual community theater which is an adult
organization. It is also different from the usual children 's
theater, in that they do not present children's plays , but work
on adult type musicals , original revues, or complete
productions . It is a non-profit group , without dues being
required of the membership . The members are youngsters
interested in performing and in learning all phases of theater
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art. They work strictly as a unit , with everyone sharing in the
work and fun. Everyone works on props , scenery , costumes ,
make-up, art work, publicity and promotional work and
ticket sales . It is sponsored by the county, through th~ Howell
Recreation Center, and is open to any young resident of
Livingston County. .
The Livingston County Youth Theater was founded m ear~y
fall of 1972, by Mrs . Frederic (Marjorie ) Mahoney , who 1s
still in charge of production and the workshop . Marge has
been in theater all her life, as a professional performer , and
has many yea rs of experience in theater groups . Among her
associations in theater groups, she was a member of
Academy Playhouse in Detroit, along with su~h gradua tes as
Chad Everett (Medical Center-TV) ; Ross Gifford (Fiddler
On Roof, Carousel-Broadway); Janie Sell (TV and Broadway
), and many other s. She also had her own booking agency
in Detroit with her husband .
The only adults associated with the group , have been:
Mell Coleman (Band Director of Fowlerville Community
Schools) who directed the band for the Livingston County
Youth Theater 's production of "Under The Big Top."
Mrs . Roberta Munn (formerly of Fowlerville, now residing
in Saline, Michigan , who did all the piano scoring for " Under
The Big Top." Mrs . William (Sandy ) Glenn of Howell, who
was the original choreographer . .
Mrs. James (Linda ) Monroe of Brighton, accompamst for
many shows, who has just retired from the group. Mrs.
Arthur (Velma ) Bator of Fowlerville, our present accompanist.
Mrs. Sam (Lorraine ) Jones of Fowlerville, our
present choreographer. . .
There is no "s tar system," and each youngster 1s given the
opportunity to expand their own creativity with the
assistance of highly qualified adults . Marge Mahoney , who
still heads up the group , feels that every youngster possesses
talent in some field of theater art, and encourages them to
use their abilities in a productive way. She feels that theater
teaches, not only sharing, but discipline as well, which allows
the youngsters to find an identity through . musical ~ro~uctions.
Shows are offered to any commumty orgamzat10n,
school, etc ., free of charge , as a service to the communi~y
and gives the youngsters the experience needed to grow m
their own endeavors.
In the summer of 1975, we are working on a production
entitled " Best of Broadway ." No production date has been
set. The group membership changes, as some members
graduate from high school and leave the area for college.
New members however , are constantly coming in, and the
membership of the summer of 1975 is approximatel y 25
members .
One of our original members , Brad Roberts, who got his
first taste of theater with the Livingston County Youth
Theater worked very hard in his school drama department ,
as wen' as with the theater group , and upon his recent
graduation from Howell High School, was awarde? the _Hi~h
School Drama Award , and will enter Western Umversity m
the fall of 1975, majoring in Theater Arts . We are very proud
of Brad. Others went on to join the Michigan 5th Regiment
Band and travel with that fine unit. So, the Livingston
County Youth Theater serves a very useful, educational,
social and creative outlet for the children of Livingston
County.
YOUNG AT HEARTSENIOR
CITIZENS
The Young at Heart group was Mildred Bennett's brainchild.
(She begged , borrowed and stole for the group ).
Knowing that singing together is an aid to growing together,
she enlisted Betty Cook's (Mrs . Lloyd) great help with her
talent at the piano.
Many senior citizen groups were being started under
various city recreation departments , but as yet our director
had done nothing so Mildred suggested that he include it in
his program, thereby enlarging his program and at the same
time giving the Young at Heart the backing then needed. Mr.
Alberts quit during the summer of '55, so Mr. E . Paul Bennett
finished the summer program. (Mr. Bennett had not then left
his teaching-coaching position for full time recreation ).
Two special notices in the Livingston County News, announcements
in the various churches, help of ministers and
lay members, announcements in other organizations about
town, and key persons about town were the early means used
to alert and inform the folk in Howell of the "Young at Heart "
group about to be formed . At that time, the name "Young at
Heart " was being used temporarily to represent the older
people who might be interested in organizing . The idea of the
name came from the song "Young at Heart " and from the
thoughts there-in. We didn't sing this song often because it
was a bit difficult for them , but instead, used a pep song to
open the meetings -" Happy Days Are Here Again, " and then
ended with " God Bless America. "
YOUNG AT HEART
Fair y tales-can come true, it can happen to you,
If you're young at heart ;
For it's hard , you will find, to be narrow of mind,
If you're young at heart.
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes ;
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams,
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart or on the way.
The first meeting took place on July 28, 1955 at 2:30 in the
center room of the recreation building (the old Catholic
school, rented as a center ). Twenty-two persons came . The
opportunity of belonging was presented and explained.
Persons who cared to, enrolled and during an informally
conducted meeting by Mildred Bennett , it was decided that
the get-togethers be called parties, they should start with a
pra yer and end with the song "God Bless America." Betty
Cook played for group singing and directed a refreshment
game.
Sixteen of the original twenty-three members plus sixteen
new members attended the second meeting August 8, 1955.
Written ballots , voting on names for the group disclosed
" Young at Heart " had won over Happy Folk and Happy
Friends and that the song, " Happy Days" had won by a close
margin over " Kick All The Grouchers Out." Someone even
suggested "The Geritol Chorus."
At the third meeting in the summer of '55, we had a picture
taken of the group 80 years or over . There were twelve of
them totaling 1,005 years and thereby making an average of
84 years ; so you see our group was not a young one, only
about five in the sixties. It was decided that anyone who
came to any of the first three meetings would be considered
original members . They were: Roy Latson, John Redinger ,
Alice O'Donnell, Ollie Henderson , Jennie Hosley, Homer
Peavy , Rhua Peavy , Louisa Irey, Ernest Ulrich (First
Deceased ), Len Richards, David Murnigham, Betty Cook,
Josie Van Horn, Florence Wilcox, Harry Fake, Mrs. Harry
Fake, Mrs. F . A. Carse , A. L. Buckman , Will Richards ,
Laura Russell Lorenz, Mrs . Eunice Hoff, Mrs. Emma
Smouse, Mrs . Edith Filkins , Mr. Martin George and Mrs .
Martin George.
Eunice Hoff, Fread Carse , Alice O'Donnell and Homer
Peavy were on the first program planning committee. We
planned potlucks to celebrate birthdays and holidays ; had
travelogues by anyone we could catch home from a trip. We
took trips to the Royal Oak Zoo, Kensington Park, went on
color tours ; had speakers on the history of Howell, civic
problems and had special parties . The best party we ever had
was our first Halloween Party! John Redinger came in fancy
pants and had bows on his hat , shirt, etc . Dave Murningham
came as a 16-year-old- mask , wig, short skirt, even falsies .
Emma Smouse and Myrtle Chapman, Fern Holt's mother ,
came in their fancy bonnets, jabots, full skirts , etc. of earlier
days. Alice O'Donnell was two faced that day ; a false face on
her face and also on the back of her head, plus a wig, of
course. Mrs. Nelson, wife of our one time photographer came
as Aunt Jemima and we also had two witches, Betty Cook and
Jennie Hosley.
These older people were hesitant about taking on
responsibilities , so for some time, Mildred Bennett planned
and purchased refreshments , planned all the programs , etc.
Then Alice O'Donnell consented to be our first president in
1957. John Redinger had been our treasurer from the
beginning and for years after-collecting the large fee of 25
cents a month . The largest financial backing we had was
$20.00a year, squeezed out of Mr. Bennett 's meager budget.
Some of the other early presidents were : 1958-59, Laura
(Sharpe Russell) Lorenz ; 1959-60, Edith Filkins ; 1960-61,
Jennis Hosley.
One of the highlights of our first year was our trip to the
Lansing Civic Center to engage in the First Annual Senior
Citizens Get-Together ( October 27, 1955). It was a sack lunch
with coffee furnished . Governor Williams was there and
several of our group got his signature . We were pretty lucky
that day!
We received awards for having the oldest senior citizen-
Emma Smouse (90 plus years ), the longest married couple-
Rhua and Homer Peavy , and Betty Cook engaged in a quiz
game. Her team won and she was awarded a game .
We grew from 22 to 40 regular members the first year. Our
average age was 74 years. Betty Cook was our pianist and a
champion of the idea of the " Young at Heart. " Alice
O'Donnell did much in assisting Mildred Bennett. Eunice
Hoff was the first secretary and John Redinger, treasurer .
We met in the old Catholic school from 1955 until we moved to
the new recreation center-doing our own cleaning , etc . A
davenport , table , bookcases , etc. were donated to help dress
up the room at the old Catholic school. This made it a cozier
place for the Euchre boys to play cards each day . Anyone
was allowed to come in, sit, read , or just " chew the fat "
anytime it was open.
Sometime after E . Paul Bennett became full time
recreation director , Mildred turned the "Young at Heart "
group over to him and she became assistant to him . Up to
then, he had helped Mildred when he could.
He continued to back the group , helped provide programs
for them . Naturally the membership has changed with the
years. The group has continued meeting every two weeksthe
dues are still 25 cents a meeting .
Louisa Irey, the last living original member , still continues
to be the pianist for the present meetings-sometimes
relieved by Ella Hagman (Mrs. John )- until this past year
when she became inactive because of illness.
Ella Hagman was one of the best presidents of the latter
years-under Paul Bennett's directorship. She was a good
organizer and believed in giving everyone something to do
and to keep them interested , so " old rockin ' chair wouldn't
get them. " Her ideas in decorations and the planning of
special occasions were outstanding .
Polly Murningham must be mentioned . Way back in 1955
she began to drive some folks to and from the meetings. Also,
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she always took charge of the card playing room, (arranged
for tables, cards, etc . when the state get-togethers were done
by districts) . We had two or three of them here .
The present programs are similar to the original onestra
velogues, speakers, color tours, birthday parties; they
travel much more than we did in the early days because of
additional funding . They, of course, meet at the Recreation
Center every second and fourth Tuesday. The present
president is Mrs. Ida Sanford (Mrs . A.F .) secretary , Bessie
Hammel , and Joyce Drayton , treasurer .
B.P .0.E., HOWELL LODGE NO. 2168
By M. E. HIGGINS
B.P .O. Elks Lodge No. 2168 was chartered in Howell on
April 24, 1960. Eugene S. Burroughs was the First Exalted
Ruler and Milton E . Higgins the first secretary .
The Elks Lodge is a benevolent and fraternal organization .
The local lodge supports various civic and charitable activities
and places particular emphasis on aid to handicapped
children .
Elbert N. Carlton, Jr. is the present Exalted Ruler and
Milton Higgins is secretary. The lodge had 960 members and
has increased its membership each year since 1965. It serves
all of Livingston County.
ELKETTES
By DOROTHY EAGER
On December 7, 1960 a group of 37 Elk's wives met in the
upper chambers of the Howell Elks Lodge No. 2168 at 215
East Grand River to organize the "Elkettes ."
Joyce Duncan presided over the first meeting and on
January 4, 1961, Dorothy Blanchard was elected first
president.
Presidents the following years were : Jean Matthews , 1962;
Donna Burroughs , 1963; Peg Lavery , 1963; Helen Martin ,
1965-66; Molly Bennett , 1967-68; Elaine Grote, 1969-70; Alene
Anderson , 1971-72; Connie Simons , 1973-74; Jennie
Amburgey , 1974-75; Dorothy Eager, 1975-76.
Many years of hard work followed and in October , 1966 we
moved into our present building at 2830 East Grand River .
Each year a member is chosen " Elkette of the Year " for
outstanding work within the club.
We provide funds for two scholarships each year and
contribute large sums to our major project which is used for
the Crippled Children 's Fund .
HIGH TWELVE CLUB NO. 318
By KEITH SEALS
High Twelve is an organization of Master Masons who
meet together to further the principles of Masonry . High
Twelve International is over 55 years old. There are over
21,000 members in approximately 300 clubs nationwide, including
American military bases abroad . International
headquarters is in the Grand Lodge Masonic Temple , St.
Louis, Missouri . Any Master Mason with a current dues card
is invited to join.
The Howell High Twelve Club was organized by the Lansing
club in 1959. Ralph A. Seelye was the first president.
Membership varies between 25-45. At this time , there are 33
members . Gilbert R. Cook is the president for 1975-76. In
Michigan there are 19 clubs with a membership nearing
1,000.
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High Twelve International has two main projects : (1 ) the
granting of scholarships at graduate level in the fields of
Foreign Service and Government Administration . This
project is supported solely through donations and bequests . A
second (2) project is support for the Masonic youth:
DeMolay , Rainbow Girls, and Job 's Daughters .
The Howell High Twelve Club has had a number of projects
over the years . When theCountyFarm was in existence , some
of the members would go there once a month for visitation -
at Christmas a party was given these people with appropriate
gifts . For the past several summers , a local
DeMolay was sponsored by the Howell Club for a leadership
training camp . A number of plans were used to raise money
for our projects. One of the most popular was a clown unit
which was used for local parades, parties , etc.
The Michigan Association of High Twelve Clubs was
founded in 1935. Ralph Seelye is second vice president in the
state line. Keith Seales is a past state president , having
served in that capacity in 1971-72. At the present time , Seales
is second vice president in the International line.
An open invitation is extended to all Master Masons to visit
the Howell Club whether one is a local Masonic Brother or a
Sojourner . There is no initiation or ritual. The Howell High
Twelve meets the second and fourth Saturdays for breakfast
at the Holiday Inn . Time is 8:30. A number of meetings , plus
some special programs , are set aside for the ladies to attend .
ROTARY IN HOWELL
By RADNEY TUCKER
The Howell Rotary Club was chartered May 5, 1924, the
parent club being Ann Arbor. Almost immediately the ideas
and ideals of Rotary took root in the community and its work
has been steady and of some consequence ever since.
The first club project was a crippled children's clinic which
continued annually until the work was undertaken on a
statewide basis by the Michigan Crippled Children's
Association . Members of this club acted as county chairmen
of the Easter Seal Program for years .
Youth programs were initiated very early ; Boy Scout and
Explorer Troops were sponsored , boys were sent to
Wolverine Boy's State , Junior Rotarians were chosen from
the high school, Father-Son and Daughter meetings were
annual affairs. Athletic recognition meetings were eventually
superceded by recognition of the top students of the
senior class and presentation of the annual Page and Gillette
Scholarships .
Playground equipment, loudspeakers and an electric
scoreboard were either purchased outright or in cooperation
with other groups for the playing fields of the city .
The club has been a part of four different international
districts , giving the members a fine opportunity to enjoy the
fellowship of our Canadian neighbors. Many felt the district
was never in better hands than when Joseph Brady was its
Governor .
International House at the University of Michigan provided
us with many foreign students as speakers . We were participants
in the "Youth For Understanding " program that
brought European High School students to live and study
with us. The club has financed some local exchange students
in Europe . We are actively participating in Rotary International's
graduate student exchange program .
Community services have been a major part of the club's
projects , some three-hundred men have been members ,
sparking , leading , guiding , and financing many of the needed
improvements in the community. At the City Park , the
beach , bathhouse , toilet room, picnic shelter , entrance
landscaping , and water system are all Rotary projects.
McPherson Community Health Center , airport , parking lots,
Recreation Center , alleys , Community Chest and Huron
Clinton Metropolitan Authority have all had the strong
support of the Rotary Club.
The Howell Rotary Club is the parent of both the Brighton
and Fowlerville Rotary Clubs. It is proud of its children . We
hope the Ann Arbor Club is proud of us.
Weekly meetings of the club are well planned with high
quality programs and speakers from virtually all segments
of our world of work. The officers have been faithful and
efficient.
Many of the programs are traditional, dating from the very
early years of the club; Christmas songs by the Madrigal
Club are now sung by the Highlander Choral, meetings such
as Inter-City , Rural-Urban , Mayor's Exchange , Bert
Woodham's New Year Forecast , District Governor's Visit,
Ladies Night, Picnic at the City Park, and others are interspersed
among those discussing topics of international,
national, and local interest. No matter how controversial the
subject the speaker is always accorded an attentive
audience.
Bulletins have always been a major part of the program,
edited by some ten members since the beginning. The latest
newscast is given, and we sing (we have our own welcome
song).--
Lunches are provided by Fern Schultz and her staff . Mrs.
French is the only other person who has done so. The
meetings are held in their second location and under much
the same format as in the beginning .
Looking backward over the fifty-two years it seems the
strength of the club is acting as a sounding board for all local
projects , successful conclusion for the general benefit of the
community . Each Monday noon, during the Bicentennial
year , as current pr~sident Radney Tucker brings the Howell
Rotary Club to order, The Rotary Motto, Service Above
Self' ' is reaffirmed.
WELCOME SONG
Words by William Christopherson
There are clubs out west in California
There are clubs down south in Tennessee
There are others east of Massachusetts
'cross this land of freedom we agree.
But we're glad you set your sights on Howell,
'cuz we sure enjoy your company.
And we hope you'll visit us real often
Welcome to Rotary!
CANCER SOCIETY
By MOLLY PARK
The Crusade is held once a year in April. The goal for
Livingston County Unit is established by the state . The goal
for Livingston Chapter was $31,000 this year, the largest
ever, and this goal has been reached.
The American Cancer Society is ever grateful, and ever
conscious of the REAL heroes behind the scenes. The Society
recognizes the intrinsic value of every single volunteer, and
every single contributor. They are the true unsung heroes of
the ceaseless battle to control mankinds most dreaded
disease. The disease that crosses all boundaries, all races ,
colors and creeds, the rich , the poor, and the inbetween .
All volunteers , the tried and true old stand-bys, (some have
been faithfully ringing doorbells for twenty years), and the
new people of our county who are stepping forth to give of
their time and effort are warmly received, and badly needed
by the L.C.U. of the A.C.S. You are the dedicated, determined,
and caring people who are bringing us ever closed to
our goal, to eliminate cancer in our time . Without you, this
goal can never be •reached ... with you, we cannot fail.
The American Cancer Society is a voluntary organization
dedicated to the control and eradication of cancer. National
headquarters are in New York City, and there are incorporated
chartered divisions in each state as well as in
Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and other metropolitan
areas .
The Society's long range objective is to eliminate cancer as
a disease of mankind. The immediate goal of the Society is to
save more lives, and to diminish suffering from cancer to the
fullest extent possible.
HOW IT BEGAN
In the early 1900's some cancers were cured if detected
early and treated promptly and properly . But, too few were
diagnosed in time. In 1913,r ecognizing these facts, a group of
doctors and laymen established the American Society For
The Control of Cancer, $10,000w as raised in donations and a
pamphlet "Facts About Cancer" was published for the
public.
After sporadic local public education activities , the Society
concentrated in the early thirties on physicians . With five
medical field representatives the Society worked with
medical schools, particularly the American College of
Surgeons , to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer .
In 1937, with the aid of the Women's Field Army, the Society
launched their first nation-wide public education program .
Eight years later , businessmen , physicians and scientists
agreed on a major expansion of the Society's leadership and
programs. Under new by-laws, the Society became the
American Cancer Society, Inc . This same year, 1945, the
A.C.S. introduced the first large scale , nationwide campaign
for funds. A year later , 1946, the Livingston County Unit of
the A.C.S. was formed. Gladys Potts R.N. was appointed by
the state unit as the commander of the A.C.S. for the county .
The commander carried out much the same duties as the
president does now. Gladys Potts is still a very active
member in the Society, and has been a devoted volunteer for
nearly 30 years.
Through the combined efforts of Mrs . Potts, Charles Sutton
and the Kings Daughters, 375 percent of the goal set by the
state was raised in Livingston County. Mr. Sutton was, at the
time of this crusade officially appointed to the office of
president of the L.C.U. of the A.C.S., a position he held for
many years. From 1946 to the present time the L.C.U. of the
A.C.S. has continued to grow through the combined efforts of
thousands of loyal, hard working volunteers.
THE FIRST PIONEERS
Our report would not be complete without the mention of
some of our most outstanding workers . Starting with Gladys
Potts, the first commander . She has also been chairman of
Volunteer Activities, lay director to the state board for many
years, awards committee at the state level, nominating
committee for the State Board of Directors , and Service and
Education Chairman .
Dr . Charles 0 . Long, at present a Radiologist in Lansing , is
a past president of our local unit. Also, he was Director at
Large for the state , National Board of Directors of the A.C.S.,
and recipient of the Tiffany Award in 1971.
Dr. L. E. (Pat ) May has participated actively to help
achieve the goals set by the society. He has seved as medical
director to the State Board and Medical Chairman of our
local unit for many years. A behind the scenes mansuggesting
and channeling ideas as well as financial con-
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tributions, and was fundamental in organizing the Board of
Health in 1956.
Dr. Thomas Barton, Medical Chairman and Chairman of
Professional Education.
Dr. Robert Wadlund, past president of the L.C.U.
Dr . Harold Hill, Medical Chairman .
Dr . A. J . McGregor, Medical Director to the State Board .
Dr. Roscoe V. Stuber, an outstanding worker at the county
and state level of American Cancer Society. He is also a past
president of the Livingston County Unit, and has served as
chairman of Public Education on the State Board, State
Service Chairman, Medical Director and Medical Chairman,
member of Professional Information and Public Educaffon
Committees. Dr . Stuber has represented the Division- at
National and International Conferences on Cancer, and was
largely responsible for helping to establish the C.P.H .A.
Registry Service at McPherson Community Health Center .
He has also served as the vice president of Michigan Division
to the Cancer Coordinating Committee , and recipient . of the
Tiffany Award in 1974. The Tiffany Award is given to the
outstanding Man Of The Year, and is the highest award given
by the National Cancer Society to the state, upon recommendation
by the state.
Harold Shippy served as president of the L.C.U. for many
years. He also served as vice president , crusade chairman ,
and in various other state offices. Mr. Shippy was instrumental
in organizing the A.C.S. office, located in Howell.
At the time of his death in January, 1975, he was succeeded
by the vice president , Mrs. Dean Park.
Since the population of the county has greatly increased ,
the L.C. U. of the A.C.S. found it impossible to depend entirely
on volunteer workers to carry out the many duties which is
the planned work of the organization .
Anticipating future needs, the unit opened an office in
Howell, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
from 9 to 4 o'clock.
The following services are available to any resident of
Livingston County, and arrangements can be made through
the A.C.S. office in Howell.
The cancer patient will be transported to and from the
place of treatment free of charge, for as many treatments as
are necessary . One dedicated man, Mr. Russell Potts has
driven faithfully for 18 years, and in excess of 43,000 miles.
Dressings are supplied free of charge to any cancer
patient. Various sizes are available . Special dressings made
to order , upon a request of the attending physician . Over a
period of 22 years, 127,000 dressings have been given to
patients in the county.
At.the request of the patient 's physician , some drugs and
medications are provided for the patient.
The loan closet is composed of articles to facilitate the care
and increase the comfort of the cancer patient in the home.
There is no charge for the use of these items . Loans
amounting to 19 pieces were made in 1974-75.
Educational films , programs , literature and speakers are
available to clubs, organizations, schools and employee
groups upon request. Smoking clinics have also oeen held
between 1973 and 1975, and were started by Mrs . Richard
Spence.
Pap tests and breast self examination are offered by the
Livingston County Health Department and the American
Cancer Society . This program was started in 1972 through the
combined efforts of the Health Deparment and the A.C.S.
Clinics were set up in Brighton , Hartland and Howell. To date
57 clinics have been held and 854 patients examined. The
Breast Cancer Detection Center is located in Ann Arbor, and
in 1974-75, the Livingston County Unit received 100 appointments
for local area women. This service is free, and
the examination takes approximately 11/2 hours .
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The Reach to Recovery Program of the American Cancer
Society is a rehabilitation program for women who have had
breast surgery. It is designed to help them meet their
physical, psychological and cosmetic needs . This volunteer is
a woman who has had a mastectomy, carefully selected and
trained , and one who has successfully adjusted to her own
surgery . With the patient's physicians permission , the
volunteer makes a hospital visit a few days after surgery. All
information about the patient is kept in strict confidence , and
there is never any charge for Reach to Recovery services .
Mrs. Emma Shippy is the service chairman this year for the
L.C.U.
When cancer takes the life of someone close to us, the loss
is painful. There is a deep need to strike back at this disease ,
to do something so that others may live. To honor the
departed, many find solace in dedicating a Memorial Gift to
the Cancer Society. This contribution provides a way to
perpetuate the memory of a life that has been lost and offers
a way to help prevent the further suffering of others .
Memorial contributions help in many ways . They support
cancer research, and make possible the service programs
which provide direct and specific help for many of those now
stricken by cancer . They help provide programs of research,
education and service . The Society seeks in this threefold
way to fulfill one of mankind 's greatest hopes-the ultimate
triumph over cancer . Memorial gifts may be sent directly to
the Livingston County Unit of the American Cancer Society
in Howell. This year , $6730.00 was received at the county
level, which is the largest amount the unit has ever received
to date. The memorial fund was established in 1958 by Mrs.
Harry Griffith .
Individuals who have a special interest in cancer research
frequently donate large sums of money to the cancer society.
These contributions bring the moment of final victory over
cancer ever closer.
GIRL SCOUTS
By DARBI STUBER
Girl Scouting was founded in the United States by an
energetic 50 year old widow, Juliette Gordon Low, on March
12, 1912, in Savannah , Georgia . Mrs. Low had spent some
time in England , where she had met the founder of the Boy
Scout movement, Sir Robert Badne-Powell . She became
enthusiastic about the program , and immediately began Girl
Scouting in Savannah upon her return to her home city.
There is evidence that a " lone" Girl Scout troop was in
existence in Howell in the early 1930's. This was led by Mrs.
Clifford Crockett , wife of a Howell dentist. It is not known
when this troop had its beginning . Dorothy Holkins and Ruth
Anne Gatesman were among the girls from this troop.
Girl Scouting came to Howell on a larger scale in the early
months of 1940.A Livingston County Press clipping from that
period states that the first investiture ceremony of the newly
formed Howell Girl Scouts, troops 1, 2, and 3, was held in the
Howell High School auditorium on Tuesday evening , April 2,
1940, at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Robert Squire, president of the Child
Study Club, the local sponsoring group, was in charge of the
meeting. Sixty-seven young ladies were seated on the stage ,
and their Girl Scout hymns , repeated the Scout Promise , and
ten of their number gave a candle lighting ceremony ,
repeating the ten Girl Scout Laws. Mrs . Loren Willis of
Howell spoke to the group on the subject of Scouting . A Girl
Scout flag was presented to Troop 3, who had the greatest
number of parents and guests present. A crowd of 175 was
present to witness this program , which was preceded by a
concert by the girls ' band of the high school, directed by
Keene Stollsteimer .
Among the first troop leaders were the following women:
Miss Helen Maurer , Mrs. Mary Lou Chanter , Miss Adeline
Hyatt , Miss Helen Garner , Miss Van Zee, Miss Alice Hall,
and Miss Gladys Oldenburg . Several of these women were
teachers in the Howell school system and had been encouraged
in the leadership of these troops by John S. Page,
superintendent of the Howell public schools.
A roster from this period lists a large number of these first
scouts by troop. In troop 1 were: Valeita Catrell, Joan
Chaplin , Elizabeth Cooley, Judith Dickerson, Mary Jane
Fredenburg , Pats y Gentry , Patricia Hogan, Mary Lewis,
Dorothy Martin , Carol Pearch , Cora Grace Rogers ,
Rosemary Russo, and Patty Ulrich . Troop 2 listed the
following girls: Luella Atkins, Rose Bowhall, Ellen Brandt,
Rita Brayton , Joan Davis , Doris Goniea, Joyce Horton,
Josephine McIntyre , Barbard McQuillan, Evelyn Misslitz,
Anna Louise Schaible , Ruth Schackenberg, Patricia Smith ,
Betty Wakefield, Muriel Burnham , Allene Masa, Donna Belle
Pattin, and Evelyn Miller .
Troop 3 had the following names listed : Mary Jo Baldwin,
Phyllis Jean Camburn , Rebecca Clark , Elizabeth Ann
Cooper, Patricia Cooper, Mabel Hammell, Phyllis Hugg,
Doris Miller, Beverly Pestle , Helen Russell , Mary Ellen
Schanckenberg , Verla May Van Blaricum , Carolyn
Woodhams, Marlene Guernsey , Marilyn Krause, Mary Ellen
Pasmore , Joyce Teller, Elizabeth McCook, and Dorothy
Less. Several of these girls still live in the Howell area , or
have family in local residence .
In 1940, Girl Scouts were placed in three age levels of
Scouting . Brownie Scouts were the youngest girls from ages 7
through 9. Intermediate Scouting began when a girl was 10
years old, and Senior Scouting was enjoyed by high school
girls . Howell troops were first organized according to
geographical location in the various wards of the city, and all
thre e troops were for the Intermediate range . Brownie troops
had their beginning in 1945, when two troops were organized .
Mrs . Byron Rogers and Mrs . Allan Kramer lead a troop in
the west ward of the city, and Mrs. Lyle Hacker and Mrs.
Loren Willis lead another group in the east ward section . In
1944t here was also a Senior troop under the guidance of Mrs.
Sydney Clark . As of this writing in 1975, Mrs . Clark, Mrs.
Hacker, and Mrs. Rogers still reside in Howell.
Mr. and Mrs . Loren Willis donated to the Scouts the use of a
log cabin located near the rear of their property on Lake
Street. Known as the Scout Cabin, it was the scene of many
troop and adult meetings and special activities . This log
cabin was formerly the property of Mrs. Ralph M. Tubbs,
who built it and filled it with antiques of all kinds during her
lifetime . The Scouts purchased a large weaving loom and
placed it in this cabin , where they were instructed in the
weaving craft by members of the local Weavers Guild, who
donated their time and talent in teaching the girls . At the
time , it was said that Howell was one of only two places in the
United States where Girl Scouts owned a loom of this kind.
Howell Girl Scouts helped the war effort in the 1940s by
collecting old sheets and preparing bandages and dressings
for the American Red Cross in the city building on North
Michigan Avenue. They worked at long tables where they cut
and filled bandages and wrapped them in brown paper. They
also gathered yarn for lap robes . The most memorable war
activity seems to be the grease collection. Grown-up Howell
Scouts, interviewed over thirty years later , smile as they
recall the grease collection made by the girls in their various
wards on the second Tuesday of each month. A newspaper
clipping reports that Mrs. D.O. Davis , chairman of the fatcollecting
salvage program, announged that 3,708 pounds of
waste fat had been collected by the Girl Scouts during the
1944 year . After collection , the grease was presented to adult
volunteers , who strained the fat in preparation for salvage .
Mrs. Sydney Clark laughingly recalls how she almost ruined
her stove during many hours of this straining , as the fat
would often spill and burn on the kitchen range . The girls
earned two red ration points for each pound of fat. These red
points were used to purchase rationed groceries for their
cook-outs and camping trips.
Camping began in the 1940s when several troops would
travel together in the fall to spend a week-end in a large
building owned by the Boy Scouts at Camp Newkirk near
Chelsea . 75 to 80 girls , along with their leaders and mothers ,
would enjoy this camping adventure. They later graduated
no longer periods of camping at Cedar Lake , an established
camp situated on state land in the southern part of the state.
Girls who wanted to experience longer established resident
camping , journeyed to the Irish Hills where the Jackson Girl
Scouts maintained a camp on Wamplers Lake known as
" Camp-0-The-Hills. " As of this writing, Howell girls attend
established , troop, and Day Camp, at Camp Linden , a 460
acre camp owned by the Huron Valley Girl Scout Council,
and located in northern Livingston County on Hogan Road ,
just West of Argentine .
Day Camping began for Howell Scouts in the summer of
1955. Known as " Camp of the Woods," the Day Camp was
situated on the Bachman Farm on Fisher Road on a site
previously used by the Archery Club. Howell District school
buses transported the girls to this site , where up to ten units
for over two-hundred girls brought activities in the out of
doors from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. From 1955 through 1961
this Day Camp was directed by Mrs . Paul Soderberg , who
was affectionately known by the camp name of " Cricket. "
Mrs. Soderberg donated 27 years of volunteer time to the Girl
Scout program , serving in Wyandott , Michigan , and
Burlington , Iowa, before she came to Howell. In addition to
her Day Camp activities , " Cricket " was adult training
chairman for the area for many years , training leaders from
other communities as well as in Howell.
These seven years of Day Camp saw an expansion of adult
participation in Howell. Each of the ten units had three
leaders . In addition , there was an assistant director, craft
personnel , a camp nurse , and supervisors of the "Chipmunks
," a unit of the little children of staff volunteers . There
was also a unit of older boys known as the ''Handymen ,'' sons
of the staff , aged eight to eleven, who had the honor of
pumping water into large milk cans and bringing them to the
various units in red wagons . One leader recalls , "there was
such a good feeling among the staff that the children couldn' t
help but have a good time. "
Day Camp was later moved to the Howell Park under the
direction of Mrs . Kenneth Huff. The Howell Gun Club also let
the Scouts use its property south of town for camping activities
under the direction of Mrs. Ralph Anderson . During
recent years , Howell Scouts have joined girls from six other
Livingston County communities at a county-wide Day Camp
in a special area of Camp Linden in northern Livingston
County. Adults from all communities in the county volunteer
to direct and work at this annual activity . Howell women who
have directed this county-wide Day Camp are Mrs. Robert
Matthews , Mrs. Keigh Main, Mrs. Donald Field and Mrs.
Dale Burch . They are all still residents of the Howell community
. From the very beginning of Day Camping , all personnel
have been volunteers who never received salary for
their efforts . It has been a completel y volunteer operation .
Small fees charged the girls were used for crafts and food.
The first Girl Scout cookie sale madeanappearance in 1943.
A tradition was begun, that all profits made from cookie
sales would be used for camping purposes . This continues to
the present , where the troops use their share of the profits for
camping activities and the Council profit is used to maintain
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camp grounds and to establish "camperships" to aid girls in
camp attendance.
On January 1, 1958, the Howell Girl Scout Council joined
with neighboring community councils in the area to create
one large organization known as the Huron Valley Girl Scout
Council with its headquarter office in Ypsilanti. On March 1,
1958, Mrs. Lawrence Dunham, Howell Council President,
was among the council presidents who signed the official
registration form to be sent to the national Girl Scout
organization for the incorporation of the new Huron Valley
Council. In May 1958, Mrs. Dunham was elected as the 2nd
Vice-President of this newly formed council. She also served
on the council board later as its Secretary . Mrs. Dunham was
the Chairman of the site committee that located the land for
Camp Linden prior to its purchase. Mr. Donald MacDonald of
Howell also served on this committee . At the annual Council
meeting in March of 1974, Mrs. Dunham participated in the
burning of the Camp Linden mortgage . She was honored at
that time by the Council by receiving the "Best Friend of
Scouting" award.
The Huron Valley Council includes troops in Washtenaw
and Livingston counties , northern Monroe county and
western Wayne county. In 1968 there was a structure change
in the council, which divided it into seven area associations.
All of Livingston County was designated as an Area . Mrs.
Roscoe Stuber of Howell was the first Livingston County
Area Association Chairman, a position she held for six years .
The chairman is now Mrs. John Fisher of Hamburg.
Since the formation of the Huron Valley Council, six Howell
residents have been among those persons who were elected
to represent Livingston County of the Council Board . Mr.
Donald Misslitz served as Council Treasurer. Mrs. Lawrence
Dunham , Mrs. Donald Rhodes, Mrs. Paul Soderberg , Mrs.
Roscoe Stuber and Mrs . James Young served as board
members. Mrs . Young is presently on the board.
In 1962, the national Girl Scout organization celebrated its
50th anniversary . In Howell there was a pageant in
recognition of this event. The girls also distributed golden
yellow tulip bulbs to Howell residents in the fall of 1961, so
that when the scouts observed their anniversary on March 12,
1962, the next spring, there would be a sea of golden blooms in
Howell gardens . Mrs . Donald Murray, long an active
volunteer in Howell scouting, supervised girls who planted
these bulbs in the garden surrounding the fountain on the
Carnegie Library lawn. For some years thereafter , Girl
Scout troops took turns planting an annual bed in this garden
site.
In 1962, the national organization made a program change ,
creating four age levels, which continues to the present.
Brownie Scouts are the youngest, going from the 1st through
the 3rd grades. Junior 8couts are 4th, 5th and 6th graders,
while Cadette Scouts range from the 7th through the 9th
grades . Senior Scouts are 10th, 11th and 12th graders .
As of this writing in 1975, thirty-five years after Girl
Scouting came to Howell, we see the original three troops
grown to twenty-eight troops of girls, with over one-hundred
adult volunteers. Six-hundred and seven girls had been
associated with the movement in the past year,-s time. The
girls and adults still wear the same trefoil pin, reminding
them of a three-fold promise of service to God, Country, and
Mankind, and they strive to live by the ten parts of the Law.
In the preamble to the Girl Scout constitution it is s.tated
thats scouting "is dedicated to the purpose of inspiring girls
w.ith the highest ideals of character , conduct, patriotism, and
service that they may become happy and resourceful
citizens ." Through thirty-five years of scouting in Howell,
many lives have been affected by this resolution .
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GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB
By VOLA HUTSON
The Good Neighborhood Club began in the Benedict School
District in 1923.A t first it was a get-together for the women to
spend an afternoon together . Some of the original members
were Anna Milet, Frances Seim (both still active members ),
Grace Neuman , Lily Neuman, Mrs. Milet, Mae Fishbeck ,
Grace Knapp and Mary Haller .
At first each member would take some hand work of her
own to do, and as they worked they visited. The hostess would
serve a lunch of cookies or cake or pie and beverage . Later on
they played a game called " Bunko." The dues were 5 cents
for each meeting .
Sometime after 1926 some members of the Barnard School
District were invited to join, but the club was to be restricted
to only Genoa Township residents . Evelyn Strebbing joined
the group in 1926 and shortly after that Hattie Nixon, Gladys
Latson , Hattie Lounsbery and Gladys Russell became
members. Many joined the group and later moved away, but
the club continued 011. This club has been continuously active
for fifty-two years and therefore, the names of some of the
deceased and those who have moved away should be listed
here . Here is a long list of the wonderful people who have
made the Good Neighborhood Club such a success : Mrs.
O'Leary , Helen Gregor , Marie Anderson, Ina Beattie, Mabel
Burtch, Louisa Irey, Agnes Rancour, Mrs . Melton, Ila
Haack , Eva Chubb, Mildred Willis, Gladys Rider , Mayme
Russell , Helen Dyce, Mae Coyle, Maude Haller , Flora
Hutson, Rhea Kuhns, Frances Faucher, Marion Rickett ,
Ruth Wilmer , Gale Nixon, Mary Sharp , Hula Doenges,
Andrea Grostic, Betty Brown, Judy Abend, Mrs . Thompson,
Thora Phlor , Margaret Starkey , Mrs . Fredericks, Irene
Pasmore , Mildred Knapp, Mrs. Griesover and Delia White.
In 1937 the group made friendship quilts . Each member
made a quilt block for the hostess and embroidered her own
name on it, therefore when each person entertained she
would receive enough personal blocks to have a quilt .
Later in the history of the club the men were invited to an
evening party , and that is where the card playing really
began , 500 was the popular card game at that time , so they
chose that game and the members still meet and play 500
about twice a month from fall until spring . In those days the
hostess would supply an inexpensive gift for first prize and
" boobie" for both men and women who had high and low
scores . Later that idea was given up and now we play "just
for fun." The meetings are now held on Saturday afternoons.
The hostess supplies beverage and jello and everyone else
takes sandwiches . One person takes a cake to be served with
the jello.
This club has spent many, many happy hours together and
always have a wonderful time . The list of members at
present include: Anna Milet, Frances Seim, Evelyn Strebbing,
Hattie Lounsbery, Elvira Zimmerman , Bessie Hammell,
Gladys Latson , Mary Hammell, Hazen Latson , Nellie
Latson , Alice Latson, Doug Deyell , Gladys Deyell, Mabel
Starkey, Joe Starkey , Hattie Morrison , Hattie Nixon, Clark
Nixon, Vola Hutson and Larry Hutson.
HOWELL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN'S CLUB
By PAULINE LAVERY
The Howell Business and Professional Women's Club was
organized in 1964, May 9th with 44 members . Edna C. Milford
was elected charter president.
The purpose of the Business and Professional Women'~-
Club is to elevate the standards for women in business and
the professions, to promote the interests of business and
professional women, and to bring about a spirit of
cooperation among B.P.W. women through education along
lines of industrial , scientific and vocational activities.
The National Federation of Business and Professional
Women's Club was organized in July, 1919. There is close to
200,000 members now in 50 states, District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.
The National Federation is a member country of the
International Federation of Business and Professional
Women's Club.
Programs and projects are developed within three areas
which are of interest to career women. Personal development
, civic participation, and world affairs.
Membership in the B.P.W. includes a cancer insurance
which two Howell members have benefitted from.
Some of our projects have been helping Howell girls with
scholarships for further education. Also donating to a kidney
machine, donating to a cancer fund, donating to Howell
charities, donating to B.P.W. National Scholarship Funds,
donating to Howell Carnegie Library for educational books.
President for 1975 and 1976 is Margaret Alger, 719 Spring
Street, Howell, Mich.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
UNION LODGE NO. 100
By GLENN E. SMITH
Prior to 1912 when the Union Lodge was organized , there
were two lodges in existence. When they merged to the Union
Lodge, Frank Hamburger, Grand Master and Fred Rogers,
Grand Secretary instituted the Union Lodge on the 20th day
of January , 1912.
Charter members include: T. B. Knapp, H.D. Bush, J. W.
Mynahan, H. Peterson, A.L. Day, W.L. Lyons, W.E. Musson,
F. Wilson, L.W. Hovey, A. Brown, D.D. Neely, C.
Weimeister.
The object of this lodge is to visit the sick, relieve the
distress , educate the orphans , bury the dead and place
memorial flags on deceased members graves .
Present Noble Grand is Allen V. Clark .
WORLD WAR I BARRACKS
AND AUXILIARY
By CHRYSTAL HANDY
World War I Barracks and Auxiliary No. 3534 Howell,
Mich. was organized on April 22, 1971 by Guy and Nellie
Poppy of Barracks and Auxiliary No. 49, Pontiac. Installing
officers were Harold and Madelyn Sessions of Barracks and
Auxiliary No. 235, Lansing . Howard Newberry was the first
Commander and Mildred Perkins was the first presdient.
This is a national organization for the purpose of binding
together all members of World War I to assist and protect the
needs of these Veterans and their families and to see that
laws are enacted for their benefit and justice . Also to form a
lasting friendship.
Charters were issued and Howard Newberry made the
frames for the Charters of both Barracks and Auxiliary.
James and Esther McLaren donated the black drapes for the
Charters. Also Mr. and Mrs. McLaren bought and donated
the American flags for both groups . Mr. and Mrs . Clayton
Price donated the Holy Bible for the Barracks, and Isabelle
Dunsmore donated the Auxiliary Bible. Florence McLeod
and Ella Cavan donated the Auxiliary Alter Cloth and Violet
Bitner presented the Auxiliary an electric can opener for
their kitchen.
Ma'ly projects were used to earn money (Selling Apple
Blossoms, bazaars , rummage sales , napkins and breakfast
trays). This money is used for many welfare benefits
(Donations have been made to several Veterans Hospitals, to
McPherson Hospital, and to the Pageant of Drums ; for
Christmas baskets to needy veterans, flags to mark the
graves of W.W.I. Veterans, and recently a wheel chair and
walkP.r were purchased for use of W.W.I. Veterans and
fa1.1ilies.
Members of the Barracks participated in the presentation
of an American Flag and a Michigan Flag to the Circuit
Court of Livingston County. We have had four 50th wedding
anniversaries and have been honored and entertained by the
Brighton Legion Post at their annual birthday dinner for the
past three years. Clifford and Mildred Perkins were honored
by being elected as 5th District Commander and President
respectively for 1974a nd 1975.O ur organization has been host
to the 5th District meeting in 1974 and 1975 at the Recreation
Center in Howell.
We have had 10 deaths in the Barracks and two in the
Auxiliary, but in spite of the decrease in membership , we are
forging ahead this year under the leadership of our new officers
with Alden Merrill as Commander and Irene Price as
Auxiliary President for the good of our country as members
of World War I.
Will Terhune displays a big grin and a big trophy presented to him
and the city band after their performance at the State Fair.
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Pictures taken in 1895 of the secret
initiation rites of the Maccabees.
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owell Celebrates War Victory
World War D
By MRS. FLORENCE COOK
The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941
precipitated the entry of the U.S. into World War II. That
day , which will live in infamy, began the all-out transition
from the peace to the war basis . I remember that several
residents of Hartland Twp. had been gathered in the Hartland
Fire Hall the evening before, completing a fall project
of mattress-making from government-supplied "surplus"
cotton. How unaware we were of the imminence of the forboding
announcement! A few days later the Axis powers
declared war on the U.S.
Of course America was unprepared for war-now a twofront
war, but slowly at first , then with gathering momentum
it geared itself for the task . Because time was short and it
was desired to sacrifice no more lives than necessary we
Greetings
Having submitted yourself to a local board composed of your
neighbors for the purpose of determining your availability for
training and service in the land or naval forces of the United States,
you are hereby notified that you have now been selected for training
and service therein. This local board will furnish transportation to an
induction station . You will ther.e be examined , and , if accepted . .. ,
you will then be inducted into the land or naval forces. If you are
employed, you should advise your employer of this notice .. . Your
employer can then be prepared to replace you if accepted, or to
continue your employment if you are rejected . Willful failure to report
promptly to this local board at the hour and on the day named .. . is a
violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as
amended , and subjects the violator to fine and imprisonment .
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spent recklessly to provide the supplies and machinery of
war.
The Draft Board of Livingston County consisted of three
men at any one time. They served without pay, and credit is
due each one. Among those who served , these names come to
mind: Sam Platt, Bert Hoff, and Russell Woodruff-original
three ; others, Guy Butler, Frank Durfee, and Bob Graham .
The Selective Service was located in an office at 110½ N.
Michigan , Howell, in quarters now occupied by Attorney
Wilfred Erwin. It later moved to rooms ·above the former
bank building on the south side of W. Grand River in the
vicinity of the present D & C store. Lyle Pettibone was Chief
Clerk, initially , succeeded by Miss Elizabeth Griffith. The
Receptionist was Gladys (Jones ) Heeg. The responsibility of
this Service was to prepare a list of 25, 50, or even 100 elligible
draftees ready to answer the calls which came once or twice
a month as manpower quotas were required of Livingston
County.
On those mornings when the drafted young men had to
report for their physicals in Detroit , one to three large
Greyhound buses would be lined up on N. Mich. across from
City Hall at 5 o-clock in the morning. The Selective Service
personnel had to meet the buses there, and check the lists as
the men boarded the buses . It was a time of activity , excitement
, and poignancy of feelings as partings took place .
Another vital agency of WW II was the American Red
Cross. Livingston County had the following efficient personnel
: Chr.-Mrs. Olive Merithew, Home Service-Supt. John
Page , Production-Mrs. Harry Huntington , Blood Program-
Mrs . John Page and Helen Bauer .
In order to insure supplies for our fighting men rationing
was necessary . Chester Bowles was the National Head of this
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Joe Harris ' Diamond Dot on M-59 . This is the original building and
all the people in that line have meat stamps in their hand, hoping to
get a little rationed meat.
department. The local OPA office was housed on W. Grand
River in the area recently vacated by Goodnow's Store, and
at one time the location of Young's Motor Sales. Tom
Faussett was appointed to have charge of the office of
rationing . Mrs. Florence Burkhart and others assisted in the
office.
The schools of the county served as distribution centers
initially, the teachers issuing the ration books which contained
stamps for gas , fuel oil, tires , sugar , flour, coffee,
meat , butter , and footwear . These books were dealt out
according to the number of people in the family household.
Tokens, small red or blue disks, were also issued by OP A,
and were valued at one point each towards the purchase of
rationed articles .
At times there were definite periods , e.g., Aug. 27 to Oct.
13, in which low-priced men's or women's shoes were sold
ration-free . The shoes had to have been manufactured before
Mar . 1, 1944 and retail for $3.50 a pr . or less. For these, application
had to be filed with OPA district offices between
Aug. 10 and Sept. 8.
Scarce articles were sewing machines , vaccuum cleaners,
domestic washing machines , electric irons and alarm clocks.
Newsprint shortage was a war-time problem . Light-colored
corn syrup or honey was suggested to replace 1 / 3 to ½ of
sugar used in canning .
Tires were rationed with farm tractor and implement tires
given first consideration . Priorities were also given to war
plant employees and others . Lumber was limited to
emergenc y repair lumber applied for at the local War
Production field office.
Wool topcoats , overcoats , dresses and worsted suits were
scarce due to wartime control of such fabrics. Howell car
dealers urged that every existing car had to be kept in service
and carefull y maintained as strict priority rationing was
necessary to industry-wide manufacturing quotas . Speeds
faster than 35 miles an hour on Michigan trunkline highways
were not legal until after Aug. 21, 1945, the date the state's
wartime speed limit was lifted officially. It was a later date
before faster speeds became effective on county roads . There ·
was warning to have consideration of the worn tires and the
mechanical defects of cars driven much beyond mileages for
which they were intended. New cars were not available as
automobile factories had been tooled for providing critical
war equipment.
Rationing and shortages of WW II are pointed up in this
article "As the Civilian Sees Peace ," taken from the Detroit
News at the close of the war :
" No more gas coupons .. . no more snippy clerks ... no
more fuel oil coupons .. . no more impudent clerks . . . no
more WLB .. . no more under-the-counter cigarets ... no
more tire rationing . .. no more tin can flattening . .. no more
OPA . . . no more haughty clerks . .. no more black market
nylons ... no more waiting in line for everything you buy ...
no more shoe coupons ... no more arrogant parking lot attendants
... no more shortages of soap chips . . . no more
apple butter substitute for butter ... no more sugar shortage
... no more WMC ... no more fish substitute for steaks ... no
more fresh clerks ... no more WPB . . . no more housing
shortage . . . no more egg shortage . . . no more cotton
shortage ... no more girdle shortage .. . no more paper
shortage, including grocery bags . . . no more scalping of
railroad tickets ... no more candy shortage .. . no more golf
ball shortage ... no more film shortage .. . no more sixmonth
watch repair jobs ... no more shortage of taxicabs ...
no more shortage of toilet soap."
With the shut down of trade with the Far East , the natural
rubber supply was cut back , and " synthetic " rubber was
used for footwear, tires , etc. Fenced-in collection depots for
used rubber were set up. One such was located in the Howell
Co-op Mill area . It was soon heaped high-even rubber baby
dolls were donated to the "cause. "
Discard aluminum was placed in deposit centers also, and
paper drives were carried on. A playground swing set was
bought with money raised by the Rumsey School children
during their paper drive .
After years of skimping on sugar, one lady in our neigh-
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The American Legion Veterans place a wreath on the Roll of Honor of Livingston County soldiers during the Memorial Day Parade , 1946.
WORLD WAR II Trevor Jones Orvin L . Vyse
1941-1945 Earl J . Keyes Frederick J. Waterbury
Paul A. Kirby Chas . Sherman Welcker
William M . Austin Joe Lesiak Galen J . Westmoreland
Earl Barrett Frank J . Kelly Lawrence A . Zizka
Marvin R . Beals Merlyn J . Mccleer Frank C. Newland
Earl J . Berquist Orual J . McDaniels
Floyd I. Bleasdell Clare Francis Mc Keener KOREAN WAR
Kenneth E . Bleasdell Donald E . Miller
Homer E. Boeve Michael Mizine James Humphries
Maurice G. Boutell Melbourne K . Morgan Gordon A. Sheeks
Kenneth C. Brayton Robert E . L . Morlan Victor Atwell
Fred W. Brockway William H . Noel Robert Derby
Richard E. Buckley Ernest J. Palmer Charles Culver
Jack C. Button Duane C. Parker George H . Wines
Walter R. Carmack Otto M . Peckins Wade McCook
Ronald G. Cheney Harold Dale Peterson Robert L . Howe
Edgar S. Clinton Edward J . Pittinger Frank W . Shaffier
E. Allen Collacott F. Robert Pless Edward Howell
John A . Crofoot Wayne K . Plummer Donald C. Parker
Max L. Crownhart Orvell Puckett Martin E . Cranston
Joyce E . Curtis Harold J. Raymond Milton Harrison
Belmont D . Davenport Lloyd C. Reader Richard Strong
Charles 0 . Dean William F . Richmond James Newland
Wesley B. Dildine Andrew B. Roberts
Frederick H. Dillingham Kenneth B. Rohrabacher VIETNAM WAR
John R. Dillon Edwin E . Rosser
Chas . Disbrow ( Kunahl Edward T . Saroski Lee Francis Jones
Robert C. Doherr Francis S. Scheffer Max Edward Nimphie, Jr .
Lawrence 0. Eddy Wilson Scott William Franklin Diggs
Frank Elliott, Jr . Gordon L. Sessions John E. Mcie
Wayne Farrell Frederick N . Singer Robert Lee Walker, Jr .
Charles E. Frush T . A. Smail John L. Hasford
Francis Gaffney Frank Smith Maurice John Biehn
Clare L. Gilmore Harold V. Smith , Jr . John Martin Donohue
Theodore H . Hackenberg Eugene W . Soper James M. Loso
Homer Harrington Lawrence R . Steinacker William Marvin Light
Glen P. Haskins Victor E . Szymanski Brent Britten Nauss
Charles Hoag Ernest L . Tester Dennis Paul Lindsey
Ralph A. Holmes George E . Thomas Donald A . R . Demond
Harry W. Isham John A . Vanwinkle
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borhood with the help of friends , saved up enough sugar to
make and frost four cakes , white , yellow, chocolate , and
carmel. She invited the neighbors in for the evening, and
what a treat it was to see and taste those delicious cakes after
having gone without so long. Bananas was another article
that were really appreciated when they came back on the
market.
Steel scrap drives were an important source of war
material. Volunteers from Howell went around to the farms
to pick up discarded steel. This was brought in to town and
piled on the west side of the former Citizens Building, east of
the Court House. Many employees and agents of Citizens
were inducted into service or war related industry jobs .
Many factories converted to war plants , and shops began to
make war materials. Men and women from Livingston
County drove to Ypsilanti to work in the Bomber Plant.
Manufacturing plants received citations from time to time
for continued excellence in war production . In 1944 the UAWCIO
in a Grand Rapids Convention took action to reaffirm
their no-strike pledge for the duration of hostilities .
Commercial food lockers started up business. John Vogt
had one in Fowlerville and in Howell on the corner of Sibley
and McCarthy in an old church building . Joe Harris and Tom
Bain also made butchering and locker service available, and
helped to alleviate meat shortages .
As three-fourths of the world faced starvation the work of
the general farmer was more important than at any
peacetime . The farmer was destined to help the world but
who would help the farmer ? The hired man had not yet come
marching home. In Livingston County W.N. Isbell acted as
emergenc y farm labor assistant , bringing together Wartime
Victory Farm Volunteers from the city, and farmers who
needed such a boon.
" No. 1 war plants of World War II" is what the Master of
the Michigan State Grange called the farms , which broke all
former food production records , dispite lack of equipment ,
and manpower shortages due to farm boy enlistments. The
farmer s never struck , they never hoarded labor , and they
never called it quits . Men along in years , girls and women did
their part to see that there was good for their fighting men
and their allies- armed forces first and the civilians had
their rationed shares .
Vacant lots and available areas were plowed for victory
The Veterans organization presents a check to Paul Bennett ( left)
to pay for the Little League field .
gardens. VICTORY GARDEN COMMI'ITEES reported to
the STATE VICTORY GARDEN HEADQUARTERS.
Over 100 one-room schools, as well as city and village
schools, were scattered over Livingston County during World
War II days . Teacher shortages became acute here as
elsewhere , and former teachers by the score , were pressed
back into service and issued War Emergency Certificates .
These were contingent on credits to be earned by the
teachers taking "refresher course s" at the universities , and
later extension courses and summer school work . As did the
farmers , these dedicated people gave willingly of their time
and talent to challenge the minds of the youth in these years
of crisis . Teachers encouraged children to plant VICTORY
GARDENS and issued certificates to those who carried their
projects to completion . They sold Saving Stamps to pupils
which accumulated to War Savings Bonds. JR . RED CROSS
groups were organized , and various projects undertaken . In
our school the girls pieced a 9-patch quilt to be sent to an
army hospital. Country children gathered hundreds of bags
of milk weed pods to be used in life jackets .
Genuine heartfelt love of country stirred our school young
folk as they sang American Songs for Victory , compiled by
the Committee on Wartime Civic Music of the Michigan
Council of Defense for use in schools, clubs and civic groups .
Copies were distributed by the University of Michigan in
1943. The Hartland Area Schools Music Director , Mrs . Inez
Musson inspired the children in singing " The Caisson Song,"
" The Marines Hymn," " The Army Air Corps," "Anchors
Aweigh," "The White Cliffs of Dover " and " A Song of
Peace " to the tune of Finlandia .
These Emergency teachers and the other teachers of that
period did their own janitor work, had charge of arranging
for a hot dish lunch each day ( willingly supplied by the
parents ), organized the sports , dispersed the library books,
handled recess duty , and planned parties and programs .
There were no negotiations or strikes .
During the war years aviation in Howell steadil y outgre w
its present airport of that time , and looked ahead to a new
airport and an increase in flying with the air-minded war
veterans returning as potential pilots.
In the Postal Department there were regulations for
overseas mail for members of the armed forces . The time for
mailing Yuletide packages (marked Christmas Parce l) was
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designated from September 15 to October 15, and were not to
exceed five pounds in weight or fifteen inches in length. Not
more than one Christmas parcel could be accepted in any one
week when sent by or on behalf of the same person to or for
the same addressee.
Telephones were not readily available to fill civilian orders
, as the factories were workihg practically full time on
the communication needs of the fighters in the two theaters
of war. Civilians were requested to leave long distance from
7:00-10:00 p.m. for the service men.
Also to help the morale of our fighting men, civilians were
urged to keep up a flow of letters. Brave wives and mothers
formed Service' Wives Clubs, Blue Star Mothers and Gold
Star Mothers groups . Some of these met regularly to encourage
one another. Women knitted sweaters , made knitted
blocks for blankets , and other woolen articles to keep the
soldiers warm.
At least seven WAR LOAN DRIVES were made in the U.S.
to provide our men with the machinery and supplies of war.
The national goal in the 3rd was 15 billion. When the 5th was
launched the goal was 16 billion. Of this, Michigan's share
was 526 million, 86 million over the 4th WAR LOAN. Volunteers
called Gallants agreed to sell a minimum of $1000 E
series Bonds. Kits for Gallants were distributed . Your author
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canvassed her community during one of these drives , and
found people most patriotic to the Cause. One purchaser met
with misfortune a few years later , and the only means of
identification on his body was the receip he had been given at
the time of his WAR BOND purchase . Livingston County was
the first county in the state to achieve its Seventh WAR
LOAN DRIVE, and Fowlerville High School was first in the
state to pass its WAR BOND quota in that Drive .
Livingston County, as well as the rest of the state accumulated
a backlog of needed road projects as a result of
restrictions preventing replacements during the war period.
The War Production Board postponed or rejected public
works programs because necessary material was critical for
war purposes .
Young ladies joined the SPARS (Marines ), WAACS ) Army ,
WAFS (Air Force ), WAVES (Navy), or took Cadet Nurse
Training at Sparrow Hospital , Lansing . Nurses were
recruited from those who were classified as available by the
procurement and assignment service of the War Manpower
Commission. Doctors from this community were drafted into
war service , and gave valiantly of their ability .
The local churches , pastors and congregations were the
heartbeat of the community as they backed up their boys
with their prayers , letters and packages . It was a highlight to
General McArthur arrives in town on his way to Washington D.C.
and rides in a parade through town with Mayor Charles Sutton . "Old
Soldiers Never Die."
have one of our servicemen home on furlough because our
minister would ask him to carry the flag to the center front as
the people stood, and then lead them in the pledge of
allegiance . How proud we were of each one!
As the war wore on, and the tragic casualty lists reappeared
in our weekly paper, Ben Thomas, County
Agricultural Agent, stepped forward with a concrete plan to
immortalize the memory of our heroic dead . It was he who
drew up the plans for the impressive gleaming white wooden
arch memorial which stood for a time on the Court House
lawn. A few years later the County Board of Supervisors
appointed Charles Sutton and Willis Lyons to arrange to
replace this with a lasting engraved monument , the details
for which were handled by Harold Chubb. Other memorial
lists were located in cities of the county. Hartland 's was at
the site of the Music Hall.
OUTSTANDING DATES OF WW II
8 Sept. 1943-The Italians surrendered , and were told by
the Commander-in-chief of the Allied Force: " ... all Italians
who assist in the fight against the Germans will have the
support of the United Nations ."
6 June 1944 (D-Day)-American, British and Canadian
forces landed by daylight in massive strength on the Normandy
coast of France , and sped inland from quickly
established beachheads . Gen. D.D. Eisenhower told his
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Erecting the monument on the courthouse lawn to the Veterans of
WWII .
troops this grand assault must bring " nothing less than full
victory ."
Pres. Roosevelt went on the air at 10:00 p.m. with the hope
that the nation would join him in the prayer he had written
for victory for the Allied forces of liberation in their invasion
of Hitler 's fortress Europe .
Gov. Kelly said , " The hour has arrived to test our hearts ..
Separated from our sons by thousands of miles of land and
water, we can . . . give them comfort . . . by uniting in prayer s
for their safety and success ... " He ordered air raid sirens
sounded and church bells rung to call citizens to a moment of
silence at 10:00 a.m.
8 May 1945 (VE-Day)-It was a quiet holiday , and a time of
thankfullness rather than hilarit y. It marked the lifting of the
" brownout ," a fuel saving wartime measure imposed
several months before. Pres . Truman said in his radio
proclamation ; (this date was also the president 's 61st birthday
) " The Allied armies , through sacrifice and devotion
and with God's help, have won from Germany a final and
unconditional surrender . The western world has been freed
of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned
the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon
millions of freeborn men. They have violated their churches ,
destroyed their homes, corrupted their children, and murdered
their loved ones . . . Much remains to be done. The
victory won in the west must now be won in the east. "
14 Aug. 1945 (V-J Day)-Pres . Truman finished reading of
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Japan's capitulation, at his press conference . He dropped his
voice and said very softly, "That 's all. " Mrs. Martha
Truman , 93-year-old mother of the president, 30 minutes
after he had announced the surrender and then called her
afterwards said , " I'm glad Harry decided to end the war .
He's no slow person . He gets where he's going in short order
."
General of the Army Douglas A. MacArthur , who told the
Filipinos " I will return " and did it, was appointed Supreme
Allied Commander for the occupation of Japan .
The war was over 3 years , 8 months, and 7 days since the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
14 Aug. 1945-Howell 's Victory Celebration-Seconds after
Pres . Truman 's official statement at 7:00 p.m. of the war 's
end, Howell citizens put on an unparalleled noise-making
demonstration . Sirens , horns, guns, bells, firecrackers , tin
cans tied to car bumpers and anything else to produce noise
was heard and the racket continued far into the night.
15 Aug. 1945- " Many people expressed amazement at the
scope of the victory celebration , saying it was beyond
anything they ever expected . It was big, it was adequate , and
it was well organized ." It had been planned for monthscomplete
to the last detail. Directors of the Howell Bd. of
Commerce had asked Rev. Pailthorpe to be chairman .
Because he had planned, delegated tasks, etc ., all went well,
even though the Rev. was out of town on the big day .
The parade was the longest, 10 blocks long, and the best
ever seen up to that time . Assisting Mr. Stollsteimer and Mr.
Charles Sutton at the parade were Frank Bush in charge of
marching units , E .L. Millis in charge of floats , and Noel
Burnham of other details .
Marching groups included : Spanish-American War
Veterans , Service men of WW II, Blue Star Mothers , Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Veterans of Foreign Wars .
Floats : Statue of Liverty Float-Citizens , Red Cross, Blue
Star Mothers, Service Wives, Youth Center , Clowns & Uncle
Sam-Howell Motors, Tractor & wagon with a goat
representing Tojo-Iosco-Marion Farmers, Children of
Allied Nations-Sanatorium, Waldenwoods Vocal Music
Camp Singers on wagon, Baptist Church bus, Logan & Edna
Papworth-scrap salvage truck , Ford Garage-decorated
truck , Michigan Bell- service truck.
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Mounted riders: T.J . Kizer farm, George Seaman place ,
Harris Diamond Dot Ranch , George Lucas farm , Tyler
Brogan 's son.
Clowns: On bicycles-Vern Cole, Bert Easton , and Arthur
Schauer. Howell Electric Motors-Chas . Bonny, Kernie and
Delores King, Betty and Billy Parks , Dick and Joan Switzer,
Joan and Paul Miller , Walter Squire , Cleon Hartwell and
daughter , Luther Spalding, Roy Latson , Jim Ricketts ,
Bernice Wiley, Earl Sharpe (as a lady ), and C.H. Zuck was
there with his accordion .
Five Civil Air Patrol planes flew overhead during the
parade , piloted by Joe Grostic, Dean Park , Harry Bartche ,
Sherman Haller , and Lloyd Beurmann .
After the parade a large crowd gathered on the Court
House lawn for a program with Charles Sutton as chairman .
Howell wartime Mayor Berthold Woodhams was called on,
and spoke of this day as one of thanksgiving , gratitude , and
dedication . Two numbers were heard from the 120-voice
chorus of Waldenwoods Vocal Camp, directed by Dr . Kenneth
Westerman . Rev . Fr . Day of St. Joseph 's Catholic
Church gave an inspiring address, and closed with a tribute
to the price of victory paid in the blood and courage of those
who had fought to preserve what Americans know to be right.
The closing program feature was the Lord 's Prayer .
Evening services were held at the Walnut St. Methodist ,
the Lutheran, and the St. Joseph's Churches. In one of these
services Dr . Noble and Rev . W.W . Clay were the speakers .
At 9:00 p.m. a huge bonfire took place at the Howell City
Park, followed by a generous display of fireworks, mostly
ignited by Karl Welker. Closing feature of this memorable
day was a free dance at St. Joseph Hall, music by the Finlan
orchestra .
The public spirit , patience, and fairness of the official,
professional , and business people of Howell and surrounding
communities , did much to make those trying war years
bearable . They showed personal interest in their customers
and patrons. The County Press was invaluable .
May we all, as we reflect on WW II, mark well the
statement quoted by Fr . Day in his address that final afternoon
, "Do not forget that eternal vigilance is the price of
freedom. "
One of the floats in the V.J . day parade, 1946.
The old St. Joseph Church and Rectory on Grand River .
Churches
ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH HISTORY
By FATHER GILBERT 0. RAHRIG, MRS . GERALD
JONES, MRS. JAMES E. COLBERT
The beginnings of Catholicism in Howell reaches back to
1836, '37, or '38. The first priest to visit Howell for Mass seems
to have been Father Patrick O'Kelly, who was stationed first
at Northfield then Green Oak and finally Genoa.
During the days of his ministry in Livingston County,
Father O'Kelly visited among a number of Irish families then
living in Howell where Mass was said in private homes .
No attempt at church building was made, however , until
1878w hen Father James Daugherty of Brighton purchased in
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Churches
Coordinator
Golda Ryan . Birthplace·Hermondale,
Missouri . Birthdate.Nov . 2, 1934. Maiden
name.Golda Marie Frazer.
Denomination.catholic . She attended
school at Holland, Missouri for eleven
years and a 1953 graduate of Howell High
School. Worked for Michigan Bell's
manual office as Switchboard Operator,
Eagers Restaurant and Reuland Electric
Company . Married Robert Clarence
Ryan, native of the Howell area in 1956.
Present occupation, housewife, and
mother of two children, Robert Joseph
Ryan and Patti Shawn Ryan. Volunteer
worker for school, church, Cancer
Society, March of Dimes and Livingston
County Respect for Life Committee.
August 1878, the first church site at the corner of Fowler and
East Grand River and began the construction of St. Joseph
Church . Howell remained a mission of Brighton until Father
James Gore was transferred to it from Williamston in 1888 to
become the first resident pastor.
Father James Gore was succeeded by Fathers John Ryan ,
George Clarson , Hugh McCarthy , James Thornton , Geroge
McDace, John Crowe, Herman Fedewa , John Ralph Day ,
Leo Kalinowski , Joseph E. Wieber and the present pastor,
Gilbert 0 . Rahrig .
Among noteworthy achievements of the parish , in chronological
order , is first , the construction of the first rectory
under the administration of Father John Ryan. Father Ryan
was here from 1889 to 1898.
Under the direction of Father Hugh McCarthy the first
church was enlarged to extend the sanctuary and sacristies .
This reconstruction was completed between 1900 and 1905.
Father James Tholnton who was pastor from 1905 to 1916
installed a new heating system in the church and rectory . It
was during the pastorate of Father John Crowe that the
church commemorated its Golden Jubilee .
On Sunday, December 14, 1941, His Excellency , the Most
Reverend Joseph H. Albers , Bishop of the Diocese of
Lansing , came to Howell for the blessing of the first school
and convent. Father Fedewa was pastor at that time . During
the pastorate of Father Day, a new parish site was purchased
and the present ten room school was built. Also during this
time , the parish celebrated its Diamond Jubilee . In 1960
during the pastorate of Father Kalinowski , the present
convent was built. On July 9, 1961, Father Wieber broke
ground for the new church . It was completed and dedicated
in May 1962. The administration building was completed and
blessed in the Spring of 1963. In keeping with the directives of
the Vatican Council and the new trend in church design and
liturgy , the sanctuary was renewed in 1974. During the
history of the parish , five priests were ordained and there
were six vocations to the sisterhood.
The organizations of the church are the following-Parish
Council, Rosary Altar Society, Parish Board of Education,
Ushers , St. Vincent de Paul , Fatima Rosary Group, Lectors
and Commentators, Adult Choir, Folk Choir, Junior Folk
Choir, and Parents ' Club.
Land for the first cemetery was purchased in 1891 from
Charles E . and Kate Itsell , located in Genoa Township. This
was known as the Catholic Cemetery of Howell, Michigan.
Land for Mt. Olivet Cemetery was purchased in January,
1914f rom R.E . and Mary R. Barron. This property is located
within the city limits of the City of Howell on the shore of
Howell Lake .
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
By LOVEEN COY and NANCY DUNN
May, 1968, Howell began as a dependent Branch . James
Philburn was called as the first President; Linda Philburn
was first Primary President ; Phyllis Ward was the first
Relief Society President; and, Bernard Wright , was first
Sunday School President. The first meetings were held in the
Masonic Temple , then located over the First National Bank.
April, 1969, the branch moved to new facilities at 910 S.
Michigan A venue , Howell. ,
July , 1970 Howell became an independent branch . Joseph
Weaver was called as President.
November, 1971 Richard J . McMacken was called as
Branch President.
November, 1974 groundbreaking for the new church
building on West Grand River, just east of the new fire hall.
There is documented proof that the church had missionaries
working in the Livingston County area in the years around
1840. Baptisms took place then and many joined the church.
However, no record can be found telling who the Presidency
were, only the name of one elder is available and the names
of several whom he baptized .
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , commonly
referred to as the Mormons , was organized in 1830, under the
guidance of divine revelation , by Joseph Smith .
In 1840 the church first came to the Livingston County area .
Meetings were held in a house which has come to be known as
the "Mormon School House." In the year 1842 the 13 families
in the area which formed the nucleus of that first Mormon
church moved on to join other church members colonizing
Nauvoo, Illinois .
What happened to the church in this area we have little or
no record of until 1968. Undoubtedly some members were
here but since by directive from the church , families may
hold the meetings of the various organizations in their home
if need be, then records of such would be found in the church
records in Salt Lake City.
The church as a whole was re-established as Christ's
church on the earth through his divine revelation and
guidance. Its structure is the same as the church of Jesus
Christ when he lived on the earth. Various organizations in
the church help it accomplish its goal of returning the gospel
of Jesus Christ to the earth and his church as he would have
it.
One of the most important of these organizations is the
Relief Society, which is the oldest Women's organization in
existence in the world .
Other organizations , without which the church could not
function, are the Elders Quorum , which is responsible for the
welfare of all the families ; the Seventies, which is
responsible for the missionary program ; the Sunday School;
the Primary , which teaches the children ages 3-11 church
history and doctrine; Seminary, which carries on the
teachings of Primary for teenagers ; and , APYW, a social
organization for teenagers.
Some important programs in the church include the
Welfare Program , through which the church takes care of its
own who are in need . This program maintains its own
sources of food and almost anything else needed, all provided
by church members themselves .
The Missionary Program, where young men , in pairs ,
usually in their twenties , volunteer to spend two years of
their life proselyting. They are sent all over the world to
spread the gospel. Many young women and married couples ,
as well as older people serve as missionaries , although the
time is always voluntary and during their mission they adher
to a rigid schedule set up by the church.
Perhaps the most important program is Family Home
Evening which in the church , is Monday, but can be any
evening convenient to the family. This particular evening the
family members set aside to spend together every week to do
a variety of things , which always include prayer, but may be
an evening spent bowling, going to a movie or just talking
over some of the everyday events in their lives . The
importance of this program cannot be stressed too strongly
as the church believes the family unit is the most important
thing on earth. It is the church 's way of bridging the
generation gap and while families still have problems there
is security for all knowing the members of the family are
united.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
will be familiar with all of these organizations and programs ,
however , even they , in future years, will be glad to know that
in the Livingston County area , as everywhere in the world ,
the work of the church is progressing , and that at the time of
the Bicentennial , Howell Branch was a totally functioning
Branch .
The Church began on January 22, 1966. Our first meetings
were held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Baber . Arrangements
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were made to use the Recreation Center for our regular
Sunday services.
Pastor and Mrs. Crosby from Portage Lake came every
Sunday and helped with music and taught Sunday School
classes. Kenneth Pierpont drove from Grand Rapids every
Thursday and had Bible Study and prayer meeting in the
Baber home.
In 1968,H arold Wolcott applied to the Galilean Mission and
came to Howell to pastor, at which time we held both Sunday
morning and Sunday evening services at the Recreation
Center and prayer meeting in the Walcott home. He worked
hard in developing a site to build the church on. In the fall of
1968 we started the Ladie's Missionary Fellowship. Pastor
Walcott resigned in the summer of 1969 to go to another
ministry in Pennsylvania . While we were waiting to pick a
new pastor Mr. Frank Shultz, founder and director of the
Galilean Baptist Mission, held prayer meeting on Wednesday
eveing.
Pastor Paton came in the fall of 1969t o fill in as pastor and
to candidate . Pastor Paton came as full time pastor on
March 15, 1970.H e helped to start building the church in July
of 1970. We started holding services in the new building in
December of 1970.
On January 17, 1971w e held the Dedication of the Church
with Dr. David Allen, from Calvary Baptist Church of Hazel
Park , doing the speaking . In the fall of 1970, we purchased
our first church bus.
Besides our Sunday Services, are Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
and Morning worship at 11 :00 a.m. along with Jr . Church also
at 11:00 a.m. , Wednesday edvening prayer meeting at 7:30
p.m . with Choir practice after prayer.
We have roller skating once a month, Ladie's Fellowship
Meeting once a month , and a Home Bible Study twice a
month, and a church calling program every Thursday.
Lord willing this fall we will be breaking ground for a new
addition to our building. We also hope to start a Jet Cadet and
Whirlybirds program for our children.
Our Sunday School teaches the Bible as the supreme
standard by which all human conduct , creeds and opinions
should be tried. Sunday School prepares one for the future
here on earth and in eternity. Sunday School confronts the
student with the demand of God that he receive Jesus Christ
as his personal Saviour. Sunday School presents opportunities
to share Christian experiences. Sunday School shows the
student how he can be of service in the community and also in
the world. Sunday School helps to build strong character . All
of this is done by the study of the Word of God and the help of
teachers to guide and help the student.
Our Church has a message.
"All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God,"
Rom. 3:23. "For the wages of sin is death , but the gift of God
is eternal life" Rom. 6: 23. " For God proves His love toward
us, in that while we were yet sinners , Christ died for us,"
Rom. 5:8. "But to as many as received Him, to them gave He
power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe in
His Name," John 1:12. " Therefore, if any man be in Christ ,
he is a new creation; old things are passed away, and behold
all things have become new," II Cor. 5:17.
1ST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The 1st Episcopal Church in Howell was organized at a
meeting held December 12, 1857 in the Congregational
Church. (This church is believed to have stood in the vicinity
of Higgins and State SU The group took the name All Saints
Church of Howell. Besides the 1st vicar, The Reverend Henry
Branwell, Abel F. Butterfield, Joseph T. Titus, H.C. Briggs ,
George Greenway , George Hoyt, William A. Clark and M.
Labouter were present at that initial meeting.
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In 1867 for some unknown reason, a movement for
reorganiz~tion began to develop. Accordingly, at the an_nual
meeting on April 13, 1868A rticles of Agreement to establish a
new church to be called St. John's Episcopal Church of
Howell were accepted. These Articles were duly recorded
with the county clerk the next day, April 14, 1868.
In 1880 the cornerstone was laid for the first church
building. It was located on the northwest corner of Walnut
and Sibley Street on property given by George Greenway.
The building was completed and dedicated in 1881. The total
cost of land parcels and structure was $2,40?. To?ay. the
building is owned by the First Church of Christ Scientist.
During 1882-1883 the mission was served by Mr. A.W.
Ryan. While here the Ryans lost a child,~ -Fay. As a ~esult,
the congregation presented the baptism~! f~nt m . h~s
memory . This was the first recorded memorial gift and 1t 1s
still in use today.
For many years Howell, Brighton and Hamburg were all
served by the same vicar. From 1900-1917t her~ was no
organized program here, just a very rare service by a
visiting priest. . .
In 1917 St. John 's was rekindled and a full time vicar was
hired. Then in 1923-1924th e men of the mission built a rectory
on Sibley Street, a parish hall on Walnut, and added a sanctuary
to the church.
In 1926 a new man, Donald Veal, was assigned here and
that fall his ordination took place . This is the only time such a
service has occurred at St. John's . The Reverend Veal was
instrumental in getting St.John's to sponsor Boy Scout T~oop
No. 1 in Howell. He also instituted the first Good Friday
Service in Howell that was open to all denominations .
In 1956 the congregation bought 4½ acres on Tompk!ns
Street adjacent to McPherson Hospital as a future bmldmg
site .
In consideration of the steady progress being made , the
annual meeting in January, 1959r esolved to become a parish .
This was accomplished on November 23, 1959 after 102 years
as a mission! The first vestry elected was as follows: Dr .
Robert Wadlund, Senior Warden , Dr. E.A. Ross, Alfred Hall,
Louis Martin Charles Badura, Richard Ballou, John Beatty ,
Hugh Green, 1John Hagman, John O'Lone, William Scofield,
Stanley Wilson and Harry L. Williams , Honorary Member .
The first rector was The Reverend Richard W. Ingalls.
In 1961 the present rectory at 420 Caledonia was bought.
1964 saw the complete renovation of the church. This even
included the building of a choir loft-balcony and installation
of a free standing altar.
However , by the start of the next decade it was obvious that
there was no longer adequate room for the Sunday School.
After much planning under the direction of John Johnides,
Senior Warden, ground was broken on the Tompkins Street
site .
Because of fine volunteer efforts on the part of the
congregation , construction costs were approximately
$120,000. The first service was held in the new church on
March 19th, 1972.
Today the parish members 125 households and a total of 375
baptized members .
The present rector is The Reverend David Sprunk.
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EMMANUEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHERN
About 1875, Rev. F. Schweitzer came to Howell as the first
Evangelical minister to visit the city . The first services were
held in private homes . Later the services were held in a hall
over the fire station.
The Howell congregation was duly organized July 28, 1881,
as the Emmanuel Church of the Evangelical Association. In
the beginning , all services were held in the German language
and for the first year after the class organized , services were
held only once in two weeks. For several years , Howell was
part of a circuit, being served with other churches .
The first trustees of the church were Henry Weimeister,
Sr., George Hornung, and Carl Eke!. In the year of 1882,
under the supervision of the trustees together with Rev. W.F.
Zander , the preacher-in-charge, and Rev. J.M. Fuchs,
presiding elder , the first church was built at a cost of $2,000.
A parsonage and barn were also built at a cost of $700 and
$100 respectively . The church structure was remodeled in
1906u nder the supervision of Rev. O.C. Penticoff , pastor , and
Rev. F . Klump , presiding elder . A cement block structure
was erected in the place of the frame structure originally
built.
The Howell mission in the earlier years was composed of
the appointments Howell, Cohoctah, Conway, Byron, and
Webberville . The preaching services from 1881 to 1893 were
in the German language exclusively. Rev. C. Krueger first
began to preach in the English language once every fourth
Sunday for a period of 3 months. In 1893 it was decided to hold
services regularly in English. In 1895, during the pastorate of
Rev. S. Staebler, the German language was abandoned , and
all services after that were conducted in English . The
minutes of the society were first written and read in English
in 1896.
In the early 1940's, new chancel furniture was installed in
the sanctuary and a few years later a new oak floor was laid.
In 1961 a new parsonage was erected .
In June of 1968 the Evangelical United Brethern Church
merged with the Methodist Church to form the United
Methodist Church, and here in Howell the two churches
joined January 5, 1969. The E.U .B. Church was then sold to
the Nazarene Church .
A Woman's Missionary Society was organized with the help
of Mrs. P .H. Pohly . There was also a Ladies Aid Society that
helped, especially the needy people in town. The Young
People 's Alliance, known as the U.P.A . met Sunday evenings
before the regular church service, and the Junior Alliance
children met Sunday afternoons. Of course, there were
Sunday School Classes for all ages , generally meeting after
the morning church service .
TWO HOWELL CHURCHES UNITEAn
important event in Howell church history occured on
January 1st, 1969 when the Evangelical United Brethren and
the Walnut Street United Methodists officially became one
congregation. This followed a Denominational Merger and
was accomplished locally with good will and understanding
by both parishes .
Pastors at the time were Rev . Mark Matter and Rev. Allan
G. Gray . Rev. Gray continued to serve a total of twelve years
in Howell.
These two groups were formed many years ago. The
Evangelical fore-runner of the EUB church served many
German speaking settlers and the Methodist circuit riders
came to every cross-road including Howell in the 1830 period .
Both served their separate flocks long and well.
The new congregation voted to be known as The First
United Methodist Church in Howell and has built a fine new
church structure on Bower Street on land once a part of the
first Howell airport.
Ground breaking was on Oct. 26, 1969, cornerstone
ceremony June 22, 1969, and the first service held Dec. 14,
1969. On Feb . 8, 1970 a dedication service with Michigan
Bishop Dwight E . Loder of the United Methodist Church as
principal speaker .
Both former church homes have been razed . The cement
block EUB church stood at McCarthy and Crane streets
being built in 1906. The red brick Methodist building stood at
the corner of Sibley and Walnut from 1890 and it replaced a
frame church built in 1855. At the time of merger one of the
joint meetings was held during a heavy spring thunderstorm .
Pails were placed about the meeting room to catch water and
as the other church building was also in a sad state of repair
the storm seemed to emphasize the need for change and a
call for united action to face the future .
In 1969 the congregation moved to their new church at 1230
Bower Street. The people of the church showed the pride of
their heritage in many ways. The brick church sign in front of
the church contains the cornerstones from the Walnut Street
Methodist Church and the Emmanual Evangelical United
Brethern Church. In the Memorial Chapel the pulpit, organ ,
pulpit chairs, and baptismal font came from the chancel of
the former EUB Church ; while the panelling , altar , lectern ,
altar rail and carpeting came from the former Methodist
Church . As the furnishings of the chapel have blended
together with beautiful harmony , so have two congregations
joined together in the worship of God. Together as one
congregation we grow stronger in numbers and in faith .
WALNUT STREET METHODIST CHURCH
The Methodist Church here in Howell had its beginnings as
a result of the efforts of a young man by the name of Alvin L.
Crittenden. What follows is an address presented by Mr.
Crittenden to the old County Pioneers Society many years
later :
" In the month of April, 1836, I learned there was to be
Methodist preaching at Ore Creek , not Brighton . I left my
home at Mr. Sage 's, half a mile west of the village of Howell,
and walked to Ore Creek where I listened to Rev . Mr. Bibbins.
He gave notice at the close of the service that Rev.
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Elijah Crane, then traveling Plymouth circuit, would hold a
two-day meeting there in four weeks. After service I walked
back to my home. At the appointed time I walked again to
what is now Brighton to attend the two-day meeting . There I
formed the acquaintance of Rev. Elijah Crane and Rev. John
Cosart, a local preacher of the Methodist Church. While
attending the meeting at Brighton arrangements were made
for Rev . Mr. Cosart to come to Howell and preach and form a
Methodist class, and send a report to Rev . Elijah Crane who
would represent our wants at the ensuing Methodist conference
and, if possible, secure for us regular preaching . By
some mistake the notice was given one week too soon. We
assepibled but no preacher came . A prayer meeting was held
and at its close it was thought by the Methodists present that
although we were disappointed in not having a preacher with
us, we would not be disappointed in regard to having a class
formed . Accordingly we organized a business meeting for
that purpose by electing Pardon Barnard chairman and A.L.
Crittenden secretary. Those who had letters from the
Methodist Episcopal church passed them in and they were
read . A.L. Crittenden was elected class leader . Thus I had
the honor to be the first official member of any religious
organization ever formed in Howell. A regular class book
could not be obtained so I did the next best thing that could be
done under the circumstances. I took a sheet of paper and
doubled it together and recorded the names of the members
thereon . The next Sabbath Rev . John Cosart preached in
Howell, which was the third sermon preached in Howell, the
first by a Methodist minister . He acknowledged our
proceedings to be right and sent on the report of our society
as agreed upon. In the fall of 1836, Washington Jackson was
sent to Livingston County as a missionary from the Ohio
Conference of the Methodist. The names as they appear on
the original class book when the class was formed are : Alvin
L. Crittenden , Pardon Barnard, Eliza Ann Barnard, Peter
Brewer , Dorcas Brewer, Sylvester Rounds, Polly Rounds,
Asabel Rounds, Mary Sage and Nathaniel Johnson. Soon
after and before the traveling preacher arrived, there were
received by letter : Clarissa Johnson, Asabel Dibble, Abigal
Dibble and Abigal Smith . No date appears upon the book
except 1836, until Washington Johnson arrived upon the
m ission, but I think the class was formed in June of that year .
The first date upon the book is September 4, 1836."
Livingston County was organized as a circuit and Milford
was soon after added . The first quarterly meeting of the
Livingston Mission was held in the home of Stephen Lee, on
December 31, 1836. The records of this meeting show the
following names: Rev. Wm. Hurr , presiding elder ; Rev.
Washington Jackson , preacher in charge ; John Cosart, local
elder.
The third quarterly meeting of the circuit was the first held
in Howell. It was held in the village schoolhouse, a one room
building, as his list of appointments, with his assistant
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pastor ; Howell, Pinckney , Unadilla, Love's , Wright's,
Munsell's , Handy , Fleming , Oceola, Hamburg and Clayton's.
From an address by Brother Warren here in 1888, allow me to
make a liberal quotation:
"My appointment to the old Livingston Circuit was in 1847.
My colleague was Rev. M.W. Stambaugh. We began our
preaching services in a little old schoolhouse a short distance
from where this church now stands . After a few weeks our
meeting s were transferred to the then new court-house where
they were continued until the close of my pastorate at the
close of my second year.
"At the fall conference of 1848 I was reappointed to the
Livingston Circuit with Rev . Noah Fassett as junior
preacher . Having made Pinckney our home the greater part
of the first year, my wife and I moved to Howell, occupying
the then unfinished parsonage as occupied by Brother
Wakelin when he was pastor here . It stood a couple of blocks
south of this spot, in what was then an open common without
enclosure and richly fringed with native underbrush . In this
dwelling, with parlor and chambers unplastered , we passed a
comparatively comfortable year. Being new hands at
housekeeping we needed but little and had less , but the
people were kind."
Just twenty years after his first appointment to Livingston
Circuit, Brother Warren was again appointed to Howell. His
description of the changes during that period and the general
prosperity is interesting but must be passed for want of time .
The old church had been built and the pastor preached here
every Sunday morning and evening . He also went to the
Marion Center each Sunday afternoon . Rev. Fassett was his
assistant pastor for this second pastorate . At the close of the
pastorate of Rev . Warren and Rev. Fassett there were 256
members on the whole circuit and 39 probationers . Brother
Warren received $176 for salary that year and Brother
Fassett $88.
Soon after moving into the Court-house, as a result of the
efforts of Mrs. Ernaline Steels, the Sunday School was
organized . Its existence however was not as prosperous as
one might be desired until it was merged into the Union
Sunday School upon its organization in 1853.
Early in the fifties the society began to urge the necessity
of building a church . This agitation culminated in April 1852.
The deed is dated the fifth of that month . The property was
described as lots 15 and 18 of the plot of the village of Howell.
The church was completed and dedicated in March , 1855, at a
cost of about $1,500.
The name of the charge was changed in 1852, from
Livingston Circuit to Howell. Unadilla was organized into a
circuit at that time and Pinckney the following year.
From 1849t o 1873t he Methodist church of Howell gradually
gained in members and influence, enjoying times of special
revival effort but for the most part , just a gradual substantial
growth.
During the 1870's an alcove to the rear of the church , for
use of the choir and pulpit, and some other additions were
made , at a total cost of $4,500. The rededication was conducted
by Dr. Jocelyn , then president of Albion College. At
that time it was discovered that the church had never been
organized under the statute for such organizations . After
considerable discussion the organization was perfected
under the charter name of the Walnut Street Methodist
Episcopal Church of Howell, Michigan. The papers are dated
January 20, 1873 and so recorded at the county clerk 's office.
During the 1880's the old parsonage was sold and a new one
built adjoining the church, at a cost of nearly $17,000.
During the 1920's an L was built around two sides of the
church . The new pipe organ was purchased. Much of the
more than $30,000 of cost was raised and paid and all were
glad the great work was undertaken.
In the late 1940's and early 50's, the church was especially
active in repairing , redecorating, and improving the church
property . The church ceiling was insulated , and Sunday
School rooms on the south side were provided with storm
windows and screens. The Bulletin Board was relettered to
read "Walnut Street Methodist Church." Venetian Blinds
were hung at the windows of the auditorium, a center aisle
was placed in the church , Memorial Chimes were purchased
for the church, and were played each Sunday morning before
the church service. A Memorial Plaque, listing the names of
Methodist boys in the service was hung in the auditorium. A
new chancel for the church was authorized, and many church
members gave heavily to this project in memory of loved
ones. Lights were installed in memory of the faithful work
done by Leilah Peirce as choir director , and Choir Room was
partitioned to make room for a Pastor's Study .
During this period the Junior Choir was organized under
the direction of Mrs . Zoe Earl , Christmas Boxes were sent to
all members of the armed forces connected with our church,
a Boy Scout Troop was sponsored by the church, and a
Director of Demobilization appointed to take care of our boys
returning from the war.
In 1970 the Walnut Street Methodist Church was razed .
Even though it was a sad event the congregation had moved
to their new church on Bower Street, taking with them the
heritage of Walnut Street Methodist Church and were looking
forward to a bright future .
Groups with the First United Methodist Church : Chancel
Choir, Junior Chorister's, Son Shine Choir.
United Methodist Women: Dorcas Circle, Priscilla Circle,
Ruth Circle, Mary-Martha Circle, Young Women's Circle,
Matilda Pohly Circle .
United Methodist Men : United Methodist Youth
Fellowship, United Methodist Junior High Fellowship,
Sunday School Classes for all ages , Philathea , Class 9, Boy
Scout Troop No. 364.
Couples Club: Hummer's (Camping Club).
Contributors : Evelyn Thomas , Alma Young, Maurice
Coles, Zoe Earl, Georganna Herrington. Typists: Marie
Chubb, Karen Smith.
Book Sources: Watson and Spafford , History of Michigan ,
Conference of the E.U.B . Church, 3, Vol. 1942, 1961, 1968.
History of Livingston County, Michigan, 1880.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST
During the early 1890's, a small group of people interested
in Christian Science, met at their various homes to read and
study the " Bible" and "Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures " by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and
Founder of Christian Science.
Fiye members of this group-Mrs . Mary G. Walters, Mrs .
Nellie G. Kellog, Mr. Owen W. Kellog, P . L. Merethew , and
Mrs . Frances Curdy were appointed as a committee on
August 7, 1895 to draft the articles of association .
Of much help to the society in its early efforts , were Mrs.
Annie Knott, then a practitioner and teacher of Christian
Science in Detroit, and Miss Clark of Toledo. Both were
students of Mrs . Eddy.
Meetings and services were held in a hired hall over the
corner drug store, until too many of the members had moved
away. The remaining Christian Scientists continued to study
in their own homes and attend services in other cities.
The present organization was formed as a Christian
Science Society on March 16, 1916 when new By-Laws were
adopted. Members of this group included Mrs . Ruby E.
Howe, Miss Elnora B. Howe, Mrs. Wealthy A. Browning,
Miss Clare Weiand, Mrs. Mattie H. Hamilton , E . D. Parker
and Mrs. Blanche Parker . Also Mrs . Daisy S. Line, Mrs.
Thelma Hamilton Hutton, Mrs. Dorothy Hamilton Dodge,
Mrs. Eva Weiand, Mrs. Mary Rice Lewis, Mrs . Carrie B.
Pell, and Mrs. Robert R. Smith .
The Society first met in private homes , then in rooms in the
Addison Balch Building, then in the Schroeder Building and
later rented space in the William Farnsworth block where
the Society continued to meet until purchasing a lot and
building at 646 W. Grand River on May 27, 1938.
Incorporated on January 22, 1940, the Society became
"First Church of Christ, Scientist " of Howell in 1947.
Feeling the need for a more suitable structure, in 1972, the
church purchased, for cash, the former St. John 's Episcopal
Church at 114 South Walnut Street and the Parish Hall at 120.
S. Walnut Street. The structure at 120 S. Walnut presently
houses the Christian Science Reading Room which is open to
the public daily , except Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (with
the entrance on Sibley Street ). The Sunday School is also
located in this building with an entrance on Walnut Street.
The public is invited to attend church services and to use
the Reading Room where books and authorized literature
about Christian Science may be read , borrowed or purchased
.
The church holds at least one Free Lecture on Christian
Science each year. This church is a branch of The Mother
Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston,
Massachusetts. This church was established by Mary Baker
Eddy , who ordained the "Bible" and "Science and Health
with Kay to the Scriptures " as the impersonal pastor of her
church.
Sunday Services , held at 10:30 a.m. are conducted by
Jennifer Hill, serving as First Reader with Scott Ten Eyck
serving as Second Reader . The Readers of this church are
elected by the members from the membership and serve for
a term of three years . Students of Christian Science study,
daily, the weekly Bible Lesson Sermon from the Christian
Science Quarterly which is read by the First and Second
Readers on Sunday. Testimonial meetings are held each
Wednesday evening at 8 p.m .
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Howell was just a struggling village when the initial
meeting for the organization of the First Baptist Church was
held April 13, 1838 in the village schoolhouse with ten persons
present. This organizational meeting took place some two
years after the first religious service conducted by a Baptist
minister was held in the newly settled community. Rev.
Thomas Baker became the first pastor of the church. All the
charter members of the church brought letters from Baptist
churches in the east, among whom were families by the
name of Austin and Sage. Another prominent member of the
early church was the grandfather of the former Judge Willis
Lyons.
In 1846i t was voted to build a house of worship. This 32 by
44 foot structure was completed in 1850. In the front of the
building was a platform with steps at either end leading up to
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the two doors entering into the aisles of the church which
allowed for separate entrances by the men and women.
Early history records reveal that a lawsuit arose between
two members of the church , the one accusing the other of
driving off his cow and hiding it. The accusor, because of
manifesting an unyielding and self-justifying attitude, was
withdrawn from the fellowship of the church. Other instances
of early church discipline are also recorded .
In 1874 a new church building at the cost of nearly $12,000
was dedicated . Many of the materials used were from a
Congregational Church torn down just one block north of
the Baptist Church . By 1955 another new building was begun
as the 1874s tructure was being overcome by termites . This is
the present brick building which stands on Church Street.
The First Baptist Church has stood on this same corner at
Church and State Streets since the original meeting house
was completed in 1850.
During the period of 1838 to 1930 the Baptist congregation
knew the leadership of some twenty-eight different
ministers. In the succeeding forty-five years, the pastoral
leadership has been provided by only three ministers-The
Rev . Ralph Karney (1930-1948 ), the Rev . Merle R. Meeden
(1948-1966 ) and the present pastor , the Rev . Donald E.
Williams who began his work in April 1967. In June 1968 the
church called their first tull-time Director of Christian
Education , Miss Sharon K. Stroops .
Since 1956t he morning worship service has been broadcast
live over the local Howell radio station . The ministry of the
church reaches beyond this community into the state , nation ,
and world through its association for mission with the
American Baptist Churches of Michigan and the American
Baptist Churches , U.S.A.
HOUSE OF PRAYER
A dedication service for the House of Prayer , 2309 Eager
Road , was held Sunday , December 3, 1970 at 4 p.m. The
regular Sunday School service was held at 10 a .m. and the
church service at 11 a .m.
The House of Prayer is a non-denominational church . Its
pastor if the Rev. Henry Stamper , Jr. of Howell.
Rev . Stamper classified his church as a full gospel church,
stressing freedom of worship .
The Stampers had been holding services in the basement of
their home since June , 1968. They began with two families
and grew to over 60 people. These services began as Friday
night prayer meetings.
The new church is located one mile north of M-59 on Eager
Road , between Brophy and Bigelow Roads .
The new church building was begun Aug. 1.
SAINT JOHN CATHOLIC CHURCH
After nearly sevenscore years of history Saint John
Catholic Mission became an independent parish October 14,
1974.
The mission was founded February 23, 1843 when Father
Patrick O'Kelley was appointed to serve the area . Prior to
this, Mass was celebrated since 1838 in various homes by
Father Morrissey of Ann Arbor once every three or four
months . Father O'Kelley resided in Brighton and held services
at private homes. He traveled on foot for many years to
Oceola, Deerfield, and Bunker Hill.
When the people decided to build a church , they could not
decide on the location so a map was drawn showing where
each family lived. Michael Bergin walked to Detroit and
presented the map to the Bishop, who after much
deliberation marked the spot where the church stands today.
On Januar y 20, 1944 the Most Reverend Peter Paul
LeFevre purchased the two acres for $50.00 from Michael
McGuire .
Since the first church is said to have been log, the building
has gone through several changes . When the congregation
grew to necessitate an addition , a frame structure was added
to the log church . Later the log was removed and the west
end of the present building was built of brick in 1868. In 1873
the frame portion of the church was moved across the road
and used for services while William Pipp of Brighton completed
the present building at the cost of $3,890.00.
During the period of 1877-1886 there were 90 registered
familie s at Saint John. The mission in Iosco had 14 families ,
White Oak had 20, and Fowlerville had 14 families, Brighton
registry listed 70 families, while Howell listed 38 families .
Today there are four hundred families at Saint John.
It wasn 't until the period of 1912-1920t hat Mass was
celebrated every Sunday at Saint John Church.
On June 23, 1968, the Most Reverend Alexander Zaleski,
Bishop of Lansing , celebrated a special Mass in commemoration
of the centennial year of the west portion of the
church building .
A public reception was held for Father Allen J . Theis, the
first resident pastor of Saint John Catholic Church on
Saturda y, November 9, 1974, at the Hartland High School
Commons located on M-59 just west of US-23. The Holy Mass
was concelebrated by Father Theis and Father Roger Smith
at 6:30 p.m . followed by a reception which included refreshments
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HARDY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
The Hardy Methodist Church had its beginning when a
class of eight members was formed , following a series of
meetings held at the Browning School in May, 1840. This was
the first Methodist Episcopal group in the community .
Two other religious groups , one which held services at the
Rumsey School and still another which held services in a
small log building on the Ephraim Hardy farm, participated
in the erection of this building .
A need for a church building was uppermost in the minds of
these people and the result was a meeting held in February ,
1870. At this meeting it was agreed to organize and build a
church .
Ephraim and Rebecca Hard y gave the land on which the
church was erected . Work began , and on the 10th of Jul y, 1870
it was dedicated and was free of debt. The church was placed
on the Hartland Charge .
Trustees of the church at this time was John G. Horton
(chairman ), Ebenezer Kellogg, Joseph Briggs, and John
Kirk .
Elder John G. Horton preached the first sermon , his topic
was from Jonah 1:6 " What Meanest Thou Oh Sleeper ."
Through the years we celebrated the 60th, 75th, 80th and
100th anniversaries. I1 !anuary , 1931, electric lights were
added to the sanctuar y:
In 1946 the church was moved south from the original
location because of the widening of the highway .
The dedication of the fellowship room took place Januar y 2,
1949.
One of the more important events of the Hard y Church took
place June 15, 1955. At this time the people of Hard y voted to
become a separate charge , thus requiring the building of a
parsonage. This was made possible by a gift of land from
Mabel Shuart. The building was completed and dedicated
January 24, 1960.
In 1965o ther additions were made such as narthex , garage
and extensive remodeling of the sanctuar y also took place at
this time .
Due to the growth of the church we felt the need of an
educational unit which was dedicated in 1973.
Two yearl y events which add to the spiritual life of our
church are the Easter Sunrise Service and the Live Nativity
Scene at Christmas.
Our present organizations are: United Methodist Church
School, United Methodist Women, United Methodist Men,
United Methodist Youth Fellowship .
During the past two years our church has shown stead y
growth under the guidance of our pastor , Rev . Benjamin
Bohnsack.
Mrs. J . B. Cook, Mrs. Boyden Kimberl y
and Mrs . Burton Spalding
Historical Committee of Hardy United
Methodist Church
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
Although the history of Lutheranism in Livingston County
dates back to the establishment of St. George Evangelical
Church ( now of Brighton ) in 1845, that of the Lutheran church
in Howell is of comparatively recent date . Some German
services were held in Howell by pastors of the St. George
Church during the latter part of the 1800's, but organization
was never affected due to transportation difficulties and the
language question .
In 1918-1919t he work was revived by Reverend R. J . Graetz
of St. George Church, who did preliminary work toward
establishing a Lutheran Church in Howell. The first service
was held over the old Schnackenberg Funeral Home on
August 17, 1919. Pastor Graetz was assisted by Rev . J . B.
Sause and Rev . 0 . Heinzelman . A meeting was convened
after the service and the first officers were elected . At a
second meeting, the name of Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Church was chosen for the newly formed congregation , and
on March 7, 1920, a constitution was adopted, completing the
organization of the church. The charter members were : Mr.
and Mrs . Rudolph Bremer , Mr. and Mrs . Ralph Bremer ,
Mrs. Mina Cooper, Mr. and Mrs . Henry Gerkin , Sr., Mrs .
Henry Herbst, Mr. and Mrs . John Grostick , Mr. and Mrs . H.
J . Larson , Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Lawrenz , Mrs. Harry
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Pettibone, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Veith, Arthur Veith, Vernon
Veith, Mrs. Robert Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wruck,
Agnes Wruck, Carl Wruck, Mrs. John Redinger, Mrs.
Howard Hunter and Mrs. Edward Maas.
The original officers of the church were: Elders: Albert
Wruck and Otto Wruck, Deacons: Ferdinand Lawrenz and
Ralph Bremer, Trustees : Rudolph Bremer , Henry Veith and
John Grostick , Treasurer , H. J . Larson, Secretary : Ralph
Bremer.
Grace Church was at first served alternately by the pastors
of Brighton and Fowlerville, Pastors Graetz and Sause, from
1919 to 1921. Then Pastor H. W. Swinehart of Brighton in
June , 1920 and Pastor C. G. Althoff of Fowlerville in
February , 1921a ssumed duties as associate pastors of Grace
Church. However, since this arrangement proved unsatisfactory,
in September , 1921, Rev. Swinehart of St.
George, Brighton , was called by vote of the congregation to
serve as pastor. By this action, Grace Lutheran Church was
merged with the St. George Church as one parish .
Pastor Swinehart served the combined parish of Brighton
and Howell until 1924. He was succeeded by Rev. Lawrence S.
Price . From 1920 the Grace congregation had been renting
the Episcopal Church for services. However it was felt that a
permanent church home was a definite necessity and a real
estate committee was appointed to obtain a suitable lot for
the church building . At first a lot in the eastern part of the
city was selected, but ultimately a lot on North Michigan ,
being near the center of the city, was purchased.
On May 10, 1927, the ground was broken for the new church .
Much of the work in building the structure was done by the
members of the church , and on Sunday, July 31, 1927, the
church was dedicated to the glory of God.
In 1929, Pastor Price followed a call to Dayton, Ohio and
was succeeded by Rev . E . F . Klingensmith. Pastor
Klingensmith served until July 14, 1935 at which time Grace
Lutheran Church became an independent congregation,
severing its connections with St. George Evangelical Church
of Brighton. Rev. Luther A. Sherer was installed on July 14,
1935, as the first full-time pastor of the church .
Since 1939 the following pastors have served the church on
North Michigan Avenue: Rev . Marcus C. Mueller, Rev. 0 . A.
Bertram , Re . Be. E . Petrick , Rev . J . W. Althaus, Rev . Earl
C. Willer and Rev. Robert L. Herbon.
It was during the pastorate of Pastor Willer, that due to
steady growth , it was decided to build a parish house. This
was done by the men of the church and was dedicated in 1949.
Another building program was carried out on the church on
North Michigan Avenue in 1954, when the church and parish
house were connected with an enclosure.
By 1955 the congregation 's size made it necessary to
consider another expansion program of some type. At a
congregational meeting on June 12, 1956, the congregation
decided to begin investigation of the possibility of building an
entirely new church on a different location. In keeping with
this plan the congregation purchased 4½ acres of property in
the northwest section of Howell. Members of the church
council at the planning stage in 1956 were: Pastor Robert L.
Herbon, Donald Fournier, William Belz, Ralph Benson,
William Brandt , Richard Frank, Harry Hasenbusch, Sidney
Lyons, Angelo Paoli, Robert Smith and Wilbert White.
On March 25, 1957, the church on North Michigan was sold
to the Salvation Army and plans for the building of the new
church were purchased . The contracting for erecting the new
church was let to J . W. Dilloway of Brighton on March 3, 1958.
Groundbreaking for the new church took place on March
23, 1958 and the cornerstone was laid in June , 1958. The
congregation, during the time their new church was being
built, worshipped in the all-purpose room of the Southwest
School.
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On January 11, 1959, the Pastor , Rev . Robert L. Herbon ,
had the joy of leading the congregation in a service of
dedication of the new church . Pastor Herbon stayed with
Grace and growth continued, but in 1961 he accepted a call to
Truth Ev . Lutheran Church of Detroit.
Following Pastor Herbon, Pastor P . Fred Houston accepted
a call to Grace Church in April, 1962. Shortly after his
arrival, building of a new parsonage was begun on property
close to the church . Pastor Houston received a call from
American Lutheran Church in Grundy Center , Iowa and is
serving that congregation since January, 1969.
Pastor Ronald J. Gross accepted the call from Grace
Church and started his ministry in Howell on February 26,
1969.
In January , 1973 the congregation voted to extend a call to
Pastor Oscar H. Kraft , to serve as co-pastor . On March 11,
1973 Pastor Kraft was installed and served in this capacity
until the resignation of Pastor Gross in November, 1973.
Pastor Kraft accepted the full time pastorate of Grace
congregation in January , 1974. In his first year at Grace ,
Pastor Kraft worked from April to September, most of the
time at the newly introduced Leisure and Recreation
program. This program has been continued in 1974 and 1975
during the summer months by Bob and Barb Brugler .
Today the members of Grace Lutheran Church find
Christian nurture and fellowship through weekly worship ,
Sunday morning education offerings for the entire family,
confirmation activities , womens bible study , teen club, and a
choir. The choir is under the direction of J. Gordon Small .
James Wirick is the organist. Mission service to the community
finds expression through the congregation's
chaplaincy work at the County Jail , monthly fellowship
experiences with people at Hillcrest, and periodic worship
services at Greenbriar Convalescent Home . The
congregation also hosts the Senior Citizen Center in what
used to be its parsonage .
The present council members are: Charles Cobb, Dick
Albrecht , George Bessert , Edward Bouvier, Carol Chandler,
Pat Hirvela, William Johnson, JoAnn Merians , Elsie
Schelke, James Walser, Michael Weller, Lynn Zimmerman ,
Pastor Oscar Kraft.
PRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
Prince of Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Howell
had its beginnings late in the fall of 1968 when several
families in the Howell area saw a need for an Evangelical
Lutheran Church which would recognize the Bible as the
inspired and infallible Word of God. These families met with
the Reverend Arthur Clement, pastor of the Memorial
Lutheran Church in Williamston, to see what would be
required to found such a Christian congregation. The result
was that trial worship services were begun on December 15,
1968, to see if there was sufficient interest in the community
actually to begin a new church.
Soon it became evident that many desired to see this new
congregation become a living and permanent voice for Jesus
Christ in Livingston County.
The beautiful name " Prince of Peace" was selected,
reflecting the spirit of Christmas , the time at which the first
services were held, and also reflecting the sure confidence
that it is only from Jesus Christ that a person receives peace
in this life and in eternity. The name reminds the
congregation that true Christian love and peace is to reign
among all the members of this Christian family .
As more and more people began attending these Sunday
services in the gymnasium of Howell's Northwest School, it
was decided to petition the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran
Synod that this new congregation be admitted to that body,
the largest confessing, conservative Lutheran Synod in the
United States. And in May of 1969, the Wisconsin Synod did
name Prince of Peace as the mission of that body in Howell.
In June, a beautiful church site with many tall trees ,
rolling land, and a flowing stream was purchased.
During the first months of this young church 's life, various
neighboring pastors and theological students conducted the
Sunday services, depending on who was available . Hence,
the congregation members truly rejoined before the Lord
when the Reverend Richard E. Warnke was installed as the
first permanent pastor on July 13, 1969.
November 23, 1969, marked the formal birth day of Prince
of Peace Lutheran Church as thirty-four adults signed the
charter. Most of those charter members are still active in the
congregation as our nation celebrates its Bicentennial.
Within months after the church 's founding, a Building
Committee was organized and careful planning for a permanent
house of worship was begun. The congregation
desired a building which would be large enough to service a
growing congregation; attractive , with clean , contemporary
lines but not so " ultra-modern " as to be distracting from
worship; of rich materials fitting for God's house ; and yet
economical enough to be within the financial capabilities of
the young congregation.
While planning for the new chapel continued, a school
millage increase failed to meet with voter approval, closing
the Howell schools to all on weekends. So, services could not
continue in the Northwest School. But when the young
congregation lost the worship facilities which had served
adequately for well over a year, the Lord provided a superb
replacement with the excellent facilities of the Howell
Recreation Center.
Eventually , a chapel design meeting the demanding
criteria of the congregation was developed. Ground was
broken for the new chapel on April 9, 1972, at the church site
at 2515 West Grand River, just west of the city of Howell.
The congregation served as its own contractor during
construction thereby reducing the cost of the chapel about
$25,000f rom what it would have cost if built by conventional
means . Many willing hands volunteering many hours of work
also helped to keep the cost low.
By Thanksgiving Day of 1972, construction had progressed
to the point that services could be held in the new building.
And on January 14, 1973, hundreds of members and friends of
the still-young congregation gathered to dedicate the new
chapel to the glory and service of the Triune God.
Today, Prince of Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Howell continues its mission of proclaiming the Word of God
and administering the Sacraments in their truth and parity ,
of using Word and Sacrament to bring young and old to the
knowledge of their salvation through faith in Jesus Christ,
and of using Word and Sacrament to sustain and strengthen
the faith of those who have already come to know Jesus as
their personal Savior from sin.
The congregation looks forward to continuing this mission
under God as our nation enters the third century of its great
history and as Livingston County continues to be the growing,
friendly, beautiful , natural park of southeastern Michigan .
WRIGHTS CORNERS CHURCH OF GOD
Wright Corner's Church of God Worship Services have
been held for well over 100 years by various groups in the
former Harger Country School, 3940 Pinckney Road at Coon
Lake Road .
The present congregation started in the school by Rev . and
Mrs. Charles Dietrick , but still saw the congregation outgrow
the school building .
A church building was erected by the congregation on a site
north of the school that was donated by John Holloway, and
moved into in 1942. Rev . Dietrick became the pastor of the
Cadillac Church of God in 1944, and passed away while still
there in 1950.
Mrs. is now married to Rev. Ora Halley and they reside in
Cadillac.
The church was pastored by a young couple, Rev . and Mrs.
Doyle Helbling until 1946.
Rev . Alan Hancock was pastor from 1946 through 1971.
During this time the parsonage was built and a new sanctuary
and fellowship hall was added to the church building .
Then Rev . Richard Latham was called as pastor from 1971
through 1974.
Rev. Timothy Andreanopoulos is the present pastor.
The church is proud of its growth at a time when many
rural churches are closing their doors.
The building of this house of worship has been with the aim
to take care of the present and future needs of the people of
this community , and even those who would stop on their way,
by providing facilities adequate to meet the spiritual,
educational, social, and recreational phases of life in such a
way that the " more abundant life," that Jesus spoke of, is a
reality.
We seek not to glorify material facilities, nor idealize creed
or ceremony. The church is more than these: it is the company
of redeemed ones, washed in the blood of the lamb .
THE SALVATION ARMY
The Salvation Army came to Howell, Michigan in
November of 1892, with Captain Read being in charge.
Howell was dropped from the disposition of forces in
February of 1902, and re-opened on January 18, 1920, by
Envoy and Mrs. Frank Gardner.
Many officers have been stationed there, with the turn-over
very large. These officers included such persons as: Captain
Lloyd Robb; Lieutenant John Grindle ; Captain Rudi Wit-
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trock; Lieutenant Edward Deratany; and Captain William
Roberts, among others.
In 1951, when Captain Russell Pedersen was the commanding
officer, it became an outpost of Ann Arbor,
Michigan. For the next eleven years there were no officers
stationed there, and it was run mostly by the active and interested
soldiers.
In May of 1962, Supply and Mrs. Fred Ruston became the
commanding officers . Following them in June of 1963, were
Supply and Mrs. Harold Shelby, to be replaced in September
of the same year, by Supply and Mrs. Howard Guetschow . In
the fall of 1965, at the time they entered the Salvation Army
School for officers training , they were replaced by
Lieutenant Jesse F . Knight.
The Salvation Army has made many moves since opening
in Howell. They have been located on East Grand River, East
Clinton, North Michigan and now own a building at 221 North
Michigan.
In 1968,H owell was changed from an outpost of Ann Arbor,
to a self-sustaining corps by Captain Jesse F . Knight. The
Salvation Army operates with an advisory board which is
comprised of local business and professional men and women
and participates in the Howell, Brighton and Hamburg
United Funds of Livingston County.
Since 1968, there have been many programs available to
the public as well as to the members of the Salvation which
are: Ladies Home League, Girl Guards, Sunbeams, Scouts,
Church Services Morning and Evening on Sundays, Camping,
Welfare for Those Deserving of Help on Emergency
Basis , Leadership Training Program for Young People,
Christmas, Marriages and Funerals, After School Program
for Youth, Counseling and Aid to Unwed Mothers .
TYNDALL MEMORIAL CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
On July 4, 1930, a tent meeting was held in the four hundred
block of North Michigan Avenue, Howell, Michigan .
Rev. C. E . Ling moved from Highland to Howell,
organizing the Church of the Nazarene. The basement church
was built during Rev. Ling's ministry with twenty charter
members joining .
In 1933, Rev. Ling moved to another pastorate. Rev.
Warren W. Clay came to Howell and served as pastor for
thirteen years, constructing the sanctuary over the basement
in 1942. The church was named Tyndall Memorial Church of
the Nazarene after a prominent layman, Myron L. Tyndall.
The present church sanctuary was built adjacent to the
previous structure and dedicated in October, 1968. In 1973 an
Educational Unit was added to the sanctuary.
There have been six pastors serving the Tyndall Memorial
Church of the Nazarene from Rev . W.W. Clay to the present
pastor , Rev . Ronald Ketchum . Rev . Ketchum came to
Howell in March, 1975.
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Forty-five years from its beginning , the church has grown
today to a membership of 321, with six of its charter members
still living. Within the church is a growing church school
department, a strong preaching ministry, an effective music
program, well organized teen and children's groups , an
outreach into the homes of the elderly, and a concerned
missionary program .
The Tyndall Memorial Church of the Nazarene has a wellrounded
program for all ages. It teaches the full gospel of the
Bible. It practices its motto--"God loves you and so do we."
HOWELL COMMUNITY CHURCH
Howell Community Church of Howell, Michigan , 198
Cornell Street , Howell, Michigan, 546-6619o r 546-7032, Non-
Denominational. A member in the body whose head is the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Our first prayer meeting was in January , 1973. Attending
were : Michael and Elizabeth Garvey , Herman and Leona
Maupin, Charles and Mary Lou Mcconnaughey , Masis and
Doreen Mardigian .
Our first church meeting was on May 29, 1973 at 198 Cornell
Street , Howell the present meeting place.
Our first pastor was Rev . Michael Farrand. The Elders of
the church are Herman Maupin , Michael Garvey, Masis
Mardigian.
The Deacons of the church are LeRoy Rogers , Charles
McConnaughey, Don Swinney.
Services: Sunday 10:00 a.m ., Bible Study; 11:00 a.m.
Praise and Worship. Sunday , 7:00 p.m., Praise ; Wednesday ,
7:30 p.m . Prayer. "Jesus is Lord. "
CITY OF HOWELL CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
This story is about how our Christmas decorations that
hang from the light poles in the uptown business district ,
Santa's igloo on the Courthouse lawn and Santa's sleigh all
came into being.
About 1965, somehow the idea came about to have a white
elephant auction, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce .
The idea took a hold and by Chamber members picking up
white elephants, most of the summer, and white elephants in
October we had our white elephant auction.
auction.
These auctions took place from about 1965 to 1973 and at
almost each one a clear profit of about $600 was raised. After
each auction a trip was made to Bronners in Frankenmuth ,
Mich. by Chamber director Fred Catrell Chamber members
Charlie Itsell and Robert Withey and City Manager Roy
Trim , where the Christmas decorations were looked at, and
selected and these decorations certainly dolled Howell up for
the Christmas season .
The first Presbyterian Church, after it was moved to Grand River.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HOWELL
The very lovely Presbyterian Church, located on West
Grand River Avenue, opposite the Howell Carnegie Library
is the delightful result of two, very humble early smalle;
churches.
The first very modest one-no land mark remaining-was
located on the south side of the Michigan Avenue Middle
School, some place approximately between Washington and
Sibley Streets . It was later, due to so much mud, moved to the
west side of South Michigan Avenue, probably in the vicinity
of the parish house of the Episcopal Church, or to the
southeast corner of the old public square . I believe this to be
the present location of Shippy's or Sutton's Store . Much of
this was told me by Mrs . Bernard Glenn (Nellie) recently
deceased , a life long resident of Livingston County and noted
historian of Livingston County.
The second church was located at the corner of Sibley and
McCarthy Streets, and later used as a frozen food locker
when it was sold and demolished, including the corner stone'.
The demolishing of the corner stone, to me, is a real
calamity . However, copies of the deeds and other papers are
contained in the archives of the present church.
The present church was built and completed in the year
1855 and is the third church.
In the early 1830's every four weeks, an early, religious
leader, Elder Post of Plymouth, would travel to what was
then known as Livingston Center, to hold services. There
were Indian trails widened for team travel and there were
about a dozen homes built from Thompson Lake to West
Grand. River Avenue. As there were no meeting places, the
worshippers traveled to the large Thompson Home, on the
bank of the " pond" as it was called .
. It was at this time, decided , as the number of worshippers
increased, to have a church . Often during the week between
se~vices, it was rented out, to help defray expen~es. Deep
faith and determination, formally organized the church .
It is further recorded, that the Gay Store, located at the
south side of Sibley Street, a little to the west of Center Street ,
across from the present Presbyterian parking lot, was the
first store. It lay diagonally to the southwest corner of the old
public square-Shippy's and Sutton 's.
Mrs . Calvin Gatesman (Lillie)
"Researcher "
MEMORIES OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
OF HOWELL, MICHIGAN
By NELLIE LANSING GLENN (orig inally written September
1970)
Our family came to Howell in July, 1885; I was three years
old. Mr. G. F . Waters was the pastor who had been installed
in October, 1882. My only remembrance of him is when at a
first stage appearance I was to speak a piece, the subject,
" Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder What You
Are."
At that point my memory failed me and as I paused-to my
great surprise the kindly Mr. Waters prompted me and
completed the verse. This occasion was probably a
Children's Day. I remember an addition had been built out
over the front pews and someone lifted me up from the floor
so that I was above the audience .
About that same time , the church musical leaders
produced a cantata in the Howell Opera House in which with
a number of other little girls I wore a pink tarltan dress
bespangled with gold paper stars in one scene . In another
scene with little Bertie Parsons, I was a buttercup in a yellow
dress . I was supposed to stand quietly beside him while he
spoke a piece-what the subject was I do not remember . But
I felt _itn ecessary to add my bit-" Needles and pin, needles
and pms-when a man marries his troubles begin.'' Needless
to say I have no recollection of being asked to appear in any
church affair for a good many years after that initial performance
.
My first remembrance of the old church one built in 1855
was of the sanctuary, a long high room, with a gallery at th;
rear, reached by narrow stairs from the vestibule. The pulpit
was in the center of a raised platform, reached from the left
side by three steps . In 1885-6 the church had been enlarged
from its original size by the addition at the rear of a choir
bay, and excavation and furnishing of the basement. The
choir occupied a raised place back of the pulpit with a railing
separating it and the pump organ from the preacher .
The new addition to the Presbyterian Church .
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The Fashions of the 1900' s
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The first photograph was taken in the village of Howell in 1858.
Taken from the top of the old "Union" school looking north toward the
main four corners .
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County Government
By JOSEPH H. ELLIS, Livingston County Clerk
ORGANIZATION OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY
The Territory now Livingston County was a part of
Shiawassee and Washtenaw Counties until March 21, 1833,
when Governor George B. Porter approved an Act of
Legislature to provide for the laying out of Livingston
County.
The county receives its name in honor of Edward
Livingston , Secretary of State under President Jackson .
The actual organization of the county was effected under
an Act of Legislature approved March 24th, 1836, and the
County Government
Coordinator
Joseph H. Ellis, Livingston County
Clerk, 1962 to present; Past President,
Michigan Association of County Clerks;
former member of Livingston County
Board of Supervisors ; Brighton Township
Supervisor ; Brighton Township Trustee;
Brighton District 8 School Director; Past
Chairman, Board of Control Education
Division of State Association of County
Officials; Past President, Brighton Lions
Club; Charter Member of VFW Post 4357,
Brighton ; listed in Who's Who in Midwest
America; member of S.A .R. (Sons
of American Revolution); member of St.
George Lutheran Church, Brighton;
Chairman of the Executive Committee,
Livingston County Republican Party .
county was composed of the townships of Green Oak (which
included Brighton Township ), Hamburg (which included
Genoa ), Putnam (which included Marion ), Unadilla (which
included Iosco), Howell (which included the present Oceola ,
Deerfield , Cohoctah , Conway, Handy and Tyrone townships ).
Under the provisions of the Act organizing Livingston
County , a special election for county officers was held on the
first Monday in May, 1836, resulting in the election of the first
county officials as follows : Sheriff , Justus J . Bennett ; County
Clerk, F.J .B. Crane ; Register of Deeds, Ely Barnard ;
Treasurer , Amos Adams ; Judge of Probate, Kingsley S.
Bingham (who later became governor ); County Surveyor ,
Amos Adams ; Coronors , John W. Peavey and John Drake ;
Associate Judges , Elisha W. Brockway and Elnathon Noble.
The total number of votes cast at this election was 108.
ORGANIZATION AND FIRST PROCEEDINGS OF THE
LIVINGSTON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
The first meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held at
the home of Amos Adams in Howell, on the 4th day of
October , 1836. Supervisors present were Kingsley S. Bingham
of Green Oak Township , Christopher L. Culver of
Hamburg Township , John Hudson of Putnam Township ,
Philester Jessup of Howell Township , and Eli Lee of
Hartland Township.
Eli Lee was chosen moderator and Ely Barnard , clerk. The
following day Elnathan Noble of Unadilla Township arrived
and took his seat and the Board proceeded to do the county
business. The session continued until October 6th when the
Board adjourned "sine die. " The first business at this session
was the creation of a $3 bounty on wolves , which were
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The first courthouse built in 1847 and used until just before the
present courthouse was finished. Most of the bricks from this building
were used in the new one .
rampant in this area at the time , and the apportionment of
taxes to the several townships.
The first Probate Judge of Livingston County was the Hon.
Kingsley S. Bingham. No business was done in the Probate
Office during his incumbency. The first Probate Court in the
county was held by his successor, the Hon. James W.
Stansbury of Pinckney Village, on the 25th day of December ,
1838, and the first business was the appointment of a
guardian for the minor heirs of Henry Zulauf, deceased.
The first Circuit Court held in and for Livingston County
was held at the school house in the Village of Howell on the
8th day of November , 1837. Present were the Hon. William A.
Fletcher, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Hon. Elisha
W. Brockway and the Hon. Elnathan Noble, Associate
Judges .
Judge Fletcher was at one time Attorney General for the
territory . He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court after the admission of the State into the Union.
The foregoing is intended only as a brief outline of the
earliest beginnings and organization of Livingston County.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND SQUARE
The Livingston County Courthouse , a dominant feature of
the city of Howell, reposes sedately among trees on a
well-trimmed lawn. The Courthouse Square is only one
block from the main intersection of town and is situated on
the north side of Grand River Avenue, the main east-west
street bisecting the city . The Square is the central location
for many community functions , including parades, band
concerts , and rallies . Dominating the southwest corner of the
front lawn is the War Memorial honoring the military dead of
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Livingston County. Impressive ceremonies are held here to
observe national holidays .
COURTHOUSE LAND
March 21, 1833 was the date of the official laying out of
Livingston County. The actual organization of the county
was effected under the act of legislature approved March 24,
1836. The first County Offices of clerk , register of deeds and
treasurer were located in the Eagle Hotel of Amos Adams,
and in the private homes of Kingsley Bingham and Flavius
J .B. Crane.
In 1836, a commissioner appointed by the governor located
the county site on the old public square of Crane and Brooks
plat. Mr. Crane laid out and donated the land to be known as
the Public Square. On the northwest corner of the square ,
Mr. Crane erected a small building in the summer of 1837-2
rooms intended for his private use . However , the public
offices of the county were soon transferred there ; the
building being first rented and then purchased by the county.
With the Act of 1841, the limits of the county-site were
extended to embrace the western half of Section 36. Land
incorporated in this extension included the present court -
house site .
In the spring of 1845, vote was taken at each town meeting
to build a courthouse and jail. The Board of Supervisors
elected a building committee who advertised for the receival
of plans and specifications . In June , 1846, at a special
meeting , the Board arranged for the building of the first
courthouse . Contract was let to Enos B. Taylor who
completed the building in the fall of 1847. Total cost including
extras was $5,928.
When it came to building the courthouse , the location
became an important issue. Peter Cowdry and Edward
Thompson who platted additions to the village of Howell were
sure if they could get the building located on their land , it
would prove beneficial to their addition . With effort, they
succeeded-the county site was changed from the old Public
Square at Grand River and Walnut Streets to its present
location . The front part of the square being donated by Mr.
Cowdry in 1842 and the north half by Mr. Thompson in 1843.
Both donors of the land gave conveyance with the condition
that if the land ceased to be used for county buildings , it was
to revert to them or their heirs.
The land donated includes the streets surrounding the
present square , (State , Court, Church and Grand River ).
Legal I description of the land : NW¼ of Section 36 and
SW¼of Section 36.
The Crane building was purchased by the county and
moved during 1845f rom the northwest corner of "old Public
Square " to the Courthouse Square . The building was placed
about midway between the present front of the courthouse
and the west side of the square . Immediately after the
courthouse was finished , the Board of Supervisors passed a
resolution to allow all religious denominations to hold
services there . The proposition was accepted by all but the
Presbyterians who already had their own church building .
The jail and sheriff 's residence occupied the ground floor of
this courthouse . The county and jury rooms were on the
The old county jail built in 1888 and razed in 1947.
second floor. In 1849, a contract was let to George W. and
Frederick J . Lee to build an office building west of the
courthouse on the site occupied by Crane 's wooden office
building. This new building was stucco and completed that
same year at a cost of $545.20. The building served its
purpose until 1873w hen it was demolished and a better one
took its place as offices for the County Clerk and Register of
Deeds. In 1853a building of stucco was erected for the use of
the Judge of Probate and County Treasurer , east of the
present courthouse . When $500 was approved for the purpose
of grading and fencing the square , the block containing the
three buildings was surrounded by a picket fence .
COURTHOUSE
In the winter of 1889, a building commission was convened
in Howell for the condemnation of another building which had
become dangerous . When they completed their work, they
also examined the courthouse. The front walls were found to
be materially springing and cracks were noticeable in the
side and rear walls . They formally condemned the building
for any further meetings . On February 26th the Board of
Supervisors was summoned in extra session and a resolution
was carried that the courthouse was "unsafe for further use
for county purposes. " A proposition was submitted (January
session , 1889) to build a new courthouse at the cost of $30,000.
A new sheriff 's residence and jail had recently been built .
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With the jail out of the courthouse , sentiment for a new one
was rapid in forming. The supervisors submitted the
question to the voters - 1470 voted yes , 1059 voted no-a
majorit y of over 400 for the new building .
After the old building was condemned , the Opera House
was rented for the Circuit Court use at a cost of $15.00p er day
when used, until the new courthouse was ready .
When the square was cleared to make room for the new
courthouse , much of the material in the three buildings went
into the walls of the present courthouse .
CORNERSTONE LA YING
Saturda y, August 10th, 1889, with Calvin Wilcox as
marshall of the parade , the procession formed at the
courthouse at 2 p.m. It was headed by Civil War veterans
plus the Howell Cornet Band and the Ayres Martial Band. It
proceeded west to the 800 block of Grand River and the
residence of William McPherson , Jr. , from there it escorted
General Russell A. Alger, Robert E. Frazer and Josiah
Turner to the speakers stand at the courthouse square. An
estimated 8,000 persons were present for the ceremonies.
The band opened the program. Howell Village President
W.P. Vanwinkle introduced Rev . Jesse Kilpatrick of the
Methodist Church who offered a prayer. Mr. Vanwinkle
complimented the people on the erection of the courthouse .
Attorney Luke S. Montague , former school principal , paid
glowing tribute to Judge Josiah W. Turner whom he said
" laid the foundation of the practice of law in the county" and
that it was eminently proper that the venerable judge Jay the
cornerstone for this magnificent temple of justice . The list of
papers deposited in the cornerstone included histories of
every organization , church and history in the county . (The
Looking toward Grand River from the spire of the old Baptist
Church . Taken in 1876, shows part of the old courthouse and old
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full list appeared in the Aug. 15th, 1889, issue of the
Livingston County Republican news pa per ).
Before laying the cornerstone , Judge Turner gave some
reminiscences of the early history of the county . He stated
that of the lawyers who had practiced with him in 1857, none
of them sur vived. Then , with appropriate ceremony , the
Judge laid the cornerstone completing his pronouncement
with these words , "May God of nature bless this people with
<o.:ntinued prosperity , guide and direct the completion of this
building and Jong may the structure be preserved from
decay , an emblem of the thrift of the county of Livingston ."
General Alger, in the principal address , said, " It is a
matter of prudence that you protect your records with care
and security-you but protect your rights and those of your
children to the later generations ."
Businessmen celebrated the opening of the new courthouse
on April 17, 1890, at the National Hotel. There was a program
of speeches , toasts and music followed by a banquet . The
menu for that banquet lists Baltimore oysters , chicken and
lobster salads , turkey , ham , chicken , Buffalo tongue , lady
fingers , cream kisses , and fruit cake.
COURTHOUSE TOWER
When the first courthouse was built in 1847, a belfry was
erected , by resolution of the Board , with the condition that
the people of Howell raise a suitable sum to purchase a bell .
When the old courthouse was torn down, the bell was saved
by the Fishbeck Brothers and others . It was then properly
mounted and placed inside the bar railing of the circuit
courtroom .
In 1890, a special meeting of Common Council of Howell
was called to consider the question of buying a town clock to
Presbyterian Church on the left. Center background is the old Central
school.
be placed in the new courthouse tower . 118 taxpayers
presented a petition to purchase a town clock and bell for the
courthouse, the cost not to exceed one thousand dollars.
George C. Patterson, as agent for E . Howard Watch and
Clock Co., presented a proposition from his company to place
the clock and bell in the courthouse tower and sell them to the
village for $991.
On February 9th, 1890, the clock arrived and was installed .
The dial is said to be about eight feet in diameter . The minute
hand is three feet long. The hour hand is two feet long. The
letters on the dial are about nine inches high and the minute
marks are three inches long. The clock has four faces-one
for each side of the tower. Perched atop the steeple is a
weathervane with a spread-winged eagle landing on a ball .
The invoice for the weathervane from C.G. Jewett , Howell,
dated March 15th, 1890, lists one copper weathervane , eagle ,
letters , balls and arrows complete , gilded with pure gold,
cost $50.
The bell weighs 1200 pounds and was cast by the McShane
Bell Foundry of Baltimore, Ohio in 1889. Suggestions were
made that the bell be used for a fire alarm, by varying its
method of striking. The bell was so used for some time , but
reverted to its original purpose -s triking each hour . On a still
night, it can be heard by most residents within the city limits .
Since 1890, the City of Howell has maintained , painted ,
repaired and paid for the winding of the clock. Each Friday ,
the clock was greased and wound until 1944 when the
mechanical weights were replaced by electrical works.
Maintenance is now confined to an annual summer visit by
the Ohio firm . In 1974, the cost of cleaning , servicing, oiling
the clock , synchronizing the hands and adjusting the bell
hammers was $85.
An estimate made during the 1960's indicates that in
Michigan 's 83 counties , there are only 15 or 20 courthouses
built prior to 1900 still standing .
Although the business of the county has multiplied to such a
degree that additional space is needed for various offices, the
main courtroom and record-keeping offices are still located
in the courthouse built in 1889. Within the past 12 months ,
plans have been formalized for preserving this structuremodernizing
it enough to conform to fire and building
regulations , keeping the public and employees comfortable
with air conditioning and improved heating system-yet still
preserve its historic and architectural charm .
SUNDRY PROCEEDINGS OF THE LIVINGSTON
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Following are several incidents from the official records of
Livingston County:
SPARROW BOUNTY
Proceedings of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors,
Friday , January 13, 1899, Mr. Arthur W. Cimmer ,
Supervisor of Hartland Township, offered the following
resolution which was accepted and adopted:
"Whereas- it appears from the County Treasurer's report
that the amount paid by this County for sparrow bounty is
rapidly increasing and promises to soon assume alarming
proportions ,
And Whereas-it is the opinion of this Board that many
birds are presented to the township clerks in such a condition
as to make it impossible to tell whether they are sparrows or
other birds ,
Therefore , be it resolved-that the township clerks of the
several townships are hereby requested not to issue
certificates for sparrow bounty unless such sparrows are
presented in a condition to be easily recognized as such and
the person making application for bounty shall certify that
the sparrows were killed in the township where application is
made. "
McKINLEY DEATH
Proceedings of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors,
Monday, October 14, 1901:
Mr. William H.S. Wood of Howell introduced the following
preamble and resolutions which were unanimously adopted
and the Clerk was instructed to follow instructions as
indicated in the last resolution .
"Whereas-William McKinley, President of the United
States was last month cruelly shot by an assassin while
extending his hand in love and confidence to the people at the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, from the effects of
which he died a week later .
Whereas-William McKinley was a fond son, a kind
husband , a gentle man , a good citizen often chosen to
positions of trust by the people in County, Congress , State and
Nation, and was twice chosen to fill the highest office in the
gift of a free people, and in all positions he filled public trust
with earnestness , sincerity and ability as he saw his duty ,
always true to it and the people.
Whereas-William McKinley, as chief executive , represented
the people as the head of its chosen form of
government, and the attack upon him resulted from no
personal hatred of the man , nor grievance or any character
personal or otherwise , but was a deliberate assault upon all
and any form of government by a follower of those misguided
people who despise all laws ;
Therefore , be it resolved-that in common with all civilized
mankind , we deplore the loss of William McKinley as a man,
a friend of the people, and a citizen of this country . We mourn
with his stricken wife and family the death of a tender and
loved companion and we express hereby the great loss to the
nation and mankind of a character so noble, and an executive
just in the zenith of his work for the welfare and glory of the
Country as expressed in his speech recommending reciprocity
and recognition of mutual worldwide obligations in the
future made the day before he was assassinated .
Resolved- that we detest anarchy and all advocates of
personal force in destroying law and order , that here the
ballot is the true vehicle of reform , and obedience to law is
what makes us free . That we recommend that all anarchists
be placed on some tropical island under international
surveillance to end their own destiny and that all violations of
law be deplored as tending to bring all law and love of law
into disrespect and tending to suggest and encourage those
not well balanced to accept as right, false and dangerous
doctrines in violation of all law and order .
Resolved-that these resolutions be spread upon our
minutes , and a certified copy thereof sent to Mrs . McKinley
as a token of esteem , respect and sympathy , and to our
Congressman ."
GIFTS
Further proceedings of the Livingston County Board of
Supervisors , Monday, October 14, 1901:
Mr. William H.S. Wood of Howell offered the following
Resolution viz :
"Whereas: The Board of Supervisors is the Legislative
body of the County and ,
Whereas : Diverse persons have courteously remembered
the Board in times past with sundry gifts of boxes of cigars ,
packages of candy , baskets of fruit , etc .,
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Therefore , be it resolved, that while appreciating the
disinterested motives and good intentions of the givers, it is
deemed incompatible to the best public service to accept
such gifts in the future .
On motion the resolution was laid upon the table until
afternoon .
Upon reconvening at 1:30 o'clock, Mr. Wood moved his
resolution relative to gifts to Board of Supervisors be taken
from the table for consideration. Mr. Wood moved its
adoption . No one seconded the motion and the resolution died
for lack of support. "
STATUES FOR EX-GOVERNORS
Mr. Wood presented the following resolution:
"Whereas: We desire to show in lasting memorial our
affection to the two great men who coming from adjoining
townships in the southern tier of this county were long
faithful counselors in township, county and state , and to
initiate proper steps towards memorial statues to be placed
in the Courthouse Grounds at Howell, facing Grand River St.,
one of Hon. Kingsley S. Bingham , first Republican Governor ,
and one of Hon. Edwin B. Winans, last Democratic Governor
of Michigan.
Resolved , that Hon. William McPherson of Howell, Hon.
William Ball of Hamburg, Hon. Jacob Kanouse of Cohoctah,
Hon. B.T.O. Clark of Brighton , Hon. Eugene Hicks of
Brighton , Hon. George L. Fisher of Fowlerville , Horace
Norton of Marion , Hon. J .B. Tazziman of Oceola,H.F. Malbly
of Green Oak, Hon. James Edgar of Green Oak, George
Barnes of Howell, Hon. George W. Teeple of Pinckney, Frank
Ives of Unadilla , G.A. Kirtland of Iosco, Benjamin Batcheler
of Oceola, C.D. Parsons of Conway, Charles Johnson of
Deerfield , Daniel Jayne of Tyrone, H.B. Thompson of
Hartland, H.E . Beurman of Genoa and Kress Toronley of
Hartland be appointed a committee to meet , prepare and
appeal for contributions , appoint additional honorary members
of said committee from each township , and raise funds
towards securing this worthy object and a successful effort in
the near future for a statue of Hon. Kingsley S. Bingham , and
Resolved, that Hon. Charles Fishbeck of Howell, Hon.
Luther S. Kanouse of Cohoctah , Hon. Soloman L. Bignall and
Hon. Frank Rounsville of Fowlerville , Hon. Freeman W.
Allison of Putnam Douglas Glaspie of Deerfield, Hon. George
Winans of Hamburg, William Powers of Brighton , Hon.
Albird M. Davis of Genoa, Dr. H.F. Sigler of Pinckney,
Edward Farmer of Unadilla, C.S. Bishop of Green Oak,
George Horn of Conway, Isaac Stowe of Iosco, Dr .
Cunningham of Hartland , Eugene Salsberg of Tyrone,
Eugene Bush of Conway, A.T. Frisbee of Cohoctah, J.N .
Smartz of Hamburg, Hon. William P . VanWinkle of Howell,
John Ryan of Howell, Richard Behrens of Genoa, O.P.
Marble of Oceola, B.H. Marbig of Hartland, William Bamber
of Oceola, William Robb of Deerfield , William McKane of
Cohoctah, John Cousell of Marion , Lyman Beach of Marion ,
be appointed a similar committee with similar duties and
powers to secure contributions for the statue of Hon. E.B .
Winans, and that the said committees be requested to accept
this labor of love, have authority to fill vacancies , enlarge
their number and work as best they may for the objects
aforesaid and without expense to Livingston County.
Hon. Sidney A. Smith of Green Oak moved the following
amendments:
Resolved: that the said statues when ordered should be of
as nearly uniform or similar size , height , base and material
as possible.
Resolved : that the several members of the present Board
of Suprvisors be added to the above committees .
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Resolved: that the committees can work jointly or
separately as seems best and that the funds collected be
evenly divided for the purpose so as to get similar statues .
Mr . Woods' resolution as amended by Mr . Smith was
adopted.
(Comment by County Clerk Joseph H . Ellis-1975: Since no
statues were ever erected , we can assume that sufficient
monies were never collected ).
LIVINGSTON COUNTY-1975
Livingston County is the fastest growing county in the state
of Michigan . Population of County in 1890-21,000; Census of
1970-58,967; estimated 1975-75,000. It is situated in
southeast Michigan, and is the hub of a wheel with the two
major expressways crossing the county east and west and
north and south-I-96 and U.S. 23. Detroit being located 30
miles to the east on I-96, Pontiac 25 miles to the northeast ,
Ann Arbor 15 miles south on U.S. 23, Flint to the north 30
miles , and Lansing 30 miles to the west on I-96, making
Livingston County an ideal rural suburban community.
Recreation includes several state parks-Kensington
Metropolitan Park , numerous golf courses , ski lodges and
fishing on several hundred lakes .
Howell, with a population of 5,225, is the seat of county
government. There are two incorporated cities in the
county- Howell and Brighton ; two villages - Fowlerville and
Pinckney , and sixteen townships. There are approximately
seven well-organized volunteer fire departments in the
various areas of the county , all participating in a mutual aid
pact to assist one another when need arises.
The County government operates a county-wide Building
Inspection Department , enforcing the standards of good
construction. It is one of the few counties in the state with
such a department .
The County government also operates a county-wide
Emergency Ambulance Service 24 hours a day , with service
to St. Joseph Hospital and University Hospital in Ann Arbor ,
McPherson Community Hospital in Howell, and Sparrow
Hospital in Lansing.
The County government has also created a DPW, operating
a county-wide solid waste disposal and is looking into the
feasability of sewer and water facilities in certain areas of
the county .
Also operated by the county is a county-wide Health
Department , having various programs in the area of hearing
and vision clinics , and immunization programs for communicable
diseases. Also in operation is a Mental Health Clinic
with a staff of seven or eight professionals on the staff ,
specializing in community mental health programs , drug
abuse , etc .
The county is serviced by one of the finest State Police
posts in Michigan located in the Brighton area. It has a staff
of approximately 45 troopers , detectives , etc .
Our County Sheriff Department, an extremely efficient
organization , has a staff of approximately 50 deputies ,
detectives , etc. , and a new jail completed in 1972.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
HISTORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY-By Franklin Ellis ,
1880
JOSEPH H. ELLIS- Livingston County Clerk (1975)
Official Proceedings of Livingston County Board of
Supervisors , VOL No. 3.
The new jail and Sheriffs home, built 1955.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY ROAD COMMISSION HISTORY
By EARL DICKERSON
The Livingston County Road Commission was established
in 1919 by appointment of three Road Commissioners by the
County Board of Supervisors . The first three Commissioners
appointed were R.B. McPherson, John Bradley, and T.K.
Parshall.
The first meeting of the Board of County Road Commissioners
was on April 29, 1919. The only item of business at that
meeting was to give permission to the State Highway
Department to build Grand River through Howell Township
with concrete surface instead of gravel.
The first employee of the Road Commission was Will J.
Slavin who was hired on July 1, 1919 as County Road
Engineer . The Engineer was authorized later that month to
purchase four graders , twelve Mccollum floats and a
screening plant in which to start maintaining the roads that
were established as county roads on August 4, 1919.
The newly established County Road system consisted of
49.33 miles of single reward roads that were already built and
another 88.25 miles of roads to be built for a total of 137.58
miles. Of course there were also Township roads and Trunk
Line Roads.
The first year's revenue to the Road Commission was
$12,832.19.
The county road system showed a steady growth from the
organization in 1919 until 1931 at which time the state
legislature gave the County Road Commission all of the
township roads . That turned over 737 miles of township road
to the Road Commission over a five year period. Twenty
percent of the roads became county roads over the years 1932
through 1936. With the addition of 737 miles the road system
more than doubled its size.
As Livingston County grew so did the Road Commission.
As platting occurred road mileage was added to the system.
Until the 1940's most of the county roads were used as
farm to market roads. When the mud got deep in the spring it
didn't disrupt the community like it does today . Farm
families had enough staple goods in the house to get by a
couple weeks. Today a major of the county residents have to
commute to work on the county roads . If roads are
impassable it creates a hardship on the residents . And so has
been the growth of Livingston County and the County Road
system.
Today 1975 the Road Commission has 1,182 miles of roads
in its system. It has a fleet of equipment valued in excess of
$1,000,000.00. Its expenditures for road maintenance and
construction exceeds $2,000,000.00a year. The Road Commission
has attempted to meet the requirements of the growing
community by providing a road system adequate to serve the
community within the financial means available.
HISTORY OF GENOA TOWNSHIP
By SHERMAN HALLER, GENOA TOWNSHIP SUPERVISOR
Genoa Township is located at the geographical center of
Livingston County. The original Grand River Road crosses
Genoa diagonally from southeast to northwest crossing
through some of its best improved parts. The old Ann Arbor
road now the Chilson Road runs south into Hamburg
Township and then to Ann Arbor City. There are two
railroads crossing Genoa, the old Pere Marquette now the
C&O and the old Ann Arbor railroad cross each other at a
place called Ann Pere . Where once stood a railway station
and hotel. Before getting too far in this short synopsis of this
township many of these happenings I can remember as a boy
having been born in Genoa and so far most of my life I have
lived here.
Genoa history dates back in the early 1800's. Many of the
founders or early settlers still leave the memory of their
achievements and many descendants are still residents of
Genoa Township.
If I leave the impression that I am proud of being a resident
of Genoa that is what I mean to do.
The first entries of record were made by Almon Maltby and
John White in May and June respectively in the year 1833 but
was two years later that a settlement was made. In the fall of
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1834 Ely Barnard visited Genoa and entered considerable
quantities of land for himself and his brother .
Just as a coincidence I was born and raised with my
parents and my sister and brother on the farm formerly
owned by the Barnard brothers also went to school in the old
Barnard School which was located at Beck and Chilson Road,
however , that was several years later. I am very proud of the
fact that I can remember much of the history of Genoa which
was handed down to me by my parents, also many of the
neighbors, many who are still living in Genoa . Many names
today are very well remembered and still very much a part
of Genoa some of those are the Sharp family , Latson family ,
Lounsberry , Herbst , Musch, Itsell , Weinmeister , Nixon,
Seim and many others . Much of the information I have is
from the Falk family who are relatives on my mothers side of
the family. They resided and owned much of Chemung Lake
on the north side and I might add Charles Falk lived in my
home in his later years . He was 90 years of age and passed
away in 1964.
He told me about the Indians camped on the north side of
Lake Chemung when the Falk family moved to this area
about 1850. He told me about the depot on the now C&O which
was located at the corner of Dorr and Crooked Lake Road
just across the corner from the new Genoa Town Hall. He told
me about the old toll road (Plank Road ) which is now Grand
River .
Many other family names that still are very near and dear
to me. The Weinmeister family who settled at Chemung Lake
(old Long Lake who developed one of the first large subdivisions
namely Glen Echo sat at Chemung Lake ). Then
there were many names from the Chilson area where once
was the largest sand and gravel plant in the county . Most of
this land now belongs to the Zeeb family. Also the names of
the Truhn family , the Case family , the Beurmann family and
the King family and Brogan family.
I don't consider myself an old man but I can remember at
least four or five log houses in this area. There are two large
brick houses on Challis Road, built by bricks where the
material was taken from soil on this property and on our old
farm there was a paint marsh from which paint was made.
Genoa is a very unique township, we have many of the
finest lakes of this area , Lake Chemung , Big and Little
Crooked Lakes , Round Lake, Baetke Lake , Lime Lake, Earl
Lake. Also we are located on one of the divide lines . The
outlet from Crooked Lakes and other waters south of Crooked
Lake Road flow into the Huron River Basin and north of
Crooked Lake Road the water flows north into Saginaw Bay .
One of the first religious meetings was the Baptists where
the first religion meeting was held in the fall and winter of
1835-36.
In 1958 St. Georges German Evangelical Lutheran
Congregation was organized by Rev . Mr. Smith of Ann
Arbor . In 1861 three acres of land was purchased in section 14
for a church and burying ground site . Dr . Buck (LLD),
father -in-law of John Weinmeister of Howell went to Europe
to raise sufficient funds to build a church. The sum of $300
was given by Hamburg , Germany and the church was built
on old Crooked Lake Road , now Herbst Road .
The oldest burial ground in Genoa is located in section 13,
another in section 14, and the Chilson Cemetery where there
are markers dating back to 1836.
The township of Genoa is one of the fastest growing
townships and I think one of the most beautiful. Genoa
Township is well represented in four school districts Howell
Brighton , Hartland and Pinckney . ' '
I have seen Genoa grow from one of the finest rural areas
to one of only about seven farms remaining but still retains a
rural atmosphere.
Genoa is a very attractive place to live, good school
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districts, golf courses , one of the finest ski mountains , good
lakes for fishing and boating .
I am very proud of Genoa .
HOWELL TOWNSHIP HISTORY
By GLENN BERRY
In 1835 Mr. Rial Lake acquired 900 acres of land from the
United States. This property is located in Howell and Marion
Townships. Ferdinand Munson married Mr . Lake 's daughter
who inherited 240 acres of land from her father. This land
was later sold to the Berry family . Mr . Glenn Berry, Howell
Township Supervisor , now lives on and operates this farm.
This piece of property has only changed hands three times . In
1844t he taxes on the 240a cres were $2.35.A log cabin built in
1803 on the Berry property has been moved and is now on
display at History Town on Grand River Avenue across from
Lake Chemung.
The Cherokee Indians used the Red Cedar River , three
miles of this river are located in Howell Township , to
transport and barter their goods. For many years local
residents regularly found arrow heads and pieces of indian
utensils while working the fields . An occasional arrowhead is
still turned up.
Grand River A venue was once a plank road and the pony
ex~ress s~op~ed at Fleming , located in Howell Township.
This locat10n 1s now known as Six Corners.
The shape of Howell Township is the most perfect square in
the State of Michigan - T3N, R4E . Most townships are
fractional.
At one time there were thirteen school districts in Howell
Township . Each district contained a country school which
went through the eighth grade . Howell Township children
now attend the Howell Community Schools.
The Lake head oil pipeline starts at Superior , Wisconsin
and ends at Sarnia , Ontario. Over six miles of this pipeline
runs through Howell Township . There ?re also several gas
wells in the Township and they are now mainly used for
underground storage .
The Livingston County Airport is located in Howell
Township. Since its inception , the airport has continuously
improved and expanded their facilities to serve the growing
needs of the community .
Howell Township has been largely an agricultural and
residential area . Farming was originally done with horses
and gradually changed to steam power . Now the plowing ,
thrashing grain , filling silos, and other assorted farm work is
done by gasoline and diesel powered tractors and accessories
.
People from the cities are moving into this area to enjoy
the country atmosphere. Interstate Highway 1-96g oes across
Howell Township and gives easy access to Detroit and
outlying metropolitan areas . Howell Township population
has increased from 900 in 1950 to over 3,000 in 1975. The
Township's land valuation was 1.7 million dollars in 1953 and
in 1975 it has increased to 26.5 million dollars.
Howell Township is in the process of establishing a
sewerage program for an industrial corridor to be located in
the Township. This will attract additional industry and
provide a substantial tax base for Howell Township as well as
create many jobs .
Howell Township is a friendly and progressive area and is
doing an excellent job in meeting the needs of the Township
residents .
MARION TOWNSHIP
By DOROTHY HOLDEN
Marion Township was formed from part of Putnam
Township by an act of the State Legislature that was
approved on March 11, 1837 and was named for General
Francis Marion . He was 'The Swamp Fox of the Carolinas'
during the Revolutionary War. Marion has the highest point
in the county (now Hillcrest Center) and its streams flow to
Lake Michigan on the west , Saginaw Bay on the north and
Lake Erie on the south . The first Township meeting was held
at the home of Hiram Wing on April 3, 1837. About twenty
voters were present and sixteen were elected to offices. Mr.
Wing was elected Township Clerk and Justice of Peace at
that meeting . Dr. Thomas Hoskins was the first Supervisor .
Our first ballot box has been given to the Historical Society
here in Howell and is a little larger than a shoe box. The
whole number of names reported on the first assessment roll
May 1, 1837 as resident taxpayers was thirty-four and the
total population was 202. The total assessed valuation was
$65,868.00an d taxes levied were $213.66I. n 1974, the valuation
was $16,900,340.00 and taxes levied were $645,030.86N. ow for
1975,t he valuation is $21,500,000.00. The present population is
over 2600 and there are over 1300 registered voters .
The first town hall was built in 1856a t a cost of about $500.
It was moved across the road in 1951 when the present hall
was built .
Marion has changed from a farming community to a
Making the cut for the Jewitt Street bridge on the C&O .
'bedroom' community for Detroit, Lansing and Howell.
Many duties have been taken over by Livingston County and
Howell City. We no longer have Justices of the Peace , School
inspectors , School Commissioners , Drain Commissioners or
Overseers for the Highways.
We now have a seven member Planning Commission and a
five member Township Board. W. Burr Clark served as
supervisor for thirty-eight years . He passed away while in
office in May 1972. Lloyd Haber! is now supervisor and
Dorothy Pohl is treasurer. Bruce Love and Harold L. Smith
are trustees and have previously held other offices-board of
review , zoning board , zoning administrator and D.P.W.
representative . I have served as clerk for over 19 years .
We are outgrowing our present hall and have purchased
twelve acres to the south of the hall for future development.
We may build a larger hall or an addition to the existing one.
OCEOLA TOWNSHIP
By MILTON CONINE,
Oceola Township Supervisor. 0945 to Present).
Oceola Township, near the center of Livingston County,
was an agricultural township until about 1930 when it began
to become more urbanized.
The first land entries were made by William Redding in
1832 in Section 13.
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First settlers were H.H. Graves and Henry Neff in 1834.
In 1835T homas K. Parshall and J. Brown came and built a
log house. As the years came the Walkers , Brownings,
Rumseys , Eagers , VanKeurens , Parkers , Riddles, Tafts ,
Botsfords , Hardys , Batchlers , Russell Blood and others
settled here . The Botsford house is still standing and owned
by that family .
The first cemetery was the Riddle selected by Eligah
Riddle in about 1841. This is the largest cemetery in the
township containing three acres , others are VanKeuren ,
Kellogg, St. Johns.
The first school was built in 1837o n land owned by Andrew
Riddle, later known as Rumsey District No. 1.
The first school houses were built of logs and the number
increased to nine until the 1940sw hen they began to annex to
Howell and Hartland school districts.
The first churches were the Parker , Hardy , and St. Johns
Catholic.
The Parker was built in 1873a nd continued until 1934w hen
it was sold and torn down. The Hardy was built in 1871a nd is
still being used for church services . The Catholic Church in
the eastern part of the township was one of the first.
Oceola Centre , near the Hardy Church had a Post Office for
many years in the 1860s, from 1840 to 1880, among the early
postmasters were Hiram Goodrich first , Edward Browning
and Ephraim Hardy . Mr. Hardy also assisted in laying out
the roads in the township.
In 1838 the township was organized with Jacob Snell as
Supervisor and Joseph Rumsey as Clerk. Some of the
supervisors were William Rumsey , Samuel Tubbs, Ben
Durfee , James Botsford , William Hazard and Vincent
Parshall.
J .A. Vancamp was the first Blacksmith. In 1900, Bert
Conine established a shop in the north part of the township
and was a smithy until the automobile came along and did
away with the horse and buggy .
The first sawmill was probably built by William C. Rumsey
in 1837. The hardwood lumber was sawed by this mill in 1847
for the frame dwelling that he lived in for many years . There
were always one or more sawmills in operation until 1970
when the last mill quit operations and moved out of the area
Hardware store in W. Cohoctah later called Sprungtown.
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due to a shortage of water power . All of the lumber is now
shipped in.
From 1920 to the fifties, Thurber Cornell and Jesse Cook
operated saw mills and bought timber from many farmers.
Around 1900t here were three churches , nine public schools
and was mostly farming consisting of growing wheat , oats ,
corn and hay , fruits and vegetables grown for home use .
Many nice farm dwellings, barns and outbuildings , some of
which are in existence today are well kept and show evidence
of a prosperous community.
In 1925, three subdivisions were dedicated namely
Howell-Lake-Oak Grove , Oakwoods and Oakcrest Subdivisions
. Gradually more subdivisions were made and at
present have about 400 residences. In 1975 there are 12
subdivisions and many private roads and farms being split
up in 10 acre parcels or less for residential houses with
families commuting daily to work in nearby cities.
There are 12 lakes, some being developed and several
year-round houses being built. There are many small rivers
and streams supplying plenty of fresh water for the township .
The Township Hall, located in the center of the township ,
has been improved with a kitchen , sanitary facilities and an
office, and is used for man y meetings and groups as a
community hall.
'A Zoning Ordinance adopted in 1961 has been in operation
with a zoning board until 1972w hen it was revised and a new
one adopted with a Planning Commission that meets one or
more times a month.
The township roads were maintained by the township until
about 1930 and financed by a road tax with the work being
done by the local residents . After the Livingston County Road
Commission took all roads over except private roads and nO\;
are built and maintained by the county .
From 1900u p to the present the following people were some
of our township officers : Supervisors : John Botsford , Wm.
Bamber , John Botsford , Jr ., Thurber Cornell, Ben Hacker ,
Jake Eager , Clyde Hetchler and Milton Conine.
Clerk : Robert Eager , Boyden Kimberly , Ralph Bambridge
, Orlando Daniels and Mike Wines.
Treasurer : Margaret Daniels , Georgia Browning , Joe
Dunn, Milton Conine, Margaret Daniels , Arlene Holmes ,
Irene Daniels and Evelyn Cornell.
Hospitals
By BERTHOLD WOODHAMS
When I first came to Howell way back in 1916H owell had no
hospital of any kind. Mothers were accustomed to having
their babies in their own homes and emergency cases of
accident or illnesses had to be sent to the nearest hospital out
of town. Once in a while accident victims would have to be
taken to the Livingston County Jail as the only available
place.
The Kings' Daughters, a very active women's organization
in those days , thought Howell ought to have a hospital and
undertook as one of their projects to bring a hospital to our
city. E . G. McPherson, one of the four McPherson brothers,
pioneers of Howell, when he died willed to his widow, Rosa
McPherson, the ancestral home on North Michigan Avenue
in Howell and when she died it went to her heirs .
They evidently agreed with the Kings' Daughters that they
would deed the house and property over to the City of Howell
to be used for hospital usage with two provisions: the
hospital was to be named the E. G. and Rosa McPherson
Memorial Hospital and if the property ever ceased to be used
for hospital purposes, it would revert back to the McPherson
interests. Then the Kings' Daughters were instrumental in
promoting a bonding issue of $30,000, I think it was, to
remodel the house into a hospital. This bonding issue was
passed by the voters. M. J . McPherson, another one of the
McPherson brothers agreed, too, to contribute $15,000 to a
hospital to purchase the necessary hospital equipment.
Bert W. Hoff was mayor of Howell when the bond issue
passed and on October 12, 1927 he appointed a "City Hospital
Commission" and their assignment was to convert the E . G.
McPherson home into a hospital and to see that it was
properly furnished with the equipment for hospital use. The
commission appointed by the Major and approved by the City
Council was: William McPherson, III; Herbert H. Gillette;
BertS. Pate ; WilliamE. Robb ; and Berthold Woodhams who
was designated as chairman of the commission.
The commission hired an architect from Ann Arbor by the
name of Fry who was experienced in designing hospitals and
Mr. Fry drew the plans to convert the home into a hospital.
The commission then proceeded to get construction bids to
carry out Mr. Fry 's plans the lower bidder was quite a well
known Howell contractor, Mr. Arthur Joy . The commission
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Hospitals
Coordinator
Robert Akin , came to Howell in 1927
from St. Charles, Illinois. In 1938 he
established an insurance agency known
as Robert J . Akin Insurance . Elected to
the Howell City Council and served from
1953 to 1957. Chairman of the McPherson
Memorial Hospital, City owned, chair -
man of Study Group and recommended
new hospital. Mayor Pro-Tern 1957,
President of Howell Rotary Club 1949.
Member of Howell Chamber of Commerce
, served on its Board of Directors .
Member of Knights of Columbus .
Chairman for Health Center Board 1955-
1959. President, Chemung Hills Country
Club 1966. Member of St. Joseph Church .
Married M . Ernestine Hughes 1934. One
son, Edward H. Akin, who is now
President and Owner of Akin-Akin, Inc.
Insurance Agency .
found out rather quickly that M . J.'s contribution of $15,000
would not be adequate even in those days to purchase all the
hospital equipment-the operating and delivery rooms and
their tables ; the X-ray; the equipment for the physiotherap y
room ; the hospital beds and dressers; and the kitchen stove,
pots and pans and dishes. Various organizations and individuals
were contacted by members of the commission and
they either furnished a room or bought some of the necessary
hospital equipment. I remember Herb Gillette as being
particularly active in getting this done.
Bruce McPherson told me that he wanted to make a contribution
to the hospital. When we came to buying the x-ray
we found we had only about $1,500 in the budget and the type
of x-ray that we wanted came to about $6,000. I remember
taking x-ray salesmen over to talk with Bruce and Bruce
wrote out a check for the difference we had in the budget and
the cost of the x-ray.
From the outset it seemed that the new hospital was
doomed to disaster. Art Joy had just about completed the
remodeling job converting the house into a hospital when in
the middle of the night a fire broke out and gutted the entire
new structure. Fortunately the commission had purchased
fire insurance that covered the loss but a lot of the
remodeling work had to be redone. As we found out later we
apparently hired the wrong person to be our first superintendent
, a Mrs . Bakke. Mrs . Bakke evidently had trouble
getting along with the new hospital personnel even though
she had employed most of them herself. Upon Mrs . Bakke's
recommendation , the commission had leased the Edward
Beach home which was right across the street from the
hospital for the nurses' home. Mrs . Bakke contended she
needed a home for her nurses rather than have her nurses
scattered all over Howell in their own places of residence.
These new nurses had just moved into this nurse's home with
their personal possessions when a fire destroyed pretty much
the home together with the nurses' clothing and other individual
property .
The new x-ray machine, in the architect's plans, was
placed in the basement of the remodeled building. But there
it misfunctioned due to the moisture in the basement. In
order to correct the condition, William McPherson at his own
expense had tile put all around the outside of the basement
walls and this seemed to cure the trouble .
At the dedicatory ceremonies we had Mr. Marshall who
had been instrumental in bringing a similar type hospital to
St. Johns, Michigan , Dr . Foo also from St. Johns who was
originally a Howell product , a protege of the late Judge Willis
Lyons, Superintendent Bakke, and others. While we were
holding the dedication on the front steps of the new hospital
some woman, admitted prematurely by the superintendent
in the new delivery room, delivered the first baby born in this
new hospital.
The McPherson Memorial Hospital thus came into being
about the summer of 1928.
MEDICAL-OSTEOPATH PHYSICIANS
At its beginning the hospital had difficulty attracting
patients to this new hospital. As we mentioned, mothers had
been used to having their babies at their homes and the
doctors themselves seemed a little reluctant or slow to use
the facilities provided by this new hospital. Unfortunately,
too, it seemed to the commission there seemed to be a sort of
animosity existing between the M.D. and D.O. professions.
We only had one D.O. physician in Howell at the time the new
hospital was trying to get under way-a Dr . Lamb, but the
M.D.'s informed the commission in no uncertain terms that
they would boycott the hospital entirely and take their
patients elsewhere if we allowed Dr. Lamb to bring his
patients to the hospital or even to have an x-ray picture taken
for him unless previously approved by an M.D. The commission
was left with no choice as we wanted the hospital
used by the M.D.'s.
SUBSIDIZING
The City of Howell had to subsidize the expenses of the
hospital for several years after it came into being. In an
effort to induce maternity cases into the hospital it offered a
package deal to expectant mothers by agreeing for $50 to
give them and their babies hospital care for ten days . In
those days there was no such thing as Blue Cross, Blue
Shield, and very few people carried any form of
hospitalization insurance . Automobile accident victims,
sometimes with broken bones and usually all bloody, when
they left they were financially unable to pay the hospital
bills.
Because of their influence into bringing this first hospital in
Howell into being the City Council and the Mayor asked the
King's Daughters for their recommendation as to
replacements of commission members when they retired and
recall that for a while Mrs. Henry Wines and Mrs . W. P .
VanWinkle as being on one of our first commissions. The
chairman of the commission was a council member always
and that is how I happened to be chairman of the first commission
but the chairman changed whenever the chairman
ceased to be on the city council. William McPherson , III
seemed to be a sort of permanent members of the commission
at least until the city of Howell relinquished
ownership and control of it until ii. became the McPherson
Health Center .
Thus we record some of the problems the first commission
had in bringing into existence the first hospital in Howell.
1953-1959
By ROBERT J . AKIN
I was first elected to the Howell City Council and took office
on April 7, 1953. The McPherson Memorial Hospital was a
city owned hospital and one member of the council was
always its chairman .
Those on the Board of Trustees were appointed by the
Mayor. 0 . C. Young was Mayor at the time and I was appointed
to serve on this board. Other members were Dr.
Gerald McCloskey, Mrs . Raymond Salmon, Mrs. Fred
Rogers and William McPherson III.
The original structure was the old McPherson residence.
This was a three story dwelling which was renovated so that
ther e were 18 beds . This hospital was to be for the City of
Howell. By using every nook and cranny , the structure was
increased until it accommodated 33 beds . It to the point
where it was necessary to have a waiting period and many
times actual emergency cases had to be transferred to Ann
Arbor and other outlying hospitals . Also, it became
necessar y to discharge patients before they were ready to go
home in order to put another patient in the bed.
As stated above , this hospital was only to take care of
residents of the City of Howell. This was no longer the case .
Our patient s came from all over the county. The increase in
the number of automobiles on the road and the accident rate
created an enormous increase in the use of the hospital.
Many times people who were involved in accidents had to lay
on stretchers and wait to get into the emergency room as it
would accommodate only about one person. Hallways had to
be used for patient rooms .
A bond issue was placed on the ballot for a new hospital and
this was defeated primarily because it was to be used only by
medical doctors . We had a number of capable osteopathic
physicians and they were seeing approximately 35 percent of
the people.
INSPECTION
In March of 1954, the State Fire Marshall inspected the
hospital and submitted a lot of recommendations . Two of the
compliances ordered necessitated major construction . One
was to remove the then present stairwells and install inside
steel and concrete fire escape staicrase . The other was to
install an automatic sprinkler system .
We had a certified architect inspect the building and
submit plans, recommendations and estimated costs to meet
the Fire Marshall 's requests . Estimated costs were about
$60,000, and if we were to meet the requirements it would
have reduced the number of beds , taken away hall space that
we could not lose and create a still more acute space
problem.
STUDY COMMISSION
The Board of Trustees rejected the architect's plans . A
Joint Conference Study Committee was appointed . This
committee was composed of three members of the hospital
medical staff and three members of the Board of Trustees .
The hospital administrator was also a member of the committee.
The members were Dr . H. C. Hill, Howell; Dr . L. E. May,
Howell; and Dr . Niles Clark , Brighton ; representing the
medical staff . William McPherson III , Mrs. Fred Rogers and
Robert J . Akin were chosen from the Board of Trustees , and
James Sullivan, the Hospital Administrator . We began
weekly meetings in June , 1954. I was chairman of the group .
After about four months of weekly meetings, the study
group recommended :
1. Create a new ownership for our hospital. Our choice was
" Hospital Authority " and offer as large an area as possible
for the hospital.
2. Solicit funds for its construction with the aid of
Professional Fund Raisers .
3. Utilize as much of our present equipment and supplies as
possible.
4. Relocate the hospital within the city limits to a convenient
and spacious site where city services were available ;
such as sewers , water , fire and police protection .
5. Provide for future expansion in so far as our finances
would permit.
6. Take advantage of the Hill-Burton Funds.
NON-PROFIT CORPORATION
This Study Committee now had gone as far as it could. A
resolution was passed inviting Orland Young, who was
Mayor of the City of Howell, and each member of the Study
Group was to invite three people, to a joint meeting . At this
meeting the findings of the Study Group were presented
along with our recommendations. Those invited were : Mrs.
Andrew Jackson , Robert H. McPherson , James Murphy , Don
Deering , Herb Sneed, Bruce Watts , Mrs . Frances Barron ,
Russell Engelhardt , Lorraine Liverance, Robert Smith ,
Lynn Zimmerman , Oralnd C. Young, Robert J . Akin, Mrs .
Fred Rogers, William McPherson III , James H. Sullivan , Dr .
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L. E. May, Dr. Niles A. Clark and Dr . H. C. Hill. A non-profit
corporation was formed for the purpose of raising of funds
for the construction of a new hospital facility .
Mr. Charles Sutton was elected president ; Robert J. Akin,
first vice president ; Ross Robb, second vice president ;
Percy Allmand, third vice president ; June Zimmerman,
secretary ; and Edward McPherson, treasurer . The corporate
name was to be McPherson Community Health
Center.
Otper members of the board were: Mrs. J. C. Allen, Mrs.
Frances Barron , Joseph V. Brady , Albert W. Cole, Robert F.
Craig , D. G. Deering, Stanley Dinkel, Mrs. Andrew Jackson,
Sherman E. Jubb , George Kirkland , T. J. Kizer, Sr. ,
Lorraine Liverance, William McPherson III , James Murphy,
Carl Raddatz , Mrs. Fred Rogers , Herb Sneed, Ronald Stuible
and Orland C. Young.
FUND RAISING
It was decided to use professional fund raisers and the
American City Bureau was the firm selected. Clark Ackley of
Lansing was selected as the architect .
Mr. Charles Sutton appointed myself as general chairman
of the Hospital Development Committee . This was the name
used for the fund raising . Edward A. Fritch and John B.
MacDonald were named associate chairmen.
The American City Bureau came in in November , 1954. The
total amount of money to be raised was $525,000.H ill-Burton
Funds were to provide 48 percent of the total cost. With this
amount, a 60 bed hospital could be built . A ten acre site on
Byron Road was selected and purchased from the
McPherson Estate for $10,000. A campaign plan and program
were then set up.
In order to raise this kind of money it took a lot of planning
and preparation before launching into the actual fund raising
effort. This started in November, 1954, and the victory dinner
was held April 2, 1955. To solicit 30,000 people, divisions were
set up to contact prospects with a potential "X" number of
dollars . These divisions were as follows:
Founders Division "A''-Gifts from business firms and
landowners who could be considered in sums of $10,000 and
up. Joseph V. Brady , Howell, was the chairman of this
division. Albert W. Cole of Brighton was associate chairman
and this group raised over $251,000.00.
Founders Division "B"-Gifts from $5,000 to $10,000.
Chairman Clifton W. Heller , Howell and A. Colton Park,
Brighton , associate chairman . Amount raised , about
$30,000.00.
Founders Division "C"-Gifts from $1,000 to $5,000.
Chairman , Herbert F . Schott , associate chairman , W.
Woodruff, both from Howell. Amount raised , over $67,000.
Founders Division " D"-Gifts from $300 to $1,000.
Chairman R. H. Engelhardt , associate chairman, W. H.
Erwin, both from Howell. Amount raised, over $68,000.
Medical Staff-Chairman , Dr . J . J . Hendrin, M.D.,
Fowlerville . Associate chairman, Dr . B. N. Shertzer, DO.O.,
Howell. Amount raised $67,000 plus.
Business and Professional Division-Chairman , Glen
Slayton, Howell. Amount raised , $29,000 plus.
Women's Division-Chairman , Mrs . Frances Barron ,
Howell, associate chairman , Mrs. Jess Allen, Howell;
Associate Chairman , Mrs. Gerald McCloskey, Howell;
Associate Chairman , Mrs . Bruce Watts , Brighton. Amount
raised, over $25,000.
Clubs and Organizations-Chairman , James A. Robb,
Howell. Amount raised over $13,000.
Hospital Division-Chairman , James H. Sullivan, amount
raised over $6,000.
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Employee Division-Robert F . Craig, chairman , Howell;
associate chairman , F . A. Miller. Amount raised over
$85,000.
Rural Division- Chariman , Carl Kirkowski , Howell.
Amount raised over $57,000.
Government and Education-Chairman , John S. Page,
Howell, amount raised, $18,000 plus.
Church Relations-Chairman, Rev . Walter A. Geske,
Howell.
Audits and Reports-Chairman , Edward G. McPherson ,
Howell.
Speakers Bureau-Chairman , Charles N. Hill, Howell.
Those chairmen and their associates then filled out their
committees with enough help to contact and solicit all people
falling into these groups. There were over 500 people involved
in the solicitation of the funds. The area covered was pretty
much the whole county .
The campaign came to an end April 2, 1955, with a total
pledges of $698,736.90. With belated gifts, the total ran over
$789,000. The complete success of this drive was with the
dedicated leadership of all chairmen and their helpers . Also,
the fact that the hospital would have a joint staff of medical
doctors and osteopathic physicians .
McPherson Community Health Center was the first
voluntary non-profit hospital in the State of Michigan to have
a joint staff. Much credit should be given to these joint efforts
as through the years other hospitals have been opened to both
groups. I must also give much credit to the counseling we had
from John H. Crowe, Jr ., and his associate , Jess S. Mullin of
the American City Bureau .
The next phase now that the money was available ws the
actual building of the hospital. With excess of money
pledged , the board of trustees came up with plans for a 75 bed
hospital. The Hill-Burton Funds were increased to $526,000.
Ground breaking for the new hospital was July 15, 1956.
James M. Hare , Secretary of State of Michigan , represented
the Governor 's Office and Don Hayworth , U.S. Represen -
tative was the principal speaker . The hospital was built and
dedicated and open house was held January 4, 1958.
FIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEES
When the by-laws of the McPherson Community Health
Center were accepted, it called for a 15 member board . The
first Board of Trustees were elected in September of 1955.
The 15 members were : Ross J. Robb, Fowlerville ; P . R.
Allmand , Hartland ; George Kirkland , Gregory ; Edward G.
McPherson , Howell; Mrs . June Zimmerman, Fowlerville ; T.
J . Kizer, Sr., Howell; James F . Murphy , Howell; Mrs . Fred
Rogers , Howell; H.H. Barnes , Milford; Mrs . J.D . Allen,
Howell; John W. Layton , Howell; Clifford VanHorn ,
Pinckne y; Oscar Beck , Pinckney ; and myself. From this
group I was elected chairman; Ross J . Robb, vice-chairman ;
Edward G. McPherson , treasurer and Mrs . June Zimmerman
, secretary.
The hospital opened and operated at near maximum from
the beginning . It was not more than two years after its
opening that plans had to be made for expanding its size until
today it has 136 beds.
By JUNE ZIMMERMAN
TRUSTEE FROM 1955-1973
BOARD CHAIRMAN FROM 1959-1973
This phase of hospital history is anything but that. In truth
it is a recollection based on sketchy documentation , faulty
memory , and warm friendships that limit objectivity .
Hopefully, it will be read as such, thus judging the omissions
and personalizations more gently.
The years from 1959 to 1973 are the time in history . The
story is of visionary men and women working with love and
pride to provide care for their sick and injured .
Professionals , (doctors, nurses, technicians, administrators ,
etc .) were major contributors to the hospitals progress and
growth . They made the institution function and grow with
their personal careers. Equally important however, were
those who served on the health center 's " gratitude roll,"
rather than payroll. They gave of themselves for community
betterment. It is essentially their story that should be
preserved in this rambling report.
GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
From birth the corporate body consciously worked at
preserving geographic representativeness on its governing
board. Strong convictions urged that all steps be taken to
preserve the founding concept that this was to be "countywide"
institution . Even though physically tied to the area, it
was not to become a " Howell" hospital. Surrounding areas
had helped buy brick and mortar , and would now chart the
hospital's future .
For many years, visiting mayors to Fowlerville, Brighton
and Pinckney were invited to visit the "local" hospital.
Imagine their puzzlement when they were driven out-of-town
to see McPherson Health Center . Mayor Cliff Heller of
Howell, always a good friend of the hospital , can undoubtedly
recall some of the heated correspondence that resulted from
an inadvertent reference to the health center as "Howell's
hospital. "
The following leadership and talent came to the governing
board from these villages and cities during these 14 years :
The doctor comes in his sleigh to deliver the new baby.
Brighton-Thomas Anderson , DVM, H.H. Barnes , E.W.
Bottum , Robert Buechner , Fred Burt , Robert Leland , W.W.
Madden. Edward Parrish , John Slater.
Howell-Robert Akin, Nanette Allen, Glenn Berry , Donald
Brinks , J. Henry Cornell, Louis Eaton , D.D.S., Walter Geske,
Robert Itsell, D.O., William Jones , Charles Keesler, Thomas
J. Kizer, Robert MacDonald, Edward McPherson , William
McPherson , III , Donald Monroe, Mervill Moore, James
Murphy, Richard Orne!, D.O., Kathleen Rogers , William
Scofield.
Hartland-Percy Allmand, Don Epley , Norlan Cartwright.
Pinckney-Oscar Beck, Clifford VanHorn .
Hell- Mel Reinhardt.
Fowlerville-Charles Brigham, Grant DeForest, Irwin
Glover, Charles W. Hills, Thomas Higby, M.D., George
Kirkland , Clayton Klein, Cecil Lepard , Ross Robb, June
Zimmerman .
These forty-five people served various lengths of office,
some a few years, a few, several years. Their common tie
was dedication to hospital activity. During this time only one
meeting was ever adjourned for the lack of quorum . The
average board attendance was twelve out of fifteen ; with
committee attendance as good. Building committee minutes
in 1967r eport nineteen meetings during the year, with perfect
attendance at seventeen.
ADMINISTRATOR COMMENTS
Excerpts from a hospital administrator 's letter best sums
it up . .. " I recognize the extraordinary contribution trustees
have made toward better health care in this county. The
devotion, intelligence and guidance . . .freely contributed
has, in my experience , been unequalled. Many of the far -
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sighted programs of the health center would never have
materialized without this top flight board ... "
SPECIAL TIES ACQUIRED
Through experience there evolved specialist on committee
assignments. Ed McPherson, Nan Allen, and George
Kirkland were key contributors to financial decisions. John
Slater , Cecil Lepard , " Pat" Murphy, Oscar Beck, Irwin
Glover, and Bill Madden spent long hours on complicated
buildng agendas . Charles Keesler, Bob MacDonald, Bob
Buechner , and Cukc Brigham gave the personnel committee
leadership . Tom Kizer was the pivot around whom physician
recruitment activities evolved. Tom Anderson and J. Henry
Cornell were the cornerstones of the professional committee.
RED CROSS THERE
Almost with the opening of the front doors, the Red Cross
volunteers joined the hospital family . In 1959, Josephine
Grostick spearheaded the organization ably assisted by Mrs.
Harold {Peg ) Hill, Mrs. Wm. McPherson, IV (Mimi), and
Mrs. Boyd Shertzer (Millie). As of this date, four of the first
class are still active members in the Grey Ladies corps . They
are all from Howell, Altai Willard, Lillie Gatesman , Doris
Meyer, and Ruth Bennett.
To qualify the ladies all attended several classes for instruction.
At a specila ceremony in the spring, each new
group was capped by a Red Cross dignitary from Lansing .
Proud husbands and beaming children as well as active
volunteers witnessed their graduation. Length of service was
recognized with the presentation of service pins, bars, or
chevrons. Some of those so recognized were: from Brighton:
Angeline Bretz , Elsie M. Schulz, Madeline Smith, and Louise
Schulz. From Fenton came Florence Bailey. From Howell:
Mazie Reed, Mabel Starkey, Margaret Trumbull, Helon
Hacker, Dorothy Shelton, Thelma Weller, and Edith Miner.
From Fowlerville: Dora Glover, Ruth Kuehn, Janice Zimmerman
and Paula Malcolm .
SERVICE BRINGS SUNSHINE
The volunteers served the health center in many ways.
They greeted visitors helping them locate friends and offices.
They brought sunshine with the delivery of mail and flowers.
Some were so effective they became identified with their
service. Judy Dunn and Linda Musson were tagged as "juice
ladies .'' Many looked for their greeting to announce the
arrival of the evening refreshment cart. Ina Height was
synonomous with the reading cart, another volunteer service.
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY EARLY WORKER
The same year that saw the formation of the Red Cross
service , witnessed the organization of the hospital auxiliary .
These women also had hospital service as their prime objective
, but they chose different avenues of expression.
Several fund raising projects were developed . The money
was used to purchase equipment for improved patient care .
Card parties, theater parties, and fashion shows supplemented
the main money raiser . .. the hospital gift shop.
GIFT SHOP PERSONNEL
The gift shop served not only the visitor who wanted to buy
a special gift, but also the patient who had a need for an extra
something. Some of the many who worked to make this shop
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a success were Evelyn Maas, Opal Beurmann, Alice Mercer,
Mary Jane Grubbs, Edith Morlock, Lois Campbell, Ferne
Fenton , Lynn Haas, Ruth Slater, Isabell Parker, and Esther
Sullivan .
Repair and mending sessions were guided by seamstresses
Marion Johnston, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Katherine Sorg.
Flexibility had to be their talent for they never knew where
their sewing machines would be housed . Expanding services
at the health center were always laying claim to the sewing
room, and relocation was frequent.
HONOR LONG-TIME MEMBERS
Waldenwoods was the scene of a recognition luncheon in
1969. Seventeen women with ten continuous years of
auxiliary membership were honored . Mrs . Harold Armstrong
and Mrs. Claude Brian of Hartland ; Mrs. C. C. Fen -
ton, Mrs. J. J . Hendren, Miss Hulda Euper, and Miss
Elizabeth Schneider of Fowlerville; Mrs . Alfred Friedman of
Brighton ; Mrs. Max L. Johnston of Linden; and Mrs. K.
Miller Beurmann, Mrs. Henry Disse , Mrs. Mae Harris, Miss
Alice Gannon, Mrs . Arthur Jones , Mrs . Gerald Jones, Mrs.
E.A. Fritch , Mrs . H. Roggenkamp, and Mrs. A.E. Holforth of
Howell.
ADDED EXTRA TOUCH
Each Christmas the auxiliary "decked the halls " with joy
and color to dispel the gloom of holiday illness. Each May
found women like Doris Jones, Thelma Garland , Irma
Schaner , Nan Allen, Helen Chapman and Mildred Bradman
helping the hospital celebrate National Hospital Week. They
assembled silver services and centerpieces to brighten the
tea table and solicited scores of cookies to tempt open-house
guests . Potlucks and picnics were not only opportunities for
socializing, but avenues for telling the hospital story to the
community.
Women who served as chairman were : Mrs. Claude Brian,
Mrs. Bruce Campbell (Lois) , Mrs. Lynn Haas , Esther
Mccreedy, Dorothy Wier, Ellie Sanford , Francis Weeks,
Carol Norton, and Margaret Jones. Elizabeth Holdorth and
Veronica Walker were secretary for many years, while
Blanche Roggenkamp was the treasurer. Evelyn Armstrong
was an active membership chairperson . The full value of the
love and service that many, many women gave to the
hospital will never be fully told. These are only examples of
the multitude of volunteers who have contributed in countless
ways to the care of our sick, and the comfort of their families.
In 1970 the hospital auxiliary was restructured into a
volunteer-guild. While the format has changed, the spirit and
the heart remained the same .
HEALTH CENTER GROWTH CHART
The growth of a hospi ta! is not achieved in a wholly rational
sphere at a calculated rate ... nor is it devoid of human
strengths and frailities. Conflicts of philosophy and priority
are not unknown. There are issues of controversy and debate ,
as well as moments of keen insight and accomplishment. A
hospital is people. To grasp the vitality of this dynamic institution
, there follows capsulized glances into her past action
and thought processes.
1959-1961
- Expansion of original pharmacy to meet larger demands
-Start of group life insurance program for all employees
-Established committee to study feasibility of a pilot
service of intensive care . Chairman T. Kizer, trustees
Rogers, McPherson , IV, Zimmerman , and doctors Barton
and Rice recommended same and it was begun.
-Continuing care pilot program begun
-Increased employee salary. Starting pay for R.N., $15 a
day
-Board and Medical staff meet to jointly discuss care of
aged in community . Explore possible services from hospital
-Drs . Hoffman , Polack , Shertzer , McGregor, and Sigler
evaluate pilot ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and study
desirability of a permanent unit. Administrator urges such a
unit. Work and findings of pilot alter antipathetic attitudes of
staff , and full cooperation assured . From an article by T.
Kizer : " . . . by April, 1960 the Intensive Care Unit was in
successful operation. The benefits of this project were almost
instant pluses for patients, doctors , and the hospital. Private
nursing with its costly inefficiency was almost wiped out. In
1959, 470 private duty nurse shifts cost patients $8500. In 1960,
there were only 60 private duty shifts costing $1,000.. .n ow
there are none."
- Purchase a dry heat food system to asure delivery of
warm meals
-Only 6.4 percent of original building pledges still unpaid
- Building Committee begins developing plans for housing
newly developed hospital services (continuing care, ICU,
rehabilitative, and maintenance shop). Dr . Hill, Woodworth,
Chelsky, Hoffman and Shertzer served as advisory to
committee.
- Joint Committee , chaired by Thomas Barton, M.D. visits
hospital in Chicago to evaluate a progressive patient care
(PPC ) program . Building program developed by committee
and administrator Sullivan supported by medical staff . PPC
begins to take form
- Room rates increased to $19.00 for a semi-private , $25.00
for ICU
1962
- Employee handbook with a written grievance procedure
adopted
-A s recommended by Administrator Sullivan, Home Care
and Occupational therapy service begun.
-Initial inspection of hospital for accreditation by Joint
Commission on Accreditation. After controversial changes in
medical staff committee structure made , the hospital is
given three year accreditation. This citation assures the
public that the standards of quality patient care are met.
- Fir st trial run of hospital disaster plan shows up a few
deficiencies .. . today (1973) spectators need reassurance it is
only a practice and not a real disaster
- Office of assistant administrator established and filled by
Gordan Bradman , formerly business manager of the hospital
- Citizens for Better Health Care brings allegations of poor
care to members of the medical staff . Meeting of the staff
and the Board of Trustees explores areas of individual
responsibility and authority . " Citizen" representatives invited
to a special meeting of the board for exchange of information
concerning employe grievances . Problem
resolved !
-New addi tion estimated at $325,000 calls for 66 more beds
and rooms for a school of practical nursing . Bids come in
" unnecessarily high" . .. this phrase becomes all too familiar
to members of the building committee . They began asking
how estim ates were estimated when they appeared to be so
unrealistic .
1963-1964
- Average daily patient census is 83
- Practical Nursing School is accredited by Board of
Nursing enrolls 25 students .
- Health Center has 185 employees, 24 medical staff
members .
- Quotations from the 1963 annual meeting
John Slater , Building Chairman: " This was a year of
planning for expansion of both building and service
... according to patient needs rather than by depart -
ment. . . Our ICU program has served over 1090 patients
since its beginning. Frequent meetings have been held with a
committee of the Medical staff chaired by Wenda! Jacobs,
D.O., department heads, and outside consultants
... completion of this program should take care of
our major needs for the foreseeable future . We will have 141
beds, and will be the first in the United States with all phases
of complete Progressive Patient Care ."
Stanley Hoffman, M.D. Chief-of-Staff: " ... one of the most
significant steps which this hospital has taken is to initiate a
program of progressive care . It has been a large task , and
has consumed many hours of consultation , correspondence ,
and soul searching. The prime responsibility has lain upon
the Board of Trustees and the administration with the staff
participating in the planning .
" ... Our duo-staff is one of the few in the country
... operating as a single staff . We have made it work for
five years now, with a minimum of stress and strain .. . we
have seen some potentially trouble spots , but we are still
together and expect to remain so . . . a tribute to the men and
woman we have in our midst. . . and the understanding and
tolerance they have ."
-Reorganization of rate structure begun, aimed at
relating charges to costs of service . ICU rates jump from $25
per day to $40, even though actual costs are over $50. Finance
committee feels higher charges would discourage use of this
service .
-Medical library opened in the hospital
-Joint conference committee recommends removal of
cigarette machines from the hospital. . . " their presence is
inconsistent with our dedication to good health. " Minutes
show some felt this action to be poor public relations .
- Home Care seeks local subsidy from area community
chests to continue service to patients unable to pay charges
-Board upset by county philosophy to control budgetary
expenses by refusing to pay for services rendered patients
who are county responsibility. Some view the transfer of
social service financing to the state level as a cure to this
problem . . . (it later proved to be the source of even more
serious problems ?)
- University of Michigan and W. K. Kellogg Foundation
publish a study of Progressive Patient Care at McPherson.
1965-1968
-Financial policies written , debated, and adopted . They
covered areas like purchasing , borrowing , insurance ,
memorials, budgeting and investments .
- 16½ acres contiguous to the hospital site were purchased
for $30,000
- Laboratory and ex-ray facilities remodeled and expanded
at a cost of $68,000
- Physician recruitment task force formed . Tom Kizer, Ed
Woodworth, M.D. and Jim Sullivan develop a slide presentation
telling the McPherson story.
-Increased patient load both at physicians ' offices and
emergency room raises questions about physician-coverage
of the emergency room on a rotating schedule.
- Administrative changes : James Sullivan resigns to head
a Regional Medical Program in Wisconsin. Gordon Bradman
serves as interim administrator . (He later left to become
administrator at Redford Community Hospital). Robert A.
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DeVries appointed the second administrator of the health
center .
- Development of a pilot coronary care unit under
guidance of Robert Polack , M.D.
- Experimentation with renal dialysis service as a satellite
of Sparrow Hospital. A kidney machine is installed in second
floor north . Resulting data led to the decision to discontinue
the service for lack of patient load, and specialized medical
supervision to justify high operating costs.
- Mrs. Lois Merwin appointed director of the School of
Practical Nursing
- Mental Health Department facilities to be provided in
self-car e wing. (Later they were expanded to a section of the
Manor).
" BIRTH OF THE MANOR"
At a special meeting of the board and the staff suggestions
for meeting the medical needs of the aged were formulated .
Hospital proposals were measured with county proposals,
robustly debated , and analyzed . A special joint committee
was appointed to meet with the county Board of Supervisors
to explore plans for an extended care facility . Much controvers
y arose over county participation in capital expenditures
, and the need for a written agreement between
provider and purchaser of the service . After careful research
and study, and with the urging of federal , stage , and
Universit y of Michigan consultants , the decision of the board
was to construct what was to be called Livingston Manor .
Prior to his resignation , administrator Sullivan predicted
demise of the project with a signed commitment from county
social services . Federal officials however , saw " no need for
any agreement with the county ... new regulations covering
Medicare and Medicaid will enable the patient to choose his
own place of treatment. Certification will now be by state
offices rather than county ... payments will come from the
same agency .. . your program is good and sound, and Hill
Burton funds are available for your use in construction. "
Interestingl y the lack of success of this service was due to
lack of governmental follow-through on a previous commitment
, but at the federal and state level rather than at the
county.
- The unit name resulted from an emplo,ee contest.
- The suggested name was to convey the feeling of county
representatives . Ralph Otwell, Jr ., director of building
services , and an active advisor in the planning of the unit,
submitted the winning name .
~ Howell Planning Board refuses to grant buildng permit
for new unit. The architect had failed to obtain zoning approval.
After momentary panic the problem is resolved and
building proceeds .
- Panic again with the discovery of an 11 inch discrepancy
between existing building and specification of new facilit y.
Architect and land surveyor squirmish while the hospital
seeks legal advise . Problem resolved to everyone's relief .
- Decision made for first major indebtedness , and funds
borrowed against present assets and projected income .
$737,000 borrowed at the time bids were accepted .
- Federal minimum wage and hour law applied to the
health industry. Administrator DeVries corrected past
delinquencies with back payments and a new wage scale .
Hospital costs rose reflecting new overtime policies as well
as minimum wage rates .
- 230 employees compared to 17 at McPherson Memorial
Hospital.
-Staff membership extended to oral surgeons and dentists.
- Fir st personnel director (Donald Fletcher ) heads new
department.
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- Life membership in corporation developed . First goes to
James A. Robb long time hospital friend . This was closely
followed by the sale of membership to Claudine and Andrew
Jackson also staunch hospital allies.
1969-1973
- Combine resources into a single unit for Coronoary and
Intensive Care. This aimed at reducing costs and increasing
effectiveness of nursing .
- ICU rates raised to $70 per day , and semi-private rooms
$37. Still service costs are not always reflected .
- Union organizers seek acceptancy by hospital employees
. Denied.
- New state law makes funeral home based ambulance
service impractical. Hospital helps the county explore
alternative services . Hospital developed programs to offer
attendants the necessary training and continued education
for licensure .
- Physician offices become available in the north wing of
the self care unit. This move was hoped to attract new
physicians into the area .
- Niles A. Clarke, M.D., named as medical director of
Livingston Manor .
- Corporate by-laws changed to make the chief-of-staff a
voting member of the board , and to allow the election of one
other medical staff member to trusteeship . Apprehension
was expressed over physician dominance as well as the
precedent of special interest representation on the board .
- Howell Ministerial Association arranges Sunday services
for residents of the Manor . Merle Meeden of the First
Baptist Church headed this project.
- Health Center conducts study sessions for graduate
students from University of Michigan 's Bureau of Hospital
Administration, as well as externships for medical students
from that university as well as Michigan State University .
- Moon landing celebrated with rocket-fuel punch , green
cheese and moon cake served in the cafeteria. (Another
successful Evelyn Warne / Irma Schaner project! )
-Helen Laird Salmon, R.N. honored by the School of
Practical Nursing for 38 years of service to the health center
and its predecessor .
- Changes in governmental eligility requirements and
payment for service caused physician reluctance to admit
patients to the extended care unit. .. " pressures of the law
complicate good patient care " stated one staff member .
Manor census dropped from 41 to 32 patients .
- Eight inspections of the hospital in the first 10 weeks of
1970. Most visits last from ½ day to 2 days .
- Annual " Health-In " sponsored by Practical Nursing
School. Booths highlighting careers and preventive medicine
were constructed and manned by students, and. visited by
over 2,000 junior and senior high students . Lois Merwin with
members of her staff Marily Cheney, R.N., Doris Oakley,
R.N., Lois Bond, R.N., and Loisann Hopkins L.P .N., provided
capabl e and enthusiastic leadership to this and other health
fair themes . One on good nutrition and health habits were
aimed at elementary students . Fairs were located in different
areas of the county . The booths were imaginative and
carried the message to appreciative large crowds of visitors .
- Payday advanced twenty-four hours so more employees
can ballot on a second question of unionization . Employee s
again deny the organization .
- One of 6 national health fellowships offered to Rober t
DeVries. During his study at the University of Michigan ,
administrative services will be provided by an assistant
director of University Hospital in Ann Arbor .
- Coverag e of the emergency room changed from rotationduty
by all staff members to contractural coverage by a
group. This began as weekend coverage only, but soon
evolved into full coverage . Chief-of-staff Thomas Higby,
M.D., stressed the need for promptly seeing the patient , and
carefully monitoring the quality of services rendered .
- Employee Recognition Awards for outstanding service
were presented to Mrs . Sarah Chaddock, a nurses aid, and
Gil Hodges of building services .
- Occupational therapy discontinued for lack of patient
referral and coverage. by hospitalization insurance
programs .
- Federal and state unemployment compensation
programs expanded to include hospital employees .
- Utilization Review Committee created by medical staff
to evaluate need for, and quality of medical care given
-Robert A. DeVries accepts post as program director at
W. K. Kellogg Foundation . Administrator appointment
committee formed to review applicants ' credentials, and
conduct personal interviews . Robert MacDonald, Edward
McPherson , Thomas Higby, M.D., and June Zimmerman
served . Later Robert Itsell , D.O. was also appointed.
- Visitors -to hospital come from New Foundland, England ,
Chile, Scotland, and the Pan American Health Organization
as well as state and national organizations .
- Governmental Phase II puts lid on hospital charges and
wages, but not on hospital costs .
- Coronary monitoring equipment replaced with updated
modules .
- Parking lots expanded and blacktopped .
-Richard Lane of Battle Creek Sanitarium appointed as
the third administrator of McPherson Health Center .
-A hospital sponsored luncheon honored over a hundred
volunteers.
-Corporate membership for 1972 was 278 members , and
exploded to 634 members in 1973.
-Defeat of three incumbent trustees seeking re-election by
an unusually heavy proxy campaign headed by R. F . Hauer ,
M.D.
ALL IS NOT WORK
The Hospital Christmas party was the social event all
anticipated . Usually this was at the Howell Armory. Party
goers increased in number with expanding Armory facilities .
One annual report showed 450 guests attended. Fond
memories are of the doctors ' band , which included nondoctor
musicians too, and the hospital chorus. Musical
talents from Mary Titterton, Barbara Kirkland , Lance
Stoker , D.O., Ed Woodworth, and Tom Higby, M.D.'s as well
as Roscoe Stuber , M.D. and the Hoffmans, Mary and Stan
gave us many pleasant songs to remember.
Committees of hospital employees spent their "own time"
developing spectacular decorations . Christmas trees
dwarfed the band stand ... and the dinners were surpassed
only by the pleasant company . The close of each banquet was
the singing of carols by candlelight.
These were also the occasion for recognition of years of
service by physicians and employees. The awarding of 20
year pins to Hulda Morgan , R.N . and Harold Hill, M.D. were
golden moments in hospital history. There was a singleness
of purpose and a unity of spirit found in the hospital family
during this party .
"SPECIAL CELEBRATION"
Two other social events that included the larger hospital
community were the open house celebrations. One honored
the beginning of Progressive Patient Care services; the other
the opening of Livingston Manor .
The first had to avoid interferring with hospital care in
progress . Elaborate travel routes were developed with signs ,
arrows , ropes and saw horses. Host and hostess assignments
were awarded to Grey Ladies , Auxiliary , Medical staff
members and their wives , employeees and trustees . . . all
had a task at a place for a time. Three thousand came to this
one even to see the new facility , and the demonstration of
new equipment. This was an indication of the strong community
identification with THEIR hospital.
"NURSING SPECIAL EVENTS"
Two ceremonies which are really a part of the School of
Practical Nursing became an integral part of the hospital
tradition . The first was the simple but impressive , early
morning capping of the students . Frequently this was held at
the small chapel in downtown Howell. A continental breakfast
followed at the Health Center . The quietness of the hour
coupled with the dedication of the service touched all who
came .
The second joyous occasion was the school commencement
services from the local high school. Mrs . Merwin and her
staff proudly shared the moment with school alumnae ,
enrolling students , and invited guests. Graduates carrying
long-stemmed roses , filed between rows of school graduates .
Smiles , tears , and flashing camera lights climaxed the
presentation of diplomas . . . after which graduates and the
usual four hundred or more guests enjoyed a social hour .
PEOPLE ARE AND WERE
Some names have already been recorded in this resume,
and a few more must follow. This incomplete recognition
underscores the fact that a hospital's life and vitality are the
people who serve either on the payroll , or the gratitude roll,
like Robert Reed of Howell. There were people who managed
to be on both. They were employees who during our
association reached far beyond their required tasks . If only
all could be recalled . .. many were department directors
such as Evelyn Warne, dietitian ; Michael Weller,
laboratories ; Ralph Otwell, Jr ., building services; Doris
Oakley , home care ; Helen Haffey, medical records ; Paul
Baldwin , Jr ., pharmacy and administration ; Winnie Work,
Norah Riding , and Janet Malonson directors of nursing ;
Karol Granowski, M.D. radiologist , and Irma Schaner who
directed hospital news releases and gave many , many hours
as recording secretary to the board and aided volunteers in
the implementation of their projects.
Inadequate as this recollection may be, it would have
suffered more had not help come from fellow trustee Tom
Kizer , as well as Blanche Roggenkamp , Josephine Grostick ,
and Paul Baldwin, Jr. Their contributions are appreciated.
The kitchen in the old hospital.
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The operating room in the old hospital.
197 5 Health Center
By PAUL BALDWIN, JR.
ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, MCPHERSON HEALTH
CENTER
The most recent period of hospital history represents one of
the most dynamic periods of time since the opening of the
McPherson Community Health Center . In earlier years the
dynamics of the institition were generated by the Board of
Trustees, the Medical Staff, and the hospital staff . More
recent changes have been generated by government. Since
the enactment of federal legislation which established the
Medicare and Medicaid programs , the federal government
has played an increasingly important role in the health care
field. There are many health care benefits provided to
American citizens which are paid for by government funds.
By controlling the disbursements of these funds to hospitals ,
such as ours, the means and methods of providing this care
are subject to many federal requirements .
During the past three years , additional federal legislation
has established more programs which bring about even
tighter controls on hospitals. Well-intentioned legislators
proclaim these regulations as being necessary to assure the
qualit y of patient care which is paid for by the federal
government. While this may be true in part , it is also very
obvious that all of the new regulations reflect very strong
implications of financial control. Existing controls now
relate to quality of patient care, education of health care
specialists , and facilities and services . All of these represent
groundwork provided for in the long-range planning of the
Department of Health , Education and Welfare and serve as a
base for the establishment of a national health insurance
program . Whether this will be good or bad remains for the
next period of history to determine . However, everyone
concedes that a National Health Insurance Program is
inevitable .
We find that the influence of government on the private
practive of medicine and the probision of hospital service s
has alread y dictated many changes . All of the effects of these
control s have not been bad . If they truly provide for better
patient care at more reasonable costs , they are not difficult
to refut e. If they fail to accomplish these prime purposes , the
health care industry as a whole may become another inefficient
tool of federal bureaucracy .
Much of the governmental intrusion has been brought
about because of the spiralling costs of health care . These
dramatically increased costs have been brought about by the
gener al period of inflation and compounded by the public
demand for more and better health care services .
How have these governmental and social pressures affected
our hospital ?
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1) Because of the many changes in federal government
requirements related to the payment for long-term care , we
have found it necessary to discontinue this service in our
Livingston Manor facility . This building must now be
adapted to uses other than long-term patient care for which it
was designed.
2) The many pressures brought to bear on physicians have
resulted in relatively fewer hospital admissions and greater
use of outpatient services.
3) The average census in our hospital in 1964 was 83
patients. During the first six months of 1975, our average
daily census was identical to that of more than ten years ago.
This is quite surprising , since the number of physicians on
the Medical Staff has doubled during the past ten years and
the population of Livingston County has increased by over 50
percent.
4) This change in census is partially explained by the
reduction in the average length of stay from approximately
eight days to less than six days!
5) This reduced length of stay may be explained in several
ways . New and improved techniques and treatments do bring
about more rapid recovery , much more ambulatory care is
provided which eliminates or reduces the need for
hospitalization, and admissions are much more selective .
6) Our hospitaJ, like many others , has experienced a
fantastic growth in demand for services in many hospital
departments . During the past five years alone, we have seen
the number of emergency room visits increase from 7,731 to
14,002. In addition, the following figures demonstrate this
dramatic growth:
1970 1974
X-Ray Procedures 13,390 21,847
Laboratory Procedures 46,334 80,759
Physical Therapy Treatments 16,234 35,981
Cardiopulmonary Procedures 8,461 22,528
A very significant part of this growth has been in outpatient
activity . It should be noted that our Cardiopulmonary
Department which provides respiratory therapy did not exist
ten years ago, while today this department provides a substantial
amount of service to our patients and is recognized
as an integral part of the hospital by the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals .
7) Room Rates - 1975, Ward, $72.00 per day ; Semi-Private,
$77.00; ICU, $156.00.
8) As we move into our bicentennial year, several observations
and facts are of interest.
The shortage of physicians in the State of Michigan has
resulted in the establishment of a new program at Michigan
State University which includes both a medical school and a
school of osteopathic medicine. Our hospital is involved in a
number of important educational programs with both of
these new schools.
The advent of government required health planning has
brought about a need for us to justif y the services and
facilities made available to the people of Livingston County.
Such planning reflects a variety of pressures to establish
absolutely the services which will be made available in the
way of emergency medical care and costly services which
require highly specialized equipment and personnel to
provide them . It becomes essential to avoid duplicating
services in the interest of cost containment.
It is interesting to note that the progressive patient care
concept , which was fostered in our hospital , has undergone
considerable change over the years but still does exist in a
very viable form . This ma y relate to the fact that our costs of
providing health care services to the Livingston County
community are generally much lower than in most other
parts of the state .
During the past three years, further steps have been taken
to provide acceptable benefits to the hospital employees
whose numbers have increased to approximately 300. Many
of these employees are highly trained technicians who work
with new, sophisticated equipment which is necessary to
p~oyide the kind of health care expected by the people of
L1vmgston County. We feel strongly that excellent services
are b~ing provided and will be provided in the years to come.
We will react appropriately to the social and governmental
d~mands so that we can assure the citizens of a continuing
viable, effective organization.
As was so graphically pointed out in the preceding pages,
the need for community input through membership in the
hospital corporation and especially participation by conscientious
citizens serving on our Board of Trustees is
perhaps more important now than ever before.
_Today we have a number of new trustees working together
with much the same vigor as those who pioneered the "new
hospital corporation. During the past three years Dr. James
Baad, Mr. James E. Campbell, Mr. Denis Cannaert, Mr.
Charles Cobb, Mrs. Mary Griffith, Mr. James Lamb, Mrs.
Dona Scott Parker, Dr. Charles Renton, Mrs. Ann Utter, Mr .
Roy Westran, and Mrs. Betty Yost have been newly elected
to serve on the Board of Trustees . They represent an excellent
cross-section of Livingston County and are serving
along with our current Chief of Staff, Dr. L. E. (Pat) May.
Recent additions to the Senior Active Staff include: W. B.
Anderson, D.O.; P.E . Schmitt, M.D.; W.D. Earl, D.O.; W. R.
Kellams, D.O.; and A. E. E. Browne, D.O. Their efforts are
aided by several "new department directors including:
Thomas Glass, Cardiopulmonary; Betty Heitman, Medical
Records; Gerald Marks, Physical Therapy; Henry Orth,
Radiology; William McCormick, Personnel· and Edward
Wiggin, Pharmacy. '
These people, working with those of longer service, are
creating future hospital history.
Michigan State Sanatorium
J:SyH ELEN KENNEDY AND RUTH C. ITSELL
The Michigan State Board of Health started asking the
Legislature in 1890 to establish a Sanatorium in Michigan to
care for tuberculosis patients . By the turn of the century the
Michigan State Medical Society had appointed a committee
to ask the Legislature for an appropriat10n tor a ::;anatorium.
After five years of work the 17th bill before the Senate on
June 7, 1905 was one calling for establishment of a state
supported TB Hospital. It passed and $20,000.00 was appropriated
for the purchase of a site, construction of a
Sanatorium and operating expenses for the 1905-6f iscal year.
Gov. Fred M. Warner signed the bill, making Michigan one of
the first states to adopt legislature for a state supported
sanatorium.
More than twenty sites were inspected before accepting the
offer of 192 acres in 1906. Residents of the small town of
Howell had donated money to buy the tract of rolling land
about 3 miles southwest of Howell. The land was 1100 feet
above sea level forming the highest point of the natural
watershed of the lower peninsular .
The first buildings were a sixteen bed cottage for patients
and a structure to house employees. The Sanatorium was
opened in 1907 and admitted the first two patients on September
7, 1907. Dr. Robert L. Kennedy was the first
Superintendent. During the first year another sixteen-bed
cottage, an eight-bed cottage and an eight-bed infirmary
were built. Usually only patients in early states of TB were
admitted and permitted to stay six months . If a patient
required more hospitalization he had to build a shack-tent at
his own expense .
Little was done for patients at this time except to isolate
them, give them nourishing food, plenty of fresh air, rest and
exercise. Medical advantages were secondary to the
educational value of Sanatorium care. Patients were expected
to return home to become practical missionaries in
the cure and prevention of the disease.
In July , 1909 Dr. Eugene Pierce of Lake Placid , N.Y. was
appointed medical superintendent. During his sixteen years
as director the sanatorium was enlarged to a 238-bed instit
ution . In 1916 a children's cottage was completed .
For many years cottages were considered adequate , but
more advanced cases were being admitted and larger
buildings were needed. In 1927 the legislature appropriated
$500,000f or construction of a central hospital unit and new
equipment. A large part of the old sanatorium was torn down
as the new structure was built. The new building which is the
west wing of the present sanatorium was designed for bed
patients . In 1930 the east wing was added and all patients
were now in one large building. At this time the nurses home
and the laundry were built. The expansion started under the
Dr. W.B. Huntley of Ionia and was completed after Dr. G.L.
Lesie became superintendent in 1930.
When Dr. George Leslie resigned from the sanatorium
staff in 1942, Dr. Edward W. Laboe was appointed superintendent.
In 1949D r. William S. Fidler took over the position.
Dr. Edward W. Gentles was appointed superintendent in 1952
and in 1954 Dr. Fidler returned as superintendent. During
this time with the introduction of new drugs, sanatorium
treatment became more effective. The TB death rate had
dropped 70 percent. There were shorter periods of treatment
and fewer relapses . Out-patient services were becoming
more important as patients continued their drug therapy at
home after leaving the sanatorium. Dr . Marion J . Skronski
became Superintendent in 1955 after Dr . Fidler resigned and
was there until 1970.
From a 16-bed shack sanatorium relying on open air
treatment, the Michigan State Sanatorium grew to a 500-bed
hospital in less than a half century . Michigan State
Sanatorium became well-known as one of the most modern
and up-to-date Sanatoriums in the country .
No history of the 'OLD' Michigan State San would be
complete without a few memories of personal experiences.
Some of these are contained in the following postscripts
written by several of the former staff members , ex-patients
and employees.
Helen Swanson Kennedy says this is the way it was in 1927
going to the TB San as a patient. Quite an unusual experience.
To be admitted you had to be an ambulant patient ,
able to walk to and from your meals in the main dining-room ,
about a city block away.
On arrival you were admitted in the main building and
taken to the admitting cottage or shack that accommodated
then people. You were introduced to the patients , given a
book of instructions, your bed number and from there on you
were on your own, with some help from other patients .
We all slept out of doors on screeded in porches and it was
very cold when the weather got down to zero or below. We
had crock jugs that we filled with hot water or steamed, and
these we put in our beds about one hour before we went to
bed. When getting up in the morning we went into a large
lobby. Each patient had a locker where she kept her personal
belongings, and here she dressed.
After a few days we were given x-rays and doctor 's
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examinations, and some advice on what we should do or not
do. We had to do everything for ourselves, making beds and
keeping the lobby clean. Each patient had a household chore .
We were left alone in the cottage most of the time, and didn't
fine it too hard entertaining ourselves .
The doctor and nurse would make their routine rounds
each morning. A nurse would come twice a day to take our
temperature and to hear our complaints.
We had to dress three times a day to go to our meals. The
first bell of the day would ring at 6:30 a.m . By the way, the
bell was on a pole outside the dining room. The cook would
come out and ring it by hand . Some times we heard it, and
some times we didn't, but usually somebody did hear it and
would wake the others . If someone thought it was too cold to
get up, we would bring her a slice of cold toast and some fruit.
In a half hour 's time we had to be in the dining room to eat.
There was always someone late who would have to eat the
cold left overs. This was the routine three times a day.
There were several cottages and as patients were
discharged from other cottages, patients from the admitting
cottage would go to that vacancy. Here we were allowed
more privileges and our news home was getting more acceptable
. It was very hard on some patients as most of us had
never been away from home. We didn't have many visitors
as most of our homes were one hundred miles or more away .
A lot of parents didn't have automobiles at that time . It was
in the depression years .
As the months went by we had social hours, card parties ,
movies, church and many Holiday activites . By the time you
had been there a year you were well acquainted and feeling
better . However, one was always waiting for the day when
the doctor would say that your TB is arrested, you can take
care of yourself and you can go home. And after three years
the day finally came for me to go home.
When there was a job opening at the San and an ex-patient
was qualified , he was given the first opportunity to fill it.
Many jobs were filled that way. This also gave the ex-patient
hospital supervision is it was needed. Many of us held and
enjoyed our jobs for years.
In 1971, I retired after working for the San for 36 years, so
maybe having TB wasn't the worst thing that could have
happened to me. Thanks to the State of Michigan for helping
me in many ways .
Glenn Smith
As one of the cooks, I started work at the Michigan State
San in 1935. There were three licensed men cooks, I started
work at the Michigan State San in 1935. There were three
licensed men cooks plus 3 or 4 helpers who cooked all the
food. All the food was in the raw stage.
The patient load varied between 350 to 500, and all employees
ate three meals a day. On Holidays special meals
were prepared . All kitchen employees helped to prepare
from 25 to 40 turkeys , dressing, potatoes and all the trimmings.
All meats were good cuts, beef and pork roasts , steaks,
pork chops and veal steaks. Vegatables were kept and
prepared in a separate room . I can well remember Harry
Lamb and Dad Leavenworth argueing by the hour while they
worked preparing the vegetables .
Pauline Bailey was the Dietitian and she ruled the kitchen .
Ten minutes after she finished reprimanding us we were the
best employees she ever had . Miss Bailey never held a
grudge . She did all the supervising and made out all the work
schedules for the kitchen and did all the food odering .
I remember Dr. Laboe stopping by the kitchen to give the
cooks a little argument and when we were having steak , to be
sure his was rare . He liked to stop in at the kitchen to give us
a hard time, all in fun, of course .
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Movies were held once a week in the patient 's dining room .
The kitchen employees took turns arranging tables and
chairs. There was no over-time pay for this . All kitchen
employees worked split shifts.
Kenny Tesch was one of the cooks I worked with. He
decided in 1974t o retire and Glenn Smith , well I'll just have to
grin and bear it until January 1976.
William Guy
I came to work at the Michigan State San on June 16, 1941
as a baker. And it takes some baking to make 90 pies for one
meal , or maybe 65 dozen cookies or 10 sheet cakes . During
my years at the San I must have baked hundreds of
thousands of pies, cookies, cakes, dinner and sweet rolls ,
cupcakes and sheet cakes . When I first came there were 440
patients and 250 employees .
However, I liked baking and even weathered the " white
glove" inspection of the superintendent, Dr. George Leslie.
Then Pearl Harbor came and the cooks, Glenn and Elmer
Smith , John and Junior Beeman and Kenny Texch and Art
Krych left for service. They were replaced by Bill Masters ,
Frank Utter, Fred Myers , Red Beeman and several others
from the Boy's School in Lansing. Then the rationing started
and I had to bake with lard and bacon drippings, using honey
and syrup for sweetners, but we all got through it okay. The
cooks got home safely and everything was all right for
several years.
The next upset was remodeling the kitchen which took two
years to complete , but we all managed to live through that
too.
The break-through on T.B. came with discovery of new
drugs and the number of patients slowly dwindled . Finally
the San was taken over by the Department of Public Health
as the home for the mentally retarded , and was known as the
Howell State Hospital, more recently renamed Hillcrest
Center, when taken over by the Dept. of Mental Health .
On February 28, 1973 William Guy decided to say "Amen"
to baking, hang up his apron and retire . I like being a retired
baker .
Maxine Quinn
When I came to the San to work in 1940 Fred Howlett was
Steward . I worked half days for Nettie E. Miller, Cashier ,
helping her and registering the new TB patients . The other
half day I worked for Dora Spencer in the Accounting Office.
When Dora Spencer left, I took her place. In 1943 when Henry
Robb became Steward I became his secretary and transferred
to the Business Office.
I enjoyed working in the Business Office which consisted
mostly of purchasing items not furnished by the Sanatorium
farm . These were typed on a Requisition and submitted to the
State Purchasing Department in Lansing. The Buyer there
would put these items out on bids and usually purchased
them at the most reasonable price.
A large farm was operated to provide beef, pork, chickens ,
eggs, fruit and vegetables for the hospital. All farm work,
until later years, was done with horses. A registered Holstein
herd provided all the milk supply . The herd name was
" Michsan " and then two other names were added , so that
most female employees had a namesake .
Up until the time the new heating plant was built, the old
plant was located near the lake at the foot of the hill and coal
was hauled from Howell railroads with a team of horses .
Four trips a day were made , making a full days work by the
time it was loaded and unloaded .
After the new wings of the hospital were constructed , all
medical services were moved to that area , leaving space for
offices and employee housing. Most rooms were about 8 feet
by 10 feet. Fourteen employees lived in one wing. Only one
bathtub was available, but with different shifts being
worked, there were no problems . In the 40's and gas being
rationed we supplied our own entertainment and never
Jacked for something to do.
How times have changed since the 30's. John Quinn, who
later became my husband , was working in the kitchen as a
dish washer (by hand ) ; the dietitian found a piece of egg on a
plate and fired him. When leaving the kitchen he met the
Medical Superintendent who asked what he was doing off the
job. John explained that he had just been fired, but would like
to go down on the farm and drive a team . The Superintendent
said, "Well, go down and go to work." How different from
today's procedures. John, who began working at the San in
1928 had a variety of jobs, from kitchen , farm, orderly to
truck driver . In later years he also drove the bus, transporting
employees and patients from the San to Howell for
shopping. He also shopped for those patients who were
unable to be up and permitted to go shopping. John retired in
1962 after 32 years continuous service.
Seems as if there was less stress in years past-time could
always be found for a practival joke. Henry Robb was the
Business Manager and it was April 1st (April Fools Day) . A
fake call was placed to him saying the call was from State
Purchasing in Lansing in regards to rationing points on food.
He was asked that an inventory be made of the food in the
storeroom and convert it to ration points ; also how many
points had been used in past two years and give number of
points needed for next three years . This would have been
almost an impossible task and he was made to believe it had
to be completed in two days . He " stewed" for a while and
threatened to resign and so forth. Dr . Laboe, Medical
Superintendent , was told of the prank and he joined in the
fun. For years thereafter , we were leary of April 1st and what
" prank " we might have played on us.
In the 40's there was not much turn-over in employment.
All the Civil Service transactions were also handled in our
office, along with interviews and so forth .
Upon Mr. Robb's retirement, Clint Whalen who had been
head of the Accounting Office, was promoted to Business
Executive and I worked with him. Clint retired in July 1975
and I retired in August 1975.W hen I came to work at the San I
was Maxine Phippeny and when I left I was Maxine Quinn.
These are the recollections of Thomas A. Barton, M.D. who
came to the Howell State Sanitorium in July of 1948.
After having graduated from the University of Michigan
Medical School in June of 1945 and completing internship at
St. Lawrence Hospital in Lansing , my orders to active duty
with the United States Navy at San Diego were cancelled by
the discovery of active pulmonary tuberculosis . After taking
the cure at the Ingham County Sanitarium, I went to work at
the Pontiac State Sanitarium in 1947 and transferred to the
Howell State Sanitarium in July of 1948.
My four years at the Howell State Sanitorium, as I look
back on them now, were a period in time of significant
radical changes in the management of pulmonary tuberculosis
as , a) the cottage-pavilion type of management by
bedrest , adequate diet , and collapse therapy, was soon to be
replaced by the management of patients with antituberculosis
drugs and resection of the diseased portions of
the lungs, and, b) thus setting the stage for the closing down
of acute hospital beds in the management of pulmonary
tuberculosis .
On the coming to the Howell State Sanitorium after having
been hired by a very dynamic hospital administrator, (and I
have never seen a more dynamic one) Doctor Edward Laboe,
I made the acquaintance of the staff which consisted of
Doctor Edward Finch , deceased 1949, Doctor Walter
Whitehouse who is now Chairman of the Department of
Roentgenology and Radiology at the University of Michigan,
Doctor Fred Fidler, chest specialist , deceased 9-5-75, and
Doctor Mildred B. Nicholas, employee of the State Health
Department. The 400 bed hospital received patients from all
over the state but primarily from the area north of Detroit to
just below Gaylord and Kalamazoo . There were other state
facilities for the care of tuberculosis patients in those areas .
There was usually a waiting list for admissions and the
discharge of patients was at a very slow rate.
Surgical consultations were had weekly with the Depart -
ment of Thoracic Surgery of the University of Michigan at
the Howell State Sanitarium . Here the great doctors , John
Alexander and Cameron Haight , of world renowned
reputation, consulted with the Howell State Sanitorium staff
regarded the management of their patients . The patient , if
acceptable for collapse form of therapy , would be tran -
sferred to University Hospital, the surgery performed , and
when well enough, he was transferred back to continue his
care at the Howell State Sanitorium .
I was assigned the third floor male ward and the children 's
ward on the first floor as my responsibility of caring for
patients . During the course of three years I was able to effect
a complete turnover in the number of patients. One should
appreciate that this was an increased rapid rate as compared
with the recent past. It undoubtedly was helped by the war
being over and materials and medical supplies being more
abundant was well as the advent of that marvelous drug ,
Streptomycin , discovered by Selsman Wakesman of Rutgers
University in New Jersey. It was this anti-tuberculosis drub
and the breakthrough of pioneering surgery in which the
aforementioned leaders were able to remove diseased
portions of the lung in a safe manner and have the patients
become free of their pulmonary tuberculosis , that accelerated
our cur e rat e during the course of my stay at the
Howell State Sanitarium .
Doctor Fidler had charge of the women's ward , Doctor
Whitehouse had charge of the second floow men's ward , and
Doctor Finch conducted the out-patient examinations when
the discharged patients would return at monthly or three
month intervals for check up examinations . Doctor Nicholas
ran one of the women's wards . Additions to our staff during
my stay were Doctor Robert Polack with whom I later
practiced for seventeen years in the general practice of
medicine in Howell and who is now operating a Primary Care
Department at the Burns Clinic in Petoskey , and Doctor
Walter Meier of Monroe, Michigan, who came and stayed for
several years and left in around 1953 to go into private
practice in Monroe, where he remains today. Doctor Edward
Laboe retired around 1945 and is still very active although
retired in his home town of Monroe, Michigan. Doctor
icholas is still functioning with the State Health Depart -
ment. Doctor Robert Elliott, a psychiatrist , was with us for a
year at the Howell facility and is now practicing his specialty
in Detroit.
At one time , with the aforementioned men , we did have one
of the most active and vigorous staffs pursuing the annihilation
of tuberculosis as was present in the midwest. The
aggre ssive management mentioned above combined with the
advent of new drugs, made the cure more rapid and certain
and ultimately laid the ground work for the phasing out of the
acute beds in many of the tuberculosis institutions in the
state . The disease as had been predicted , was diminishing
rapidl y. Patients now are treated for three or four months or
less in an acute bed hospital with combinations of antimicrobial
drugs and surger y, if necessary , and then permitted
to continue care on an outpatient basis . This has
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certainly been a wonderful advent and permits the patient to
return to his own home and family and job.
With the war over, the farm and dairy herds under the
management of Basil White, were sold and disbursed and the
gardening with production of fruits and vegetables for the
Sanitorium , were discontinued . No longer would these
provide avenues for patients to resume active productive
labor in as much as it was not felt to be prudently wise from a
financial stand point. Many of the pavilions which had been
used earlier for cottage type of care of patients, were
demolished as renovations of the large 400 bed hospital were
made.
Miss Annie Rekowski, it seemed to many of us, must have
been the head of the Nursing Department when the institution
first opened, but she certainly had lost none of her
vigor in managing that area during my stay at the hospital.
Clint Whalen replaced Henry Robb on his retirement as the
head steward who actually had more to do with the day to day
operation of the institution than did the administrator who
was more devoted to overall policy decisions in the medical
aspect of operating the facility. Kenny Tesch and Glenn
Smith were the head chefs and only recently has Glenn
retired . Emery Velm, with the assistance of Art Krych,
operated the X-Ray Department. Miss Nettie Miller,
everyone connected with the institution in the past would
remember as being in charge of payroll. Pauline Bailey was
in charge of the rather extensive medical as well as patient
library. Les White was in charge of the grounds and I always
remember the Queen Anne's cherry trees at the end of the
parking lot which nobody seemed to pay any attention to until
I started picking them one year when the cherries were
especially delicious. Foster Phillips was in charge of the
commissary and I also remember an excellent butcher by
the name of Charles Markoff who would cut the Jamb chops to
any size you wished .
I gradually became acquainted with the men on the
grounds in as much as our children, Tom Jr ., Michael and
David, rode around in the trucks with them, especially the
wonderful John Quinn whom they all remember. Ralph
Hawkins was the carpenter and he always had time to do
something for the boys as they went down over the hills to his
department. John Sherwood, the electrician extraordinary,
happens to be a patient of mine and whom I remember when
we first came to the institution in that our apartment on the
hill needed some electrical work done and when he came
over to do it, we spent the better part of an hour getting
acquainted. All in all, I would be remiss if I did not recall
Erwin Duchane who retired , I believe , and has worked in
Bob's Pharmacy in Howell over the twenty-three years that I
have been in private practice in Howell. I also recall Pearl
Galloway who was in charge of housekeeping.
I am sure now as I look back , that there are probably many
people whom I have left out in my recollections at this time,
but whom I would know if I should happen to see them or hear
their names. It was certainly not done intentionally. I can
only say that it is with fond memories that I look back on the
leisurely medical life that my wife Inez and I had as we spent
four of our first years of marriage at the Michigan State
Sanitorium in Howell. Many firm friends are still present in
the Howell area and it is only through our contacts at the
Howell Sanitorium that we had an opportunity to make these
friendships.
The institution no longer is used for the treatment of
pulmonary tubercolosis because of the aforementioned
manner in which the disease has been controlled. It has been
converted to the care of the mentally disabled and is called
Hillcrest Center and is now under the able management of
Doctor Frank Detterbeck.
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THE MICHIGAN STATE SANATORIUM
As I Remember It
By EDWARD W. LABOE, M.D.
My first visit to the City of Howell and the Michigan State
Sanatorium occurred when I was a medical student in 1928. I
came for the day as an assistant to the surgeon from the
University of Michigan Thoracic Surgery Division who was
operating at the sanatorium that day .
I next visited in June 1934 when I applied for a position on
the medical staff . I reported for duty on June 17 and for the
next twenty years, except for two short leaves, I played a
minor role in the great drama, which saw tuberculosis
controlled, and in which the Michigan State Sanatorium
played a great roll. A drama, the successful ending of which,
sounded the death knell for the sanatorium.
The story of the care and treatment of the tuberculosis
patient can be divided into three periods, approximate dates
being before 1920, 1920 to 1945 and after 1945. The principal
type of treatment during each period carried through all
subsequent periods but the first gradually diminished as it
merged with the next. It should, however, be again noted that
the above dates are approximate and apply to treatment in
general usage at the time. For example, pneumothorax in the
treatment of tuberculosis was instituted in 1882 but not
widely used until the 1920's.
The first era of treatment, characterized as the rest , diet
and fresh air period, is known locally as the "shack period." I
know nothing personally about treatment limited to these
measures only, but it met with some success. Some employees
at the " san, " who were my contemporaries , had
been treated and their disease arrested by these means.
During that second period collapse therapy was dominant.
The principle involved here was the collapsing and putting to
rest an affected lung by artificial pneumothorax, effected by
introducing air between the lung and chest wall, or by
thoracoplasty in which a permanent collapse was induced by
surgical removal of ribs. Several other minor procedures or
modifications of the above were also used . These measures ,
together with rest and diet began to show better results as
seen by a decrease in the number of admissions and shorter
periods of hospitalization .
The year 1945m arks the beginning of the use of drugs in the
treatment program . Actually it was 1947 before the use of
drugs began at the Michigan State Sanatorium. The first
drug used was streptomycin ( strept ). It 's specific effect in
inhibiting tuberculosis was first demonstrated in 1944 and
1945. Next, para-amino salicylic acid (P .A.S.) was introduced
in 1946. In 1952 a gread advance was made with the
introduction of another drug , isonicotinic acid hydrazide
(isoniazid or inah). Results obtained with these drugs, rarely
seen with other methods of treatment became the rule .
At the same time , because of the protection afforded by
these drugs , excisional surgery, with the actual removal of
the affected parts became a standard procedure. By the mid
1950's use of the above drugs was the principal method of
treatment. It was soon found that infectious patients became
non-infectious after a very short period on the drugs and that
treatment could be carried on at home. Thus ended the need
for long term care in a sanatorium. Some other drugs were
also used but it was the closing of the Michigan State
Sanatorium .
When I first began work at M.S.S. there was a waiting list
for admission of approximately 200 patients . To be placed on
the waiting list it was necessary to present a chest x-ray with
the application. If , after a study of the film, it was adjudged
that the patient could benefit by treatment his name was
placed on the waiting list. If he was considered hopeless, it
was not.
By 1940 that waiting list was zero and space was available
for all cases. But we still maintained well over 400 hospital
beds. After the drug treatment period reached its apex in the
early 50's, the decrease in the number of patients accelerated
and the " san" closed in 1957.
My stay at the sanatorium can best be divided into two
parts, the one as a staff physician, the other as medical
director. The first began at the time collapse therapy was
nearing its peak, and the second terminated in 1953 close to
the end of the existence of the sanatorium that I had known.
At the time it was difficult to foretell the year but it was clear
that a new era in the care and treatment of tuberculosis was
at hand.
I have always been gregarious and always enjoyed
working with people, and I liked medical practice in the
sanatorium setting. Working on the wards of a hospital for
long term care, where one sees the same patients day after
day for weeks, months, or ever years might be expected to
become boring. I never found it so. On looking back, I can say
that these were as happy as any years of my life.
Staff physicians rotated weekend duty every five to six
weeks from 12 noon Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday. During this
time all calls were answered and complete rounds were
made on Sunday mornings. I particularly liked there periodic
visits with all patients . I started early about 5 a.m. and tried
to finish in time for church services held in the patient's
dining room at 7 a.m. Patients always seemed happier and
more cheerful on these days. Maybe it was because it was
Sunday and friends and relatives were expected to visit or
maybe just the change in the daily routine was welcome. For
the most part , the majority of patients led reasonably happy
lives in spite of the long hospital stays. They were ever ready
for a joke or a prank as illustrated by the following: I had the
happy faculty of retaining a mental image of the changes
seen on an x-ray film after having reviewed it several times
and could frequently glance at a film and name the patient.
One Sunday morning a girl from my home town of Monroe,
Michigan asked me if I knew or recognized her. I answered
that I did not but that if I could see her chest I might be able
to name her . Without any hesitancy whatever, she flipped up
her pajama coat and asked, "Now what is my name?"
Amidst the uproar and laughter in that 10 bed ward, I was
desperately trying to explain that I meant her chest x-ray,
not her chest, while at the same time getting a preview of
what a topless bar maid of the 60's and 70's was to look like.
World War II was well under way when I was appointed
medical director. Stress, anxiety, frustration and almost
hopelessnes s were now frequently experienced. Employees
were taken into the armed forces. New employees were
almost non-existant. Supplies were difficult to get and often
delayed. Gas rationing was directly responsible for one of the
first big problems encountered. We were affiliated with the
Thoracic Surgery Department of the University of Michigan
Hospital, where all our major surgery was done. Due to gas
rationing, relatives of patients were no longer able to get to
Ann Arbor to donate blood of which 2 to 3 units were
necessary for each major case. The University Hospital
advised us that they would no longer accept our patients
unless we established an account at their blood bank and had
sufficient credit on hand before the transfer was made . This
required 10 to 12 pints each week. With the help of many
friends, expecially Jim Robb of Howell and Jim Daugherty of
Brighton, we kept that blood quota at a point where no patient
was ever turned away.
Out chief source of new male employees was through Gus
Harrison, now administrator of the state lottery . At the time
Gus was with the State Prison System and one of his duties
was to locate jobs for paroled convicts . He could send us
quantity but not quality and the turnover was excessive. This
coupled with unreliable help compounded our problems. For
example, one Monday morning , Miss Rekowski, our
superintendent of nurses, came to my office weeping. She
stated that on ward 2 West, a unit caring for 70 patients, only
one employee had reported for work. What could she do? I
told her not to tell me her troubles as I had plenty of my own.
She came in weeping; she left weeping. I don't think I helped
her .
In the fall of 1946, I had my first opportunity to observe the
results obtained by the use of streptomycin. Much of the
early use of this drug was confined to Veterans
Administration Hospitals where studies to try to determine
optimal dose and length of treatment were being done. The
cases I reviewed were from one of these facilities. The improvement
that occurred in a short period of time was almost
unbelievable, almost miraculous .
By 1947 mass production had reduced the price of the drug
to three dollars a gram and it was available for general use .
We decided to use the drug first on patients undergoing
major surgery and the dose and length of treatment was to be
three grams daily for thirty days at a cost of $300.00. But
there was no money in our drug account for this additional
expense, and would not be until the new fiscal year beginning
July 1. For a month or two only those patients who could pay
for the drug themselves were treated. This was totally unsatisfactory.
Under the regulations of the State Budget Department, it
was possible to transfer funds from one account to another if
assurance could be given that the first account would not run
short. A search was begun for some means of making such a
transfer .
The Sanatorium operated a farm with a large swine and
dairy herd . Fat hogs and cows culled from the dair y herd
were marketed through the usual commercial channels and
the money received went to the general fund of the state, not
for our use. Why not use our own meat and thus free funds
from the food budget for the purchase of streptomycin? The
plan was put in operation. Slaughtering facilities were built
and our meat refrigerators filled to capacity. I still have a
mental picture of those huge old dairy cows stretching from
the ceiling to the floor without much evidence of fat on their
carcasses.
Henry Robb, our business manager, and I now approached
the Budget Department for a transfer of funds from the food
to the drub account. Our first contact was with the assistant
who had enough meat on hand to permit a tranfer of some
money to the drub account without endangering the food
budget. Our plan fell on deaf ears. An appointment was then
obtained with the Budget Director personally . Although he
was quite skeptical, he reluctantly agreed to the transfer. As
we left, the assistant remarked , "If you wish to feed your
patients streptomycin, it is all right with me but don't let
your food requests go one cent over the allotment." Thus,
sufficient funds were obtained to treat all patients for whom
streptomycin was recommended for the remainder of the
fiscal year. And that is why hamburger and beef stew were
served so often during the months of May and June 1947.
Soon after the war was over former employees began
returning. Supplies were again obtainable and new employees
were available as needed. All aspects of life were
now more enjoyable .
This atmosphere continued throughout the remainder of
my stay at the Sanatorium. As I look back on these years, I
derive much satisfaction from having witnessed first hand
the control of this tragic disease which had taken many lives.
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The milk plant was one of the greatest industries in H~ell History .
It h ired many people and sh i pped condensed milk all oyer Mi h. It
was a tragedy when it burned in 1906. Photo shows the clean up crew
several days later .
Tragedy Struc
In , November 1907 a train went through Howell headed south .
Another train lef1 Ann Arbor about the same time . It was late at night
and it was a one track line . About 3 : 20 a .m . they met at Lakeland
between Howell and Ann Arbor. This picture shows the result .
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In 1951 a train derailed passing through Howelt -orr the G&O track.
This picture looking north to Maple and Walnut Streets shows many of
the 47 cars which were demolished .
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This was thought of as heavy equipment at the turn of the century.
Reassembling box cars ofter a train wreck.
Aftermath of the great fire of 1892. Looking north across Grand
River between Michigan and State Street . All but a row of buildings on
State St. were demolished.
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The Fire Deparbnent
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The Fire Deparbnent
By PAUL B. STRENG
The preservation of life and the protection of property from
the ravages of fire has been the responsibility of a very select
group of men. Less than 200 in number, during their century
of service this chapter is dedicated to the men whom have
served Howell as volunteer firemen.
The Howell Fire Department was born of necessity . A
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Fire Deparbnent
Coordinator
Paul B. Streng was born
in Howell , January 8, 1949.
He attended Howell Public
Schools , Ferris State
College and Michigan State
University where he is
currently the Media Coor .
dinator in the Department
of Psychiatry . Paul is also
an instructor for the Mich -
igan Fire Fighters Training
Council and the University
of Michigan Fire and Disas.
ter Training Center . He
serves as training officer
and arson investigator for
the Howell Fire Depart.
ment . He also serves on the
Legislative Committee of
the Michigan State Firemens
Association .
heritage shared by most fire departments in this country .
Although the Village of Howell was fortunate in its first 20
years to experience only three or four fires . Two of these fires
consumed Chandler & Kneeland's Saw-Mill and Smith &
Filkin 's Foundry both in the early 1850's.
The first fire that inflicted severe loss to the community
occurred September 28, 1857. This fire destroyed the first
building erected in 1835o n the original plat of the village , The
Eagel Hotel. Before the fire was contained nearly the entire
line of buildings on the south side of Grand River between
Michigan Avenue (then East Street ) and Walnut Street were
consumed . The following account appeared in the next issue
of The Democrat :
"A destructive fire broke out in this village at about seven
o'clock on Monday evening . It commenced in the 'livery
barn, ' near Huntley 's (Eagle ) Hotel, which was soon
wrapped in flames. The wind was blowing strongly from the
northwest. Mr. Huntley 's barn caught next, then his hotel,
then Balcom 's saloon, then Treadwell 's saloon, and then the
" Old Stage-House. ' All of these buildings were consumed by
the flames in about one hour and a half, in spite of the efforts
of the citizens . The progress of the fire could not have been
arrested here, had they not pulled down the four small
buildings that stood on the east part of the same block. Owing
to the high winds there was great danger of a large portion of
the village being swept away . The burning cinders set fire to
buildings nearly half a mile distant, which was happily extinguished.
Nearly all of the business men on the south side of
Grand River Street , as far down as Vanderhoof 's Hotel,
removed their propert y into the street , which afforded a fine
opportunity for thieving , and this the thieves employed .
" No one can account for the origin of the fire. The heaviest
loss occurs to Mr. Huntley, who has lost his all. His loss is
estimated at $5000. Balcom 's saloon was worth about $300,
Judge Kneeland 's building about$800. Judge Whipple's about
$800, and the four small buildings pulled down were worth
about $1000. The barn, where the fire originated, was owned
by Mr. Green, of Detroit; loss about $200. There was no insurance
on any of the buildings . Most of the personal
property was saved; much of it in a damaged state from the
rashness of men. "
Three years passed before conflagration again attacked
Howell. The west side of East Street (Michigan Avenue)
south of Grand River was the site of a fire on February 22,
1860. A number of buildings including the Phoenix Foundry
and machine shop were destroyed . The Republican of
February 28, 1860 gave the following account :
"Our village on Wednesday morning last again felt the
ravages of the most destructive conflagration we have ever
before experienced. The loss of property will not only be
deeply felt by the owners and occupants of the various
buildings destroyed, but will very much affect the business
prospects of the village, and the interests of the farmers and
others in this vicinity, who have relied for nearly every useful
implement of labor upon the shops, of which nothing now
remains but a heap of ashes. The fire originated in the
foundry and machine-shop of A. W. Smith & Co., which was
totally destroyed. From thence it crossed the intervening
space of about sixty feet to the carriage-shop of William R.
Melvin, which, together with the blacksmith-shop attached,
were almost instantly in flames. These latter were connected
with the shed and barn occupied by the Stage Company, and
also the barn occupied by William E. Huntley & Don, all of
which were owned by E. E. Hazard . The barns being old and
filled with hay were soon on fire, and at this time it appeared
as though nothing short of a miracle could save the store on
the corner owned by W. B. Smith, and occupied by Jewett &
Crossman; but by the almost superhuman exertions of a
portion of the crowd, which by this time had assembled, a
part of the rear of the building was removed, and water kept
constantly pouring upon it from buckets , so that, although
but a few feet from the barn last burned, this building was
finally saved, and the ravages of the fire stayed . So far as we
have been able to ascertain, the following are the estimates
of the various losses: A. W. Smith & Co., loss in building,
machinery , stock , tools, etc ., $7200; insured for $4000.
William R. Melvin, loss in building, stock, and tools, about
$3500,n o insurance ; E. E. Hazard, two barns and shed, about
$1000; W. B. Smith , damage of building about $200, no insurance
; Jewett& Crossman, loss in removal of goods, about
$400, insured ; J. I. Van Dusen, stock, etc., in the machineshop,
about $125. The cause of the fire is not known, though it
is generally supposed to have been the work of an incendiary,
from the fact that when first discovered it was some distance
from the stove, the only place where there had been any fire
during the day ; also, we understand, the south door of the
building was found to be unfastened, though securely locked
by Mr. Van Dusen , who closed the shop for the night about
eight o'clock. The severest loss is sustained by Mr. Melvin
and Mr. Hazard , and particularly the former , who had, by
energy and perseverance , made himself proprietor of a
carriage and wagon-shop second to none in the state.
" With characteristic energy, however, Mr. Melvin commenced
a new building while the embers of the old were still
burning , and two days had not elapsed ere the 'anvil chorus '
was ringing in his new shop."
Thus far no organized fire brigade served the community.
The only means available for arresting the progress of a fire
was to pull down the threatened buildings, spread wet
blankets and carpets on roofs, and throw water from buckets.
On March 6, 1860 a meeting of citizens was held to take
measures to procure some form of fire apparatus for the
village although of valiant beginnings the effort was not
carried through .
The Articles of Incorporation for the village empowered
the Common Council to compel the owners of buildings to
procure and maintain fire buckets and ladders. The Articles
went on to give the Common Council responsibility to
" establish and organize all such fire-companies and hose and
hook-and-ladder companies, and to provide them with such
engines and other instruments as shall be necessary to extinguish
fires and preserve the property of the inhabitants of
said village from conflagrations, and to appoint , from
among the inhabitants of said village , such number ot men,
willing to accept, as may be deemed proper and necessary to
be employed as firemen ."
January 18, 1868 saw the first Fire Prevention Act in the
Village : The Council passed an Ordinance prohibiting the
construction of wooden buildings within the village business
district.
FIRST FIRE APPARATUS
The question of obtaining a piece of fire apparatus for the
village continued to be "held under advisement" for about 10
years. There was much discussion surrounding the topic
including the argument that without an adequate water
supply an engine would be of little or no use . Finally on
January 24, 1870t he Common Council "Resolved, That Mr. J.
L. Stone be authorized to procure for the village of Howell,
and deliver the same on or before one month from this date, a
fire-engine, called in the printed catalogue 'The Fire King,'
and the Common Council will then pay for said engine ;
provided that on a fair trial it shall prove to be as good as
recommended-that is to say, the said engine shall throw
water one hundred and fifty feet at an angle of forty-five
degrees, after being forced through fifty feet of hose, and that
the machine shall be a first-class machine in workmanship
and material. "
The trial of this fire engine proved it to be not as good as
recommended. Thus " The Fire King" was rejected by the
council.
The History of Livingston County of 1880 gives the impression
that sentiment of the day was one of optimism over
the rejection of The Fire King when they said :
" ... and there is little doubt that this result was a most
fortunate one for the village of Howell, for it included the
adoption of a different and (for this place at least) a more
efficient fire-apparatus ."
On January 3rd, 1874 the council resolved "That the
Champion Fire Extinguisher now here on trial be purchased
for the sum of $2000.00; $1000.00t o be paid in six months from
date, and $1000.00in eighteen months from date; and that the
president and recorder issue their orders accordingly."
The Champion Fire Extinguisher was strictly a chemical
engine with no provisions for pumping water. This is the
reason it was felt to be more practical for the needs of the
village at the time.
CHAMPION FIRE CO. NO. 1
After procuring a piece of fire apparatus it was necessary
for the council to fulfill its charge and form a fire company .
They did so on January 14th, 1874w hen the Common Council:
" Resolved, That the following-named persons be constituted
a fire-company , to wit: John Neary, John McCloud,
William F. Griffith, Patrick Hammill, Thomas Clark ,
Leonard Fishbeck, George Harrington, Perley Skilbeck,
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Frank Ackerman , Frank Archer, Charles G. Jewett, Mark
Rubert , Homer Beach , Theodore Huntley , E. A. Young,
Thomas McEwen, Henry Wilber, Peter Clark , Burt F.
Parsons , Edward Waldron, H. F. Browning , Edward
Greenaway, F. G. Hickey , H. G. Sellman , William Beattie,
George L. Clark , G. S. Burgess, R.H . Brown, Cassius Austin,
Thomas G. Switzer. "
The next day these men met and organized as "Champion
Fire Company No. 1 of Howell." And so 17 years after the
Eagle Hotel fire awakened the community to the need for an
organized force to protect against the dangers of fire, that
protection was a reality. The following is a list of the first
officers of " Champion Fire Company No. l " : John Neary ,
Foreman ; Thomas Clark , First Assistant Foreman ; Edward
Waldron , Second Assistant Foreman ; R. H. Brown,
Pipeman ; John McCloud, Second Pipeman ; E. A. Young,
Superintendent of Chemicals ; Henry Wilber, Assistant
Superintendent of Chemicals ; William F. Griffith ,
Secretary ; Patrick Hammill , Treasurer .
ORIGINAL FIRE STATION
Once the fire company was organized it became necessary
to procure a place to store the apparatus and chemicals also
to provide a place for the firemen to meet. '
May 24, 1875 saw the Common Council pass a resolution to
purchase from William McPherson & Sons a lot on the west
side of East Street (Michigan Avenue ) north of Grand River.
The property was 25 feet wide facing East Street and 50 feet
deep . The purchase price was $875.00 payable in three equal
payments . Mr. H. Halbert , a councilman, was appointed
building committee and was instructed to:
" to do all acts and things relative to said building of an
engine-house that in his judgment shall be expedient, and
that he complete the same as soon as practicable , in such
manner and style as shall be appropriate."
The original fire station
The contract for the engine house was awarded to Franklin
Kelly on July 6, 1875. The work was completed in the fall and
settled on October 29, 1875 as follows :
Amount of contract ... . ... . .. . .... . .. .... . .... . ... .. $2857.17
Cistern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00
Other extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.35
Total cost $2917.52
This price included ev·erything but the fire bell that was
used to call the firemen to the alarms. It was purchased soon
afterward .
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Soon after the engine house was completed the Common
Council hired a night watchman to guard against undetected
fire .
Howell was again fortunate for a period of 12 years as no
major fires were reported . On Saturday evening, March 12,
1887, Andrew Whitaker and Burr Montague had closed their
respective businesses and were on their way home . As they
approached the Monroe Block at the corner of Grand River
and State Streets they discovered a fire . The history of
Howell of 1911 explained it this way:
In an instant the entire Monroe Block was in flames and the
fire spread very rapidly to adjoining buildings . E . P . Gregory
who was then village president , telephoned to Ann Arbor and
Lansing for help, and both of those cities responded promptly
with steamers. Before they arrived , however , the Greenaway
block which stood at the west end of the square where the fire
started , fell inward with a crash , thus making it possible to
confine the fire to one square which could not have been done
if it had fallen outward. The burned district covered the
entir e square of business blocks, except four small two-stor y
buildings in the north-east corner. The loss was a very large
one and divided among over thirty people and firms .
Up until this time there are no indications that anyone lost
their life in a fire . That record was maintained until October
2nd, 1892.
The fire broke out in the basement of Isaac Bush 's Grocer y
on Grand River between State Street and North Michigan.
The Republican gives the account:
Wednesday at one o'clock large volumes of smoke were
seen issuing from the basement of the co-operative store on
the north side of Grand River street. The store had been in
charg e of Frank Holden, but the goods have just been sold to
Isaac W. Bush. The fire engine responded promptly to the
alarm and was soon doing valiant work in subduing the
smothered flames . Hundreds of willing men were soon
carrying water and throwing it under and on the floor as best
they could. The volume of smoke was so great that the fire
could not be exactly located .
In the mean time the goods from H. C. Briggs ' jewelry
store on the east side , and F. K. Johnson 's drug store were
moved out and carried to the courthouse square . In Ed
McDaniel's saloon on the west side , things were put in shape
to be moved at a moment's notice . The goods in Hickey &
Goodnow's were rolled up ready to be moved . The smoke was
so dense that nothing could be done in the Herald printing
office over the store .
The origin of the fire is shrouded in mystery , as the first
seen of it was in the basement. The basement was filled with
boxes , egg-crates and loose lumber .
At 2: 30 the flames gained the mastery of the heroic work of
the fire department , and broke out in front of the store and
soon after at the rear . It was evident that nothing could save
the store . The work of moving goods from the rest of the
block now commenced in good earnest. The Democrat
printing office is located at the rear of the burning store on
Winans ' avenue . Everything movable was taken out and the
cases of type were carried to the basement of the courthouse .
Hickey & Goodnow's double store was emptied as soon as
possible . The goods were also moved from Monroe Bros . on
the corner of the block.
As soon as the fire broke out it was seen that the whole
block of six of the best stores in the city were in imminent
danger . The fire department at Lansing was telephoned and
promptl y responded with the best engine at close hand. At 3
o'clock word was received that the engine was on the way.
In the meantime every effort was being made to subdue the
increasing flames . The engine did noble work and hundreds
were carrying water in pails . The streets were filled with
The champion fire extinguisher during the fire of 1892.
anxious people and moving goods. Drays, wagons,
wheelbarrows , everything that could be used was pressed
into service .
At three o'clock the fire broke from the Reynolds ' building
into McDaniels ' saloon, and in an incredible short time the
adjoining stores of Hickey & Goodnow were in flames. The
goods were not yet all removed and everybody was busy at
the work ; suddenly the upper floor gave way , and Mrs.
Hickey , Emma and Carrie Weibrecht were caught in the
crash ; men near by rushed in and rescued them from the
burning debris. How seriously they were hurt cannot be
learned in the excitement. Mrs . Hickey was rescued with
difficulty and was considerably injured. Mr. Hickey, it was
thought at first, was caught in trying to rescue her. He was
afterwards seen with his sleeves torn off and his hands
bleeding . Emma Weibrecht was hurt on the head, and hair,
badly scorched . Carrie, the bookkeeper , escaped with a
bruised hand and it is thought without serious harm .
Those caught in the fire were on the first floor when the
second floor fell in. The first floor gave way and let them into
the basement surrounded with bricks , beams and burning
timbers. In addition to those mentioned above were Chas.
Goodnow, one of the proprietors ; Al Cook, Ora Beach and
John Culver. Mr. Goodnow now thinks he did not go to the
bottom of the basement. Light soon began to appear as the
smoke and falling debris began to break away . He noticed
Mrs. Hickey , who was caught fast in the timbers, reaching
out her hands and calling for help . In some way he escaped
somewhat hurt about the head , with hands and face covered
with blood. Other s rescued Mrs . Hickey . Al Cook escaped ,
but was taken home seriously hurt ; Ora Beach jumped from
the wreck without injury ; Frank Bailey and James Martin
were also on the second floor, but just beyond the sinking
part. John Culver was seriously hurt.
The first report that Frank Hickey had escaped from the
fire s is now at four o'clock , much in doubt as no one has been
a ble to find him .
The crowd was almost panic stricken as the report spread
that Mr. Hickey was under the ruins ; diligent search was
made , but without avail.
At 4:15 the walls of the Greenaway building occupied by
Monroe Bros. on the west side of the block fell into the street
toward 0 . J . Parkers . It was then thought that the danger
was probably over.
At 4: 30 the Lansing engine arrived and did good work in
controlling the fire. The danger was practically over when
they arrived . The Fowlerville fire department sent
chemicals and help.
The total loss on goods and buildings will probably reach
$50,000. It is the same block that was destroyed five years
ago.
F.G . Hickey and E .D. Wines, two prominent businessmen
lost their lives in the fire as they tried to rescue stock from
their business establishments . Stores and business places of
the city were closed for their funeral services as " the entire
population of the community paid tribute. "
The needs for more extensive fire protection was
accentuated by this fire. This need was somewhat satisfied
with the erection of the water works system in 1894, as fire
hydrants now served a major portion of the village . Although
the exact date cannot currently be ascertained it was about
this time that a hose reel on wheels was purchased and
" made a complete revolution in the department's equipment.
" The chemical engine was kept for use in the districts
without water mains .
Along with a more modern approach to fighting fire came
the reorganizaion of the fire department itself . The champion
fire company No. 1 was dissolved and a new organization
"The Howell Fire Company of the Village of Howell ,
Michigan " was formed July 1st, 1895.
This group was comprised of 11 men of which W.R. Knapp
was chief. This company was a close knit group , in that to
become a member one would be required to,pay an initiation
fee and be recommended by a current member .
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After these preliminaries the company as a whole would
vote on a candidate for membership. This practice continued
until about 1965. The company established the first
Wednesday of each month at 7: 30 p.m . as their meeting time .
The duties of members were well spelled out in their
constitution and by-laws as Article XII of that document
illustrates.
ARTICLE XII
DUTIES OF MEMBERS AT FIRES
SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of each member on every alarm
of fire to repair immediately to the engine house and assist in
conveying the hose to the fire unless on his way he be credibly
informed of its removal , in which case he shall proceed to the
fire . No order shall be given by any member of the company
except by the Captain, who shall receive his order from the
Chief or Assistant , in which case the first one at the engine
house shall take charge of the company until the arrival of
the Captain or one of his assistants .
SEC. 2. No member of the company shall deliver any of the
property of the company to any person other than one
belonging to the company , unless ordered by the Chief.
SEC. 3. No member shall forcibly take the pipes from
either of the pipemen , nor shall any member deliver the
pipes to any person other than one belonging to the company.
No member shall cause any altercation or disturbance , or
use any profane or indecent language while on duty or at
meetings.
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of each member to remain with
the hose at a fire , to preserve silence and order as much as
possible ; paying strict attention to the orders of the presiding
officer , and to remain with the hose cart until it is returned to
the place where it is kept , and until the company is
dismissed , unless ordered away , or leave of absence is
obtained from the officer in command. Any violation of this
rule shall be reported by the commanding officer to the
company , and upon the conviction of the person so charged ,
he shall pay the sum of one dollar . A majority of the votes
given shall be necessary to convict. Immediately after a fire ,
it shall be the duty of the company to put their hose cart in
readiness to be taken out at any moment.
The fire bell.
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The company was alerted to an alarm of fire by a large
bronze bell which hung in the bell tower above the engine
house. It is unclear at this time as to who was responsible for
sounding the alarm , especially during the day. Compensation
for the company was as follows; the Chief received $25 per
year and the other 10 members split $150.
The growth of the fire department coupled to the growth of
other village departments lead to the following account
appearing in the History of Howell of 1911.
" It is worthy of note that this building was only what was
considered necessary for use of the fire department at that
time, with the addition of a Council Room. Since then the
department 's facilities have doubled and more ; the street
commissioner 's tools and supplies are stored in the building ;
the electrical shop has driven the fire department out of its
hall for meeting purposes ; and several other things have
found headquarters there. The result of this crowding has
developed a feeling on the part of the department that it is not
properly appreciated and its condition is one dangerously
near disorganization. As no ground can be purchased for an
addition to the present building, there is a growing sentiment
for the sale of the present building and the erection of a new
one adequate for present needs ."
The Village did in fact in 1910 (after the History of Howell
of 1911w ent to press ) purchase the current City Hall building
on the southeast corner of North Michigan and Clinton
Streets . The Fire Department occupied the northwest corner
with a single door facing North Michigan.
The Fire Department in 1910.
Major fires continued to assault the community with their
tragic results . During Thursday night in the last week in
April, 1913, the Michigan Condensed Milk Factory (Bruce
Products ) was destroyed by fire . Clarence Hornung , the son
of Mr. and Mrs . George Hornung , lost his life in the fire.
Howell was a community suffering growing pains with
regards to providing services expected and sometimes
demanded by its residents . To meet the challenge , Howell
was incorporated as a city in 1915. The Fire Department
reorganized for a third time in 1915. It then became known as
the City of Howell Fire Department.
With this reorganization came more modernization ,
specifically a fire alarm box system . The system , purchased
from the Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company of New
York, consisted of fire alarm boxes mounted on various
street corners throughout the city . The boxes were connected
to a gong and a paper tape punch recorder located in the
steam powered water plant just across the railroad tracks on
South Michigan Avenue.
Another gong and paper tape punch recorder were located
in the engine house. The system worked as follows: A citizen
would go to an alarm box and pull the hook. This would
transmit the box number through overhead wires to the two
previously specified locations. There was a man on duty 24
hours a day in the steam water plant to keep the boilers
running . He would refer to a chart listing all the box numbers
to ascertaining the location , and then would blow the original
"fire whistle. "
The fire whistle , known as the "monkey bird" varied in
pitch and could be easily distinguished because of its
tremendous volume and distinct character. After about one
minute of continuous blowing the boiler operator would blow
a short blast or blasts to indicate in which ward of the city the
fire was located .
He would then speed up the pumps whereby increasing the
pressure on the water mains to aid the fire department in
producing adequate fire streams. It is important to
remember that at this time the department's equipment was
still horse drawn .
Getting the fire apparatus to the fire was accomplished in
this manner. There were several draymen in the city who
had teams to haul their delivery wagons. When an alarm was
sounded they would race to the engine house. The first to
arrive would unhook his wagon and hook up to the hose cart ,
hopefully find out where he was to respond , and then
speeding to the fire .
The Howell Fire Department acquired its first piece of
motorized fire apparatus February 3rd, 1919. A one-ton
Model T Ford chassis with a roadster body, less a top, was
purchased for $1,650.00. The fire apparatus body was
purchased from the Prospect Manufacturing Company. The
unit was equipped with a chemical tank and one hose reel
above the hose bed. An extension ladder and a roof ladder
were provided as were two "Underwriters" plat pipes . The
unit had no water pump. A special wooden ramp had to be
built to permit the unit to be driven out of the engine house
across the sidewalk and onto the street.
The early 1920's brought with them another improvement
regarding alerting the firemen to the alarm of fire. The
Howell Electric Motors in about 1921 built two electric fire
sirens for the city. One was mounted on a specially
constructed tower on the northwest corner of Wetmore and
North Michigan with the controls located in the City Hall
building. A second siren was mounted on the west cross
member of the water tower on South Michigan with the
controls located in the water plant. These sirens were
electrically connected to the fire alarm box system and
would immediately operate when an alarm box was pulled.
This advance helped to alert the firemen a few seconds faster
in a business where every second counts .
Fires were continually a problem in the surrounding area
as well as in the city as this clipping from the Livingston
Republican Press of November 5, 1924 points out:
Long continued dry weather has made conditions right for
fires to run all through the country districts . Opening of the
hunting season--<!areless smokers dropping stubs and
similar causes are blamed for the damage .
Nobody just knows much about it but the oldest inhabitants
cannot remember running fires as bad in Livingston County
as they have been for the past few days.
AT THURBER CORNELL'S
While working in his field, Saturday afternoon , Thurber
Cornell's attention was called to a Ford car driving in. When
he looked up his house was seen to be on fire. A telephone
alarm quickly reached the Bennett farm where men were
threshing , and the whole force at once responded. The fire
was under such headway that little could have been done had
it not been for plenty of water , in an attic cistern as well as
from the ground. Even at that the men were just about to
abandon their work when more help arrived and the fight
was won.
Much of the roof is gone and there is considerable damage
all through the house , amounting to several hundred dollars .
Insured in the Livingston Mutual Insurance Company .
The City of Howell fire department's activities were
apparently rather routine during the twenties . The exception
being the purchase of a 1925 Reo chassis equipped with a
Obenchain-Boyer apparatus at a cost of about $3,500.00. The
unit was the first pumper owned by the city of Howell.
Although it was equipped with a geer pump it carried no
water and depended upon either a static source of a pond or
river , or a fire hydrant for its supply.
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The first mot orized fire a pparatus
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The Clinton Street fire station
Our city continued to grow and the Fire Department again
began to feel the pinch .City Hall required more office space
to operate efficiently and the Fire Department was acquiring
additional equipment. A decision was reached to move the
Fire Department around the corner within the same
building. The Department now had two bays in which to store
apparatus facing East Clinton.
In March of 1931, the City Council authorized the purchase
of another Reo Obenchain-Boyer pumper for $5,750.00.
The records indicate that the Oberchain-Boyer Company
approached the city in this case and offered the apparatus at
a considerable savings . The delivery of this apparatus
opened a new realm to the City of Howell Fire Department.
The 1925 vehicle being retained , a system was set up
whereby persons living outside the city could contract each
year to obtain fire protection . Hence the 1925 Reo became
Howell's first "rural fire truck." It was only nine months
after the 1931 Reo was delivered that it got a real workout.
At about 6:30 Sunday , November 28, 1931, a fire was
discovered in Barron's Store, located on the northwest corner
of Michigan and Sibley Streets . The Livingston Republican
Press carried the following account in part.
About 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening a fire broke out in the
R.E . Barron farm implement emporium in the southwest
corner or back end of the building. The large building being
of wood, the flames spread rapidly and the whole structure
was soon in conflagration. The fire department acted quickly
and with both engines soon five streams of water were
deluging the spreading flames . The building was large and as
soon as the flames were subdued in one part fire would
break out in another , or in several places at the same time . It
was nearly two hours before the water could be turned off. In
the mean time the building, or rather two buildings in one,
was almost completely gutted.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $25,000 TO $45,000
Daylight could be seen in almost any place in the roof. It is
doubtful if the building is worth rebuilding and may well be
considered a complete loss. Besides the building the losses
include farm hardware , harness, oils and paints , farm tools,
farm seed, alfalfa and clover seed and some farm
implements . The total loss is variously estimated at from
$25,000 to $45,000. The loss has not yet been adjusted by the
insurance company.
PRAISE FIREMEN
Too much cannot be said in praise of the very effective
work done by the Howell fire laddies in putting out the fire
and in keeping the flames from spreading. It is estimated
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that a thousand gallons of water were thrown on the flames
every minute for an hour and a half and still the supply of
water was not wanting . More water was spilled on the Barron
fire than on any fire in Howell for many years .
AN EARLY LANDMARK DESTROYED
The burned building was an old landmark in the history
and development of Howell and was one of the last of such
early structures now remaining in the city. Messrs. Barron
and Armstrong bought the place about the year 1907,
(estimated) and after some six or seven years Mr. Barron
became sole owner and has continued a large farm
implement business since that time .
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The R.E. Barron Building after the fire
Another large fire completely destroyed the Recreation
Building on south side of East Grand River between Court
Street and Barnard Street in February, 1935. It is worthy of
note that although the building was in the middle of the block
the buildings to each side were relatively undamaged .
A fire that certainly brought the Fire Department to true
test was the Livingston County Infirmary fire in October of
1937.
Fire , having no conscience , struck the Purdy and Woodruff
Lumber Company Christmas Day in 1938. Despite the total
devastation the company rebuilt and continued to serve the
community for many years.
Purdy & Woodruff fire
The activities of a fire department include operations other
than fires. While working on the steeple of the Walnut Street
Methodist Church (the southeast corner of Walnut and Sibley
Thureson Saw Mill fire, 1943
Streets) a young steeple jack fell from the steeple to the roof
breaking both legs. Then Fire Chief Earl Sharpe was called
upon to respond with ladder and rescue the injured workman
which he did with some difficulty .
1941 brought a new piece of fire apparatus to the Howell
Fire Department. The city purchased a Ford chassis for
$775.00a nd equipped it with an American Fire Apparatus
chassis for $2,440.00. This unit replaced the 1925 Reo. It was
outfitted with two booster reels, a 400-gallon water tank , a
500-gallon per minute front mount pump, a complement of
pumper ladders , and thirty feet of hard suction hose. Again
the new apparatus did not have to wait long for an acid test.
In March of 1942 the Bruce Products Company on the
corner of Factory and West Streets was destroyed by fire. A
valiant effort by the Howell Fire Department could not
overcome the headway the fire had on their arrival or the
materials stored within the manufacturing plant. The war
was gripping the country and the Howell Fire Department
felt it along with everyone else .
During the scrap drive of 1943-44th e bell that was stationed
on the original engine house was sacrificed. The bell was
auctioned off for $17.00 that went to buy war bonds and then
laid to rest in the pile to be melted down and re-used in the
war effort. It left Howell bearing the inscription Howell Fire
Department engraved in its circumference .
October, 1943s aw another major business destroyed by the
ravages of fire . The Thureson 's Saw Mill, located on the NE
corner of Catrell Drive and East Grand River was
completely destroyed . They were to rebuild west of their
initial location only to burn sometime later .
The forties saw other changes come to the operations of the
Howell Fire Department.
The fire alarm box system began to be a problem from two
standpoints . First it was an old system and the overhead
wires were in poor condition. Second, the young people
couldn't resist the temptation of occasionally pulling a false
alarm. The systems problems coupled with the fact that
many families had telephones lead to discussion of removal
of the system . After a particularly "active" Halloween the
Howell Fire Department , 1965
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order was given to remove the system. It was removed and
reportedly sold to the city of Owosso. At this time the Bell
Telephone Company took over exclusively the task of taking
fire calls . The operators would take down the information
and activate the two sirens, then relay the information about
the alarm to the fire station via telephone.
The late forties brought with them many new ideas, one of
them being a new concept in rural fire protection-the rural
tanker. The men of the Howell Fire Department, realizing
the value of a piece of equipment capable of carrying a large
amount of water, decided to equip themselves with such an
apparatus . In 1949t hey acquired a 1942F ord chassis that had
been utilized by the city as a garbage truck. Equipping it with
a tank and a pump the men, each adding in his own area of
expertise, built a first rate piece of fire apparatus that served
the Howell area until about 1962.
The tank had a capacity of 900 gallons and it was equipped
with a 500 gallon per minute front mount pump. 1953 brought
a new Ford F800 chassis with a Barton-American 500 gallon
per minute midship centrifigal pump. This vehicle was
equipped with a three stage pump capable of creating up to
800 pounds pressure on the booster lines. It carries 500
gallons of water . It now serves as a backup pumper . The
fifties saw an emphasis on the part of the city council to
bolster the Department of Public Works. It was also a time to
begin planning for the future and it would be 1962 before the
city would acquire another piece of fire apparatus. A
precipitating factor toward buying a new vehicle was the
Howell Tire Company fire .
On August 10, 1959a fire in a garage behind the Howell Tire
Company spread to the building housing the tire facility. The
building was located on the east side of Michigan Avenue
between Sibley and Washington Streets. The fire started
about 9 p.m ., and it took fire fighters from Howell, Brighton,
Fowlerville , Pinckney and a pumper from the Michigan
State Sanatorium to contain the blaze. Businesses destroyed
besides the tire company were the Howell Self-Service
Laundry and Curtis' Barber Shop. Damages amount to over
$100,000.00.
The 1960's brought with them continuing growth and
change. November of 1960 saw the delivery of the ninth piece
of fire apparatus for the city. It was a new 1,250 gallon
tanker / pumper with fire apparatus by Fire Trucks
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Incorporated on an International chassis . The delivery price
was $12,335.75.T his unit replaced the 900 gallon built by the
firemen in 1949.
A devastating fire struck the Master Cast Company , April
15, 1964. Surrounding fire departments assisted the Howell
Department in quenching the $200,000.00 plus blaze. The
conversion to dial telephone service caused a change in the
method of taking a fire call and also sounding the fire sirens .
In August 1964w hen the new Howell telephone exchange was
cut over there were no longer telephone operations in Howell.
Negotiations between the city and the sheriff resulted in the
fire calls going into the Sheriff's Department. The deputy on
the desk would take the fire information , activate the sirens
and relay the location to the fire department via a private
phone line.
Another piece of fire apparatus was purchased for the city
in July , 1965. A F.M.C. Corporation, John Bean High
Pressure Firefighter was delivered on a Ford F600 chassis .
The unit was to replace the 1941 Ford / American fire apparatus
pumper . This unit served a dual purpose, it was a
fast, first out attack truck and was capable of driving and
pumping simultaneously for grass and brush fires. The
purchase price was $13,915.27.
December 12th, 1968 the alarm of fire was again sounded
for Thureson Lumber Company on East Grand River just
west of Catrell Drive . This fire was fought with the aid of
surrounding fire departments for most of the night. The fire
resulted in the eventual closing of the facility.
The addition of new equipment and manpower coupled
with the need to expand the police department resulted in a
fourth move for the fire department. On May 21, 1969 the
Howell Fire Department moved into a building leased from
Douglas Swann, a local businessman . The building, located
on the southwest corner of Clinton Street and North Michigan
Avenue had originally been a service station.
Until this time, when a major fire struck any community in
Livingston County, the fire departments would generally
help each other out. There was no organized approach and
too often confusion arose over what equipment would
respond , billing for services , and how help should be summoned.
A meeting was called at the Brighton Fire Department
in 1969 resulting in the formation of The Livingston
County Firefighters Mutual Aid Association . This added
Howell Tire Company fire, August, 1959
much needed order to the major fire incident and all citizens
in the county benefitted as a result of the rather impressive
apparatus pool available to draw from during a "working
fire, " there are currently 10 fire departments in the county,
all members of The Mutual Aid Association.
A new means of alerting the fire fighters for an alarm was
added in 1970. Special radio receivers with "Tone Encoded
Squelch, " an electronic system of selective paging, were
provided for each fire fighters home. These receivers are
activated by the sheriff's department.
August of 1973 brought with it another piece of fire apparatus
. Built on a Ford 900 cab over chassis the Howe fire
apparatus was the first 1000 gallon per minute pumper in
Livingston County.
The Master Cast Company suffered a second large loss
nearly 10 years to the day after their first blaze. The
damages in March, 1974 were to an addition amounting to a
loss of over $150,000.00.
Apparatus space and the need for adequate office and
training facilities motivated the city council to action in 1975.
Property was secured on West Grand River Avenue across
The new Howell City Fire Hall, 1975,
presently under construction .
HOWE.LL Fll<E. DEPARTMENT
from the McPherson farm and a 12 acre plot designated for a
new fire station. Bids for a new fire station were taken and an
award was made to the Jarvis Construction Company of
Brighton . The award was made almost exactly 100 years
after that of the original engine house. The building should be
completed about January 1st, 1976. The cost of the facility is
nearly 10 times that of the engine house or about $280,000.00.
The Howell Fire Department is currently authorized a
strength of 30 call-paid men. Firefighters receive $5.00 for
each alarm they answer and $3.00 per training meeting .
Meetings are held every Wednesday night. The department
services 155 square miles including the city of Howell, all of
Marion Township, and portions of Genoa, Cohoctah, Deerfield,
Oceola, and Howell Townships.
The firefighters of Howell have served the needs of the
community well. The men have sacrificed much in many
ways and are too often criticized for actions misunderstood
by the citizenry. These men and men like them will continue
to train, repair, scrub, invent, inspect and respond to alarms,
with all the valiance that the Champion Fire Company
Number 1 did in 1874.
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Currency Paper money and other currency shown here were loaned for
photographing by Al Latson and Chester Clark, Howell men , both long
time members and exhibitors of the Livingston County Coin Club .
Latson is presently vice-president of the county club .
Th e buffalo catches th e eye on th is $10 bill , ser ies of 1901, but Lewis
and Clark also are pictured .
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Currency
Coordinator
Chester Clark , native of rural Howell , is
an en joy er and researcher of local
history , Americana, and numismatics .
Presently he is president of the Living -
ston County Historical Society , editor of
the Michigan Tokens & Medals Society ,
board member of the Michigan State
Numismatic Society, VP of the Great
Lakes Wooden Nickel Society.
Many Union soldiers brought back confederate paper money .
The series of 1935 A issued a one dollar bill with a red "S" for special
paper , and one with a red "R" for regular paper , to test the wear .
Early banknotes were issued by many local Mich igan banks . This
one, hand dated and numbered , but never signed ana never used, was
found in a coin shop in Australia by Chester Clark, 1943.
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faces right .
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Washington , D .C.
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Out of the hundreds of schemes advanced during these
difficult years to solve the business problems , came the
"Trading Dollar ."
Also known as trade scrip, stamp scrip , stamp money and
prosperity scrip, this new form of scrip came into being in
Michigan with its introduction in Howell, Michigan in
February of 1933.
The trade dollar was conceived by the Howell Chamber of
Commerce as a self-liquidating scrip. (Probably copied from
the stamp certificates first issued in Hawarden , Iowa, in
1932).
The theory of this issue interested the whole country . It was
copied far and wide in its original form or with vario us minor
changes.
By the use of the trade dollar , the Howell Chamber of
Commerce envisioned the development of $285,000w orth of
business , in their town of 3,600 inhabitants , within six months
and came close to succeeding.
The idea was based on using a money which had to be
spent , a money which lost its value if not spent.
Issuing the trade dollars in Howell started February 22,
1933, and within 4 days 2800 notes of an issue of 5000 were in
circulation . By March 4, all were in circulation. Here is how
it worked .
Trade dollars, a printed scrip, were first given free, by the
Chamber of Commerce to 120 merchants and professional
men who participated in the plan.
Then for ever $5 paid in cash to any of these firms in either
purchases or on past due accounts , the purchaser or payee
was given one trade dollar.
The trade dollar now became local currency acceptable by
the dentists , doctors, lawyers and firms adhering to the plan,
provided the owner attached thereto one of the 2-cent trade
stamps issued by the Chamber of Commerce . For public
convenience , merchants purchased the stamps from the
Chamber of Commerce and sold them to their customers .
Through the stamps a cash reserve was built up to redeem
the scrip in cash .
The trade dollar with the stamp attached and dated was
then good for 3 days. If the owner did not spend it within 3
days , he had to put on an additional stamp for each 3 day
period that he held it, to keep it valid. It cost money to hold it
so it usually was spent within the 3 day limit.
When the trade dollar had been spent 52 times it collected
$1.04 in stamps . The Chamber of Commerce would then
redeem it for $1.00 in cash from the stamp revenue, the 4
cents paying for the cost of printing and handling .
Merchants and others agreed to accept the dollars in trade
for 6 months and used them themselves , in personal purchases
, the paying of coal bills, etc.
During the first 4 days the trade dollars were in circulation
in Howell, accounts 2 and 3 years old were collected by
merchants. Automobile dealers reported they had closed
deals for a score of cars , the trade dollar for each $5 spent
being the incentive .
The issue stimulated buisness by more than 100 percent in
Howell in the face of the bank holiday. Trade dollars turned
over faster than once every 3 days.
To prevent the currency from piling up on the merchants , a
clearing house was established for the trade money, which
arranged to sell it to factories, school boards, city treasurers,
etc. , at a 5 percent discount. Payrolls in Howell included a
percentage of trade dollars approximating $1500 a month .
This system was copied by the Chambers of Commerce of a
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soc TRADE (i,t ON ACCOUNT
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OlJlio n flcefPl · more.
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number of Michigan cities with varying degrees of success . It
worked most successfully in the towns of 5000 population or
less, the success diminishing in towns with greater
populations .
The little city of Albion tried it without the holding time
penalty , with a municipal issue of $300 in 50 cents and one
dollar denominations. Despite opposition by some of the
businessmen who opposed the 2 percent discount for handling
it, this scrip issued in March of 1933 was all redeemed from
the stamp revenue by May of 1933, although it was intended
to leave the issue in circulation for 6 months.
Author of Howell scrip story is James J .
Curto, Grosse Pointe, Mich . 1949.
Old Masonic Penny, RAM No. 30, Livingston Chapter, issued to
George Nichols. Also Howell Lodge No. 38 F&AM centennial token
issued to Burr Clark in 1950.
Bert S. Pate cigar store token. Was this used about 1920?
Civil War tokens, like Indian Head cents , were issued of necessity to
make change . Howell had none, but 3 stores in Brighton issued these .
In about 1910 five cents went far towards a lunch . This Howell
bi-metal was issued by White & Pate, located where the Old Howell
House now is.
Remember Joe Harris '
The Howell Centennial was in 1963.
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;. ·, ,:::!,, s/ I 1 ·· /. ') J (I shows the money which was in circulation in the colonies at the time of v) · ., / the Revolutionary War . The farthing, penny , shilling and pound were ·., :~.:- '.:' " "-" ''.) :j'IE nglish money, but the Spanish "pistole" was also legal tender (equal 2 0 IJ to a French Louis d'or), as was the "moidore," a Portugese gold coin --~.::_------- j;l and also the German or Austrian coin called the "dolar" or thaler. A
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And the Distances Grew Less
The Ann-Pere crossing was one of the unique meeting places of two
differ e nt ra ilroads in the country . In early years a scene of much
controversy and spectacular train wrecks.
Tlie levers w1o:1r,c::,.,..,.=, ~~ .
The first airplane based in Howell, 1929.
Howell.
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Sunday afternoon auto clubs travelled in groups in 1914 to help each
other out of ditches and repair tires.
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The first train on the road through Howell, now the C&O .
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Head on collision on the highway in 1933.
Transportation
By BOB WILHELM
Ten thousand years ago, the last of the glaciers left
Michigan. Not one, but three separate glacial paths: west
from the Rocky Mountains, straight south from Hudson Bay ,
and from Labrador on the east, centered on the lower
peninsula . There have been estimates that these final
glaciers may have had a thickness of up to two miles . In their
paths the Great Lakes were carved , high morraines were
created with the deposits of earth and stone, rivers were
carved, level plains and gently rolling morraines were left by
Transportation
Coordinator
Bob Wilhelm grew up in Traverse City
,where the "bug" for history developed
early . He attended Michigan State
majoring in history and has taught in
Howell for several years, concentrating
on Michigan history . Other interests:
travel , photography , Great Lakes
history, and "Ferroequinology" (translated
in to simple terms , "a train nut") .
the rapidly retreating masses of ice which covered the
"mitten" of Michigan .
Over the centuries the climate warmed, vegetation
returned and in their path s animal life returned. Ancient
civilizations developed and disappeared four thousand years
ago.
As the nomadic Indian tribes moved into southern lower
Michigan, primitive trails developed . The main east-west
trail in Livingston County followed along the present day
Grand River A venue . There were numerous north-south
trails , the main route ran from the southeastern corner of the
county to Hamburg, through the Howell area on the east
shore of Thompson (Howell) Lake and ending at Shiawasseetown
(Owosso).
This was the area of the Saginaw Chippewas and the
Potawatamis . In the summer the two tribes planted their
crops: corn , pumpkins , squash, peas, beans .
Directly to the southeast , the south Ottawas lived.
There were few hostilities between the tribes as the idea of
land ownership was vague and the boundaries of the hunting
grounds were undefined .
Each tribe managed its own affairs . The land, the lakes
and tiie streams belonged to all who needed them .
In the 1880's, white settlers found apple trees near
Cohoctah, that apparently had been planted and maintained
by the Indians while spending the summers in this region.
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An unusual picture of the inside of a blacksmith shop. Pictures were
almost always taken outside the buildings, and it took a more enterprising
photographer to attempt a time exposure inside.
The Shiawassee and other streams provided ample
amounts of fish for the tribes.
There was trade between the tribes by barter. The trade
was usually in what might be described as "luxury" goods:
tobacco, shells, flint, and occasionally copper.
As winter approaches , the tribes moved to their sheltered
winter territorial grounds in the dense woods. The Chippewas
moved north into the valleys of the Shiawassee, Flint, Tittabawassee,
and Saginaw Rivers where they could hunt and
trap.
In the spring the tribes would move into the "sugar
woods," make camp , and make sugar . With this completed,
the tribes would move back south and set up summer camp.
This was the life of the Indian before the arrival of the white
man.
Life changed for the midwestern Indians during the
nineteenth century.
French explorers were looking for a route across the vast
continent looking for the elusive Orient. Explorers were
looking for gold, but became trappers and brought even
greater wealth to the French monarchs. Missionaries came
to save the "savage souls." The missionaries, in describing
the Indians as savage did not mean brutal, but they were
uncultured and uncivilized.
Despite great differences, the Indians led by Chief
Tecumseh and Chief Pontiac fought with the French against
the British. The French settlers generally got along with the
Indians. Many French and Indians inter-married .
The British gained control of Michigan after the French
and Indian War. When the British gained control of the fur
trade, they had the attitude of Superiority by being aloof and
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This is a typical shop, windows on one side, whitewashed wall on the
other to reflect the light back. The old anvil fastened to a block is in
the foreground.
condescending toward the Indians. There was one revolt
against the British rule, but this resulted in failure.
The British realized the value of the Indians to their
economy and tended to halt the westward white migration
across the Alleghenys into the Northwest Territory .
The Indians generally supported the British in both the
Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. They feared that the
encroaching white man would force them out of their
territorial grounds. The fear was soon to come true .
When the Americans raised their flag over Detroit, they
continued for a time , a practice begun by the British. Once a
year each Indian, from the youngest baby to the most
elderly , was paid a yearly annuity of fifty cents .
The Indians would have to walk the trails to a central point,
usually Saginaw, where they would stand in line to receive
payment. This British custom was continued to "prevent
demoralization " of the Indians .
In 1819, Territorial Governor Lewis Cass persuaded the
Indians to give up some of their lands to the government for
white settlement. The Indians were given one thousand
dollars in silver. As the land was taken for white settlement,
two reservations were established : 10,000 acres near "Big
Rock" (Chesaning ) and 3,000 acres at Kech-a-wan-dang-oning
(Knaggs Bridge near Bancroft) .
After the Treaty of 1837, most of the Indians in the
southeastern part of the state were forced to leave the
reservations and they walked the traditional trails for the
last time to exile along the Osago River in Kansas .
"O, my father, thou has taught me from my infancy to love
this land of my birth; thou hast even taught me to say, 'It is
the gift of the Great Spirit.' 0, my father , our happiest days
are gone into lasting oblivion and never again shell we enjoy
our forest home. The eagle 's eye could not discover where
once was the wigwam and thy council fires .
"Ah, could we but once more return to our forest glade and
tread as formerly upon the soil with proud and happy heart!
On the hills with bended bow, while nature's flowers bloomed
all around and the habitation of nature 's child, our brothers
once abounded , free as the mountain air , and their glad
shouts resounded from vale to vale as they chased over the
hills, the red deer and followed the otter 's track. 0 , return ,
return! Ah, never again shall this time return! It is gone, and
gone forever like a spirit passed . The red man will never live
here any more. The bow and quiver with which I hunted is
useless to me now, for the game is destroyed . When the white
man took my inheritance, he thought to make me a slave. I
am an Indian and that can never be. Ah, never, never! I
would sooner plunge the dagger into my beating heart and
follow in the footsteps of my forefathers than be a slave to the
ungodly white man ."
An Indian's Lament
Chief Blackbird
European immigration increased greatly after 1800. The
westward movement in the early years was slow and
hazardous as the immigrants seeking a new life had to take
the land route west.
In 1825t he Erie Canal opened. Even though this new water
route was slow, it was better than the primitive roads . The
settler could now take a boat up the Hudson River to Albany
and take a horse or mule drawn barge in a westerly direction
to Buffalo. Most of the people would take a sailing scooner
across Lake Erie to Toledo or Detroit , but a new,
revolutionary method of transportation was introduced : the
steam boat.
The Walk-In-The-Water was the first of these new boats on
the Great Lakes . Even though the boat was steam powered,
The gasoline car familiarly called the "Potato Bug" by the
residents, takes on passengers at Cohoctah.
when it entered a harbor, a cannon was shot from the deck to
announce its arrival. The steam whistle had not yet been
invented .
Even though the Walk-In-The-Water floundered on the
rocks and was destroyed, the pattern of faster and more
dependable transportation encouraged people to move
westward in droves .
At Detroit , a frontier village that in the early 1800's was
trying to recover from a disastrous fire that leveled the town,
people came . The old Indian trails moved westward to the
north and the west.
When the immigrants started moving into the interior
along the Grand River Trail, they found only the most
primitive trails. Any convenient opening became the trail.
The routes were only marked by an occasional tree which
had been notched or bent. Even when the pathways were dry ,
they made travel difficult, but after a rainfall the trails were
impassable. The roads were full of roots, stumps , mud hills,
sinkholes and sand.
When they came to a river or stream, the earliest traveler
would have to chop trees and build a make shift bridge . These
bridges would usually be washed away after a rainfall . In
1836 the brothers Henry and Garet Lake after leaving
Livingston Centre on the Grand River Trail found that the
"rude and frail wood" bridge across the Shiawassee River
had been washed away by a flood. The river was too swollen
to cross . They built a wood ferry to move their wagons and
goods across the river . The horse teams swam across the
swollen stream.
The paths widened into trails as traffic increased .
People came . A few came on foot, other single travelers
came on horseback . An ox team and wagon brought many
homesteaders . Old buckboards and farm wagons were drawn
by horses, usually teams of four.
Concord coaches with four to six horses were considered to
be the ultimate transportation . The driver 's seat was outside
where two or three passengers could also sit. Baggage was
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The Flanders was a very early motorcycle, driven by a small
gasoline engine, the power transmitted to the back wheel by a leather
belt. A shaft tightened the belt. The tighter the belt, the faster it went.
placed on top. About nine passengers were crowded in three
rows of seats . Horses were changed every twelve to fifteen
miles.
Despite the isolation of this area, holdups were extremely
rare. The biggest problems of the earliest coaches were
runawa y horses and coaches turning over . When the coach
started to sway in one direction , the passengers would lean
the other way hoping to prevent the tipping and disaster .
People of all backgrounds and descriptions moved inland
from Detroit : European immigrants , homesteaders , land
speculators , town builders , circuit riders, lawyers , doctors
and adventurers .
The earliest overnight facilities , usually about a day 's
travel apart , were usually settler 's homes . "A shilling for
man and beast, " was the usual fee. A shilling was worth
twenty-five cents.
As the trails developed and people came in increasing
numbers , taverns were built. The taverns were normally
clean , beds were " corded ." The mattresses were filled with
feathers or cornhusks.
Food served at the taverns were abundant. Pork , venison ,
sometimes bear and fowl was the main course . In lake areas
and near the rivers , fish was on the menu. Potatoes , hoe
cakes , johnny cake (at this time there were few grist mills in
Michigan ), maple sugar and syrup , wild honey, nuts and
berries completed the menu .
Baking was normally done on outside ovens and cooking
was done on the open hearth .
With ever increasing migration, on July 4, 1832, the United
Sta_!:eCs ongress passed a law which directed the president to
" lay out a road Detroit to 'Sciawassee' to the Grand River ."
The cost of this layout was not to exceed $2,500.
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During 1833 and 1834 actual construction began , extending
ten miles west of Detroit.
A further congressional grant of $25,000w as given in 1835t o
provide a one hundred foot wide clearing and build bridges
across the Rush , Huron, Shiawassee , and Cedar Rivers .
When Michigan entered the Union in 1837, territorial grants
were ended , but the state was given a grant of 5,000 acres to
complete the Grand River and Saginaw Roads. By 1840 very
little work had been completed west of Brighton . From
Brighton to Howell trees were cut down along the right of
way. Low and marshy areas were filled with the trunks of the
cut down trees .
In the fall of 1833J ohn D. Pinckney selected eighty acres of
land between Grand River and Thompson Lake . He returned
home to New York for the winter and in the spring returned
to clear the land and build the family homestead . He left his
wife and two daughters in Salem (Washtenaw County) with
Mrs . Pinckney 's father and continued on with his brother and
another helped . He also brought four yoke of oxen, a team of
horses (the first in the area ) and some cattle . The land he
selected was good for grazing.
The homestead that faced Mrs . Pinckney and daughters
was a one room log cabin with a dirt floor. There were no
windows and doors, blankets covered the openings . The
crates used to bring the family possessions were used for
tables . The beds were made from tamaracks . At night a fire
was built in front of the cabin to scare away the wolves.
David Austin, along with James Sage and his son George,
left Chattaraugus County, New York in the spring of 1832.
They arrived in Detroit from Buffalo and walked to the interior
along the Grand River Trail. He returned to New York
and in 1834 with his wife and sons, David and Jonathon
returned to built log houses. These log houses served as
home, church and store for the earliest settlers.
The Indians often visited Jonathon Austin and his wife,
Sarah. They liked to watch Sarah bake, spin, and do her
household duties. They frequently "borrowed" nopinee
(wheat flour ) and bacon.
Jonathon was an excellent gardener. He would make the
Indians happy by giving them melons.
One day Sarah was making clothes for her first child. The
child, Laura Losinda Austin, was the first white girl born in
the arPa. Sarah heard a "grunt " and turned to see a brave
and squaw watching. The squaw grabbed the "strange"
clothes in fascination.
Being a farmer, Jonathon had to take his grain to Detroit
for milling . He made the long, slow trip to Detroit in a
homemade , long sleigh drawn by a team of oxen.
Bears were constantly a problem. One stole a pig belonging
to Sarah and carried it to his den in a nearby hill.
Deer was plentiful and was regularly part of the family
food supply .
The main entertainment for the early settlers was husking
bees , barndances , quilting parties and "singing school."
Moses Thompson arrived in 1835 and built the first grist
and lumber mill .
A year later Flavius J . B. Crane and Edward Brooks
purchased the land to the west of the Pinckney homestead.
The land was surveyed and plotted. This became the original
village site, bordered on the north by Higgins Street and the
south by Livingston Street.
The village plot layout was filed in the office of the Register
of Oakland County. In 1835 Livingston County had not been
formally established . The eastern part of the county was
The first traffic signal in Howell on the main four corners.
considered part of Oakland County and the northern section,
Shiawassee County.
In the center of Livingston Centre, a city block bordered by
Grand River, Walnut, Sibley and "Centre" was set aside in
hope that the village would be selected as the county seat.
After a few years the site reverted back to the original
owners because it was not used for the intended purpose.
The village was renamed in honor of Thomas Howell of
Canandiagua, New York, a friend of Mr. Crane .
The first frame building to be erected in Howell was the
Eagle Hotel, a twenty by forty structure. Opened in late 1835,
this " house in the woods" was on the southeast corner of
Grand River and Walnut (site of the opera house). The hotel
was built by Crane and Brooks to relieve the necessity of Mr.
Pinckney 's family providing food and lodging for the ever
increasing number of land speculators and homesteaders
coming into the area .
Ambs Adams became the first landlord . In addition to
providing lodging and being a " house of entertainment " the
building was used for public meetings , elections, religious
services and the first post office.
On January 15, 1836, Flavius J. B. Crane was appointed as
the first postmaster. Weekly mail service was begun between
Howell and Kensington. The first mail messenger was Lewis
Thompson, brother of Moses, who was described as an "old
bachelor , a strange , silent, unfashionable old man ."
Later in the year bi-weekly mail service was begun between
Howell and Grand Rapids. James Sage was the first
rider . On his first trip, at night, he became lost because the
trail narrowed to a bridle path .
Howell became the county seat in 1836. Since the residents
could not agree on a site for the county courthouse , three
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commissioners were appointed by the governor to select the
courthouse site.
The first court was held in the school house. Voters had
turned down a proposal to build the court building. Prisoners
were taken to the jail in Ann Arbor.
William McPherson emigrated from Scotland in 1836.
Arriving in Howell on September 17, he opened the first
blacksmith shop in a structure built by his father-in-law ,
Andrew Riddle.
Grand River Trail through the Howell area was still
primitive through 1840. In 1841 the legislature appropriated
$5,000 for improvements to the trail. The appropriation was
supervised by the Board of Internal Improvement. The
money came from the uncompleted and abandoned Northern
Road project.
The old Stage House opened on the south side of the one
hundred block of west Grand River by Allen Weston in 1840.
He had operated the original Detroit-Howell Stage since 1838,
making one round trip weekly.
Poor eyesight ended Weston's association with the stage.
He traded it to Benjamin J . Spring in exchange for his unfinished
house.
Spring expanded his " Red Bird" stage to three round trips
per week. It was a clumbsy, open-stage wagon. J. W. Turner
described the stage as " a vehicle of a bright and tawdry red
color, compactly built , for it had to serve not only as a stage
on dry land, but also to perform the office of a yawl, through
what was known as "the rapids " in the vicinity of Detroit. "
Spring and his "Red Bird" were often the victim of public
laughter and practical jokes. This was especially true when
he was running late into town one night and drove the horses
into a hole that had been dug to erect a flag pole in honor of
the 1844 Democratic party candidates Polk and Dallas.
In 1842w ith the improvements of the Howell-Lansing Road ,
stage service began to Lansing.
Both the Eagle Hotel and the Stage Hotel were destroyed in
the " Great Fire of 1857."
Andrew L. Hill opened the first wagon shop in 1842 on
Sibley Street. He advertised "every kind of wagon or other
use-best of quality procured in any shop east of Lake Erie. "
Two years later he advertised ox yokes, buggies and cabinet
making. He still compared his quality comparable to those in
the east.
As the center of the Grand River Trail, other wagon shops
were opened by Benjamin Scofield and William Soule.
Blacksmiths W. R. Melvin and James Lawler built wagons in
1846. There were other small wagon manufacturers .
Samuel Sliter came to Howell in 1839. In 1849 opened
Sliter 's Tavern , three quarters of a mile east of the townsite.
This was a log structure with a frame addition. Being away
from the "Centre ," the big complaint was poor courderoy
roads . He provided a free carriage between the tavern and
the courthouse . Sliter was constantly in court , either as a
plaintiff or defendant, because of his " sharpness" in trade.
He was involved in more suits in the early days in Howell
than all the rest of the men combined . He won most of the
cases in which he was involved.
In the 1840's the number of taverns increased greatly:
eleven saloons in two blocks. People encouraged friends who
were traveling through to stay overnight and have a good
time .
Oldtimers would say that you can't fall down in the main
street without falling in the door way of a bar .
In 1845E dward F. Gay reacted against the new way of life
on the streets of Howell. He built the first brick building in the
village: The Temperance Hotel. It was located on the south
side of Grand River Avenue across from the courthouse
square . Why did he go against the trend and open a Tem-
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perance Hotel? " Perhaps at no time has our town suffered
more on account of intemperance than at this period .
Whiskey ran riot through our streets . It was about the time of
the settlement of the city of Owosso and as many of the early
settlers of that town were former residents of Ann Arbor ,
their transit to and from these places was through Howell,
and they came into contact with our hotels kept by Spring ,
Gates, and others . These passing travelers, many of whom
were my former acquaintances , made bitter complaints to
me of our hotels, saying they were obliged to resort to the
streets for safet y or quiet on account of the noisy riot within,
and quite frequently would resort to my house, half a mile
away , to spend the night in order to avoid the hotels of
Howell. To these old acquaintances I was indebted for the
first suggestion to build a Temperance Hotel in Howell. . .I
liked to have a sober and intelligent community . To help
promote the object alone induced me to build and then keep ,
the Temperance Hotel."
Attorney C. C. Ellsworth 's recollection of Gay and his
Temperance Hotel : He was " a brave and noble man. One
who, standing almost alone in the new western life here ,
raised his standard of reform and nailed his flag to the mast.
'Libert y and Temperance .' "
A legislative act of March 12, 1844 established the charter
of the Detroit and Grand River Plank Road Company .
Livingston County representatives to the company were C. P .
Bush and Ely Barnard.
A three day stock :,ale was arranged at various points
along the proposed route from Detroit to Lansing. Fifty
thousand dollars of stock at $50 a share was to be issued . The
length of the stock issue was to be twenty years .
The plank road was to be well fastened down for use in all
season s. The road was to have eleven miles completed within
five years and the entire route was to be completed within ten
years , or the charter would be forfeited .
In 1846 the law was amended to permit construction of a
substantial plank, macadam or charcoal road not less than
sixteen feet in width .
Despite the amendment which could ease construction , the
company was faced with too many obstacles and never
organized under the charter .
Governor Epaphriditus Ransom took office in 1847. He was
a strong believer in plank roads , there were fifty charters
issued for the construction of toll plank roads .
The Detroit and Howell Plank Road Company was incorporated
April 3, 1848. The company issued $125,000 in
stock with the right to increase capital if needed . When the
route to Howell was completed , the company could continue
on to the village of Michigan (Lansing ).
To successfully complete the Howell-Lansing route , the
company was granted 10,000 acres (4,000 in Livingston
County), levied local highway taxes, and issue $60,000 in
stock.
The Detroit-Howell-Lansing Plank Road was completed in
1852. The three inch planks which were laid across wood
stringers in the Howell-Lansing route came from the steam
mill of Chandler and Kneeland in Howell.
Even though the constant problem of warping and rotting
sometimes made travel uncomfortable , it was a great improvement
over the r• .ts and mud·1oles in the previous
roadway.
Toll gates were constructed about five miles apart. The
Livingston County gates were No. 8 east of Brighton at
Briggs Lake ; No. 9 in Brighton where Grand River crosse s
Ore Creek ; and No. 10 near the Chevrolet garage in Howell.
Number 10 was later moved east, near the present day Ann
Arbor Railroad viaduct.
On the Howell to Lansing route , the first toll gate was east
One of Howell's first trucks with hard rubber tires, chain drive and
a horn that went OOOGA when you pushed the lever on top.
of town near the XLO plant. The Austin family kept this toll
gate and regularly provided replacement planks .
The gatekeeper usuall y lived at the gate . When the toll was
paid, the long, log pole, suspended from an upright at the
edges of the road, was raised. To enter or leave Howell, one
had to pay. There was no toll within the village limits . The
common charge was one cent a mile and three quarters of a
cent for each additional passenger. Any person attempting to
" speed " through the toll gate was subject to a $25 fine.
One additional plank road was proposed to construct a
route from Howell to Byron. In 1850 the company proposed to
" layout, establish , construct a plank road-buildings and
unite the road with any existing company ." The company
expected to raise $30,000. No part of the road was ever built.
In 1856 the Detroit and Lansing Stage line had two stages
leaving daily from Detroit to Howell, Lansing , Lyons and
Ionia by the plank road . Morning and evening service was
provided at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Travel time from Detroit to
Lansing was twelve hours .
In 1860 the cost of riding the stage from Detroit to Howell
ranged from $2.00 to $2.50, depending on what company you
rode.
POST CIVIL WAR PERIOD
On December 30, 1868, three years after the surrender of
~ e's forces at Appomattox , the Livingston Republican
reported that the Amnesty Proclamation was issued by
President Andrew Jackson, pardoning all rebels who have
not heretofore been pardoned. The Republican in an editorial
comment stated, "Those who have not already been par -
doned such as Jeff Davis and Co. might as well be pardoned
perhaps , though it would be pleasing to know they were
punished.' '
Howell was a center for the various stage routes :
" Detroit and Howell stage leaves daily from the Howell
House at 7 a.m. for Detroit. "
" The Dexter and Howell stage leaves for Dexter from the
Bush House in Howell at 8 a .m. going by way of Pinckney."
"Fenton and Howell Stage: Daily ."
"Lansing and Howell Stages: Monday , Wednesday,
Friday. "
"Linden and Howell: Thursday by way of Oak Grove and
Deer Creek."
The Republican covered a meeting held in the courthouse
to "consider the expediency of forming a town temperance
union to protest the 13 rumrunners in the town of Howell."
Among those who attended the meeting were Prosecuting
Attorney Dennis Shields , local ministers , and E . F . Gay ,
owner of the Temperance Hotel. This meeting was the
beginning of the temperance movement which in later years
made Howell "dry " under local option.
With increased traffic on the Grand River Trail and the
arrival of the railroad in the early 1870's Howell had the
reputation of a rough and fun town. When a person was
traveling through from Detroit to Lansing, he would stay in
Howell overnight for a good time .
A favorite " fun" activity for a group of boys was to fill
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hand operated fly sprayers with water and red pepper. As
drunks walked out of the bar, they would get a face full of
spray.
Two men were sharing a bottle at one of the local taverns .
They were seated near an open window, when suddenly, a
young arm reached in and the bottle disappeared. When they
were last seen, the boys were running down the road.
Although to the casual passerby, the bars had the publicity,
there were many other businesses along Grand River:
Mills and Hickey advertised a pile of domestic dress goods
and nice line of caps and hats and crockery at their store on
the Republican Block (where the Livingston County Press is
now located.
Wing and Fitch were featuring whitefish by the barrel and
half barrel, also spermstrone, sterrip and tallow candles for
sale.
William McPherson and Sons were advertising clothing
made from their own factory cloths at reasonable rates, and
good prints for eleven cents per yard as well as drugs, books,
etc.
H. C. Briggs Jeweler had Yankee notions, gold and silver
watches and clocks. In this advertisement Briggs announced
that the store would be "closed on New Years Day so that
clerks could call on friends."
Jewett and Crossman the "Banner Store" advertised a
"superb line of French merenos, alpacas and all wool
delainsat from one to ten shillings. They were also featuring
100 " setts" of furs.
William Goodrich and Company opened a new livery
service and they had a fine new hearse for hire.
During the 1870's the Grand River Plank Road Company
was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the roads.
The Constitution of 1850d enied the state the right to engage
in internal improvements. The states could not build roads.
The opening of the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern
Railroad (C&O) which paralleled the "highway" made stage
transportation less attractive and goods could be shipped
cheaper by rail than by wagon.
The decline in revenues caused inadequate maintenance
and the roads were characterized by disrepair.
During the thirty years of operation, the maintenance was
high. The Detroit-Howell stretch averaged $12,000 a year to
maintain . From Howell to Lansing, the company averaged
$4,000.
As the planks rotted, they were replaced by gravel. During
this thirty year period the entire planking was replaced by
graded road.
People living along the right of way complained that the
toll gates were an "unjust burden to those living along the
right of way ."
The president of the Lansing and Howell Plank Road
Company, the Honorable C. C. Trowbridge replied to the
" malcontents" : "All persons living between the gates have
hitherto made a law for themselves and traveled between the
gates without paying toll; but this does not satisfy the
malcontents , who have obtained some legislation which they
think sufficient to accomplish their purpose, which would be
the practical destruction to the proprietors of these roads."
To the discontented farmers and towns along the road:
"They had their chance to buy capital stock, but they didn't
... businessmen took it and built the roads."
With declining revenues and decreased profits,
Trowbridge stated , "Proprietors feel they are entitled to
whatever the law allows; and they ask their fellow citizens to
put themselves in their place, and not to condemn them as
thieves for endeavoring to maintain their rights."
Trowbridge argued for the continuation of the plank roads,
" It is obvious to all those who have served as road masters,
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that if left to the towns to keep the roads in repair, the people
would never submit to the necessary taxation."
Despite the efforts of Trowbridge and others, the day of the
plank road company was rapidly coming to an end.
THE POST TOLL ROAD ERA
With the end of the Grand River Toll Road in the 1880's, the
maintenance of the roads came under township control. The
Constitution of 1850 prevented the states and counties from
granting funds for internal improvements.
Individual townships would appoint a road (or path)
master whose job would be to oversee the maintenance of the
roadway bordering each farmer's land. On each taxroll, the
assessor would determine the amount of road tax, often only
a few cents. The roadmaster would then arrange for the
farmer to maintain the road himself , to pay his tax . If the
landowner did not want to do the maintaining himself, he
would pay for the work to be completed.
To determine the rate , a man's individual labor was
usually worth one dollar a day. The rate for a man with a
team of horses was usually three dollars a day.
With road maintenance often done in a hap-hazard fashion ,
a heavy storm could turn the roads into a muddy quagmire.
When wagons tried to move along the roads, they would
sink up to their hubs in mud . Wagons loaded with milk being
transported to the condensed milk factory were particularly
vulnerable with their heavy weight.
The Michigan Condensed Milk Factory opened in Howell,
April 5, 1894. Before the opening of the Howell factory, milk
had to be shipped to Lansing for processing.
The value of the farmland was increasing, due partly to the
building of the milk factory and the development of the
Holstein cattle industry.
Over the next few years, the physical facilities of the plant
was expanded in a piecemeal fashion. As the milk industry
grew, it became increasingly important to the community .
Disaster struck Friday, May 2, 1913. The factory was
destroyed by fire and two workers , Clarence Hornung and
Harry Adams were killed.
The company stopped receiving milk for only one day. Two
or three teamsters not hearing about the fire arrived with
their deliveries at the smouldering ruins. The company
purchased the milk to keep good public relations.
The company made arrangements to ship all goods to
Lansing . Each afternoon three refrigerator cars were
shipped by the Pere Marquette on a special train.
To continue operations and make plans for a new plant, the
adjacent old cheese factory was converted into temporary
offices, workshop and storeroom. Plans were announced to
build a new $110,000f acotry up to date in "all appointments
and latest machinery. "
With the building remains still smouldering, the future of a
new milk factory was threatened. Some of the customers
were signing up with other companies . The Detroit based Big
Tower Milk Company was in Howell the day of the fire,
signing up new customers.
To save the local factory from outside competition, the
Howell Commercial Club and other business organizations
traveled routes informing the farmers that the company was
still accepting milk.
Other farmers petitioned the company urging the
rebuilding and pledging their continued support.
The factory was rebuilt. Today the building was occupied
by Bruce Products on West Street.
In 1894 the village installed electric lights along Grand
River A venue. Prior to 1894 the streets were lighted with
post-oil lamps. Each night the lamplighter drove his cart
underneath each light and lighted the lantern with a taper .
With improved road and railroad transportation some
businesses expanded their operations . Hornung and Garland
operated a tailor shop on the south side of the one hundred
block of West Grand River .
Salesmen would leave Howell traveling by train , taking
orders from nearby towns, and return to Howell with their
orders. Women working on rows of sewing machines filled
the orders. As business increased, the company expanded
into the first floor of the old opera house.
When the order was completed , the clothes were shipped
by rail.
At one time around the beginning of the twentieth century,
the company had the most employees in Howell.
Howell's first balloon ascension was scheduled for the
courthouse lawn . As the balloon slowly rose and disappeared ,
the band played " Nearer My God To Thee."
The 300 block of West Grand River was being cleared for
the construction of the Carnegie Library around 1902. Among
the structures removed were four old houses in an orchard
and a blacksmith shop.
Another Howell landmark was scheduled for demolition ,
the Howell Foundar y Company . Facing Grand River
Avenue, this business dated back to 1849. The best known
product produced was the Howell Handcar , used by railroads
throughout the United States , and many were sold to foreign
railroads .
The unfinished library building was a target for local
youths on Halloween . The dome had not been installed and
the flat area provided an idea. During the night, the Purdy
Baker y Wagon was disassembled and rebuilt on the roof.
A . E . Parker, in the car , started his garage and small machine shop
on Grand River Avenue a couple of blocks west of the main four in
1915. The machine shop gradually took over and in 1945 he had a
sizeable shop west of town . With the coming of automation, A .E . was
THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE AND HOWELL
Traffic was increasing on the gravel Grand River Avenue
through the village . Horsedrawn and " horseless carriages "
were creating man y problems , including dust and mud .
The road between Howell and Brighton could provide many
perils . Around Lake Chemung cars would become stuck in
the sand . A team of horses belonging to a nearby farmer
would be used to pull the " horseless carriage " from the sand ,
so the journey could continue.
Another problem of the early automobiles was flat tires.
Many of the tires required ninety pounds of pressure . Many
" choice words " were spoken while pumping a tire .
The earliest gas stations were often nothing more than a
barrel with a hose hanging out of it. Livery barns usuall y sold
gasoline . Occasionally , gasoline could be purchased at a drug
store .
In 1911 the village council voted to pave Grand River from
Byron Road to Barnard Street. The paving , using bricks , did
not take place until 1915w hen a special $15,000b ond issue was
passed . The laying of the bricks began December 15. Some of
the labor was performed by Jackson prison convicts .
The first step in paving was plowing and grading . A layer
of concrete was poured on the surface, the bricks were then
layed . They wer e then steamrollered . To complete the
process , a layer of sand was swept : into the cracks .
In 1917 the City of Howell voted $39,000 to expand the
paving of Grand River from the Genoa Township line to
Howell Township on the west.
Several of the brick roads still exist. Beneath the blacktop ,
man y of the original bricks are still in place. The North
gone, but his sons took over and with many additions to the building
they began making huge automated machinery for the automobile
companies .
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The gasoline car at the Howell stati on on its inaugural run .
Michigan A venue bricks in front of the city hall were covered
in September , 1975.
Over the years some sand beneath the bricks and cement
base has washed away . This was often caused by broken
water mains .
If a brick street in Howell is to be preserved, Walnut Street
leading to the historical museum is the best possibility.
The first truck on the streets of Howell was a 1915 chain
drive Reo. The truck , the second built by Ransom E . Olds in
Lansing , had solid rubber tires and acetyline lights . The
children were thrilled with free rides.
The village of Howell was incorporated into a city in 1915.
With the change in status, several street names were
changed . These changes caused debates in the community
for many years.
Michigan Avenue was originally Division Street south of
Grand River . North of Grand River the avenue was East
Street. Prior to 1895t he stretch of East Street was Mill Street,
named in honor of Moses Thompson's original mill.
Main Street from Grand River to the Ann Arbor tracks was
renamed State Street.
Knox Street was changed to Elm . In 1919 the section running
along the lake was changed to Roosevelt.
Washington Street was originally Hubbell.
Over the years many streets were vacated . Others such as
West Clinton changed their original route . McPherson Street
was part of Clinton Street.
The first blacktop surfaced roads in the county were Oak
Grove Road and Pinckney Road. They were paved in 1930.
Howell was emerging from the depression in 1939 and
Pearl Harbor was still two years away.
The May 17 Livingston County Press reported on life along
Grand River Avenue. The paper, successor to the Livingston
Courier 0843-1857) and the Livingston Democrat 0857-1928),
pledged " clean news, clean advertising , clean purposes ; a
county paper for the home ; solely and fearlessly devoted to
service in the community-independent in politics."
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Eastern Michigan Motorbuses purchased eight new
modern design buses for service between Detroit , Lansing
and Grand Rapids . The new buses are safer , more graceful in
appearance , provide better visibility for passenger and
driver. Each bus has a 37 passenger capacity. The seats are
soft rubber , upholstered in mohair. The old buses will be kept
for charter service. It is the company 's policy to replace all
buses every two years.
The Howell High class of 1939 will graduate 93.
Bell Telephone Company opened a new central plant. The
feature of the open house was a replica of Alexander Graham
Bell's first telephone .
The opening of the Hotel Livingston dining room was announced
by the proprietor, Thomas A. Blevins .
The menu: noon plate lunch, 25 cents; regular dinner , 35
cents; steaks and chops, 50 cents ; special sizzling steak , 75
cents. The cost of the full course Sunday dinner of fish, steak,
or chicken is $1.00.
Advanced tickets for the Grand Opening scheduled for May
25 are $1.00.
Soule Motor Sales advertised trucks: ½ ton Dodge pickup ,
$590; ½ ton Dodge panel , $680; 1 ½ ton Dodge stake , $825.
Charles P . Adams and Sons advertised men's slacks from
$1.95 to $6.50.
Sally Ude Shops are having a summer dress sale. The
prices range from 50 cents to $5.00.
Hagni's Market's food prices for the week:
Cubed steak , 32 cents a pound; pure pork sausage , 15 cents
a pound; bacon, 10½ cents a pound ; Florida oranges , 35 cents
a dozen; Quaker coffee vacuumed pack , 28 cents a pound. A
free handkerchief was given with each pound purchase .
POST WORLD WAR II AND
THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY
After World War II traffic on U.S. 16 (Grand River Avenue)
increased greatly .
The July 9, 1958 Livingston County Press announced a
proposal to chart relocation of U.S. 16 through Livingston
County. The highway would require a 300 foot right of way
along the 20-1 mile route. There will be two 24 foot wide
pavement stretches , built at an estimated cost of twelve
million dollars , 90 percent of which will be federal matching
funds .
Four years later, December 12, 1962, the first of five ribbon
cutting ceremonies was held in Howell. The ceremony was
presided over by State Highway Commissioner Jo hn Mackie
and Howell mayor Clifton Heller .
The final ribbon cutting was held at the U.S. 27 intersection
in Lansing. In addition to the opening of the fifty mile stretch,
this was the thousandth mile of expressway opened in
Michigan .
The ceremony was cut short due to a two degree below zero
temperature .
The first engine to run on the Ann A r bo r line. Phot o t ak en in Pe nn .
where it was built.
John Mackie commented , this opening " marks the
fulfillment of a long cherished dream of a divided four lane
highway across one of the most heavily traveled routes in our
state ."
The opening is " significant in Michigan history ," stated
Governor John B. Swainson. "In the number of lives saved
and the dollar value of local economic progress, our freeways
have been of great benefit to Michigan and our people ."
There was a fear among local merchants , especially
owners of gas stations and restaurants , that the Interstate
would hurt their businesses . This fear did not develop. One
immediate benefit to Howell was the lessening of heav y
traffic. Through truck traffic was no longer a problem .
Being a hub between Detroit , Lansing , Flint , and Ann
Arbor, the Howell area has benefitted by the construction of
the expressway .
The Pere Marquette Railroad
Sometim e in the spring or earl y summer of 1837, nobody is
quite sure of the actual date , the first steam locomotive , the
" Adrian ," ran on the primitive , newly laid track between
Toledo, Ohio, and Adrian , Michigan . This was the beginning
of the vast network of tracks that would criss-cross the state
during the last sixty years of the 1800's.
Charter s for the building of new railroads were approved
throughout southern Michigan . The Detroit and Shiawassee
Railroad Corporation was to build a single or double track
from Detroit , Farmington , Kensington, " to the county seat in
the county of Livingston ," north to Byron and terminated in
"Shiawas see Village " (Owosso).
The new railroad was to have " the power to transport ,
take , and carr y persons and property upon the same by the
power and force of steam and animals , or, of any mechanical
or other power, or combination of them ."
Construction was to begin in 1838 and acompleted within
six years with the sale of stock authorized at $500,000.
With no track laid , the charter was amended to repeal the
Byron and Shiawasseetown route . The new route was to run
from the " county seat of Livingston to Biddle City, Ingham
County," (Biddle City is now within the city limits of Lansing).
The major promoters of this route were associated with the
" wild-cat " bank of Kensington and construction never
began ; the company was not organized under the charter .
Those from the Howell area, headed by Ely Barnard , became
involved and showed their good faith throughout the short
history of the company .
It was not until 1864 that another attempt would be made to
build a railroad that would run east-west through Livingston
County. On June 17, an organizational meeting was held at
New Hudson, and the Detroit and Howell Railroad was incorporated
September 21. Theodatus T. Lyon was elected
presid ent and William McPherson of Howell was treasurer of
the new line.
Beginning in November the compan y started selling
$400,000 in stock at Howell and other points . By September ,
1865, $250,000 in subscriptions and pledge s had been raised.
A year later President Lyon announced , " On the portion of
our line between Plymouth and Howell, the sum of $300,000
has now been secured , which sum was designated in our
Article s of Association as the amount necessar y to warrant
the commencement of the world of construction ."
Pr eliminary surveys were made and construction began in
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1867. Work progressed during 1868 and $240,000 had been
spent. Money was running low, and construction stopped.
The Detroit and Howell Railroad Company never achieved
its goal, but its many accomplishments would lead to the
successful completion of a Detroit-Howell-Lansing line in
1871. The company gained funds they started construction,
and what after proved to be the most difficult, securing the
necessary right of way.
While the Detroit and Howell route was running low on
funds, Theodatus Lyons and others organized the Howell and
Lansing Railroad, June 27, 1868.
The newly organized company immediately began to raise
money for the construction of the railroad . The stock subscription
would pay a maximum interest of two percent. The
company could solicit aid from townships, cities and villages
in addition to individuals . The Constitution of 1850 did not
permit counties and the state to become involved in internal
projects .
The frenzied race to build railroads by the use of public
stock sales came to a halt when Salem Township
(Washtenaw County) refused to deliver bonds to the Detroit
and Howell Railroad . The railroad went to court in order to
get possession of the bonds. By a three to one vote the State
Supreme Court ruled that "townships had no right to bond
itself to aid a railroad even though authorized by the
legislature. "
No longer able to depend on local communities for financial
aid, the railroads had to seek alternate ways of financing .
In 1870 after the consolidation of the Detroit and Howell,
and the Howell and Lansing, the franchise was transferred to
James F . Joy and his associates in Detroit. What interested
the new group was that Howell was more interested in service
than making money.
The transfer of $250,000i n stock was actually a gift on the
condition that " the road be speedily completed and opened
for travel and traffic. "
The money to complete the route was raised and construction
on the Detroit-Howell route began in early 1871. By
May 16, the route was to Plymouth . Brighton celebrated July
4 with the completion of the line.
A second crew starting at Lansing began construction of
the route east from Lansing. On August 3, the route from
Detroit to Lansing was completed with the final rails being
laid in Fowlerville.
The directors scheduled the examination of the completed
route for August 22. The excursion started at Detroit and
ended at Kaywood station (five miles west of Greenville).
With the consolidation of the Lansing and Ionia Railroad, the
route took a new name, "Detroit, Lansing, and Lake
Michigan Railroad. " The addition of the Lake Michigan
name was an over optimistic hope, since the line ended many
miles short of the shoreline.
Covering the excursion the Detroit Tribune stated that
"small delegations joined the train at Plymouth and
Brighton , but these points have been out of the woods for
some time, manifested less interest than other points between
Brighton and Lansing. At Howell, the people were
especially jubilant , turning out en masse , and some enterprising
Howellian impressed an anvil into the service, and
fired a salute . It is certainly a day of jubilee for Howell, to
which she has been looking forward with patience for many
years. The people of Lansing are scarcely less appreciative
of the road, shortening the distance, as it does, over thirty
miles between Detroit and Lansing."
The August 23rd issue of the Detroit Post reported on the
activities of the previous day: "At Howell the train was
received with something of an ovation . A six pound cannon
had been brought into service and fired a salute as the train
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moved up to the depot, where were assembled an immense
concourse of people who testified their gratification at the
arrival of the party by cheers and waving of handkerchiefs.
Ladies distributed bouquets. The people are enthusiastic
over the advent of the iron horse to their town, and through
the assemblage it clearly indicated the joy which they feel
over the completion of the railroad for which they have
worked and waited for so many long years. Their enthusiasm
is pardonable . The town has a population of over 2,000, is one
of the handsomest in the state, and next to Lansing , probably
the most important on the line. "
In addition to the depot, the railroad erected a turntable, an
enginhouse in the area behind the depot. To accommodate
overnight passengers, a hotel was built near the depot.
The receipts for the first week of operation were small, but
encouraging. Freight revenues totaled $8,204.87 and for
passengers the railroad took in $3,242.33f or a grand total of
$11,447.20.
With the completion of the route, land values increased .
Land north of the railroad increased $10 an acre in value and
land within five miles of the route increased $5 an acre on the
south.
Even though there was tremendous optimism , the Ann
Arbor Courier two weeks after the opening stated, "The men
benefitting the least are the merchants in the little towns
along the line, and they are the men who pay the most for the
road. We do not consider the road to benefit the merchantile
interest of Howell and their merchants will say the same
thing one year from this date."
The immediate losers were the stage lines . The railroad 's
arrival made rail travel more convenient and comfortable .
The Howell and Lansing stage lines were the first to close,
followed by other stage companies paralleling the railroad .
Declining revenues also would cause the Plank Road Company
to cease operations within a few years.
With the lack of fencing along the route, there would be the
problem of livestock on the track . Fortunately, the violence
and arson which developed on the Michigan Central Line
twenty miles to the south did not occur on the D.L.&L.M. An
occasional animal might be hit by the locomotive, the biggest
problem seemed to be horses scared by the sounds of the iron
horse. With the railroad , there was the possibility of returning
to yoke of oxen, which no farmer wanted.
Another problem was the sparks shot from the locomotive
would set fire and burn the fields.
During the next thirty five years the railroad continued to
expand, mainly through mergers. With the growth of the
road , the name was changed on several occasions: Detroit ,
Lansing and Northern 0876); Detroit, Grand Rapids and
Western (1896); and The Pere Marquette Railroad Company
(1899). More than one hundred railroads were included in the
mergers .
With consolidation , the financial problems increased. The
depressions in the 1870's and 1890's caused bankruptcies.
With the completion of the rape and destruction of the
woods in northern Michigan, the railroad's branch lines
become unprofitable . The deficits increased .
Each reorganization increased the debts. The stock was
"watered" and dividends were still paid . The officials
ignored the future of the road for immediate personal gain.
The accounts of the corporation were manipulated to
misrepresent the actual financial facts.
During this period of mismanagement , the maintainance
of the roadbed and equipment declined .
Around 1900, the route of the Pere Marquette through
Howell was relocated. West of Walnut Street, a route through
the hill was cut. The original route ran to the south around the
The old turntable in front of the engine house on the Pere Marquette
(C&O).
hill to avoid a sharp grade . The relocation straightened the
main line.
Much of the bore was dug by men and shovels with horse
drawn wagons carting away the dirt.
In 1907 the mileage of the Indiana and Michigan divisions
were merged and the railroad reached its zenith. To its
critics the Pere Marquette became known as the Poor
Marquette and often a most fitting sarcasm, PM meant the
Poor Management Railroad.
In 1916 the railroad once again declared bankruptcy, 1916
was a bad year for American railroads, 69 went bankrupt.
Affiliation with the Chesapeake and Ohio began in the
1920's. The immediate benefit was the linking of the midwestern
industrial belt with the coal regions. This asset can
be seen today with the unit coal trains of 100 cars which
regularly run through Howell.
The C & 0 began to improve the physical condition of the
Pere Marquette.
Passenger service improved during the 20's. New "race
horse" locomotives with six, seventy-seven inch drivers sped
passengers east to Detroit and west to Lansing, Grand
Rapids , and "The Windy City."
During the depths of the depression, 1932, most of the
wooden coaches on the Detroit-Chicago route were replaced
by all steel equipment.
In addition to parlor and dining cars , the railroad introduced
the "Imperial Salon." At no additional cost, the
passenger could be comfortable in armchairs. There were
separate ventilators, reading lamps, and removable tables
for each chair. Pullman coaches were not usually available
at the Howell stop. Traveling salesmen in the 30's most often
would take a room at Hotel Livingston on East Grand River .
With America emerging from the depression and storm
clouds of war gathering on the horizon, the Pere Marquette
Railroad needed new locomotives . Beginning in 1937 the
railroad ordered fifteen 2-8-4 "Berkshire" locomotives .
During the war the Lima Locomotive Company delivered two
more orders until thirty-nine of these 50 mile per hour giants
were on the line to ship goods of war between Detroit and
Chicago. Each of these locomotives could haul 3500 tons on
short-fast runs. Often these engines would stop in Howell for
minor servicing . Many steam locomotive experts consider
the " Berkshires" to be among the finest, most efficient
steam locomotives ever to be built. (One of the two existing
" Berkshires"-No. 1225-owned by the Michigan State
University Railroad Club is presently being rebuilt and soon
will be taking railfans on steam excursions).
An ominous sign for the future of the steamer made its
appearance in 1939. The Pere Marquette purchased their
first diesel, a 600 horsepower switcher, from the Electro-
Motive Division of General Motors.
The heavy and constant use of the steam locomotives
during the war resulted in a fleet of locomotives that needed
major overhaul or replacement.
The end of the Pere Marquette Railroad came on June 6,
1947.E ven though the PM shared common management with
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the Chesapeake and Ohio since 1929, the official merger did
not take place until after the war . The 1,950 mile Pere
Marquette Railroad on this date became the Pere Marquette
District of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. (Through
further mergers , the railroad in 1975 is officially known as
the Chessie System ).
In order to encourage passenger travel between Detroit
and Grand Rapids the railroad purchased two 2,000 horsepower
diesels and modern coaches .
On August 10, 1946, the luxury train the "Pere Marquette"
began operation .
Many innovations were placed into the coaches . Electropneumatically
controlled doors, temperature controls and
filtered air systems, these features which later were placed
in luxury trains such as the Santa Fe's Super Chief and
Southern Pacific 's Sunset Limited , were first used on the
Detroit-Chicago run stopping in Howell.
Other features of the " Pere Marquettes" were one class
fares (The early trains charged an extra fare for seats in the
parlor cars ). No tipping was allowed. After eating in the
diner , a free after dinner cigarette was offered with the
waitress lighting it.
The one hundred and fifty mile route could be run in 160
minutes . During the first seven and a half months of
operation , the number of passengers increased 86 percent.
The revenues increased 80 percent.
The operation of the diesel locomotives increased the speed
of dieselization . During the first year and a half of operation,
the locomotives suffered no mechanical failures. These two
diesels replaced six steamers. In the past it was necessary to
use two engines each way between Detroit and Grand
Rapids. Two additional locomotives were always on " stand
by" or shut down for maintenance and inspection .
As was the nationwide trend, dieslization was rapidly
replacing the steam engine during the late 40's and early 50's.
In late 1951, the last steam locomotive on the Pere Marquette
banked its fires . Some of the locomotives were shipped to
other divisions , but most of the engines were sold to the
" Boneyards " for scrap . Even the "Berkshires" were
brought to a premature end. Several of these locomotives
were not scrapped until 1961, ten years after shutdown . They
were stored at New Buffalo. They could not be scrapped until
they were paid for.
The promising future of the Pere Marquettes did not last.
During the 1950's and 60's patronage and revenues declined .
The number of coaches behind a single diesel was cut. After
mail contracts were cancelled in the middle 60's, the trains
often consisted of one engine and one coach .
Just as the completion of Detroit, Lansing and Lake
Michigan brought an end to the stage coaches in the 1870's,
the completion of Interstate 96 in 1962 hastened the end of the
passenger train . In an advertisement, the C & 0 explained
the reason for dropping two trains in 1964: "The completion
of the new $150 million expressway has attracted growing
numbers of motorists who prefer the convenience of driving
their cars non-stop at high speed to riding trains even as good
as the Pere Marquettes."
The losses increased during the 1960's:
1963: $52,000 per year ; 1967: $70,000 per year ; 1970: $400 per
day .
In 1971, shortly before the end of passenger service-the
average number of riders was 10 to 12. Many rode on passes.
Often the trains ran with no passengers .
A growing complaint of the paying customers was that the
freight trains had the right of way. The passenger train was
moved on to a siding and had to wait.
May 1, 1971 was the end of the Chicago-Detroit run. This
was the end of passenger service to Howell. The next day
Amtrak came into being, operating on a much scaled down
route.
Today the Chessie System is a freight hauler . Switching is
done at the Ann Pere crossing , interchanging with the Ann
Arbor.
Local customers include International Paper, Diversified
Packaging division of Pepsi-Cola which produces three and a
half million cans a week, and Cleveland Metals .
Few trains stop at the old depot today, most of the trains
run straight through to Detroit or Lansing . This is a great
difference from the days when Howell was an important stop
during " the steam era" of railroading .
The Ann Arbor Railroad
" I got out of a job in politics, came back to Toledo, and
having no business to get back into and very little money, I
decided to build a railroad. " So spoke James Ashley, Sr. in
1877a nd thus began the wild saga of the Ann Arbor Railroad.
Ashley and his sons, James , Jr . and Harry, plotted and
schemed to build a railroad from Toledo, Ohio northwest
through Ann Arbor, Howell, Owosso, and terminating
somewhere along the east shore of Lake Michigan . Not sure
where they would end, the purchase of the Frankfort and
Southeastern Railroad brought the western terminal to South
Frankfort (Elberta ).
In 1892a long standing dream came true with the establishment
of the world's first open seas car ferry service across
Lake Michigan to Wisconsin. With Ashley aboard on the first
trip, the wooden hull "Ann Arbor No. 1" became lost in the
fog and ran aground off Kewanee , Wisconsin. Two days later,
a wrecking tug pulled the ferry off the sandbar and into port.
To build their railroad , the Ashleys seldom worried
whether their schemes were legal , quite often they were
questionable or illegal. The railroad was regularly being
sued , but local lawyers hired by the railroad and sympathetic
juries usually ruled in favor of the company.
James Ashley, Sr. returned to Toledo after serving terms
as Territorial Governor of Montana and congressman . Six
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feet tall and very heavy , his head was crowned with a "shock
of white hair ." Like his sons, Ashley would let nothing stand
in his way. He had one rule : " No Sunday Work." Finding an
employee working on Sunday , he scolded the man , "The
Sabbath is the Lord's day . On it you shall do no manner of
work. That goes for everyone on my railroad. "
James M. Ashley, Jr. , known as "J.M.A. Jr .," was in
charge of gaining the right of way, with or without permission
of the land owners. When conducting business , he
stuttered badly, but his use of a booming voice and a shaking
fist aided him in getting his way.
Henry (Harry ) W. Ashley was a dressy, well polished individual.
A competent, but forgetful man, he would give oral
orders and promptly forget what he said. He would then
place the blame on " the poor devil" who carried them out.
The work crew soon learned to get everything in writing.
The origin of the Ann Arbor Railroad dates back to 1845.
Citizens of Ann Arbor were unhappy about the excessive
rates being charged by the Michigan Central Railroad . They
wanted a route beginning in Toledo.
It was no more than an idea until after the Civil War. In
1869t he city of Ann Arbor raised $100,000a nd the township
$10,000 to build the Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad .
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In October 1869, the company secured pledges from Howell
and Cohoctah Township to extend the line into Livingston
County. Ninety-three Howell citizens pledged $20,000. These
pledges ranged from $25 to $2000, but only five percent were
ever collected. Cohoctah Township agreed to raise $16,200b y
a vote of 166 to 19. This bond issued was recalled and cancelled.
At this point the directors of the railroad wanted to
change the route to South Lyon where favorable interchanges
could be made.
The Panic of 1873 drove the Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad
into bankruptcy and the plans to build the railroad north
from Ann Arbor were abandoned.
In 1873 the population of Livingston County was 21,500. The
"Panic " drove many people from the farms into the cities in
order to get better paying jobs. The population numbers were
not equaled until 1941.
In 1877, the Ashleys gained control of the bankrupt line.
The 1880's was a time of building for the Ashley interests .
There were many problems to be conquered. There were no
" sizable " towns along the right of way and subscriptions
were scarce. The right of way was secured, usu.ally at no cost
to the owners . If the land owner wanted payment, he was
given free passes which could be used once the construction
was completed . Often the land " purchases" were in a zigzag
manner which resulted in miles of crooked track .
If persuasion failed, they built the track over the land and
would worry about the legality later . There was a section of
flooded land , the water was backed up by a no longer used
dam . The owner refused to sell. One night the dam was blown
up, no legal action was taken and the railroad continued .
Private construction companies built much of the route .
The railroad paid less money than the agreement. The cases
went to court and settlements were usually in favor of the
railroad .
Commenting in later years about the construction of the
railroad , uJ .M.A.JR. " said he should write a book entitled
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" Row to Build 600 miles of railroad without a damned cent. "
In 1885 the citizens of Howell by a vote of 427 to 6 granted
the railroad $20,000i n bonds payable in 10 years at 6 percent
interest . It was the hope that with this grant the railroad's
repair shops would be located here.
However, Owosso with a population of 2,500 (Howell's
population was 2,176) received the shops . Owosso granted the
railroad $25,000 with an additional " bonus."
In 1888, the economic effect of the railroad shop in Owosso
was causing great bitterness in Howell. The railroad 's
payroll in Owosso was $8,000 a month. A railroad worker
could make up to $1.50 a day (good wages for the time ) and
$400 a year . There were 184 new homes constructed, mainly
for rail workers . The houses were built for $130. If the house
had plastered walls, ihe cost was an additional $50.
In Howell, only four new homes and one store (Shippy's)
was built during this period .
The loss of the car shops increased the seeds of dischord
which retarded community growth for many years .
E. D. Stair, editor of the Livingston County Republican was
a real pusher for community expansion stated in an editorial
" What is wrong with Howell? Not quite enough enterprise to
suit us.'' He proposed the village should incorporate as a city.
He also proposed the construction of a water works, canning
factory, additional factories , electric lights, normal school,
and the construction of a new courthouse .
Stair later sold the Republican to become the editor of the
Detroit News.
In the village elections of 1886, the village president was
elected by a vote of 288 to 285. The council was so badly split
that it took eleven ballots to elect a president pro tern and
nine ballots to elect a treasurer . One of the seven elected
councilmen resigned . His resignation was not accepted so he
refused to attend meetings .
Issue after issue continued to divide the community for
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many years. Despite all the issues , the community seemed to
have confidence in the leadership.
In 1890, some taxpayers refused to pay taxes for the year
1885. Despite the fact that the city hired two attorneys, one
whose fee was $370 and the second was paid a $1000 bond
bearing 7 percent interest, the Supreme Court held the
village liable for the bonds. The village couldn't pay the
bonds. They requested the state legislature to allow the
village to float another issue. The request was granted in
1895.
As the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern track construction
approached Howell in 1885, a serious problem was encountered.
The Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Railroad
refused right of way across their tracks on the eastern outskirts
of Howell. AA&N tracks were located on both sides .
During the night of Saturday, January 4, crews came north
and overnight they dug under the D, L & N tracks and installed
a prefabricated wooden bridge holding up the D, L&N
tracks and the tracks were united . Armed guards were
posted to protect the north-south route . On Sunday evening,
officials of the two railroads met in Howell. An "agreement"
between the parties was reached and the Ann Arbor guards
were removed .
On Monday a crew of DL&N roughnecks arrived and filled
in the bridge. This fill in and dig out continued for many days.
There were many brawls between the two crews .
The citizens of Howell were extremely angry over the turn
of events . The local argument was bitter towards the Ann
Arbor management. They should have anticipated the
problems, since there were six other similar crossing
problems on the DL&N. A meeting was called for at the
courthouse where community leaders met with railroad
officials of both companies. Howell wanted service from both
companies and were able to work out a compromise. The Ann
Arbor right of way was moved several rods east and a ground
level crossing was agreed upon. The crossing was maintained
by a switchtower. Thirteen cast iron switches were
installed to change tracks. The crossing was initially called
Howell Junction, but in 1906 the interchange was renamed
Ann Pere , named in honor of the two operating companies .
The switch tower has been abandoned and today the interchange
is manually operated by the train crews .
The railroad entered Howell from the southeast , through
the center of town, then veered north parallel to Byron Road.
The company fared numerous problems within the village,
not the least of which as numerous sinkholes, before the route
left the town on the northwest. As the route passed Grand
River at the site of the old lv:I gate, it would cut the old
fairgrounds in half . The livestoc'.· area would be separated
from the grandstands, so the railroad paid for the removal to
a new site on the northeast corner of the present M-59 and
Byron Road . During the 1890's the fairground was foreclosed
when payments cc .Jn't be made .
The cemetery at Barnard Street was in the path of the
tracks. Stones and monuments were removed from the area
and stored for future placement when all the bodies were
removed to the present cemetery site. Relatives were
responsible for the removal, with some compensation from
the railroad. In removing bodies, people were careless to dig
up their own relatives and carelessly threw dirt aside.
Several bodies couldn't be found and the track ran over the
top of them .
Because of a steep grade that would be necessary, a two
block " tunnel " bore would have to be dug from Barnard
Street to just east of the depot site . Special crews had to be
brought into the village to dig the tunnel. These workers were
housed in run down buildings on North Michigan (site of the
Livingston County Press building ). Once the bore had been
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dug, plank boards were placed several feet above the tracks ,
thus creating a " tunnel." For several years the plank boards,
North Street, were used as a thoroughfare. The "tunnel " was
used to curb the unpleasant smoke odor in one of the best
residential neighborhoods . Hopefully the tunnel would cause
horses not to be frightened, however horses were frightened
by the sounds under the street.
Age and unsafe conditions caused the plank road to be
closed. The " tunnel" was torn down and replaced in 1902 by
the three bridges which cross the Ann Arbor today .
With the railroad going through a residential neighborhood,
many small children going to the new East Ward
School would have to cross the tracks. Crossing gates were
built at the crossing.
Despite problems , most citizens at the time believed that
the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad coming to
Howell was a successful venture . Among those expressing
this view was State Railroad Commissioner, William
McPherson , Jr .
The railroad built a $3000b rick depot. Because the railroad
" thought highly of Howell," they used brick instead of wood,
which was the customary material of the day .
Other facilities built by the railroad included an
enginehouse , watertower, a stockyard located at the southwest
corner of Page Field, a loading platform for milk cans
and a large covered structure for coal.
Coal cars would be pushed up on to the structure in a
locomotive, and the coal would be dumped from the bottom of
the car . On one of these operations , the engineer had a little
too much to drink and pushed several cars off the end of the
platform .
An early benefit for Howell, in 1887d uring "the great fire,"
the Ann Arbor railroad brought fire fighting equipment from
the city of Ann Arbor to help extinguish the blaze .
A topic of discussion among many of the old timers and a
mystery today: Did an Ann Arbor locomotive leave the
tracks in the depot area and disappear into a sink hole? Many
earlier residents remember hearing about this, but nobody
remembers actually seeing the locomotive disappearing into
the mud .
A block from the depot on the northwest corner of Walnut
and Clinton, a boarding house was opened . Travelers would
stay overnight in Howell since the railroad provided no
sleeper car service. Operated by Mrs . Marr, the establishment
was well-known for its excellent food.
Although the Ann Arbor was basically a freight hauler ,
passenger business was important. In 1888 they inaugurated
a new passenger service with new equipment. New steam
locomotives were purchased for $7,000 each (the cost of a new
diesel locomotive today is about $350,000). New passenger
cars were purchased for $3000 (the average cost for a new
Amtrak coach today is $350,000 to $400,000).
Excursions were organized by the railroad . In 1887 the
newspapers had criticized the railroad for not providing
enough facilities to take passengers to the annual farmer 's
picnic at Whitmore Lake . Four-hundred-eleven passengers
rode the rails from Howell and other stations enroute . An
additional 61 passengers boarded at Cohoctah . The train
arrived an hour late . The total attendance at Whitmore Lake
was 15,000.
Commenting on the future of excursions President H. W.
Ashley commented , " looks like we got a winner." Excursion
rates for five to 200 people were one to two cents a mile.
A round trip to the National D.A.R. Encampment in
Columbus, Ohio was $4.00.
For $11.25, including admission , the traveler could go to the
Cincinnati, Ohio Exposition .
In 1890 the railroad carried 281,000 passengers and nine
million passenger miles .
On the surface the future looked bright, in 1890, but there
were storm clouds on the horizon.
When Henry Riggs was appointed chief engineer, he took a
tour of the right of way and was abhored at the conditions of
the track. He called it a "Jerkwater" railroad.
The rail was of lightweight 56 pound steel mounted on
hemlock ties. There was no ballast except over a few
sinkholes. When ballasting was used, it was cinders from the
steam locomotives, not rock as was customary. The wooden
bridges were described as piles of wood. The 1,073 freight
cars were mainly old and shabby. The immediate problem
was to straighten the track built when the zig-zag right of
way was obtained.
The national depression of 1893 drove the railroad into
bankruptcy .
During this period many farmers were forced to leave and
move into cities. The retail price of wheat dropped to 45 cents
a bushel from an 1880 high of one dollar. The retail price of
corn dropped to 30 cents a bushel, eggs 14 cents a dozen, and
butter 14 cents a pound.
The decline of the northern Michigan lumber industry cut
deeply into the company's reserves .
The Ashley's lost control in 1895a nd the new owner was the
Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad . The name of the
railroad was changed from Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern
to the Ann Arbor Railroad.
In 1901,t he village of Howell granted a franchise to build an
electric railroad . Even though the franchise was voided two
years later , the Ann Arbor was one of the few railroads to
realistically meet the competition of the inter -urbans .
In 1911 the railroad purchased a McKeen car, a selfcontained
train for passengers, mail and baggage. The "car "
was powered with a gasoline engine. Howell was the
homebase . It would stop each night in Howell. Passengers
continuing their journey the next day would usually stay at
Mrs. Marr 's boarding house.
Every other day the train would make a round trip to
Toledo. The car would make a normal trip to northern
Michigan the other day .
The Ann Arbor 's passenger service reached its peak in 1920
with 600,000 passengers . In 1951 when the railroad ended
The old coal chutes at the Ann Arbor station . The cars wer~ emptied
into bins and the coal was later distributed by horse and wagon .
service , the average number of passengers was twenty to
thirty per month.
The last passenger train to ride the Ann Arbor rails was in
the late 1960's when an excursion train originating on the
Grand Trunk Western in East Lansing took fans to the
Michigan State-Michigan football game in Ann Arbor .
The Ann Arbor Railroad , under control of the Wabash
Railroad , dieselized with the purchase of fourteen Alco
(American Locomotive Co.) FA 2 road locomotives. Each
locomotive generated 1600h orsepower . The cost of the FA 2's
was around $160,000 each . None of the steam locomotives was
preserved .
In 1963, the Wabash Railroad, when it was merged in the
Norfolk and Western , was sold to the Detroit , Toledo and
Ironton Railroad .
The new owners immediately started a program of
upgrading the equipment. The 14 Alcos were replaced by ten
GP 35 locomotives, purchased from Electro-Motive Division
of General Motors. The Alcos are not entirely gone. The
trucks of the GP 35's are some that were on the earlier Alco
engines.
The railroad proposed to close at least two of the three
bridges over the "tunnel" during the 1960's. New "Hi-Cube"
box cars would not fit under the bridges. Community
pressure mounted over the possibility at bridge closings, so
the railroad lowered the roadbed.
The fourth Ann Arbor bridge in Howell, crossing Grand
River on the eastern edge of the town was opened in 1938.
The city of Howell and the Ann Arbor Railroad had another
confrontation in the 1960's. The Ann Arbor had a policy of
allowing no more road crossing due to the high cost of accident
settlements when its trains ran into cars (or viceversa
). The city wanted to put a crossing at Catrell Street to
lead to the industrial area . The railroad opposed the move. A
compromise was reached , the city built the road , but blinker
lights and a crossing gate were built.
The financial condition of the railroad deteriorated during
the late 1960's and early seventies . Most of the losses occurred
from the operations of the ferry service across Lake
Michigan. TheD .T. & I. ended its subsidies in the early 1970's
and the Ann Arbor Railroad was once again in bankruptcy.
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Ed Beach and his Santa Fe express wagon. He picked up from both
train stat ions and distributed around town .
THE ANN ARBOR RAILROAD IN
1975 AND THE FUTURE
The railroad operates a fleet of fifteen diesel locomotives :
the ten GP 35's and five Alco switchers . The first Ann Arbor
diesel, number " 1," a Whitcomb switcher was sold several
years ago. Today it operates on a museum railroad in Ohio.
On February 26, 1975, the United States Railway
Association, better known as CONRAIL, made known its
preliminary plan for the future of the Ann Arbor. CONRAIL's
function is to restructure seven bankrupt eastern railroads
into a slimmed down, hopefully profitable rail system.
The best known of these bankrupt lines is the Penn Central ,
which operates unit coal trains on the Ann Arbor today . The
locomotives , coal cars , and caboose are either owned or
leased by the Penn Central, but the crews are employees of
the Ann Arbor .
CONRAIL'S preliminary plan was to abandon all of the Ann
Arbor from Dundee to Frankfort , including the ferry system .
The abandonment of the railroad would be disastrous to the
Howell area.
The railroad averages more than three hundred unloadings
in Livingston County each year . During 1973, the Dundee-
Owosso route through Howell handled 198,555 carloads of
freight.
The largest local user of the Ann Arbor is the Chevron
Asphalt Manufacturing Plant which supplies road surfacing
materials to private and public contractors throughout
Michigan. In 1974, 10,000 tons of asphalt were shipped from
Finney , Ohio in 11,000 and 23,000 gallon tank cars . The
shipping season lasts from late April through October . If rail
service should be terminated, the cost of deliveries by truck
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would be so prohibitive making continuing operations impossible.
Bruce Products, manufacturers of specialized industrial
compounds , stated that the discontinuation of rail service
would be disruptive to their business . Four hundred and five
tons which are presently being shipped by rail could be
handled by trucks , but 855 tons of rail shipments could not be
handled by trucks . Abandonment would mean the loss of
sales and a reduction of jobs . The continuation of rail service
would result in a steady increase in employment.
In 1974 VCF Packaging Film handled twenty two carloads .
The rail shipments result in considerable energy savings : 700
B.T.U.'s per ton mile by rail , compared to 2,400 B.T.U.'s per
son mile if shipped by truck .
Lott's Elevator in Cohoctah, with a 100,000b ushel storage
elevator in Oak Grove, ships seventy five to one hundred
carloads of grain yearly. Approximately one million bushels
are handled , one half to three quarters are shipped to outside
buyers, the rest is used locally. Each railcar represents three
to four semi-loads by truck . It would be almost impossible to
find the number of trucks necessary at harvest time. With
trucks , the cost of energy would increase the per bushel cost
ten to twenty cents.
Abandonment would result in an estimated loss of 273 jobs
with an estimated income loss of ten million dollars . The loss
of jobs would be one and a half percent of community employment.
Roads and highways in the county are in very poor repair
and would be further deteriorated.
The summary of the Report of the Livingston County,
Michigan Rail Service Research Committee states , " Most
industries would be able to accommodate transporattion by
motor freight at increased costs, however, three major industries
(Bruce , Chevron Asphalt and VCF) would be
seriously impaired by the loss of rail service. The impact on
community income and more importantly, employment,
would be seriously impaired due to discontinuation of this
rail service. Further expansion of existing industry would be
restricted, if not limited."
What is the future of the Ann Arbor Railroad?
The main line, or portions of the line may be taken over by
a prosperous railroad such as the Grand Trunk Western,
Chesapeake and Ohio, or Norfolk and Western.
If the main line should be abandoned (at this time this is
unlikely), the track in Howell could be switched at Ann Pere
off the Chessie System. The most likely solution to the future
of the Ann Arbor is for the state of Michigan to acquire the
entire 290 mile main line. If the state will guarantee 30 percent
of the operating losses, CONRAIL will pay the
remaining 70 percent.
If the line is to be maintained, massive amounts of money
will be needed to upgrade the track. The condition of some of
the tracks limit the train speeds to ten miles per hour through
Howell.
The railroad has scheduled abandonment of its Lake
Michigan ferry service December 31, 1975. A recent subsidy
by the states of Michigan and Wisconsin will keep the ferry
service in operation for at least two years, but probably
much longer.
At the present time, only one boat is in operating condition,
the Viking (ex-Ann Arbor No. 7) and operates between
Frankfort and Kewanee, Wisconsin where it interchanges
with the Green Bay and Western Railroad (note the number
of GBW yellow box cars that go through Howell on nearly
every train) .
The Arthur K. Atkinson (ex-Ann Arbor No. 6) has been out
of service for two years . The railroad lacks the money to
make expensive repairs, now estimated to be three million
dollars. The third of the recently operated ferries, the City of
Green Bay (ex-Wabash) was sold for scrap in 1974 and was
towed to Spain for dismantling.
At least one other Ann Arbor car ferry still exists . "No. 3,"
built in 1898, was sold by the railroad in 1965 and was converted
in a barge, the Manistee.
"No. 5" having survived a capsizing in Manitowac and
sinking in the Frankfort harbor waited in an Italian
scrapyard at the end of 1974. To many people the boat was
best known as the City of Cheboygan taking automobiles and
passengers across the Straits of Mackinac before the opening
of the Mackinac Bridge in 1957. For many years afterward,
the ship was used for potato storage, an inglorious end for a
"grand old lady."
The orange "Geeps" may disappear or be incorporated in
the color scheme of some other railroad . As the future is
being decided, the Ann Arbor continues to carry loads of
automobiles and automobile parts, grains, paper products ,
coal, and other cargos.
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The late Ethel Chapel
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PERE MARQUETTE
RAILWAY COMPANY 1934 c4290
PASS Mr. F. B. Rich.----
Agent and YardJ'Tl8.ster.
BEiWEEN ALL STATIONS UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 1934
UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED AND SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS ON BACK
Valldzh countersigned by G. W. Eckerle,
. W~Ka S. H. Lalnl,,Jr, or F. D. Groll
CO~ nE~~IG .• D ~ -.
•/. r'JY, (,A._,,A\.- / . / ,'./I' !.. j:_ _.- ._ / VICE PRESIDENT
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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898
There were 57 Livingston County men in service . Five
divisions were activated and there were county men in all of
them . The first four divisions were in Cuba and included
seventeen Livingston County men .
31st DIVISION-Sam A. Smith , Louis B. Rolison, William
H. Stephens; Cienfugas , Cuba
34th DIVISION-Willis Lyons ; Aquadores , Cuba
35th DIVISION-Edmund Shields, Maynard Boven, Fred
W. Knapp, John Alger. Thomas E . Calvert. Herb H. Cook,
Walter L. Doolittle, Herbert Hall,. Herbert Sweet, Charles A.
Schuch, Archie M. Silsbee, Beecher A. Storey, Fred Pearson;
Augusta , Georgia.
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The Howell Airport
By DON HALL
After World War I, an era of the Airplane was started and
all over the country the Airplane was a new adventure. Many
of the pilots had flown during the War and had acquired
surplus aircraft from the government and started barnstorming
the country giving rides and putting on shows for
those who would gather in pastures and fields. The airports
were rather few and far between.
The Howell area was one of the many communities visited
by these itinerant pilots and their "Jennies," as they were
called. These visits stirred some of the populace into
thinking about the sport and business of flying.
In the spring of 1928, a local man by the name of Ralph J.
Hall purchased a WACO 10 Airplane from the factory in Troy,
Ohio and brought it to the Howell area. As there was no
Airport in the Howell area , the airplane was flown from a
field located on Byron Road which was part of the Coleman
property near the railroad tracks north of M-59. This field
was used for a time and then the plane was moved to the Seth
Ruppert property where the Northwest Elementary School is
now located . Flying lessons were given to a number of the
local people from the field by two instructors, the first being
Frank Dorbrandt, who later went to Alaska to fly for an
Airline there. The second was Gerald Black, who later
operated a field in the outskirts of Detroit. Of the group who
started, Mr. Hall went on to become a Flight Instructor. Lyle
Schnackenberg later purchased another WACO and Ray Holt
worked on the aircraft keeping them in operation and in the
30's built a large maintenance hangar . This field was, in the
beginning , maintained and operated by the individualswho
used it, until the 30's when the City of Howell became
involved and it was operated as a City Airport. As the
economy changed , so also did the airport and for a period in
the 1930's was to suffer its ups and downs. Mr . Winfield Line,
who owned the Line's 5-10 Stores, puchased a plane in the
Mid-30's and based it at the airport and the activities started
being renewed around 1938 when Harvey Hughes of Lansing
started giving flying lessons at the Howell Airport. In 1943,
activities were beginning to increase and Joe Grostic and
Dean Parks of Howell started a Flight School. This
rejuvenation was right at the end of World War II and the
Airport began to flourish.
After World War II , the Airport saw much activity as the
Veterans began returning and became interested in learning
to fly under the G.I. School program . Also, the City Council
began to think in terms of acquiring a new location for the
Airport as many new homes were being constructed near the
Airport and no room was available for expansion. The City of
Howell purchased acreage west of Howell in the Howell
Township and with the benefit of local and state funds , had
the area improved with two runways constructed. Mr.
Robert Miller constructed some of the hangars at the field
and those who had aircraft at the Old Howell City Airport
moved to the new location .
During the period of the acquiring of property and
construction of the new Airport , flying again took a dip as the
GI program was coming to an end and the Flight Schools
closed down their operations and the only instruction was
given to those who wished to fly by individuals who had an
Instructor 's rating, namely Joe Grostic, Dean Parks and
Harry Bartshe . In 1957, a pilot by the name of Lawrence
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Clara Sharpe-the first woman from Howell to ride in an airplane .
An old bi -plane at the Howell airport .
Miller took over the operation of the Airport and proceeded to
buy and sell Airplanes, later constructing a maintenance
hangar on the propety . Many improvements were asked for
by persons using the field and the City Council being divided
as to the need were not inclined to spend any money toward
improving the Airport. A group of interested persons formed
a committee to see if it would be possible for an arrangement
to be worked out with the City Council and the County
Supervisors. The City, in the month of June 1963, decided to
turn the Airport property over to the County for a sum of
$1.00, which was graciously accepted . In August of 1964, the
County entered into a Grant agreement with the Federal
Airport Authority to obtain Federal Aid for the development
of the Livingston County Airport and accepted the low bid
from Howell Construction Company for paving the Airport
runway and aprons . A private group raised the needed
money to construct the Administration Building. In May of
1966, Spencer Hardy was appointed as Airport Manager and
the Airport was licensed for limited use.
The Airport has continued to be improved through the
years and now is an asset to the Community. At the present
time, there are 35 planes based at the Airport ranging from
training type Aircraft to Corporate twin-engine Aircraft.
There have been approximately 33,000 flights in and out of
the Airport per year . The Airport facilities consist of a 3,000
foot long by 75 foot wide runway with a bituminous surface ,
partial paralleled taxiways serving the runway and a
bituminous surfaced parking ramp in front of the Administration
Building which is 200 ft. by 300 ft . The runway is
lighted for night flying and has indentifier lights (REIL) on
the east end of the runway. For housing Aircraft at the
present time there are 20 "T " type hangars and one 80 ft. by
80 ft. Maintenance hangar, along with 41 Aircraft tiedown
positions. The Administration Building, which was constructed
in 1965, is used for Office space for the Airport
Manager and for pilots and visitors to the Airport.
We have come a long way from the pasture-type field to the
present day Airport that now serves the community .
LIVINGSTON REPUBLICAN
VOL . l.Xlll No. 36 HOWELL . LJVJNG~TON CO UNTY , MICHIGAN , NOVEMBER 6, 1918
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:ELE CTED BY OVE l<WREU II NG IN COUNlY MAJORITIES, FROll 60,000 TO
100,000
Goaded hy Presidr-nt Wi1£on's inllinuation
s that :·epuOli.cans were not
100 per cent loyltl to the war and that
tae electio n of 1·epublican" 10 congresli
wou ld be pleaiing to the German Emp
ire, the republican.;; of '.\l.it'hignn put
REPUBLICANRSRE YV ERYTHINIGNL
IVINGSTON
OD war J>i!int Tu,.~•lay an•l w<'nt to !t.1:-i TAT F. TI O\ET SOO 'IA JOR17Y~
The whole state ticket is elected by COlXTY TI CKET •. \LL RI:PU Bma
joriti es ,~nging an~··d.1ere from LICA~
60 ,000 to 100,000 majoritiet<. I -- Trum an H. H. ~ewberr:; iit p:-obab- ?•·e•i<lt nt Wil..on·.~ , .. :~·~1t.h e m ·d-
}y elttted l'. S. Sen:ito r by 12,000 to I throwing_ campai~ oi ,omr of the
16,000 majority, The republican state d<.mo..:rat1c candidate~ and the ('Oneomm
iuee claim 2S.,000 the democra- tinue<l :n,-inu ation!' by the d(';nocr..it:e
tic state committee claim For d is county committee that ?tpl1blic-<1n.-1
elected by aboul 3,000. The return s were not lo,:al to t he war .:.nd could
are not yet compl~te enough to be not be trust"'e<l to have a ,•oic~ in tl>•
1ure either wa v. A 1eport just re- go'"ernment of the LnitEd !:-tatn di
ceived from t.he st.ate democr ati c combi ned to put reput..liea n11 on I.he One of the real e\"Cn!s of :he ,e.l~on
committee 118)'11 that Wa rne county war path thus pa..,ing the way for a loccu~red last Frida ~· c..-ening when
baa giv en Ford 24.000 but the re pub- clenn republican vietory in Li,..ingston )~f:lvin Hart ~ntertained Lunch ?f
l ican claims th at N"ewberry ca n O\·er- eounty. Every man on the iepub lican I his . male friend;; at. h,s hom e in
come 25,000 or 30.000 in Detroit. ti<'ket ~·as elected by safe major ities Mar ion. Af ter th e u.rnal carJ games
'i I
A phone from th e st.ate eentral r e- rurmlng from 800 down. Ford may · we_re played .an~ refre !'hme ntl' w~re
pub lican committee rtteived at. 2:SO have possibly have carri ed th e county en.Joyed, the liquid r~fre shme nts bei ng
thia Wedne&day afternoon ju st as we by a small major ity . milk an~ sweet cider_ ~e company l SOLDIERINST ERES.-T~I!:N'!nc~FG,;; ,~ :;~t 1::::e"~li~.Jl:~~~-e:~~'· So to pre ss cl.aims Newberry by J2,- Below we give the majorities 00 t~e n adJoumed to the .. iumg roo~ to
IKlO to JS,000 majorit y. the state tkket .., iodieat<d by the hste n to some exoelle nt pohweal LETTER '"' Ro, Ga.!,p == ====== === first retu rn s. 8Pttc.h es. R. L. Sehafer act.ed as FOR SA.L&--Re:1;11e.r~ Shtoprhlre: u.-u
TBE CIRCUIT COU RT Stat e Ticket toast master and reEpon«es were made aml ram., John Grle,·u.
-- The republican st.ate ticket carried by_ A. F . Go~o n, We!'ley Witt)·, Paul FROM SOME WHERE I~ FRAN CE, 3316" J-'owien·llle. R. a
Ju dre Jo i;eph Collins came over the count y by about SOO maj ority 38 1\hlJe~, Melvm H ar t , a nd Eugene SEPT. 1918 LO~T-~ttn's rubber for ldt foot. s1u1 1.
} &at Wednesday ancflR!lrifffl case of If ollows: Marn s. J-"intle:rr en,rn 10 Rf'PJMkan offite.
!Fr'.i~~yj!n·oo,~nio:an:d;,,t~heeJna;;the~e:et,o,:Io~J!-~kju :T.dcyngk
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o,-:"h·hgaOh:< b:..t ~J;l;G· Dem. ~iif~~·;ti?::.::f~::ti~:s Scme whe,;.!: ~~;~• , WASTE~A yo.,g Oady 0 • ~:•:o _,,.
u.. Dur ~riend Gouldie:- In Studio. A1,i,I)" a: ontt.
the matter under advisement. The Conway 21 :lj~:: tt; ~Jill~~,t h e boyt to go home I h:.\·e ju.~t received your letter o( 3~1: The Lutlv.lg S:udlo.
eon te ntian seems to be as to who h u Deerfield 1 the 14th of Augu st and was very gla d i..OST-.~l,o: !old:r.s c-hRlt"· on-rorih mlle
the r ight to fh.h or not to fi sh on Genoa to he~ r from you. It found me well ,....,.1 of F L. L.nd•lfy !.um on Harl·
Silver Lak e, Hamburg. Mr . Beach Green Oak 43 3'· 1o1vrRT HTr OPJJ and cnjoy:ng life in Sun ny Fran<'e . lRml T\llltl.
own s 80me of the Jak e, oth er parties Ha mburg l ., [ [ Here is hoping t.his will find you and 11.11 H;,rry C<'Oll~lth. Howell
;;;oac: ti:: 1:n~!::.:! t;o:1'::;; t~:~ 53 fORM ICHIGr.A\~Nr~e~~ :o :tth:1~:~ki:;:!~ in the ''";~~,~~~.0. :'~,.,"~'~:!~r~ :rt•r~I!~::
the other owner s have the right to Howell Twp. 46 ~t=.tcll. :,·ou ought to see them O\'er tu,.•i,?l.p. l'v~10Hilf', Hov.,u. )lich.
fish on their part of the lak e but not Howell City 1st p 68 here in Fi·~nt'e, I waF out la.«t night 31'.~'
on hia and they have not the right. to Howt-il City 2nd P 51 ~nd p:cked _t en c1~arts. , . w.,:,TCO-To ,~, 1,, !(,u(?l w!'.h M)" one
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Oeeola 17 A year .i.go the 18th of September I -------,,--,---,-,,:-,-----:-
SEVEN WEEK~ 1} t TIL CHR IST· ,~;n~a:d~,.~lla ?.8 ~·• ~~ 't,8.(}~?i~A ;~:~ !:l;;: k:n~t~:;~ s';: ;;!~~F !'~{-~~~~1~::~ri~~~ 1
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._ 47 a long, long, w2y from there. But at __________ _
m:ve~:::i:~P~; a~i sgir~:a r;!~: u ~nr y TR.0 68 In the United W~r Work Campaif.:' ;!;1:~,=:~P. ;-o1::tt:t"~ ~ t~:: .,~~~/::t:~5:1~.~u~:hl 2~!~ :;:! ~~
your sitti ngs as soon aspo ssible and The vote for representative fol- ~:~
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::s::~i,~:~: 1::~:re~,;di~ffere~nt ~tha~n in Engla.n~. .
1
"k" Ir• HCIII, Ho,n:1. ·.Gt$•
gi ve us plenty of time to finish them. low~: th . k f th y , 1 C Thcrt• wa.l' a long while we didn t FOR S I\L E-A good houae .and ~oo,h,hed,
You get the Enlargement F'REE if :Ross Cole to c~r;/nc e v.o~ 0. (: · h, 1"• set anv rain and ;twas awful dry and al~ lt.1rn. Would do for A"araa;f'.
J'01l ha.ve your sitting before Dec. first Brighton 149 A;, · · . · A,-, · ationa . at .? c hot anj no·,\·w e get rain and lo~ or iL 3~t-t· Ira Hull. Ho•ell
We tan make your sitti ng Rain or Conwav 71 ~;;; :;;J,\j;o~~a~ './,; J~:~~~:I~;\ \i"e don't g€'. so ver)· much d~ill!ng FOi: ."ALt:-t;umtci~. f"' ra,r. S0I 0 Si.t. e. Oeerli~ld 9 Service American Librar A•socio.- o·.er h":e but we do a lot of h1ke1ng Cl.l:ti: l.: J..;r.i):<m. <inola. :.-viotoffi"',
THE L UDW I G STU DIO 36U Genoa , ticm a~d lhe Sah-atio n A :in ·. Li·:- bu! we were to that before we Ho~tll 1. :jt:?
We have full line of Needle s, Bobbin
s, Shuttl es Md other repair parts
f or all sewing machi nes. A. J. Park ·
er & Co. 3Stf
'u:r easu r)? IDe pt· ]
Green Oak 47 . . ; . l<>ft uirt.er. ~,e were at one pl ace-----------
Ha mburg 11 mgston County will nc. er be ;,at1-.ficd I h Id h h b" L t FOH F,\L E-To,n n-.al~tert'd lm1•1'0\etl Top
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to do less than her i;hare. w Crt' ~e cou ear t e ig guns u Dth,lne mm•. pr,<e: rea,oo.u.ble.
~:~~:od 52 .1 I Th e following o!fic"r" with the J we cant. any more._ 3~tl C. f. Klttkler, Oak G~·.-,. l1kh.
Howell Twp, 40 I County Wa.r . Board com ~r i~e_ :he. -.e~~~;:~;::. ~:,':!o!:ua.~~J~u;;~~~ f"VJ: :--1\LB-l:umn:ip ('(!'lter•I• anti hf'ns
Howell City l et pr e 46 ~~:;ty )~~;mi~:,p::~:
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Howell City 2nd pre 72 Hair, L Williami,· ,.;<""lr'h ainne n LI ~nd !ht' \\lo)" the:: drive horses too.
IOS<'O I E ) ,· d f J F" hl k ' J ha'.e only been to tO"'ll tw ice FIii: !"\L;:-("r) IJI•. j4 .:n,I .n IIO\\tcll
~venl h Federal Rf'&t'r\"f' Dis trict I OcN>la 11 • me "'" "" can go to wn even<
)la rio n 17 Ita r!~ 0;:t ~n C!:nk. t~-:i.::; ;c'r1 · .nce r• .e been here, gomgtosome, for! :;.•Lv l,u n I• .. J ' tc (I }, ;~.,; ... , ... 110"
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.,fi,at<o or Ind ebtedn ess I Putnam -16 '.'.kPhei;.on, D'.'ec~tor of \\ omc,n's m"°
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ht after ti3t1 but. v.e hav e to be 1-'Jlt '< \ L:;._,\bot.t 100 hu~ht-1" <htMe
I T 28 1\\01k, Mu.HF, B:111cn, D1"('torof ,.,,.k •-fo,e 9"'1 P. M that ,,n't so "011!un "1Y .. ;.,,.,. SlOO 1r l,u~h,:1
Organiution I yror.e \ G J " \I \I rtl \\ Jk vu~ "" "' l l'nadilla 44 1-.o~~t~1~('('l~r\f "\~tto1~ 1.!.:.,1 r:;;b ad 1s1!' ~;~_:" ~"-~\.ood.sor•h, H<'•tc:1 jfir st St ate 'O-' ,' ) l ;.1·or11.,· 23i for R IJ\IC lu1k D1reetor of l' c.bli( t '-"' ,..-, e h a,, n• ,, .., ma.n} men m our
$a "ftta s jSn n R : William C. Miller lh,nk-i
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J• • tOmp&n. • TIO\\ T~~y have been ~nt H:,~\~~~ ~;:n~11"1~p1,,.~~~~. .~ ~1:'~":1~;~
V :;, 1 Tc.e ,·otc! for ,.herifT follows: A me1:t1ng of th~ Count) Comm •t,... uTf'tt) elo~" ·~ l-n" fron t or rathl'r 1,.,. ,f tAl •n ~t u1, e tr, i, " " "tcra
The Weet Front
The news from the West Front is
~ti nued on pag e 4 )
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MeWn anted
u. s.
Government
Work
Hi ghes t wages and piece
work . Serve yo ur country.
Aeroplane and munitions
are needed in
Fr ance as badl y as men.
1 Call either plant ; ask for
Employment Dept .
Howell, Michi ga n I I }lill cr Gortoh '!;;h~\~~!.i~'" c:::/o~;~,.~~:· :\ H::; :bi~:':ie~\::;:r'!;:~,'~r11~ ;:n~~~ ~.: 1' ~·,rn =1~~
i\S SUllSCRIOED FOR IOU pe1·1 ~::!~: l: vclock, which wa" attemkd V:,-;,l,o•.t fro_nt now. 'f:<>cur~e ·a re knocking •·\'.!~-~-~~:~..~. }·-ir -:i lull 1t ,,.,nth•) H II El t •
cent of iU. quota on the M'l"iCS of Con\,a\" 35 om• hundred repre.~(·llt..::a\i'.l'.f\rIo m the lfl•: H- o .. • 0.1. t~C' Gel'mans ~Ow an_d I:. 1:. U1i.1•,. Ii 6:':l,1:i<I. :,:. h. ~FD. l . I owe ec rte
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FOUR
TH LIBERTY LOA'.\' I Genoa ., 1l~e;;..:e&W {'re mad£' l-ym• ·1"li*,-~ of 1he ~:;~ j~': ;n~on': t,die\·e it. will l32't 1-·<11: :'.\U:-T'.,{'.l-t.[11L1•··l ~,,..,,l"'hlff' Motors Co. 48 ":II" Bo.irtl, alllO by 1 1w:.iker~ from ti," . g · Hull 1.,mlt--., u"l c,ne 1-i+1n ue mm: •11,0 ~ ~I~~Cl~?~E~noeoi ~t:~~~i!'1::d I ~:.~~-J?;k 42 Stull' headc1uarters [n Det10,t. ''O\••r \\(' SU it' ~et i;cod meal1 over here "lli1,:m,n )!•II.ml, )! .. chino, Ph one 22
Financial Sen•itt. !Il Handy tie the ~op" /;r l~~:lng~tl::.w::tl\~:t:~ ~:;:· ~~~I:~::~:/ i:~. w~t~i!\~~t~;: :_~,f . , w " Clark. Ho..-tll di =DERAL RE SE R\ ' £ 11Hfao,la::l.lnd1'•p. 4481 I th e canvas· fo lle es and than l ever thought we would get . Sflt.\\l.l>-•·,,w rny h1•me <1 a 0 .. - • u. e· w··: '_' au·~er ::a".'·;nh;·,·.;''" BANK OF CHI CAGO I Howell City IS9 g c :,.: , :s _ .. ,,v::, "' ~1
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Piacal A~nt of l oseo : ond N t h
'Ute UNITED STATE S ~a!~a n 3 everyone doing hi s or her pa Fir tt A r~ary Banquet, Com• WANTED-At the Sanatorium a man pence It
J_Jl.l( eDeopl.
Gooremor
Putnam
Tyrone
Unadilla
Majority
46 the boys "o\'er there''-t. hr ough the pany K., 33,t ln!., Thursday even- -,Ith family to ••rk on farm. a fireman
28 orga1\l zations that go "every ste p ot ing. Sept . 19th , 1918, "Som ewhere in and a 1eam1te:r. Apply to Stewart!, L. Machine Co.
134 the way." Fr an«," m~u : Roast of chick en, ~- :i:;:m 110 :~eu.to Superh:itend3~':i £.
'722 for 11.iller Th e long arm of these great ag en- oyst.er dress mg, mashed potatoe s ala .,.,-,--,-.,---,--------
cie« extend• all th e way from the 600 (Continued on pag e 8) FOR SALE-O ne l'OOd work borae at your
Phone 29
club s operated by the War Camp own pr ice, so1n1 away tor the winter-.
Community Service on thi s side, to Fine large assortment of watcb ff, ~nn~l~;:~: 7 s~e ~ p-a- w prime
(Continued on pag e 6) cklck.9 and ailverwace at Chapels' .S6t2 31ll li. o. Beach, Ham.burs, .u:,cn.
Jolm A.. Hapau
The Tote for oount, clerk follow •:
(Con- - - ..
The old post office on Mich . Ave . The newspaper "Republican" was
upstairs .
Newspapers and Radio
By A.J. MARV IN
HOWELL - The Livingston County Press is the second
oldest newspaper among Michigan weeklies . The first
publication was the Livingston County Courier and was
published Jan. 10, 1843, in the Village of Brighton. Nicholas
Sullivan was the publisher and Frederick C. Whipple was
editor. After several months , Sullivan moved the paper to
Howell and the first issue was published Oct. 11, 1843, which
is considered as the actual birthday of the Livingston County
Press. Lewis H. Hewett became editor with the move and
continued in that position until Dec. 11, 1844.
In September , 1846, the paper was sold to E.R. Powell. He
in turn sold to William B. Smith in December , 1848. Smith
was publisher until April , 1856, when the paper was
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purchased by George P. Root. It continued for one year
before publishing was discontinued.
REPUBLICAN FOUNDED
The Livingston Republican was the other predecessor of
the Livingston County Press . Under H. and L.M . Smith, it is .
believed the first issue was published April 27, 1855.
George L. Sage became editor and publisher on July 6,
1859, with George W. Lee sharing the financial interest.
James Bowers bought the paper in 1862 and became editor
and publisher until he died in 1866. On Christmas Day of that
year, Andrew D. Waddell and Julius D. Smith took possession
with Waddell as editor and manager until 1868 when he sold
his interest to Smith .
For the next nine and one-half years, Smith was associated
with various businessmen , F.H. Marsh , Solomon T. Lyon,
George W. Axtell and E.R. Vanderhoef. Late in 1877, Smith
and Vanderhoef sold to L. C. Miller .
In the summer of 1884, Miller sold to E .D. and Orrin Stair .
In 1889 the Stairs sold the paper to George Barnes and bought
the Detroit Free Press. Barnes ' son, Albert , worked with his
father but left later to publish another paper .
THIRD PUBLICATION
Yet a third predecessor came out in August of 1857 called
the Livingston Democrat. Joseph T. Titus, as ardent
Democrat himself , came here from a Jackson paper. He and
his son , John P. Titus , continued as owners until February 7,
1890 when they experienced business failures.
Leading county Democrats formed a stock company and
bought the office. John Ryan, retiring county clerk , took
charge and Titus continued to work on the paper. Ryan
bought up the other company members ' stock. He was
publisher and proprietor for 37 years.
During that era the paper was from four to eight pages
long. The heading read "Crisp County News Collected by
Careful Correspondents ." One could get the New York
Weekly Tribune and the Livingston Republican for one year
for $1.50.
The paper was full of ads for cures for backache, catarrh,
sore throat or consumption, and one could buy buffalo robes,
horse blankets, harnesses (single or double) and sleigh bells.
In September, 1915, Roy Caverly purchased a half interest
in the Livingston Republican. He had worked for Barnes
previously but left in 1910 to become publisher of the
Pinckney Dispatch.
In June of 1928,H erbert R. Gillette and William H. Canfield
bought the Democrat and operated it until it consolidated
with the Republican . Canfield served as editor, A.R.
Crittenden was associate editor.
MERGE
On Aug. 1, 1929t he two Howell publications merged and the
name of the new paper was The Livingston County
Republican-Press, with Barnes, Caverly, Gillette and
Cansfield as stockholders and proprietors.
After Barnes ' death in 1936 his partners bought his
interests. In February, 1939, Cansfield sold his financial
holdings in the paper to Caverly and Gillette and bought the
Northville Record .
Leslie Merritt, who had been a composing room employee
since 1936, was named editor. Later the word Republican was
dropped from the paper.
Gillette died in 1957. Caverly had bought out his interest in
the paper earlier in the year and became sole owner.
The business offices of the newspaper were separated from
the printing plant in the fall of 1962 when Caverly sold the
business and facilities to Wesley F . Willett and Ray Clift,
co-publishers of the Associated Newspapers , Inc., a string of
several weekly newspapers. The offices were moved across
the street from the printing office, to 112 N. Michigan. James
D. Miller became general manager and advertising manager
while D. Peter Walters served as editor after Merritt's
retirement in January of 1963. Merritt returned to help put
the Centennial Edition of the paper together .
OFFSET
During the summer of 1965 the "hot type" operation and
rotary press were discontinued for newer offset (cold type)
processes available in nearby plants. During the week of
Dec. 29, 1965, the editorial , advertising , business and
circulation offices were moved back to the present address at
111 N. Michigan. David Willett, son of one of the publishers ,
was made manager of the job printing business and Alex
Towas was general manager of the newspaper end.
During the week of Jan. 12, 1966, Alice Gray , who had been
associate editor for a year, was promoted to managing
editor. Previous to that Mrs . Gray had been assistant editor
at the Pinckney Dispatch. She had worked with Roger Turner
of the Associated Newspapers ' editorial staff in co-production
of the newspaper under the offset printing process. She
assumed the responsibilities of both editorial production and
layout.
Livingston County Press artist Burl (Bud) Greely designed
a new emblem for the buildings housing the Press and the
Livingston Printing Co. Since then it has been known as the
Graphics Building. Greely also designed the new 125th year
nameplate.
On January 1, 1969, the LCP came under new management. T?~p aper was acquired by a newly-formed company,
L1vmgston County Press, Inc. , headed by Richard L.
Milliman of Lansing. Milliman and his partner, Richard A.
Jones of Bloomfield Hills also acquired the Livingston
County Printing Co., both companies under the supervision of
Milliman. Allen C. Nequette had been and remained general
manager and Mrs . Gray stayed on as managing editor until
December , 1972.
In October, 1972, David L. Jaehnig was brought in from
Lake City as editor and remains in that position as of this
writing.
One hundred thirty-two years of almost constant publishing
and the Press has survived everything from stage
coaches and plank roads to elections and world wars. It has
been buffeted from wall to wall for taking stands and
criticized for remaining neutral , but the news goes on and the
Press has come from 4000 subscribers in 1929 to some 15,000
at the present time .
The Press in recent years , has been recognized both
nationally and at a state level for its expertise in bringing
news of the county to its readers . By the next centennial
celebration , the readers of that era will be able to say
"Congratulations on your achievements over the years."
The Gentleman Bum
By MARY REED
My father, Orville E . (Bus) Reed, started his own direct
mail advertising business in the back room of our house when
we moved to Howell in 1942.
In 1947,h e had enough steady business to open an office in
the First National Bank building, corner of Grand River and
South Michigan Avenue. Mildred Hubbel became his
secretary and worked with him for eighteen years. Dad's
office was one of several-including Earl Sharpe and Lloyd
Berrier-located on the second floor of the building
overlooking Michigan Avenue. The entrance was the single
door on the Michigan Avenue side; you climbed wobbly
wooden steps to reach the narrow hall which divided the
offices from the meeting hall where Rotary had its
Monday meetings . Cribbage games were often the later
afternoon sport among the tenants.
During the first year Dad had his office uptown, I would
sometimes work for him on Saturdays-typing lists , sorting
files. My wage was 40 cents an hour. I also worked at a couple
of Rotary banquets-evening affairs-helping to serve ; my
wage was 50 cents.
In the early 1950's, Orville Reed moved his office to Peanut
Row-State Street-facing the Courthouse . He had the first
floor office complex of three rooms now used by Fred
Rieckhoff. In the 1960's he moved to Berriman Building on
Barnard Street. Part of his daily routine was attending the
coffee round table at Family Restaurant and going to the post
office about 9: 15 to pick up the daily mail. Both spots were
popular meeting places for local businessmen and good
opportunities to learn news of the day and local gossip.
GENTLEMAN BUM DIES
By ALICE GRAY
The identity of one of LCP's favorite columnists-the
Gentleman Bum-was a well kept secret.
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So well kept, in fact , that we didn't know ourselves until
Howell lost one of its favorite citizens last week.
Orville Edward (Bus) Reed died Dec. 19. We, here in the
editorial office, felt a personal Joss. His cheery greeting
every morning as we both fished mail from the lock boxes at
the Howell Post Office started the day off in the right vein.
We didn't know he was the Gentleman Bum-we'd
suspected, but not known. There was that tell-tale , wry sense
of humor , that occasional gentle poke at the frailties of
human nature , that appreciation of the better qualities of
man , that both Bus and the Gentleman Bum shared .
But we weren 't sure.
His daughter Mary V. Reed confirmed our hunch . "The
Gentleman Bum was originally started by my Dad while he
was living in Cleveland , Ohio in the early 1920s. When Dad
closed his office in the Berriman Building this November , he
uncovered some clippings from that first 'Bum' period. I had
hoped to go through them with him while I was home over the
Christmas holidays . But for now, they are being carefully
saved until such time as we can enjoy them without this raw
ache."
Bus Reed had been a direct mail writer for more than 20
years . In 1942h e moved to Howell with his typewriter , a lot of
white paper , a wife, a daughter and a dog.
He settled himself in front of the typewriter , inserted
innumerable sheets of the paper and started writing direct
mail letters, house organs , booklets and whatnot for clients
scattered from Pittsburgh to Denver , Chicago, Detroit,
Wichita, Santa Barbara , Portland , and whistle stops in
between.
Bus was born and raised in a small town (Terra Alta, W.
Va.- population 1,000), studied advertising at New York
University, had a hitch at the University of Michigan and
West Virginia University , where he said he "was undistinguished
."
He worked as a kid in his father 's country newspaper, The
Preston Republican , as devil, reporter , typesetter , press
man and make-up man. He had been among other things , a
soda jerk, house-to-house salesman , teacher in summer
school, amateur actor , farm hand and advertising writer .
Always "big ," in every sense of the word, Bus weighed 13
pounds at birth (weighed on sugar scales by the country
doctor ), Bus added to that good start by building it up to a
high of 230.
Bus had been six feet three inches tall since high school
days.
Bus was 73 when he died. (LCP had his obit wrong last
week, unkindly adding 10 years to his age ).
His daughter says , "To Mother and myself , he was and
always will be a very special person-one of a kind ."
A sentiment we at LCP heartily second, as will, I'm sure ,
the thousands of LCP readers who enjoyed the Gentleman
Bum's weekly columns.
Livingston County Press , December 27, 1972
ARTICLES SUBMITTED BY ORVILLE E. REED UNDER
PENNAMETHEGENTLEMANBUM
EVERY DA Y'S MIKE'S DAY
In a recent letter to this paper , Elizabeth Griffith suggests
to the editor that we ought to have A MIKE HAGMAN day to
let him know how much we appreciate all he has done for the
community .
Hooray! I'm for that. In the light of his efforts to beautify
our town, I suggest that every day is Mike's day and his
coloring of parking meter standards is a daily reminder of
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this fact as are the many other things he does for the
community while most of the rest of us sit by and complain
whatthis town needs or oughta do.
Most of us should put our muscle where our mouth is and
I'll say it before someone else does and quote what I've
overheard:
"And doing something instead of talking so much includes
the Gentleman Bum ."
Glad you made it, Joe Harris. A miss is as good as a mile .
And a four vote hit is as good as miles and miles and miles .
You'll make a swell addition to the school hassle and hope
you can succeed in straightening out some of the problems
that spending 80 percent of the school budget on salaries
must have some effect on conditions.
I see that the LCP has another slight mystery on its hands.
Who is the Lady Traveler?
Thanks to B. Petersmark of Cohoctah for your Jetter anent
my remarks about the feasibility of doing away with the
manufacturing of handguns as a means of stopping so much
senseless killing.
"Punish the offender " as you suggest is certainly needed
but such punishment is "after the fact. " The problem is, it
seems to me , to save lives rather than punish the killer after
the deed has been done.
I suppose Walter Stele, or is it Steel , you'll agree that
there 's more killing with "snowmobiles , cars and swimming"
than with handguns but I'm certain such deaths are
not committed with aforethought as are handgun murders .
You are right I "know little about guns " and my logic, as
you big heartedly put it is "simply impossible ." But it does
seem to me and my impossible logic that since handguns are
made to make it easy to kill people, banning them from being
manufactured would be bound to save some people from
getting killed by them (although it would stop your target
practice ).
My handgun suggestion was not meant to be a "solution "
and maybe as you say "a bummer ." It got you all steamed up
on the subject. The more thinking people like you we can get
to expose their ideas the sooner we'll be able to save a few
Jives that are being thrown away for no reason at all.
A kid can get a stomach ache from eating green apples but
an apple can 't hurt him if he can't find one to eat.
An adult can break a leg stumbling over a tricycle in the
driveway but not unless there is one in the driveway to
stumble over and a person can 't be killed by a handgun
unless there is one on the market that someone can buy or
steal.
For someone who detests controversy I wonder how I
happened to step out of character like this .
It might happen to the Lady Traveler who could have her
say and travel on but how did it ever happen to THE
GENTLEMAN BUM?
A GALLANT MAN
When he reads this he will pooh pooh everything I've
written down except the pain he's lived with so long and that
is with him continuously.
Bud was an outdoor man in the days not too far in the past.
A coon hunter. A fly fisherman , a tramper through the woods
just to enjoy nature until his hands refused to function and
walking became a painful chore . He can 't manage the fly rod
any more or the gun or the walks with even slow leaf-rustling
shuffling .
Arthritis has gnarled his hands , enlarged knuckles ,
stiffened wrist and arms to the point that he must depend
upon someone to cut his meat at meal time. Yet, he never
missed a day at his job at his store because of his pain or
disabilities.
His raw guts show in the way he enjoys a laugh at some bon
mot when his face lights up and he makes you forget how he
hurts. He loves a good joke and likes to kid the people he
meets .
I've known him for many years but have never heard him
spend even a moment complaining. He keeps doped with
aspirin and buoyed up by an inner glow that has never
deserted him no matter what.
Reading this may embarrass him but anyone who knows
him will agree with everything said here .
He should be an inspiration to all of us who complain about
minor things, who greet most days feeling good. F'or that is
not the lot of BUD WESSINGER the subject of this salute to a
guy with guts and as William Wordsworth put it "Who,
doomed to go in company with pain ... turns his necessity to
glorious gain" . . . that gain being the respect in which he is
held by those who know him.
OTHER GENTLEMAN BUM ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Dec. 2, 1970-Alice Gray announced Bum as columnist
Dec. 2, 1970-Concerning Karl Walker
Feb . 24, 1971-Concerning Winifred Ross
June 3, 1971-Benches for Howell
March 8, 1972-Mrs. Sidney Clark
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RadioS tationW HMI
By ANN BIGNELL
Radio Station WHMI first went on the air in February, 1957.
It was owned at that time by Wirth Broadcasting Company
with M. H. Wirth, of Howell, as owner-manager.
The station was purcha sed in August, 1961 by B & H
Broadcasting Company, of which Frank and Ann Bignell
were major stockholders . The Bignells moved to Howell from
Madison, Wisconsin. The decision to buy WHMI was based on
population growth projections for the county and the charm
of the area.
In order to better service the area with national and international
news, WHMI became an ABC network affiliate in
September , 1961.
Frank Bignell was president and general manager of WHMI
from the time it was purchased in 1961 until his death in
June, 1972, at which time those positions were assumed by
Ann Bignell.
In August of 1972 WHMI had an experience unique in the
annals of broadcasting. A snake gained entrance to the
building housing the transmitter and caused the transmitter
to burn out, thus putting WHMI off the air . A new transmitter
was air-lifted from Illinois and the staff worked around the
clock to get it installed . The area was without WHMI's services
for only a day.
The following spring WHMI installed all new broadcasting
equipment in a new designed control room. The inaugural
program for the new studio was in March, 1973.
At the present time (1975) WHMI has eight full-time and
eight part-time employes .
The Woman'sC hristianT emperance
Union
of How ell sends gre eti ngs and best wishes for the New Y ea r to the
wome n of How ell and Livin gsto n cou nty, and all purchasers of the
"Howell Cook Book. "
We cordia lly invit e all to our monthly meetings, th e second Tuesday
of eac h month, where you may listen to interesting papers, and by you r
presence cheer and enco urag e tho se eng ag ed in thi s peacefu l conflict of
Right again st Wrong. Come an d join the "Whit e R ibbon ers."
W e believe that "Clea nlin ess is next to Godliness;" in whit ene ss fo r
hea rt , soul and body; therefore, we would direct your attention to a soap
that "Leads 'em all,'' whi ch will accom plish all possible for th e outwa rd
man.
A larg e numb er of our women have thoroughly tested this soap ,
and pronounce it th e best they eve r used. It is good for the laundry,
good for the kit chen, and as a toil et soap is unexcelled.
We "Lead 'em all," and may thi s lead you all- every woman who
wants th e worth of her mon ey in a bar of soap that will outlast any
oth er- straight to "ll eurmann & Marston's,'' who will be glad to supply
you with this superior article.
Remember the "Lead 'em all" is th e best; six bars for twen ty -five
cents.
You are refe rred to:
Mns . CrtAS. CURTIS,
MRS. D. M cINTYRE,
Mns. WM, AND RE W S,
Mns. Tn os . GORDON.
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The Howell Post Office
By BIRD L. HIGHT
The first mail service in Howell began in the early 1830's. A
History of Howell by Elisha H. Smith, published in 1868
record s the first postmaster in Howell as Flavius J.B. Crane ,
Jan . 15, 1836. He started operating in the Eagle Tavern .
Soon horseback routes were started to carry mail once or
twice a week between Howell, Kensington, Grand Rapids and
other towns. These earl y carriers , Lewis Thompson and
others , experienced many difficulties in establishing trails
through the then wilderness .
There followed many Postmaster appointments who
operated from their places of business with meager
equipment , a stamp window and a small section of call boxes.
Eli Barnard appointed Jan . 13, 1839; Almon Whipple,
appointed Feb. 9, 1841; W.A. Glover, appointed May 31, 1841;
Almon Whipple, reappointed Sept. 1, 1843; George W. Lee
appointed Apr. 14, 1849; Derastus Hinsman appointed June 7,
1853; Frank Wells appointed Feb . 25, 1855; Leander C. Smith
appointed Mar . 16, 1861; Henry Clark , appointed Mar . 8,
1866; W.W. Kenyon, appointed Aug. 20, 1868; W.W. Kenyon
reappointed Dec. 10, 1873, when the office was elevated to the
Presidential class ; Julius D. Smith appointed Dec. 14, 1877;
Charles E . Beurman appointed Dec. 15, 1881; Isaac W. Bush
appointed Jan . 20, 1886; Thomas G. Switzer , appointed Jan .
16, 1890.
During these growth years , the stage coach was used for
carrying mail. One such early stage driver was 'Jack '
Stapleton who was the father of Mrs . Ella Euler of Howell.
Soon the stage coach carrier gave way to the advent of the
D.L.&N. (Detroit , Lansing & Northern ) Railway on what is
now the Pere Marquette tracks .
N. Michigan Ave. Office
On March 15, 1894, Henry D. Wilbur became Postmaster.
There had been a growing need for more and larger post
office space. George Barnes was able to secure a Government
lease of the entire first floor of his Press building on N.
Michigan Avenue. It had adequate lobby space for call and
lock boxes plus expansion area . It became the first
permanent home of the post office. Mr. Wilber moved his
office and equipment into the Government leased quarters
just before leaving office in 1898.
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The postal staff inside the old post office on N . Mich. where the Liv.
Co. Press is now .
First Rural Delivery
On May 5, 1898, Tompthy Smith took office in the Barnes
building and stayed until Feb . 15, 1915, the longest term any
Postmaster had yet served .
During Mr. Smith 's term , the office was made second
class . Rural Free Delivery , Postal Savings System , and
Parcel Post mailing came about. The first two rural routes
were established Sept. 15, 1900, with John Kirk and Truman
Dean driving horse and buggy over a circuit some twenty
miles long. By the end of 1902t here were eight routes , with an
average length of 18 miles each . Later another route was
added. The first carriers were George Howe Rt. No. 1, Floyd
Perkins Rt. No. 2, George ,..richolsR t. No. 3, Spencer Tooley
Rt. No. 4, Wilson Tooley Rt. No. 5, Arthur Monroe Rt. No. 6.
Later because of illness Joel Crittenden took his place . Fred
Dean Rt. No. 7, Albert Purdy Rt. No. 8, and Arthur Drew Rt.
No. 9. Later Wilson Tooley resigned and Ray Bullen was
transferred here from Mason. He served for two years and
then was replaced by Elmer Ellsworth .
First City Delivery
W.H.S. Wood took offic~in the same location Feb . 16, 1916.
Under Mr. Wood city delivery service was given to the
community. The first city ~arriers being Albert Purdy , Paul
Wheelock and Ross Hildebrandt. At this time A.S. Durfee
was sworn in as mail messenger to carry mail pouches to and
from the depot. Certain trains not scheduled to stop at Howell
still gave first class mail service by throwing a pouch from
the moving train and grabbing by mechanical means a pouch
of outgoing mail suspended from posts near the train track. It
was the duty of the mail messenger to attend this procedure .
During these years the rural delivery was done by horse
drawn vehicles. Fred Lewis was the first to attempt a long
30-mile route with a motor car . As the years passed the roads
grew better and automobiles improved . Routes were now
lengthened and for a time , fewer were needed .
Williams Building
Wm. H. Cansfield was appointed July 1, 1924. During his
term a new electric cancelling machine replaced the old
method of hand cancelling . Receipts were now nearly large
enough to meet requirements for a first class office. It had
been second class since the latter part of Mr. Smith 's regime.
Parcel post delivery was given to the city patrons during
1925. A new office location became necessary at this time and
through Mr. Cansfield's efforts, Harry Williams was induced
to build a building expressly for that purpose at the corner of
S. Michigan and Sibley streets. Mr. Williams leased this to
the Government for a ten-year period . The lease was dated
Dec. 10, 1926. The office moved in completely just before the
holiday rush . It remained there for the term of the lease .
Federal Building Site Purhcased
Bird L. Hight was appointed June 15, 1932. Under him the
Oak Grove Post Office rural patrons came under the Howell
and Fenton circuits . Now the four carriers were driving
about 70 miles daily . The Postmaster General had currently
authorized a new Federal Building for the Howell Post office.
Mr. Hight was asked to secure bids for a suitable building
site . Seven sites were offered. That of R.E. Barron at the
N.E. corner of Sibley and Walnut streets was recommended
and approved by the Post Office Dept. Barron's lot was of
suitable size and at the agreed upon price of $8,900.00. The
official notification was dated Washington, D.C. Sept. 25,
1935. Work on the new building was begun and continued to
the end of Mr. Hight's term , June 30, 1936.
Dedication
Alfred Pfau was the new postmaster appointed July 1, 1936.
Work progressed rapidly on the new Fe deral building.
Formal dedication date was set for Oct. 22, 1936. The
Procurement Division of the U.S. Treasury Dept. worked
with a local committee headed by Mr. Pfau to arrange for the
afternoon 's dedication program . The Grand Lodge F.&A.M.
of Michigan was invited to participate. Most Worshipful
Grand Master Neil Reid proceeded with the cornerstone
laying according to the ritual of the Order . A sealed copper
box was placed in the cornerstone containing many
documents and items of the period . A list of the items was
published in the Livingston County Republican Press . During
Mr. Pfau 's term Postal Savings and Money Order business
were both discontinued. Two outside drop boxes were placed
for the deposit of outgoing mail by the public . Just before the
end of his term , Mr. Pfau requested and secured an
appointment as a carrier on one of the rural routes .
Fay Transfers
Lyman Fay was appointed July 1, 1943 as postmaster. He
served for five years in the new Federal building, and at his
vwn desire and request secured an appointment as a rural
carrier on one of the Howell routes . He left his postmaster -
ship and transferred to a rural route July 1, 1948.
Civil Service
Gerald Hughes became postmaster July 1, 1948. At that
time all present postmasters were frozen in office and
declared to be civil service appointees . Mr. Hughes served
steadily for over 17 years and on Oct. 20, 1966, died suddenly
in office of heart failure . Kenneth Bucknell, assistant
postmaster , took over management until April 28, 1967. Then
Tom Clark became acting postmaster and later by Civil
Service procedure was confirmed as Postmaster , July 20,
1968.
U.S. Postal Service
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1968 established the U.S.
Postal Service as an independent agent of the Federal
Government. This eliminated the office of Postmaster
General and vested all postal powers in the U.S. Postal
Service , and made it responsible for its operations as a
private corporation . All personnel now became civil service
employees.
Population increased and condensed in the rural areas .
The per mile number of patrons on the rural routes
multiplied many times and overburdened the carriers . In
1973a djustment was made by increasing the number of rural
routes to ten in number , and shortening them and making
other changes to conform to Civil Service operations .
Current Operations Under Tom Clark
As of August, 1975, the Howell Post Office operates as U.S.
Postal service. It has ten rural routes, all heavy duty ,
working over 40 hours per week . There are five city carrier
routes all on park and loop system . They carry mail with
them in a car , a moving relay , and deliver parcel post.
There are 27 employees plus 7 rural sub carriers. The office
operates 6 days per week from 6:15 a.m . to 5:30 p.m. The
office lobby hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m . Saturday hours are
from 8:30 to 12 noon.
Total receipts currently running over $600,000 annually .
Further references for this article may be found in a book
by A. Riley Crittenden, 'History of Howell' published in 1911,
and 'History of Livingston County' published in 1880. Also the
following people have contributed information , Kenneth
Bucknell, Ford Beckwith, Alfred Pfau Sr., Ersyl Hadley.
Lyman Fay and Tom Clark.
Al Pfau the da y he r et ir ed f rom the Post Of f ice , 1967.
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The Howell Carnegie Library
By MRS. GERALDINE FISHER, MRS. INA HIGHT
and MRS. ALBERT ROHRABACHER
The First Library
In 1836, James White built a frame house on one of the lots
of the present library square, facing 316 W. Clinton St.
directly across from what used to be the Woodward house.
Mr. White was a carpenter and the house contained many
refinements in construction. It was the fifth or sixth house
put up in Howell.
A nephew of James White, Edward F . Gay and Nancy
Smith Rohrabacher , wife of Adam Rohrabacher, who was
the heir of Nellie Wood Smith, came to an agreement
concerning the ownership of the property with the result that
Adam Rohrabacher became owner of the house in 1840.
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Library
Coordinator
Geraldine Fisher was born in Detroit,
Michigan, the daughter of Stanley and
Charlotte ( Kruszewski) Wojnicki. Four
years Wayne University. She married
Joseph Fisher on July 3, 1941, they have
one son, John . Member St. Joseph
Catholic Church , Howell Music Club,
Howell Business and Professional Club,
St. Thomas Aquinas Study Club . Head
librarian Howell Carnegie Library since
1968.
Adam Rohrabacher had begun his blacksmith work in
Howell in 1837. In 1845J ohn D. Picnkney , whose farm was in
the vicinity of N. National St. and near Thompson Lake ,
wished to retire , so he bought the house of Adam
Rohrabacher on the present library square. Mr. Rohrabacher
bought the brick house at 310 N. Michigan Ave. on the
West side, said to be the oldest brick house built in 1845.
Mr. Pinckney died within a few years, but his widow
formerly Margaret Fraser, lived for years after his death, so
that the house became known as the Margaret Pinckney or
Widow Pinckney house . This was the house which later was
to become the Howell Library.
On the front of the library square several different
companies had operated a machine shop and a foundry on the
lots facing Grand River . Later they handled mowers, reapers
and cream-separators. Then it became more or less of a
tinker shop and junk yard.
The Ladies Library Association-1875
The ladies of the Ladies Library Association of Howell,
after a succession of temporary quarters, moved their books
into the old Pinckney House which they rented . They placed a
sign 'Howell Library ' out in front. At last they had not only
room for books, but also a nice reading room, an office for the
librarian, room for indexes, storage and book repair . The
librarian was present only on certain days to check out
books.
Mrs. Bernard Glenn said she remembered this first library
building. She said that it had a log out-building of some kind,
possibly a woodshed.
1':'lr, Robert Krause ~ays he remembers the log building
which was there , but 1s not sure whether it was on Mrs
Pinckney 's lot. ·
Howell is Growing
The facilities of this former residence were not adequate
for a library in a fast growing town. The old library and land
were bought along with the machine shops which occupied
the front of the square, and razed for the present library .
W.H.S. Wood, a Howell postmaster , was quite a politician .
He and his family were entertained by President McKinley in
the White House. It was due to Mr. Wood's influence that the
Carnegie Foundation approved the building of the Carnegie
Librar y at Howell, rather than some other Michigan city at
that time.
When Mr . Wood was a Supervisor , he circulated a petition
in 1901 to have a proposition on the ballot to establish a
township librar y. Mr. Carnegie offered to furnish $10,000 if
Howell could furnish a suitable site , and $1,QOO for
maintenance . The vote was favorable . The Carnegie
Foundation has never given any money for the upkeep of the
building, or for salaries or books.
The township board appointed a committee to approve
plans . The plans accepted were those of E.E . Meyers of
Detroit , the same man who designed the state capitol at
Lansing . Meanwhile the four sons of William McPherson ,
Wm. Jr ., M.J ., E .G., and Alex, had purchased the entire
block for a library site . The central part where the building
now stands was accepted by the township , and the remainder
of the block by the city for a park . It was decided to build the
library of fieldstone .
An interesting story concerning the fieldstones used in the
construction of the building is as follows. Farmers from each
township brought the stones in. Because they were such
excellent examples of rocks broken by glacial action , a
Geology Professor from the University of Michigan brought
his classes here for several years to study them . This story
was told by Mrs. Minnie Van Slyke, a former librarian .
Mr. Kuehnle of Ann Arbor took the contract to build the
present library for $10,000 about 1902. After the library was
partially completed, his company failed . For a long time the
unfinished building was an eyesore. Then Mr. Carnegie gave
$5,000 more and the Howell Women's Club also furnished a
large amount so that the work on the library could be
resumed . For this reason the Howell Women's Club was
given a lease on a room in the basement of the library for
their meeting room . The Woman's Club also furnished the
little boy and girl fountain on the lawn .
In 1874, an old-fashioned singing school was held in Howell.
It was so successful that they had surplus funds when they
discontinued. It was decided to use these funds plus other
donations to establish the Ladies Library Association of
Howell in 1875.
The officers were Mrs . Milo L. Gay, pres ; Miss Ella Burt ,
corres . sec. ; Miss Nellie Hickey , rec . sec. ; Mrs . H.G. Fry ,
treas .; Miss Franke Skilbeck , librarian. The original 25
books soon grew to 300. They first occupied a room in the
Sabin block, then moved to the Weimeister block on Grand
River , then to the Hubbell block. At this time they were only
open to the public on Saturdays from 3 to 5 p.m. Although
they tried to maintain a reading room besides the library , it
was never very successful until they moved into the
Pinckney House on the library lot. Now they were able to be
open several days a week.
It has taken many dedicated people who have given much
time to get the library started and keep it running. The
minutes of the first library board meetings in the early 1900's
listed the names of these men ; Thomas Gordon Jr .; W.H.S.
Wood; Rev. Brooks ; M.J . McPherson; George Chapel and
George Barnes.
Through the years , these names appeared in the board
minutes , R.B. McPherson; A.D. Thompson ; L.E . Howlett ;
D.D. Monroe ; C.J. Jewett ; C.E. Skinner ; H.A. McPherson ;
A. Garland ; E.L . Avery; Mrs . W.C. Huntington ; Don
Van Winkle; F .J. Shields ; W.S. Farnsworth ; H.R. Bush ; Mrs .
C. Goodnow; H.G. Strobel ; C.P. Adams; Mrs. H.R. Gillette;
Rev. H.M. Noble; B. Woodhams ; Mrs. H.R. Smith ; Mrs. H.L.
Williams ; T. Krieger ; L.B. Merritt ; Mrs . K. Hoch; Mrs . G.
McClosky; P. Baldwin ; R. Englehart ; H. Lyons ; J . Maul ;
L.E . Eaton ; Rev. A. Gray ; C. Badura ; Wm. R. Ladner . The
present board consists of Werner Goetsch, Pres .; Mrs.
Calvin Gatesman, Vice Pres .; Joy Scofield, Sec.; Audrey
Murray and Irma Soderberg , Trustees .
Librarians
The first librarian in 1906w as Miss Lucy Chapel. Her first
annual report listed 24 magazines and newspapers and 2500
books. Mrs . Myrtle Hornung Wilkinson succeeded Miss
Chapel , becoming librarian in 1910. The following women
have held the position of librarian during the years . Miss
Gladys Cook, Miss Winifred Brown , Mrs. W.C. Huntington ,
Mrs. Minnie Vanslyke, Mrs . Ina Hight , Mrs . Marcia Bamber
and Mrs. Geraldine Fisher , who is librarian at this time . Mrs.
Ellen Lyons is children 's librarian . An item of interest to
many is that Mrs . VanSlyke held the position of librarian for
25 years . She was assisted for most of the time by Mrs.
Estelle Bennett.
The present library staff consists of Mrs . Geraldine Fisher,
librarian ; Mrs. Ellen Lyons, children 's librarian ; Mrs . Ruth
Marr, bookkeeper and book processer ; Barbara Illinik , Lois
Waskin, Alice Wolowicz and Charlotte Henderson , part time
assistants, and Mrs . Elizabeth Garvey , story-teller .
Volunteers are Mary LePiors and Lawrence Griffiths .
It couldn 't beat a cool swim, but cooling your toes in a cold stream
sure felt good.
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Many will remember that Theodore Shindorf was caretaker
for years; Vance Bishop for 14 years. Present
caretaker is Edmond Martell . Volunteers at present are Ina
Hight, and Mary LePiors. Grace Lannen and Irma Soderberg
served for many years as volunteers .
Changes
During Mrs. Hight's term as librarian, some structural
changes were made due to increasing circulation and the
need for more space for books. The front entrance was
remodeled , making a central entrance and two smaller
rooms at either end to be used for book storage. The main
room was panelled and new shelving added .
The Friends of the Library Association was organized .
Trips had been made to several communities where Friends
groups were well accepted by the libraries and the public,
and were providing help in many ways . The library board
decided to join with the Washtenaw County Library System,
because our library would benefit in many ways-more
books-expert advice , and some services to be given. This
group has now been changed somewhat, and is called the
Huron Valley Library System . One daily service which is
appreciated by patrons is the 'Hot Line' to Ann Arbor.
Requests which our library cannot fill are given to the Ann
Arbor headquarters and much information comes by car
and mail directly from Ann Arbor or the State Library.
In 1960, the law regulating the use of County Penal Fines
was changed so that public libraries would receive a share .
These added dollars have helped a great deal in the
remodeling of our library , and many much needed books
have been purchased.
All people living in Livingston County receive free usage of
the library and its many services. Those outside the system
pay $5.00 for a card . Transients also pay $5.00 for a card, but
this is returned when the visit is over , providing all books are
returned .
Friends of the Library
In 1956, the Friends of the Library group was formed . Their
aim is to develop community support of the library ; promote
greater understanding of the resources of the library ; and
encourage donations of funds for books and special
equipment for library use .
Many busy and interested citizens have served unpaid on
the Friends Board .
During the years, the Friends have conducted annual book
fairs and sidewalk book sales . They have an annual
membership drive each year . .T here is a cart of 'for sale'
books in the lobby at all times. The public has been most
generous in supplying used books for these sales .
Many valuable books have been purchased by the Friends ,
and they have also provided the charging desk , several
tables and chairs, the tables and chairs in the Michigan
Room which is used at times for club meetings, card
catalogues , picture files , filing cabinets, carpeting and new
shelving. A bike rack and outdoor book drop box are used a
great deal by the public . At present , plans are under way to
make the young people's room more usable and attractive .
This will include new carpeting, drapes and chairs . The
Friends have sponsored Children's Art Workshops, which
were conducted by Marge Banks . This year Mrs. Banks
helped the children make posters for the library centennial.
As of 1972 The Friends had contributed items worth
approximat~ly $14,000t o the library .
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Scouts Help
During the years, some Scouts have served as Pages at the
library , to work on their Community Service Projects . Other
badges such as reading and book binding were earned at the
library. Some years ago a Girl Scout group under the
leadership of Audrey Murray and Hilda Cole, planted yellow
tulips around the pool as a celebration of scouting 's 50th
anniversary. The girls earned and gave the cash needed to
purchase the bulbs, then kept the area weeded. Other groups ,
both boys and girls , under other leaders planted flowers and
shrubs and raked leaves for several years.
Beautification Project
At the suggestion of Charley Sutton, in 1971 Mike Hagman
agreed to take on the beautification of the library grounds.
Jim Smith, the landscape architect for the Huron Clinton
Metropolitan Authority , made the plans for the planting of
flowers and shrubbery . Bob Wood and Gary Lamb helped to
clear the area of the old plantings. Twelve boys from the
Boys Camp at Hamburg , did the original planting with Mr.
Hagman 's supervision. The money to cover the cost of seeds,
plants and shrubs came from donations by interested citizens
and from library funds .
Michigan Room
The Michigan Room has several shelves containing books
about our state. Some references for those interested in
Geneology can be found there also. The room is adequately
equipped with tables and chairs for the convenience of the
public. This room is available to clubs during library hours.
Advance arrangement should be made with the librarian for
its use .
Children's Room
In July of 1965, Mrs. Ina Hight retired as librarian and the
position was taken by Mrs. Marcia Bamber . At this time the
library was beginning to thrive on the greatly increased
income derived from the county penal fines .
At the same time , the community was rapidly expanding
and there became an ever more pressing need for the
enlargement of physical space in the children's department,
as more and more young families moved into Howell.
The library board , headed by Dr. Louis C. Eaton , and Mrs.
Bamber examined the possibilities of remodeling the entire
basement , to be used as a children 's area. Originally , the
basement was divided into several rooms : the east one was
used as a meeting room for the local Woman's Club; the
center room for storage of magazines, newspapers and
antique books; the west room was used as a small museum ,
owned by the D.A.R. and open to the public. Behind these
rooms were the furnace room, which doubled as a card
playing room, used by a men 's senior citizens group, and an
ancient and very inadequate kitchen and rest room.
The final plans were arranged with Jickling and Lyman
Co. architects of Southfield. They provided for the enlargement
of the three front rooms into one large children's
department ; a new heating system would free the furnace
room for use as a new meeting room and small kitchenette ;
the rest of the back (north ) section would be made into a
storage area and work roon:i, complete with sink , counters
and cupboards . An entry way to the Children's department
would be dug out under the main front steps to the library.
With the removal of the children 's room to the downstairs ,
the adult book and reference department would be expanded
upstairs. Meantime the book collection was increasing in all
areas thanks to the extra income , and a file for art prints was
begun for rental by patrons.
With the completion of the plans and blueprints , Mrs.
Bamber left the position in March of 1968.T he new librarian ,
Mrs . Geraldine Fisher , supervised completion of the
remodeling project. Mrs . Ellen Lyons became Children's
librarian .
More Services Added
During Mrs. Fisher 's time as librarian , the Microfilm
service has been added . Also the Xerox machine , which is
used daily by both students and citizens . Many students use
the library daily . It is not unusual to find every chair filled
evenings . LSCA, a Federal Title One project, funded a
program providing shelving and books for the Livingston
county jail. Mrs . Fisher , with the assistance of Educator Bill
Lymangrover worked out the details . $3,000.00w as allowed,
and $2180.00 of that amount purchased books and periodicals
which are owned by the jail. The remainder was spent for
shelf materials and some labor . It is expected that jail
inmates will be trained to handle the circulation details and
keep records . This has been well received by inmates. Mrs.
Fisher and her staff are working tirelessly on the library
centennial plans . Events include special exhibits of attire,
home items and books of the 1870's ; a children 's puppet show
(selected because puppetry is one of the most ancient of
theatrical arts ); and a series of speaking engagements with
speakers chosen from area writers who have had their works
published .
A set of historical albums entitled 'Howell Today' are
proving to be most interesting. Mrs. Roy Lannen , a former
employee, put the early volumes together and Mrs. Bird
Hight, a volunteer worker, is assembling current albums .
Circulation of all books and periodicals is now topping
50,000 per year.
Several people have assisted in the collection of information
for this history. Mrs. Albert Rohrabacher , wrote the
foreword concerning the first library , organized by the
Ladies Library Association. She acquired much of her
material from talking with Howell's older citizens ; Mrs .
Jane Rohrabacher , Mrs . L.E . Howlett, Mrs . Olive Merithew ,
Mrs. Jake Eager , Mrs . Bernard Glenn, Mrs. Grace Woods,
all deceased ; Mrs . Herbert Gillette and Mr. Robert Krause ,
both living in the area .
Mrs. Marcia Bamber wrote the section concerning the
conversion of the basement into the Children 's department.
Mrs. Ina Hight with Mrs. Fisher 's help, assembled the rest
of the information using secretaries' notes from board
meetings , beginning in 1902. Some facts were taken from the
book 'History of Howell' by A. Riley Crittenden . Mrs . Albert
Rohrabacher also contributed .
The Jolly Joshers
To aid many of our readers a little help in identifying the "Joshers"
of old may be necessary . So to begin . The eminent gentleman in the
immediate foreground with overcoat and soft felt hat is-you know
him all right-Bill Brooks . Moving backward to the next step higher,
on the readers left is the late Edward Garland. With derby and square
cut coat hand in pocket is James Shields . Then comes Frank Shields,
hand behind his back, derby, and swallow tailed effect in the open cut
of the coat . Then beginning at upper readers left, we see bow ties , and
bederbied George Fishbeck . Standing sidewise , exposing the white
bosomed shirt is Howard Force . Next is Clyde Brown , Edmund
Shields, Richard Barron , Percy Dudley , and Roy Fitch.
C Livingston County Republican Press, February 11, 1931)
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Delivering suits to Deadw ood S.D. from the Garland Tail oring
factory in Howell.
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The Garlands-A Nation's Tailor
WHERE MEN'S CLOTHES ARE MADE
TO KING GEORGE'S TASTE,
HOWELL, MICHIGAN
The position and reputation of A. Garland as the maker of
men's clothes in correct styles and fabrics , is so well
established in this vicinity as well as several western states,
that he needs no commendation at our hands. We might
mention in passing, however , the fact that Mr. Garland,
accompanied by his wife, is now in England, the place of his
birth, taking a vacation and resting . But between resting
spells , he will doubtless have an eye to business and pick up
some novelties for the coming year .
A. Garland , while yet a young man, came with his parents
from Sheffield, England , and settled at Salem , Illinois . The
father came first on a visit, but liked the country so well that
he brought his family over and decided to make this his
future home, and transferred his property interests here. The
young man drifted to Grand Rapids as cutter in a tailoring
established there , and there M. F. McPherson spotted him
and brought him to Howell as a cutter in their then tailor
department.
That was A. Garland 's first introduction to the business
circles of Howell. After three or four years of faithful service
Mr. Garland bought the McPherson tailoring department ,
moved across the street and went into business for himself.
By adopting the method of doing business on business
principles . Mr. Garland 's career has been one onward
movement from that day until the present. In the early 90's,
Mr. Garland bought the Howell Opera House, with two stores
on the first floor, one of which he has since occupied with his
business . He is also manager of the Opera House. In addition
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to the local trade Mr . Garland keeps several salesmen in the
west who take orders and send them here to be made up. He
also has a branch store at Jackson , Mich. He is a director in
the First State and Savings Bank of Howell.
With all his business activity, Mr. Garland , finds time for
church and charitable work . He has been superintendent of
the Baptist Sunday School for a number of years and is
prominent in the Baptist Church.
From the beginning of his business career , Mr . Garland
has been fortunate in having with him as head cutter , his
brother , Alfred Garland. Alfred 's gentle voice and careful
way of handling customers has been an asset in the business
not to be estimated in dollars and cents . Everybody likes
Alfred .
EDWARD GARLAND
For the last ten or fifteen years Ed Garland has been a
useful factor about the Garland establishment , not only does
Ed make himself useful about the store , but he works the
near by towns and takes orders and measurements for
clothes . Especially has Ed been hustling of late, since his
father went to England and left the business in his charge .
In all its departments the Garland establishment is unique .
The methods of last year or the year before , will not go, as
everything must be up-to-the-minute . Goods, style , cut ,
everything must have the latest touch.
End of article copied from old newspaper framed at The
Old Howell House . Note: the A. Garland referred to was
Arthur Garland, then came Ed Garland, Ford Garland , and
then the present Ed Garland.
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We Took to the Air.
A spectacular picture for 1915. This is the first airplane landing in
Howell on the infield of the fairgrcunds what looks like someone lying
on the top wing is the tail of the plane behind . There was no fabric on
the fusilage . The pilot sat on the bottom wing with the engine . If you
look carefully , you can see his feet hanging between the wheels .
Inventions
Howell motors have made electric motors since 1915. Specializ i ng in
large motors , this photo shows the setup line for motors which have
been shipped worldwide . It has been for many years , one of Howell's
greatest industries .
Stringing up the telephone lines about 1913. The loaded sled in
background is on the way to the Depot . Look i ng north on Michigan
Ave .
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This old shoemaker was 87 years old when this picture was taken,
still working his trade.
Inventions
By TOM KIZER, SR.
It was November 1944 that I moved my family of four to the
old Sexton farm on Sexton Road, Howell. I had purchased the
farm from the widow, Nellie Sexton, who resided in the
historic old two story brick home just off Pinckney Road on
Mason Road, now owned by Norm Jamieson.
The Sexton farm was the site of the first Holstein cattle to
be imported into Livingston County and Mr. Sexton is listed
in the Holstein-Freisian breeding book as number 87, I
believe.
The author of this segment titled
Inventions, Thomas Kizer Sr ., is a weekly
columnist for the Livingston County
Press . Kizer has been very active in
community affairs over the years, and
readers of the Howell Bicentennial His -
tory will find his name appearing often in
hospital, school and community histories .
The near one hundred year old, multi-room farm home still
stood, as did the big one hundred foot barn, granary and corn
crob, Even the spring, used to sool the milk waiting for pick
up, still flowed through the cement base of the original
spring-house, and it still does some thirty years later.
Most of the fields lay fallow when I bought the farm and the
homestead had grown pretty much up in weeds but I loved it
at first sight-the long vista over rolling fields to Keddle
Road on the north and toward the tall , dark woods to the
west.
The aged, fieldstone pillars that once marked the farm 's
entrance off Pinckney Road stood weathered and indestructible
over the years, and do to this day . Pinckney
Road had once run through the farm and circled back to the
present road . It was done to avoid the low muck area where
the road now runs due north and south.
Our present home is located on what was once the mule
barn . Rocks from its foundation are still very much in
evidence .
Though I had been exposed to farms owned by my various
relatives in other parts of the country, my wife, Frances , had
never been nearer farm life than driving through the country.
It was all a new experience to both of us-pleasant and
exciting.
As with most fathers and their first born, I was a little
premature in taking him hunting and trapping that first year
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at the age of three. Now, the desire to kill or trap game is
gone-destroyed in the killing of three wars, but back then it
was sort of like reliving the lives of our frontier forefathers,
to rise before dawn, gun in hand to run the trap lines, see the
foot prints of rabbit , fox, mink, raccoon, pheasant and quail
in the new snow.
We had all the conveniences of city living in our country
homebut I remember debating on what furnace to buy and
finally settled on one that could be converted from oil to wood
burning, for in those war and post war days there was no
assurance our normal way of life would survive. With plenty
of fire wood around the farm wood lots it seemed like a good
hedge against either too high fuel cost or unavailability.
Today, thirty years later it again looks like a good hedge.
I had also been a youthful product of the great depression
and food, heat and shelter were still the only basics one put
complete store by. Money could be done without, but not food,
heat and shelter. On the farm, I felt I had ably set the stage to
provide for my young family .
Our telephone those first few years was the old wood box
type, with a little, black hand crank that signalled the
operator who usually responded promptly and pleasantly.
It was a multi-party line on which everyone unashamedly
listened , if they had nothing more urgent to do. There was
one, bad snowy night when my wife had to take the car for an
errand. I was left babysitting and not long after she had gone,
the phone ( our ring, two longs and a short) called and on
answering I found it was she. She was stuck in the snow and
had walked to the nearest house to call, no one there could
The first parking meter in Howell in the fall of 1947.
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help her. What to do? I couldn't leave the kids to take the
tractor to get her . Just then a voice cut in, it was one of our
neighbors-he had been listening and said , "Tom, I'll pick
your wife up." Hand crank phones and party lines aren't all
bad .
As a kid living in Alabama where I grew up I ahd the exciting
experience of possessing and listening to the first radio
in our town. Popularity with my young friends surged to new
highs almost overnight when my Dad brought the mysterious
gadget home. It was a head set but we had two of them. Even
so it was touch and go to keep everyone happy as the head
sets passed from hand to hand.
It must have been a full twenty-five years later that I was
able to increase my own children's esteem among their
contemporaries by bringing home the first T.V. in Howell. At
least it was to my knowledge the first one.
It all happened because of a friendship I had with a relative
of the founder of Motorola . Through intercession of my friend
with his Chicago relative I secured one on loan, in return for
which I was to report the quality of reception and permit
their technical people to visit my home and work with the set
if desired. It was doubted the telecast would carry all the way
from Detroit to Howell, but there was only one way to find
out.
In addition to the set itself, I picked up an antenna of sorts
that went with it and was cautioned to get it as high up as
possible. Our setting for the first viewing of a telecast was in
the barn at the base of our forty foot silo. It was atop the silo
that we fastened the antenna. What a miracle! Imagine
setting there in our own barn, watching and hearing people
fifty miles away in Detroit. It was a stupendously eerie experience
. There was a snow falling at the time of that first
viewing and it was not until later that we realized the "snow"
in the picture was not real snow but mighty poor reception.
But it looked great to us.
This first TV was probably the origin of a current, successful
Howell business known today as Merithew Home
Entertainment Center . A couple of days after we got the set ,
Pete Merithew stopped by on his way home, he lived a mile
down Sexton Road. He was fairly busting to see the set and
asked if he could borrow it to take home to try out an antenna
he had rigged on his " ham" radio pole. It did vastly improve
the picture .
Later Pete told me he had completely disassembled the set
and put it back together, just to learn. Since it was a
borrowed set and I was completely responsible, I would
probably have had a stroke if I had seen the set strewn all
over his shop. But he was a natural with electronics and
electrical gadgetry and it wasn 't long after that he started his
own TV business which eventually his son took over.
Those first years in the mid-forties saw the end of horse
farming , replaced with tractors . Yet several of my neighbors
had at least one team for several years after we moved in.
One of my closest neighbors , Glenn Keddle had a team of
silver bay beauties . Glenn also had a Farmall F tractor on
steel cleats, not rubber tires , but the silver bays under the
affectionate guiding hands of the elder Mr. Keddle did all the
hay raking, mowing and loading as well as manure
spreading, corn planting and cultivating. They also pulled us
on neighborhood sleigh rides. The Farman did all the plowing
and fitting .
The Keddles had a third horse , Old Prince who was sort of
buggy horse and extra hand to the silver bays . Since they
didn't use the buggy any more , Glenn offered to loan Old
Prince to me, no doubt knowing I'd never give him up and
would therefore buy him eventually, which I did.
Old Prince was a gem. He would drive or ride willingly and
happily, but work-that was something he wanted very little
In the 1940's and early SO's we still did not have the dial system for
telephones. When you picked up the phone, these were some of the
operators who said, "Number please?" And they all wore bobby sox.
to do with. I think he was the fore runner of the sit down
strikes , only he called it balking. We had many beautiful
winter night sleigh rides behing him in the cutter I bought
from Mr. Murnigham over on Coon Lake Road .
One cold, wintry December night, the last day of school
before Christmas holidays, little Maple Grove, the one room
country school (now a real cute home at Pinckney and
Keddle Road ) held its annual Christmas play and party. We
bundled up our three kids, got Old Prince hooked up to the
cutter and drove the family to the school. The blanket we
used over our laps did double duty covering Prince while we
were inside.
It was snowing mildly when we drove over but two hours
later when we came out, Prince , the cutter , cars and roads
were a white, puff ball world. Of all the Christmas nights I
recall , that one was the most magnificently Christmas . You
could almost believe the sleigh bells we had hung on Prince
were the real reindeer bells of Kris Kringle himself .
My generation had the thrill of first ownership of many of
the things today 's generation takes for granted . Automatic
dishwashers were something we had vaguely heard about
that were used in big restaurants. Then suddenly they were
advertised for the home. The cost installed sounded
shocking, but in time, competition brought the price down
and we put one in. Mother was in second heaven. The next
closest thrill for her to that dishwasher was the automatic
spin dry washer that replaced the old washer, wringer and
tubs and it wasn't long after till the automatic dryer replaced
the flapping clothes on the clothesline .
Though I suppose no one would willingly go back to it, there
was homely, humorous nostalgia in the old clothesline-the
clothes so spritely dancing in the brks wind of a brilliant, sundrenched,
spring day, or so cumbersomely flopping in
billowed, frozen stiffness as they clung to the line on a cold,
winter day .
Another innovation that vastly improved the farmer's lot
but destroyed a picture of fall and harvest that will last
forever in memory , picture and verse , were the old corn
shocks. Those days before the forage harvester and corn
picker when the corn was cut and shocked to cure and be fed
out during the winter as fodder or shucked for ears .
There is no sight more warming or representative of man's
well being for a bountiful harvest than a field of wagwamshaped
corn shocks, each with a ring of golden pumpkins at
its base. The crops laid by, the granary full, the cellar
bulging with row on row of canned vegetables and fruit-let
the winds of winter come and howl, we will be sheltered,
warm and well fed. One day may God grant all man so
blessed.
Silos were an invention of the 20th century as were com-
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bines. Somewhere in the early 40's the threshing machine, a
combination of steam or gasoline power hooked to a grain
separator , gave way to the tractor pulled combine which
threshed the grain from the standing wheat or oats right in
the field. It saved the time and labor of cutting , bundling and
transporting to the old threshing machine .
In the days of the threshing machine , neighboring farmers
gathered to help each other and when noon came, the farm
being harvested was host for the noon dinner .
The same was true of silo filling and in both cases it took a
loaded table of goodies to satisfy the hungry helpers. It was
sort of rough for the lady of the house but often the neighbor
ladies came in to help. It was a gay time, too and took a lot of
the curse from the hot, hard labor of threshing and silo
filling.
As a custom, it is too bad it had to go by the boards, or put
another way, it is too bad our life patterns today don't require
some of that old neighborhood help and be helped
comradeship . I think it made people more appreciative of
each other and of the .fact that no man is an island unto
himself.
The old hand crank ice cream freezer gave way to the
motor driven one but homemade ice cream will never taste
quite as good as it did when, at long last, the paddle refused to
turn anymore and you knew eating time had come.
Refrigerators , too, went though a metamorphosis . The first
were simple boxes that later became combination
refrigerators and freezer units , some even with ice makers.
This is the old implement shop . The driver has cranked up his Chevy
truck and is about to deliver a reaper to someone's farm .
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Freezing units replaced much canning , especially of meats ,
until today literally anything and everything can be and is,
frozen.
The old, back breaking two man cross cut saw was happily
replaced by the chain saw . Power mowers came into being
and made short, pleasant work of lawn mowing.
One wonders how in the old days of boiled clothes laundering
and scrub board washing, stove heated irons for
ironing, hand tool farming and lack of electrical appliances,
the people had time to do anything but work. I guess I didn't
have a lot of extra time but it had other compensations and I
suppose its the old story-what you haven 't had, you never
miss .
This contribution to the county's history was to cover the
period from World War II till the present, cncluding inventions
and personal memories of the time . Many of the
marvels of inventions in that thirty-five year span we now
take for granted , just as though they always existed . Yet
forty years ago there were no dial phones, no television , no
automatic dishwashers , automatic spin dry clothes washers
or dryers , hermetically sealed silos, grain combines ,
refrigerator food freezers and ice makers , chain saws or
power lawn mowers .
But despite these marvels of parctical invention that have
been a part of our time , the most incredulous accomplishment
lies in man 's walk on the moon to find it made
of dust , not green cheese.
A civilization that can do that, can do anything .
The i nside of an early machine shop , which finished pistons and
rods for gasoline engines . All the machines had pulleys and all were
run by one large electric motor .
Here we see an old thrash i ng outfit travelling through Oak Grove ,
north of town . This is after the turn of the century and everyone in the
area gets into the picture . They travelled from farm to farm thrashing
the grain during the harvest season .
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Main Street of Michigan
This is a picture of W . Grand River from where the front of the
Masonic Temple is now , looking west . The spring rains of 1912 have
churned up the mud so that it is almost impassable .
Things reached a fever pitch in 1915 as the Wolverine Paved Way
was nearing completion. A brick road from Detroit to Lansing would
be finished and the town's main street would finally be paved.
In this photograph autos had started from Lansing and picked up
others in all the small towns on the way to Howell for the big
celebration .
As you can see, they didn't worry about parking . They stopped their
cars in the street and left them . Before Prohibition, Howell was known
as the fun city of Southern Michigan, and there are said to have been
13 bars in the main four blocks of town . All the travelling men made it
a point to stay over in Howell whenever possible .
II was said that you could not fall down on the main street of town
without falling into the doorway of a bar . This probably explains the
empty cars after a long dusty trip . Not ice, too , that about half the cars
are still right hand drive .
The Knights Templar who were in all the Howell parade and were
the keystone of the parades, are marching here in the celebration of
the soon to be finished paved road in Howell.
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Grand River looking East on a Sunday afternoon , 1975.
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The Sunday Ballgame
There was not a lot to do on a Sunday afternoon . So when there was a
game , as there usually was, everyone came . No bleachers , they all
stood or sat on the ground to watch and cheer .
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Howell Sports
There were many good ball teams after the turn of the century and
this is one of the better ones posing in front of the East Ward school
near the athletic field .
Typical football uniform 1918. Notice the shoes, hip pads and
helmet . The helmet , made of soft padded leather could be folded up
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after the game and put in your hip pocket when you went home to
supper.
Howell High school's first football team started in 1896.
Howell Sports
By DUANE ZEMPER
A group of people who spent most of their time clearing
land, breaking ground , and gathering fieldstones had little
time for team sports, if there had been any in the early days
of the territor y recently called Livingston County.
Hunting and fishing were surely enjoyed by those hardy
people but it was also a necessit y to fill the larder for
tomorrow and the winter . Other than this there was not much
we would consider sport until after the Civil War when a
game came from the East called Croquet.
Croquet was a relatively simple game, still played today,
where you hit a round wooden ball with a wooden mallet
through wire arches called wickets , stuck in the ground .
Quite a bit of skill was acquired by some of the old timers in
town though they didn't have the smooth lawns which we
have today .
A few other sports came along which were a natural for
every area . Horse shoe pitching was a natural , as any
blacksmith shop could furnish all the used shoes needed for
free . Archery , too, was relevant because of the memories of
the old timers , of the weapons used by the Indians in hunting
their game .
About 1890 there was a team game which was working its
way west. The game was called baseball-Hurrah! We at last
have started a team sport in our area . Baseball flourished
quickly in Howell, first as community teams playing against
each other and soon after also having teams fielded by high
schools who played each other in regularly scheduled games .
When one of these teams were playing a team in another
town, it was necessary for them to travel to that town by
horse and wagon, or for the farther towns, they traveled by
train . It could be a joyous ride home with singing and cheers ,
or a quiet glum ride after a loss.
Another team sport started here just a few year s later .
About 1893 we find the first recorded uniformed team for
football called the Oceola Giants . They played other teams in
the area with great success .
Howell High School fielded its first football team in 1896.
The coach was a colored man who had played at the
University of Michigan his name was Mitchell.
Howell High had man y good teams and many great players
for the area , but it was 59 years (1955 ) before they finally had
an undefeated and untied football season .
After the turn of the century , baseball was very strong in
Howell. In 1904 the Howell team , backboned by Bert Tooley,
Roy and Ray Newcombe, Morgan, Jewitt and the Young
brothers , won almost everything except two of the four
gam es they played with Flint High School.
Each claiming the state championship, but tied in wins, it
was decided that a final game should be played in Durand , as
a neutral field. A special train was put on the Ann Arbor
Railroad to carry the fans and most of the merchants closed
their stores for the day to attend the game .
Howell lost he game 9-7 and it was a long train ride home.
However, they came back the next year in 1905 and claimed
the state championship , beating all comers who would meet
them .
The years of 1910-11 were also great years for Howell,
although many of their great players were graduated but still
not out of baseball .
Many of the very good players of the 1904 and 1905 teams
continued in baseball after high school. Bert Tooley played
with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1911-12. Ray Newcombe played
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Coach Paul Bennetts first year at Howell, 1926. This is his team
which went to the final game of the State championship.
with the Southern Mich. Prof. League in Bay City, and Roy
Newcombe played with the Copper Country Prof. League in
the upper peninsula.
Hank Perry , also of Howell, played one year with the
Detroit Tigers. Ruy Newcombe was signed by the Tigers to
play the next year but his wife at that time (his first wife)
talked him into leaving baseball. The pictures from that era
are spiced with pictures of Ty Cobb, the Detroit Tiger Hall of
Fame player , who spent a great deal of time hunting and
fishing in the Howell area.
Baskeball got its start about 1908 when a young man who
was a clerk in McPherson's Store gathered a group of young
men together to organize our first team . His name was Gus
Schmidt, later a Howell Florist , who started the " Howell
Melon." His team, with Wm. McPherson III , Emil Bode,
Chas. Vanwinkle and other very athletic young men of the
town had very great success in the new sport which, at this
time, was not much past the " peach basket " game .
The Howell High School basketball team first started about
1912.T hey played their games in the old roller skating rink at
the spot where Mike Hagman 's Gas Station is now, across
from McPherson Bank on Michigan A venue .
The high school team had no gym to play their games in the
old Central School, but when the new school was built in 1921
on Michigan Avenue, the team took over with Ford Beckwith ,
Garland, Bremer , Strobel, Edwards, Hubble, Cotter and
Gregory.
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That first year, 1922-23 the state high school athletic
association figured a way to have a state championship
tourney . Howell was second in the State Class "B" final
game. The team of 1926-27 also were second in the state
championship game . This was the first basketball team
coached by Paul Bennett , in his first year as coach , one of the
finest coaches if not the finest , in Michigan high school
history .
The basketball teams of the early '30's were very good as
were the middle '30's with Dick Reiner, Foley , Dick Ross and
others .
The football team in 1922w as a very good team coached by
Walt Groff. The players were Ford Beckwith , captain ;
Herman Heeg, Cotter, Garland, the Hubble boys, the
Weimaster boys, Cook, Lawson, Brogan , Brady, Pless , and
Newman.
In 1929, a math teacher was hired, whose ambition was to
have a track team in the school. He was destined to be one of
the great coaches of Howell. His name was Loren Willis. He
sta rted that year , and by 1940 his won-lost record in dual
meets was 23 wins and 12 losses . In his year s as Howell track
coach he never had a losing season . After 29 years, he retired
from Howell and moved to California with a 92-38 record . He
coached his team to three regional championships in later
years and was always respectable in the state meet.
Some of his boys that I recall particularly were, Leo
Rancour-fast, great athlete . Bob McMacken-sprinter , shot
putter, great athlete . Doug Stinger-hurdler, varsity record
15 years. George Hasbrouck, state champion ½ mile. Bob
Parks-state champion ¼ mile, now coach E.M .U. Stan Cook
and Gehringer , sprinters (varsity record holders). Dick
McMacken, state champ (2 years ), shot put. Carmen Kypke,
pole vault , varsity record for 20 years. Others were Dan
Chapel, Bede Robertson , Bill Deaner , Bill Hilton and B ..
Weiland, J . Young, and many others .
After the great team in 1933, football was quite average in
Howell until after the war , when superintendent John Page
brought in a coach whose name was John Munn. Munn had
the makings of a good team when Fowlerville took him away
from us. He later became superintendent of schools in the
Fowlerville area .
To take his place , John Page found Harold Fulk who had
played as a lineman for U. of M. in the Rose Bowl. Fulk took
over like a storm and in 1952 we beat Charlotte for the first
time since 1933 and had a winning season . By 1954, they lost
only two gam es and finally in 1955, Howell had their first
undefeated and untied season in history , since 1896.
Some of his players that I recall were-Bob McMacken ,
Doug Stringer , Sonny Brigham , John Mccloskey (all state
Football began to be a big sport around this area before 1900. The
first high school team was formed in 1896.
This is the oldest picture available of a uniformed team. It was an
independent team called the Oceola Giants . Look at the size of that
football!
'55), Jack Schultheis , Geo. Bennett , Orin Kendall , Boyd
Shertzer , Bob Meyers , Bill Barr , Eldon Haller, Marshall
Borden, Oliver Albright , Jim Rogers , John Beckwith, Chas.
Brigham, Geo. Dunn, Bill Hilton, Bill McQuillan, Dick
McMacken, and probably two of his greatest , Jesse Mack
and Ed Bailer . There were many, many more great guys,
including Dick St. Onge, Merle Schrepfer , Bruce and Jim
Campbell, Tom Westphal , Matson-it could go on forever.
After the 1930's, basketball was 50-50u ntil 1948. In that year
the great ungainly Dick Hagni who was 6'4" and considered a
giant in those days , became coordinated . That year was the
last winning season until 1974.H agni broke the school scoring
record with 27 points in one game. The former record , set by
Harry Pierce, was 24 points. Pierce later went on to play with
C.M.U.
In 1964-5 we had pretty good ball teams which were 8-8.
These were the first non-losing teams since 1948. The standbys
on these teams were Tom Hicks, Gar y Kowalski, Dick
McKeon, Steve Zemper , Bill Simmons , Dave McClernon,
Tom Itsell and others. If Jim Simmons , a dead eye, had not
graduated a little earlier , this could have been a championship
team . Finally-a state championship.
About two years after Willis left , we were able to get a very
good track and cross-country coach . Bob Bloomer came out
of E .M.U. to Howell and started a program which in its first
year brought the cross-country state championship to
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Howell. Top runners in the state meet were: Jack Hardy,
Lynn McKee, Rick Zemper, Ralph Musson, Rick Gehringer,
Rick Harris, and Matt Brady. In 1960 they came back with
Zemper, Musson, Gehringer, to win the state meet for the
second year in a row and they didn't have a senior on the
team. However, when they came to their last year-whether
from injuries or cockiness they ended up eighth .
Bloomer followed through in track the next two years
training boys as-Rick Zemper, Huron Relays champ,
C.M.U. relays and River Rouge champ, regional
champion and state champion and state record holder. Pat
Eaton, second in the state hurdles and still varsity record
holder . Rick Dunn, varsity records in 100 yard, 220 yard, 440
yard, and long jump . Other good men were Bob Probstfeld,
Jim Anderson, Gary Kowalski, and Steve Zemper who
earned his varsity letter as a freshman in the hurdles
although he was trained as a distance man but was too young
to run, according to state rules.
In 1968w e had a very good team headed by Bob Anderson
who broke Rick Dunn's varsity records in the 100, 220, and
440.
In 1942, a new football coach was brought in from Fenton.
His name was Don York and he immediately made his
presence felt. Although he was a little man, Don demanded
discipline and respect. The boys took hold and only lost two
Gus Schmidt, later a Howell florist, started the first basketball
team in Howell in 1908. Some of the men with him are William
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games the first season. The second year, 1963, we had the
second undefeted and untied season in our history . I've often
wondered what he could have done with one of our greats-
Chuck Arnold who later went to Kentucky University .
Charlie played for three years on a team that won only one
ballgame a few years before.
Some of Don York's greats were Ron Arnold, later captain
of E.M .U., John Dukes, later Alma College and present coach
at Howell. Chuck Mageski, later Michigan Golden Gloves
heavyweight champ, Bob Hopkins, later star wre~tler at .
E.M.U., Fred (Fearless) Frostie, 5'2" of pure dynamite who,
when he tackled an all-state player from Northville, that
player left the game to recuperate. There were many others.
In recent years there have been more sports added to the
program. Wrestling was started with good men-Hopkins,
Wellman, Hasbrouck, Tulip and others . The basketball team
of '74 and '75 gave us our first winning season since 1948
under coach Jerry Johnson.
Bruce Waha from Redford took over the cross-country
boys and turned out teams that have lost one dual meet in
four years, they won the league meet the last five years and
have won all the county championships. His top runners have
been Dan Zemper, never lost a dual meet in his three varsity
years, two years regional champion, tw_o years class "A" a~lstate
, had fastest high school 3 mile time ever recorded m
McPherson 111, Emil Bode, and Chas. Van Winkle. Notice the clipped
ears and barbed collar on the dog.
The Howell basketball team about 1912, with Gus Schmidt as coach.
This picture taken in the old skating rink where they played their
home games . The losing team had to sit on the floor.
Michigan in 1973. This team had great potential with Dan
Zemaitis , Jeff Marcinkowski , D. J . Couture and others.
In the last two years , womens liberation has taken over,
and the girls have been having varsity teams with competition
in many sports. In the first year of participation,
Howell had a state girls champion when Ellen Dempsey won
the championship in the high jump . We also have girls teams
in tennis, basketball , and softball .
This could go on forever , but I believe we should keep it for
a supplement. There is enough of Howell sports that we could
make it a book in itself. We've come a long way from croquet
and horseshoes .
Recreation
By MILDRED BENNETT
One of the rather regular features were the boxers (boys
12-13y rs. ) whom Lou Pelkey, a former professional boxer,
trained. Gerald Pelkey, Lou's oldest son was one of these
boys to box and he also put on demonstrations of fancy
punching on a punching bag. Preston Pelkey and Ted
Kurderko , also , were among the young boxers . This was back
in the 1920's.
There used to be a roller-rink on the corner where Mike
Hagman 's gas station is now. In this building , dances were
held quite regularly for young and old. People would dri ve in
with horse and buggy- put their horses in the 10 cent horse
barn , which was situated on the lot, which is now a parking
lot- behind Swann's Store--<:!orner of Clinton and Walnut.
Barn dances were also held out at a Fairlawn dance hall ,
out where Diamond Dot is now. Ed Maas ' band played there
regularl y (he's still with us) Mr. Ed Beebe , father of Grace
(Beebe) Franklin , used to call for these dances .
The Finlan band , from Fowler ville, went all over the
county, playing for dances.
Then Supt. Courtier came to Howell Schools. He went to the
Baptist Church . Between him and Rev . Brooks, Presby .
minister , they started a church league in basketball. I
understand August Schmitt worked with Rev . Brooks to start
the basketball church league and also played on this first
team .
It was intersting to note how the boys changed their
religious preferences , according to which church needed a
player .
They played in the old roller-rink and Presbyterian
churches , the ceilings of which were very low, so the boys
had to arch their shots accordingly. One fellow, Wayne
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- In the back is Superintendent W.K. Osgerby, who was also team
manager . Standing in back are Hugh Finley, right field ; Olin Morgan,
first base; and Irving Young, shortstop. In the second row are Leland
Young, substitute player; Bert Tooley, third baseman and pitcher;
Brayton , was so good he threw the ball over or under the
rafters.
Some of the boys who played basketball at this time were:
Harold Strobel, Rod Hubbell, Bob Brenner , Wes Edwards ,
Ford Beckwith , Leo Gregory . This was done back 1915-191.6
Some of the boys who played later in this league were the
Wiltse boys, who had a family team , Anson, Vernon, Max,
Glenn and Willard . Others were Preston Pelkey , Don
Johnson and Dan Fournier.
Lorin Bassett was the organizing force behind both Howell
Basketball Independents and Howell Baseball Independents.
He worked for the Detroit Creamery and they backed his
ventures with trophies and awards . These teams played
inter -county, intercity , wherever the word got around and
someone latched onto it. Some of the great players on the
Howell Basketball Independents were : Wes Edwards , Harry
Cotter , "Soppy" from Fowlerville , and Ford Beckwith .
The hard ball baseball group , managed by Bassett
included the following: Preston Pelkey , Gerald Jones , Casey
Jones , Kenny Bucknell , Chink Cotter , Frank Thompson.
An earlier hardbell team consisted of: Loren Basset ,
catcher ; Dick Griffin, pitcher ; Ford Beckwith and Bill
Cooper. Others?
After finishing the scheduled season 's games , these teams
would play at the fairs , especially good teams brought from
Detroit, etc. At these times , the Howell Independents would
bring in "ringers " good pitchers , etc . from Detroit.
Everybod y, but everybody , just had to see those games at the
fairs !.
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Roy Newcomb, pitcher and captain ; and Charles Jewett, left field.
The front row includes Ernest Brown, third base; Ray Newcomb,
catcher; and Lynn Lewis , center field . In front is Clark Wimbels, the
mascot .
Fast pitch softball was played a lot, too. This type game
carried over into the Bennett era 1926-196a7n d was kept alive
by E . Paul Bennett.
A story is told about Chink Cotter , as pitcher (Bucknell
catching ), that he was cautioned not to throw his fast ball to
"Spade ," a player on the Consumers Power team. Chink still
had to "try it " and Spade hit him out of the park. From then
on Chink threw Spade his curve ball and struck him out every
time . I understand Paul was umpiring that particular game .
Paul Bennett was a very hard worker ; dedicated to his job
and the townspeople knew this, so whenever he needed help
on some project , he seemed always to know the right person
to ask for help. I doubt if he ever was turned down. He always
tried to do ever ything economically , like driving all over the
county to find second hand wire and then make the baseball
backstop at Page Field . I believe in all his years in recreation
he never bought a backstop for Page field .
When Howell High could afford lights on Page Field, Paul
would rearrange some of them so his softball field could be
lighted .
Paul never gave up on anything . After shopping in Lansing ,
one evening , I arrived home about 11 :30 and Paul wasn 't
home, so because I had the car , he'd be walking . I started
after him. When I got near Page Field , here it was , still
lighted and the second pair of teams were still playing off a
tie, 13th inning .
For years , Paul did all the physical work getting diamonds
in shape for game s, brushing water off low spots so to be sure
to get the game played. Every makeup game was also
played . I know because while he was finishing off his leagues
in August, I was holding my breath , waiting to get away on a
short vacation . Then it was usually damp and cold!
Paul , also did most of his own umpiring , had to take one
summer off because he said he couldn't face another
pitcher-he 'd had it!
The land where Citizens' Mutual now is was called the
Briggs ' property , handed down to an Alexander Montague ;
sold to Jack Withey, who in turn , sold it to the city . It almost
was a gift to the city for the recreation of children , but
something happened to keep this from happening .
The Rotarians , primarily , later to be helped by Lions put
playground equipment in place .
Paul retired from school teaching and coaching in 1957 to
become full time Recreation Director . An Open House,
spring of 1957, was held for Paul at our home at 141 Riddle as
a transition from school to city and many people stopped in to
pay their respect to him .
Up until now, Paul had supervised Recreation for Howell
just during the summers , starting to organize the various
softball leagues in May . This, he did for Harold Fulk the
summer of 1957j ust before he became head football coach at
Howell.
The 1922-23 Basketball team who went to the first State
Championship tourney and came out second to Niles for the State
Junior Baseball was started in 1956.
With an ideal, Paul Bennett and the Howell Area
Recreation Commission created one four team league of
approximately 60 boys. They were equipped with colored
T-shirts and caps and played one night a week. This limited
program led to the forming in 1957o f the Howell Area Junior
Baseball Association.
Its objectives were to implant in boys of the Howell area
the ideals of good sportsmanship , honesty , loyalty , courage
and reverence so that they might be finer, stronger and
happier young men . These objectives were to be achieved by
providing superivsed, competitive , baseball games , where
the stress of winning the game was secondary to the instilling
of good principles.
Paul Bennett was the association's first commissioner and
Bill Scofield its President for the first two years .
One of the biggest cooperative civic events ever staged in
Howell, at the time, occurred Sunday , December 1, 1957. On
that day some 25 men with trucks, bulldozer , dragline and
scraper started the new junior baseball field where it now
stands. Under the direction of Ralph Nauss over 300 loads of
fill dirt were deposited on the new diamond , thanks to Wayne
Fosket , L.E . Chapman, Arnold Erb , D & J Gravel Co.,
Harmon Block Co., and the City of Howell. Stanley Kroll
Championship . Some of the men in the picture are Ford Beckwith,
Cotter , Hubble, and Townley .
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I believe this is one of the most remarkable sports action pictures
that I have ever seen. The Howell High School team about 1912, some
with helmets, some without, have the ball near the goal line . The ball
has been snapped to the quarterback and a halfback has run behind
him with his hands on the quarterback's hips . The other halfback and
donated the fill dirt. To run the equipment over 240 gallons of
gasoline were donated by many of the local gasoline dealers.
It was estimated that over $15,000.00 of labor and equipment
were donated on this one Sunday at a cost of coffee and
donuts .
The first game was played on the new field on June 30, 1958.
Two leagues of 150 boys in a major league with boys 13 thru 15
and the minor league with boys 10 thru 12 started the season.
The initial budget of approximately $5,500.00 included
complete uniforms and equipment. After this initial investment
, which was made possible by the service clubs ,
individuals , business and industrial contributions and money
making projects , the budget approximated $2,000.00 per
year.
To recognize the vast amount of time , effort and
inspiration given by Paul Bennett to this program the new
field was dedicated as Paul Bennett Field .
The program continued to grow thru the years . By the
early 1970s the field needed complete rebuilding and new
fields were needed to accommodate more boys. Jess Mack
came forward and through his efforts the field was rebuilt
into a first class ball park. New fields were built and the
program received a needed shot in the arm .
You pick it! Bob McMacken (right) comes to the tape with an
Owosso boy who was one of the best in the State .
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the fullback do the same thing and they're all about to ram that
quarterback right through the line.
You hear stories about things like this, but here you actually see it
happen in one of the very earliest football action pictures.
Today in 1975, 750 boys from seven through seventeen are
playing baseball in seven leagues of forty-eight teams. An
annual budget of approximately $10,000.00 covers the cost.
One day during a Jun . Baseball game at Bennett Field , E .
Paul said to Jesse Mack , "I hate to think what might happen
to all this after I'm gone." Jesse admired Paul and to
himself , said "If I ever get a chance, I'll do something for
Jun. Baseball. " He was to have that chance . After Paul
retired , Jack Vince handled Jun . Baseball the first summer,
then John White and then Bob McCulough.
Then Jesse took over, went into Detroit to inquire about
caring for a baseball field and then put this knowledge to
work here in Howell. Bennett Field became beautiful!
Looked like it had been manicured , blade by blade! He, also ,
organized well, too. He started T-ball for the little boys.
The Jun . Baseball group named the fourteen-year-old boys'
league the Jess Mack League, to honor Jesse and are going to
put a trophy , representing him , in the Rec. Center along with
the Paul Bennett and Pete Brayton trophies.
The oldest boys' league is called the Paul Bennett League .
The story of the Recreation Center can best be told by
reprinting the pamphlet which was made up and given out at
the dedication and opening of it on Dec. 12, 1965. Many
townspeople were ready to help this project take place
several years before, but Paul said , "No , let's get the new
high school first.
Dec. 12, being near Christmas , gave me a reason and
excuse to use Christmas type decorations in the building.
Copying and enlarging the picture of Joseph and Mary ,
kneeling at the side of a creche , holding the Christ child, plus
a lamb or two and some angels and star . I did this in white
silhouette pictures of white cardboard and put this picture on
the right hand half of the large window between the hall and
center room. On the left hand side we stood a lovely
Christmas tree trimmed in blue-green balls and white paper
cardinals . We also put Christmas trimmings on the window
sills in most of the other rooms.
I believe about 250 persons came to view the new building.
Because the townspeople had given so liberally of
themselves to the Rec Center, and though his budget was
very small , he tried not ever to charge for the use of the
center if it was for a civic or educational purpose .
A memorial committee got together at the time of Paul 's
death in '69, headed by Jim Campbell, Bill Scofield, Jack
Paul Bennett's last team as a football coach 1933. It was our last
championship team for many years . This last game they beat
Charlotte 60-0.
Dick Hagni goes up for a jump ball in the "shoe box" gym of the old
school in 1947.
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Vince, Bert Hensick and Fred Jappinga, thought that the
first thing which should be done was to rename the Rec
Center to Paul Bennett Howell Area recreation Center.
This was done at a Re-dedication ceremony on a
designated Paul Bennett Day, May 24, 1970. On April 20, the
City Council had a Resolution Plaque drawn up, stating that
the re-naming should take place and Dick Slayton, mayor ,
presented the plaque to Paul R. and me .
The Young at Heart Club (Senior Citizens) which I, with
help of Betty Cook, started back in '57, is explained under the
title of organizations .
Bill Scofield made a very nice speech as he presented a
plaque in copper, with Paul's picture and a bit of Paul's
philosophy on it. It was to be hung in the Center . Our son,
Paul R. accepted , for us, and did so beautifully , on such short
notice. (I wasn 't as yet , too sure of myself) . We also received
a photographed copy of the copper plaque . Paul 's philosophy
read as follows:
He believed that individual character is developed through
athletics and recreation ; that the success of any sports
progr am is dependent upon dedicated leadership and that
adult participation in recreation benefits the individual and
entir e community .
I can 't remember too much about the first few directors of
recreation before Paul 's ten-year span , but since then , there
has been Mr. John White, Gordon Sweet, a former Howell
Charlie Gehringer of Fowlerville who played second base for the
Detroit Tigers and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame .
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man who should have done well, but didn't and now, since
April of '73, we have Kenneth Richardson , who is doing a
reall y good job . His manner with young folks is fine, he keeps
both center and grounds up well. Now, if I can just get him to
put on Jun . Hi dances , I'll give him a very good grade.
Recraetion goes on!
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Bert Tooley, Brooklyn Dodgers . 1911-12 and Roy and Ray Newcomb,
pro players from Howell .
The Pros
By NORM PETTIBONE
The 1904 Howell High School baseball team coasted to 10
victories in 11 regular season games and then issued a
challenge through a Detroit paper to any high school team in
the state that wanted to compete for the championship of
Michigan . Port Huron was the only school which responded
and Howell defeated them by the score of 14·1, thus, the
Highlanders became undisputed state champions .
Three players of the 1904 team pursued baseball
professionally , Bert Tooley of the Brooklyn Dodgers , Roy
Newcomb of the Copper Country League and Ray Newcomb
of the Southern Michigan League .
Tooley toiled at shortstop for the Dodgers in 1911 and 1912.
The only other Howellite who ever made it to the major
leagues was Hank Perry who roamed the outfield for the
Detroit Tigers in 1912, ironically , Perry never played high
school baseball .
Of the three players who turned professional , Bert Tooley
is the only one still living. Now in his 90th year .
Three of Tooley's Dodger teammates later became
member s of the Hall of Fame . They were " Hap" Rucker ,
" Zuck" Wheat, and " Casey" Stengel.
Tooley, Newcomb, and Newcomb brought fame to Howell
and will always be remembered .
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Members of the National Guard are grouped together in the
basement of the old Armory on E . Grand River near the theater .
Taken in 1947.
The Howell Armory
By HOWARD N. NICHOLS
Through the efforts of many local citizen and veteran
organizations , the City of Howell and Livingston County were
fortunate to secure a National Guard Unit. The Unit was
activated 9 December 1946 as Cannon Company , 125th
Infantry Regiment , with a strength of three officers and
twenty one enlisted men . The Company Commander was
Captain Glen Bound. St. Joseph's Parish Hall at 311 East
Grand River was rented for use as an armory .
Due to business reasons , Captain Bound left Howell and
command of the Company was assumed by Captain Glenn
Slucter on 15 February 1947. A reorganization of The Active
Army and Reserve Components on 1 November 1948r esulted
in the local Unit being converted to Heavy Mortar Company,
125th Infantry Regiment. On 2 December 1950, Captain
Howard W. Nichols took command of the Company.
Another reorganization of the Army resulted in the Unit
being re-designated as Company B, 107th Signal Battalion on
15 March 1959.
Due to the inadequate facilities of the rented armory , a
drive was started to secure land for a new armory . Through
popular contributions , a six-acre tract was secured on Isbell
Street near the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad tracks at a
cost of $3,000.00.
The cost of ational Guard Armories is shared by Federal ,
State and local governments . To coordinate securing the
necessary funds from all government agencies , a citizen 's
committee was formed in 1956 with Mr . Edward Fritch as
Chairman. Final contributions were $245,000.00 from Federal
sources, $107,000.00 from State funds , $68,000.00 from
Livingston County, and $10,000.00 from the City of Howell for
a total cost of $430,000.00 including furnishings .
Ground was broken in April, 1962, and the local Unit moved
into the building on 16 December 1962. Formal dedication
ceremonies took place on 12 January 1963 and a public open
house on 13 January 1963.
437
•
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Is Where ·
we -live
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Howell as it looked from the air in 1949. Brae View street is being
started as the S.W. subdivision. The four new grade schools, new
hospital and shopping center were yet far in the future .
These are the beards in the Beard Contest . A part of the Howell
Centennial Celebration in 1963.
Grand River looking West, 1975.
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Howell , Michigan 48843.
Typesetting : Dolores Kellogg, Jeannette White, Debbie Wilson.
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ABEL, Mr.
ABEND,J udy
ABRAMSD, r. E.T.
Floyd H.
ACKERMANFr,a nk
ACKLEYC, lark
ADAMSA, mos
Abigail
Charles P.
Frances
Harry
James
Minnie
Pauline
Sarah E.
William D.
AIRHEARTB, obbie Jo
Cory
Frances
Gail
Ginger
James
J. L.
Joan
John
Joseph
Robert
AKIN, Edward H.
Robert J.
ALANANE, llen
ALBERS, Rev. Jeseph H.
ALBERT,J ake
Mr.
ALBRECHTR, ichard
ALBRIGHTO, liver
ALCHIN, Virginia
ALDRICH,H ugh
ALEXANDERD,r . John
ALGER, John
Margaret
Russell A.
ALLBRIGHTH, arold
Ila
Janet
Oliver
ALLEN,
Sarah
Daisy
Dr. David
Eva
George B.
Janet
Mrs. Jesse
INDEXo f NAMES
Howell Bicentennial History
149
282
275
245
348
324
36,136,148,153
269,3ll,312,373
136,148,153
57,216,399
230,322
98
376
248
220
57
141
220,234
101
101
101
101
101
101
2,101
101
101
101
101
322
to 325
145
202,274
176
277
302
429
53
140
333
387
283
314
75,76
75,76
76,143
76
76
104
296
146,152
199
263
324
1
ALLEN, Mrs. J.C.
Mrs. Kenneth
Leon E.
Nanette
Sarah
ALLISON, Clara S.
Freeman w.
ALLMONDPe, rcy
ALSTO'IT,M rs. Pat
Mrs. Webster
ALTHAUSR, ev. J.W.
ALTHOFFR, ev. C.G.
AMBR02YM, argeret E.
AMBURGEJYe,n nie
ANDERSONA,l ene
Anna
Mrs. Clayton
David H.
Earl
Jim
Marie
Mrs. Ralph
Thomas
W. B.
ANDREANOPOULROeSv., Tim
ANDREWS,
Ann
Henry and Mrs. Henry
Mrs. William
ANDRUSE, lizabeth
ANGELfa mily
ANTCLIFF, Lulu
ARCHERF, rank
William o.
ARMITAGEM, arilyn
ARMOURM, rs. Robert
ARMSTRONEGv, elyn
Mrs. Harold
Mrs. Homer
Mrs. S. M.
ARNOLDC, harles
Hollis
Ron
Wilbur ARTHUBeRa ,
ASHLEY,H enry "Harry" w.
James Jr.
James Sr.
ATKINS, Luella
ATWELLV, ictor
Aumsr, Joseph
AUSTIN,
family
324
273
245
325,326
50,ll4,149
52
316
321,325
273
273
302
302
51
278
278
234
270
225,229
260
430
282
281
325,326
331
303
58
268
275
391
84
193
76
348
153
270
266
326
326
270
271
118,430
230
430
52,113
142
382,384
382,383
382
281
288
48
300
374
AUSTIN, Cassius
Mrs. C. D.
David
Emily M.
Jonathan
Sally T.
William M.
AVERY, Dr.
Earnest
E.L.
Henry M.
AVIS, John
AXTELL, George w.
348
271
B,36
154
148,153
36
288
97
193
216,399
200
245
390
BAAD, Dr. James 331
BABCOCKS, .S. 153
BABER, Mr. 295
BADURAC,h arles 121,296,399
BAILER, Ed 429
BAILEY, Dr. 204
Florence 326
Frank 349
Fred 172
Grace 148
Isreal 200
James A. 171,172
Pauline 332,334
BAIN, Thomas 289
BAIRD, Dr. 249
Dr. R.H. 271
Walter 96
BAKER,R ev. Thomas 37,153,300
BAKKEM, rs. 322
BALCH,A ddison 299
BALDWIN, E. N. 229
Mary Jo 281
P. 399
Paul Jr. 230,264,329,330
BAIL, William 87,316
BAU.ARD, Bobby 118
family 118,122
Laverna 118
Melvin 118
BALLOUR, ichard 296
Mrs. Richard 273
BAMBERM, rs. Marcia 399,401
William 316,320
BAMBRIOOER, alph 320
BANKS, Marge 400
BARNARDAd, elaide 89
Eliza Ann 298
Ely, 311,318,374,379,394
BARNES, Albert 390
George 148,184,316,390
Mrs. George
H.H.
L.
391,394,399
271
324,325
153
2
BARNES,T .B.
BARNEYJ, .
BARNUM, P.T.
BARON,T homas E.
BARR, William
BARRETTE', arl
BARRONM, rs. Frances
Mary
R.E.
Richard
Susie
BARTCHEH, arry
BARTEL, Edwin
Linda
Marjorie
BARTOND, avid
Inez
Michael
Dr. Thomas
Thomas Jr.
BARTSHEH, arry
BASFORI DM r.
BASKIN, Carole
BASSETT',B ernadette
225
199
177
195
429
288
323,324
195,295
295,352,395
106,195
117
292
82
85
82
334
334
334
271,280,327,333,334
334
388
93
89
149
Lorin
BATCHELERB, enjamin T.
family
Sarah
BATOR,A rthur
432
141,316
320
141
276
Velma 276
BAUER, Helen
BEACH,A mbrose
Ed
Eliza
Homer N.
Mrs. H. W.
Lyman
Ora
Mabel
William E.
BEALS, Marvin R.
BEATI'IE, Anney
Archibald
Blanche
Ina
James
Sarah
William
BEATl'Y, John
BECK, Oscar
BECKWITHD, . M.
Ford
Mrs. Ford
John
BEDEN,S eth
BEEBE, Ed
Grace
Mrs. Terrence
262,286
32
322
94
61,348
271
316
349
269
113,269
288
100
50
48
282
50
50,114,149,273
348
296
324,325,326
276
395,428,432
276
429
153
431
431
265
BEEMAND, avid
John
Junior
Mary E.
Thomas
BEHRENS,R ichard
BELFRY, Hester
Jacob Sr.
BELL, Dr.
Rachel
Robert
BELLEAUW, ilfred L.
BELLINGER,C arol
Suzanne
S. Wright
BELZ, William
BENEDICT,A lden S.
Julia
BENJAMINM, aude
Nelsons.
Robert E.
BENNE'IT, Mrs. Eliza
Mrs. Estelle
George
Justus J.
Michael
Mildred
Molly
Morris
Paul
Paul R.
Ruth
Wells
William
BENSON,c aroline
Ralph
BERGIN, Bernice
Charles
Claude
Dorothy
George
Helen
Irene
Joan
BERGRENW, endell
BERHNESD, eitrick
Leonard
Richard
BERNARDH, orace
BERQUISTE, arl J.
BERRIER,L loyd
BERRY,F red
Glenn
Mrs. Nellie
260
260,332
332
260
260
316
50
50
123
263
216
47
47
47
47
302
183
173
1'10
200
229
44
399
429
311
201
142,277,431
278
80
142,143,149,151
215,266,276,288
428,432,433,4 ] 4
436
326
34
187,199
122,276
302
48
48
48
48
152
140
48
207
204
201
201
201
142
288
391
200
318,325
195
3
BERTRAMR, ev. o.A.
BESSERT, George
BEURMANNB, ert
Brmmie
Charles E.
Cline
Mrs. Cline
Duane
Edward Miller
Elizabeth
family
Fidelia
Glen
H.E.
Kern
Kinzie
K. Miller
Mrs. K. Miller
Lloyd
Martha
Mary
Max Miller
Miller L.
Opal
Ronald
Stella
William Henry
BEZAN,W illiam
BIBBINS, Rev.
BIEHN, Maurice J.
BIGALKEM, iss
BIGELOWE,l sie Mae
Emerson N.
Joy
Mary c.
William
BIGNALLS, olomon L.
BIGNELLA, nn
Frank
BILLINGTONJ,o di
BINELL, Ann H.
BINGHAMK, ingsley S.
BINKHORSTD,o nna
BIRD, Maynard
BISHOP, L.S.
Vance
BITNER, Violet
BLACK,G erald
BLACKBURNJu,l ia c.
Lant
BLACKMAHNu, dson B.
302
302
197
227
227,394
227,276
276
248
227
227
318
227
227
316
227
227
227,229
326
292
227
227
227
227
326
227
227
227
33
297
288
149
61
61
142
61
60,61,142
316
229,393
229,393
263
229
311,312,316
152
316
400
283
388
195
BLACKNEYC,o ngressman William
BLANCHARDDo, rothy J.
82
187
273
268,278
58
288
288
Wayne A.
BLEASDELLF,l oyd I.
Kenneth E.
BLEVINS, Thomas Sr.
BLINKILDEP, aul
BLOMQUISTC,i ndy
Gerald
Sandra
BLOODR, ussell
BLOOMERR,o bert
BLOSS, Basil
Christopher A.
BOARIMANM, r.
BODE, Edward
Ed Nicolaus H.
Emil E.
Elizabeth L.
BOEVE, Horner E.
BOHN, William
BOHNSACKR,e v. Benjamin
BOLEK, Mrs. Tony
BOND, Lois
BONESTEELEJ,e ssie
BONNYC, harles
BONSTELLEJ,e ssie
BCX)S,R osemarie
BOCYI'HYC,a rrie H.
Henry
BOTSFORDB, lanche
Elnathan
James
John Jr. and Sr.
Mae
BOUNDC, aptain Glen
BOURNSD, oris
BOUTELLB, ertha
Daniel
Maurice G.
BOUVIER,E dward
BOVENM, aynard
BOWENC, harles w.
Teresa
BOWERS,J ames
BOWHALLR,o se
BOWLESC, hester
BOWMANE, .A.
BRADLEY,
Fanny
John
BRADMAGNo,r don
Mildred
BRADY,
Blanche
Edward M.
Edmund
Edward M.
Haidee
Helen
267,378
226
79
79
79
320
429,430
84
84
176
52
53
52,95,428
52
288
249
301
273
328
183
292
183,184
262
60
187
140
34
320
320
140
437
150
79
195
288
302
387
153
225
390
281
286
233,234
260
87
317
327
326
428
55,144
195
55,144
195
195
144
4
BRADYJ, oseph
Katherine
Matthew
BRANIYIE',l len
William
BRANWEI.JR.,e,v . Henry
BRAT!', Sarah Bull
BRAVENERM, ajor I.
BRAYTONI,r a
Kenneth c.
Mrs.
Peter
Parl~
Rita
Wayne
BRECKERM, ary E.
BREMER,
144,154,195
229,230,278,324
144
55,144,430
281
302
296
34
274
202
288
56
434
128
281
431,432
51
408
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph
BRENNERR, obert
301
301
432
BRETZ, Angeline
BREWER, Almon
Darcus
Eben
Mary
Orlando s.
Peter
BRIAN, Mrs. Claude
BRIOOEMANTh, eodore
BRIGGS, H.C.
Herman G.
Joseph
BRIGHAMC, harlt=3 "CUke"
Clare
George
Dr. Janette
"Sonny"
Mrs. William
BRIMLEYW, illiam E.
BRININSTOOLEM, rs. Sarah
. BRINKS, Donald
BRITI'EN, Alfred Moore
(Britton)Henrt V.
John B.
John I.
Lydia C.
Mary
Martinus S.
Nicholas s.
Richard
Thomas Crandall
Williams.
Zachariah
BRISTOL, Huram
Levi
326
55
298
55
55
55
55,298
326
153
260,296,348
82
301
325,326,429
55
55,144
123,271
429
30
245
33
325
33
33
33,190,197
33
33
33
33
33
33
33
33
33
37
180
BROCKWABYe,r t Hines
Carrie H.
Charles Fred.
Edna
Elisha
Estette
Eva
Florence
Ford
Fred w.
Ruth
BRODRICKJ,o hn
BROGAN,
family
Tyler
BROOKS,E dward
Joseph
Lucinda s.
Lulu
Nancy
Rev.
Susan A.
William
BROPHYJ, ames and John
BRCYI"ZIr,e ne
BROWNA, .
Alice
Arlie
Betty
Brian
Ernaline
Ermna
Eva
Harry
Henry
Hugh
Ila
J.
Joseph B.
Mrs. J.S.
Louis
Lucille
Lulu
Margaret
Mary
Melvin
Olive
R.H.
Thomas G.
William
Winifred
BROWNED, r.
Dr. A.E,E,
BROWN!~, Browning
Carolyn
Edward
60
60
60
60
311,312
60
90
60
60
288
60,140
30
428
318
292
B,36
34
141
114
34,35,190,193
399,431
91
146
197
195
283
75,76
86
282
86
98
75
86
86
76
81
75,76
320
75,76 200,201
275,276
152
119,269
76
76
249
76
76
348
75,76
75
399
249
331
2£19
53
53 320
5
BROWNING,Edna
Elain2
Elizabeth
family
53
53
Fred E. and Fred Henry
Georgia
320
53
320
H.F. 348
Mrs. H.T.
Jeremiah the second
John and Joseph
McPherson
39
53
53
154
53
52
299
Peter Y.
Virginia
Mrs. Wealthy A.
BRroLER, Bob and Barb
BUCHEIT, Frank
BUCK, Elizabeth L. H.
Dr.
BUCKLEYR, ichard E.
BUCKMAN,A .L.
BUCKNELl.,, Mrs. Burla
Clara
Fred
Kenneth
Mrs. Kenneth
BUECHNERR, obert
BUEK, Matilda
BUELL, Mrs. Georye
Mrs. Leah
Mrs. Thelma
BmARD, Jesse
BULLEN, Ray
BULLOCKE, dith
family
BURCH,M rs. Dale
BURDENE, nos
Mrs. Guy
Marshall
BURDICK, Mary
Mr.
Mrs.
J. Rogers "Dick"
BURGESS,G .S.
BURKHARTA,r ene Ivah
Carile
Charles
Claude A.
Mrs. Claude
Claudine
Mrs. Florence
Frank A.
Henry
Lelah
Marcus
Mrs.
302
176
52
318
288
277
273
48
48
395,432
272
325,326
57
273
273
274
98
394
148
193
281
199
272
429
98
117
235
138,142,148
149,151,183
348
83,84
83,84
83
83,84,269
273
84
271,287
83,84
83
117
88
269
BURNHAMM,u riel
Noel
BURRIIJ.,, William
BURROUGHDS,o nna
Eugenes
BURT, Ella
Elijah F.
Frank
Fred
Mollie
BURTCH,M abel
BURTONG, eorgia
Major
Marion L.
BUSH, Charles P.
Eugene
Frank D.
H. D.
H.R.
Isaac W.
BUSHMANB, ernice
BUSHNELLE, dward
BUSHREYM, rs . Don
BUTLER, Guy
BUTI'ERFIELDA,b el F.
BUITON, Jack c.
BYERLIENC, ornelia
CALKINS,H arry
CALLAHANM,r s. Frank
CALVERTT, homas E.
CAMBURNP,h yllis J.
CAMERONJa, mes
Mrs.
Mrs. Milton
Tressie
CAMPBELBLe, ntley
Bruce
Elizabeth
James E.
Lois
Sally
CAMPEAUM, rs.
CANFIELDM, iss
William H.
CANNAERTD,e nis
CANSFIELDW, illiam H.
CARBERT,C ollette c.
CARLIN, Sara
Will
CARLSONS, herman
CARLTONE, lbert N. Jr.
CARMACKW, alter R.
CARPENTERE,l i
"Ma"
CARR,M rs. E.J.
281
292
51
278
278
142 271,399
153,200
174
325
271
282
53
184
236
154,182,374
316
267,292
283
399
348,394
50
199
273
286
296
288
219
275
270
387
281
198
56
263
45
180
429
80
331,429,434
326
268
183
150
391
331
394
51
48
142
249
278
288
3~
204
273
6
CARSE, Mrs. Fred A.
CARTER,M rs. Don
Nancy
CARTWRIGHTN,o rlan
CASE, Donna
family
Jennie
Luella
Maryette
Mr.
Nettie
Samuel
CATER,A lfred
CATRELL,F red
George
Lucy
Valeita
CAVANE, lla
CAVE, Harriet
CAVERLYM, rs.
Roy
Mrs. William
CHADDOCKM,r s. Sarah
CHAMBERLAIWN,i lton
CHANDLERC, arol
CHANTERM, rs. Mary L.
CHAPEL, Benjamin
Don
277
274
81
325
103
318
103
103
103,104
244
103
103
33
191,229,230,304
275,276
230
281
283
89
235
235,391
273
329
267,268
302
281
34
429
Eunice 30,33,34,190,192
George and Lucy 399
CHAPLIN, Joan 281
CHAPMANH,e len 326
L.E. 266,433
Myrtle 277
CHARLESM, ariah L. 153
CHELSKYD, r. 327
CHENEYM, arily 328
Ronald G. 288
CHENOWETJHa,c kie and Robert 267
CHILDERS, Lulu Vere 154
Nancy 148
CHRISTOPHERSONBe, tty 152
CHUBBE, va
Harold
Mary M.
Miles
CLARK, Allen V.
Arza
Berenence
Brian
Briggs
B.T.O.
Burr Jr.
carol
Charles
William A. 151
282
291
78
199
274,283
78
78
78
77
316
78
78
35
CLARK,C hester
Donald
Dorothe
Ethel
Esther N.
Frances
Gertrude
Gilbert
George L.
Hattie
Hazel
Henry
Janet
Lawrence
Lewis Cass
Lydia
Lyman
Mansell
Miss
Peter
Rebecca
Mrs. Sidney
Thomas
Wallace
Walter A.
Walter Burr
William A.
CLARKED,r . Niles
CLARSONF, r. George
CLAY, Rev. Warren w.
CLEMENTR, ev. Arthur
CLIFr, Ray
CLINTON, Edgar S.
COBB, Charles
Chloe
Ty
COCKRANE,
CODDINGTONH,a rold
Mrs. Harold
Mrs. Olive
COFFREN,E lijah
COLBERTM, rs. James
COLE, Albert W.
Hilda
Vern
COLEMANG, eorge
Mell
COLES, Maurice
COLLACCYIET.,A llen
COLLINS, H.H.
w.c.
COMFORTE, mily
CONELYI,r ene and Rose
CONINE, Bert
Milton
191,268,356
78
78
77
268,270
78
77
77
348
117
77
394
78
77
77
77
77
77
299
348
151,281
281,393
260,374,395
77
77
77,319
296
323,324,328
294
292,304
302
391
288
302,331
33
428
45
267
273
273
37,153,180
294
324
400
292
200
276
149,150,272
288
260
229
78
61
320
319,320 '
7
CONKLINJ, ames and Patrick 201
Mary
CONRADG, eorge
COOKE,
(Cook) Al
Anna
Betty
David
51
201
428
349
30
277,436
30
Eunice 30,33,34,190, .1.92
Mrs. Florence 286
Gilbert R. 278
Gladys 399
Hannah 30
Helena 262
Herb H. 387
Jesse 320
John 30
Jonathan
Mrs. J.B.
Mrs. Lloyd
Lucy
Lyman V.D.
Methabell
Mehitabell
Mary
Nancy
Nathan
Sarah
Stan
Wanda
William
COOLEYE, lizabeth
Elnathan
Helen
Jesse B.
30,31,33,34,35
190,191,192
301
277
230
260
35
30,33,190,197
30,34,190,192
270
30,33,190,193
30
429
151
30,58
281
197,198
94
COOPER,E lizabeth and Patricia
245
281
301
432
320
201
Mrs. Mina
William
CORNELLE, velyn
Henry A.
J.Henry
Pauline
Thurber
CORR,B yran
CORSONE, dgar
Jay
COSARTR, ev. John
COSEI.MANSa, rah M.
COTI'ER,
Chink
Dorothy
Harry
Virginia
COUP, John F. and Martha
William C.
325,326
140
320,351
201
260
216
298
91
428
432
262
432
262
171
171,172
COURT(i)ER, Claude
Mr.
l!ltJ,149,154,236
Superintendent
COURTURED,. J.
117,150
431
431
COUSELLJ, ohn
COWANJ,u dy
COWDRYP,e ter
274
313
COYLE,M ae
CRAFT, Anna and Mrs. Vera
CRAIG, Robert F.
282
273
324
CRAIN, Jerry L.
CRAMER,D .
CRANDAIL, Ada
CRANE,
Blanche
Tracy
Mrs. Tracy
Elijah
Flavius J.B.
Jerry
Sherburn
CRANSTONM, artin E.
CRAWFORBDe,n jamin
Joseph
CRIPPEN, Gladys
CRITTENDEN,
Alice
Alva
Alvin L.
Mrs. A.L.
A. Riley
Fred B.
Joel
Marietta
CROCKET!C', lifford
268
153
274
117
123
275
298
B,36,148,153
311,312 373,394
267
37
288
98
31
195
153
140,146
35,36,148,191
297
45
150,229,232,234
250,391,395,401
183
394
156
Mrs. Clifford
Katherine
CRONEWETFIr',e d
96
280
96
1·45
48
220,296
296
CROSBYE, leanor and Hale
Miss
pastor
CROWEF, r. John G.
John H. Jr.
CROWENWETIF',r ed
CROWFOOJIo'h, n A.
CROWNHARMTa,x L.
CULVERC, harles
Christopher L.
Hugh
John
William J.
CUNNINGHADMr.,
Thomas G.
263,294
324
260
288
288
204,288
311
204
349
260
316
229
8
CURDYM, ary Alta
Mrs. Frances
CURTIS, Benjamin C.
Caleb
Mrs. Charles
Daniel
Eunice
48
299
33
30,33,35,190,193
393
33
Harriet
John
Joyce E.
and Henry
31,34
33
37
288
102
33,37
Justine
Mary
Philo and Sophronia 33
Varah 50
DAMONC, harles B. and Ebenezer
DANIELS, Francis
199
263
Irene 320
John
Margaret and Orlando
DANKERSM, rs. Howard
DAOOHERTFYr,. James
260
320
273
294
Jim 334
DAVENPORTB,e lmont D.
DAVIES, Elizabeth and John
DAVIS, Albird M.
288
80
316
Allyson
Mrs. D.D.and Joan
Margaret E.
269
281
215
Polly S.
Richard
Robert
Sardis
Wilbur
DAVISON,E ric
DAWLEYV, ine C.
DAY, A.L.
Fr. John R.
Roy R.
DAYFOOIR',e v.
Rosina L.
DAYTONV, irginia
DEAN, Charles D.
Ethel
Fred and Trumen
DEANERW, illiam
DEARBORNAs, a
Mary Ann
Nancy
DEATONH, elen
DEERINGD, on
DeFEYTERG, eneva
DeFORESTG, rant
DELANEYO, llie
191
269
143
37,148,153,191
143,151
275
33
283
195,263,292,294
200
77
153
195
288
233
394
429
34,35
35,192
34,35,190,193
82
323,324
150
325
80
DEMONDD, onald A.R. 288
DEMPSEYE, llen 431
M.J. 260
DENNIS, Ruby 4
DEPEW, "Gunner" 2'15
DEPPEN, John 260
DERATANYE,d ward 304
DERBY, Robert 288
DETI'ERBECKD, r. Frank 334
DElJI'CH,W illiam 143
DEVELL,D oug and Gladys 282
DEVEREAUXA,n na and A.Genevieve 51
boys 195
Catherine and Collette 51
Claude 49
Cornelius J.
Ella
Frank
Gertrude
51,245
48
51
49
Henry C.and John
James o. and James
51
P 51
48,140
49,51,152
48,49,51
Patrick 51
Lena B.
Margaret
Mary
Michael and
Philip and
Robert
Rosemary
Stephen
Thomas
Veronica
Wilford
Patricia 51
DeVRIES,
DEYO, Jo
Mrs. William
Robert A.
Samuel
51
49
48,49
48,49,51
49,195
49
264
328 329
58
DIBBLE, Abigail and Asabel
Mrs. Harold
58,229
298
273
Vern 151
DICKERSOND, avid
James w.
Judith
Naomi
DICKINS, Mark and Robert
DICKSON, "Bill"
Stanley
DIETRICK, Rev. and Mrs.
DIGGS, Wm. Franklin
DILDINE, Wesley B.
DILLINGHAMA, nna
FRederick H.
DIU.ON, John R.
DILLOWAYJ., W.
DINKEL, Stanley
DISBRO, Charles
DISSE, Mrs. Henry
34
200
281
34,52
91
245
176,230
Charles 303
288
288
80
288
288
302
324
288
326
9
DIXON, John
DOOOEM, rs. Dorothy
DOENGESH, ula
DOHERRR, obert C.
DONAHUE,J,o hn M.
Mrs.
DONALDR, ev. Clyde
DONENP, atricia
DONNELLYG,i les
Mr.
DOOLEYC, ollette F.
DOOLITI'LEW, alter L.
DORBRANDFTr,a nk
DORN,J ohn J.
DORRT,L ewis
DORSEYM, rs. Delores
DOUGHERTFYr,. J.G.
DOWLINGM, att
DOWNSP, at
DOYLEM, iss
DRAKEJ, ohn
DRAYTONJo, yce
DREWA, rthur
Ina
Townsend
Z.M.
DREWRYA, lbert
153
299
282
288
288
177
269
176
187
117
51
387
388
187
201
and Mrs. Frank 273
195
183
103
146
311
278
394
54
198
54
Gertrude and Mary A.
91
91
DRYER,P eter
DUCHANEE,r win
DUDLEYG, eorge P.
DUFFY, Dr. Ray
DUGGANT,e d
DUKES,F ay
John
DUNCAND, ale and Ruth
Joyce
DUNHAMM, rs. Lawrence
DUNLAPc, arolyn
DUNN,E ffie
George
James
Joseph
Judy
Mary
Nancy
Rick
William
DUNSMORIEs,a belle
DUNSTANC, harles E.
DURFEE, A.S.
Ben
Frank
Justin
Van Renselaer
DUSENBURYH,e nry
226
334
216
271
275
263
430
267
278
282
53
118
123,429
123
320
326
146
295
430
195
282
201
394
320
286
148,153
94
32
DUTCHERC, laude
Guy and Geraldine
Roy and William
DUTI'OND, orothy and Helen
DYCE, Hellen
EAGER,A da L.
Aileen and Alice
Arthur R.
Barbara and Brennen
Berneta and Carol
Charles
Debora
Dorothy
Emily Comfort
Emily Fidelia
Ford c.
Francis
Grace
Howard and Harriet
Jacob Paul
Jacob Moore
Jacob w.
Mrs. Jal<:e
James
James Lewis
Jeffery and
Julie
Kathleen
Loa
Lorna
Lyman E.
Juanita
Mable and Marlene
Maria
Mary
Michael
Naomi
Nellie
Orla
Pamala
Pauline and Perry
Rebecca
Robert
Robin
Roscoe and Russel
Samuel ans SUsan
SUzette
Thomas
William
91
91
91
250
47
48
79
47
79
47,48
47,226
47,226,278
47
79
47,226
47,48,78
47
47
47
47,48,78
202,320
401
117,78,226
79
48
47,226
79
47
48
79
47
79
47,48,226
47
48
146
47
47
79
47,226
79,320
47
79
78
48
47
EARL,
47,48,78
Clarence and Elizabeth 80
John and Lydia and Margaret
Oliver
80
80
Rosemary
W.D.
William
Mrs. Zoe
150
331
80
273,299
10
EARLE, Marian
EASTIN, Harry and Phyllis
EASTMANB, arbara
Juanita
Marion
EASTONB, ert
EATON,C arol
L.E.
Louis
Dr. Louis c.
Patrick
EBERT, Deloras
EDDIE, E.S.
EDDY, Lawrence o.
Mrs.
EOOARJ, ames
EDWARDS,
Wes
EKEL, Carl
ELKINS, Richard
ELLICYITF, rank Jr.
George
Mrs. Harry
James P.
Dr. Robert
ELLIS, Franl<:lin
John
Joseph H.
ELLSWORTHC,. C.
Elmer
Roy
ENGELHARIYRIu'.s sell
EPLEY, Don
ERB, Arnold
ERWIN, Dr.
W.H.
EULER, Mrs. Ella
Fred
John
Lawrence
Mary Isabelle
Ralph S.
EUPER, Hulda
EVANSR, eginald
FAIRCHILD,A lbert N.
Ezra N.
FAKE, Mr. & Mrs. Harry
FALK, Charles
family
FARABEED, avid
FARMERE, dward
Kathleen
FARNSWORTWHil,l iam w.s.
FARRANDR, ev. Michael
271
263,264
149
244
96
292
264
399
325
400
430
225
82
288
299
316
428
432
297
148
288
151
270
43
333
316
51
311,316
374
394
199
223,324,399
325
266,433
86,116
324
52,394
52
52,198
198
52
154
326
260
200
199
277
318
318
264
316
195
299
399
304
FARRAR,A ndrea and Clayton 47
Mark and William 47
FARRIS, Edward and Lawrence 48
Pamala and Sandra 48
FASSETT, Rev. Noah 298
FAUCHERF, rances 282
FAULDENOUMR,r s. Robert 195
FAULKENBUREYl,m a G. 59
Michael Boyden 60
FAUNCE,M rs. Clarence 274
FAUSSE'T, Betsey G. and Elizabeth 81
Edward and Goldie 82
FAWCETT,
George
Henrietta
Henry
James
Mary
Nancy
Sally
Thomas
Walker
William
Bruce
81,82
82,96
81,198
81,82,198
Bl
81,82 197
82
81,82,198,287
82,96
81
Edwin and Elizabeth
Evelyn
81,85,198
80
Bl
Fanny and George 80
Henry
Robert
Rose
Shirley and William
FAY, E.A.
Lyman
FEDEWAF, r. Hennan
FELLOWS, Doris
FENTONM, rs. C.C.
Ferne
FERGESONL, ydia
FERGUSONH, azel
FETTERLYE, unice
FETTIG, Shirley
FIDLER, Dr. Fred
Dr. William s.
FIELD, Ann
Arthur
Frances
Orrin J.
FIELDS, Ann and Joseph
Mrs. Donald
J.
FILKINS, Mrs. Edith
Herbert and Mabel
FIUMORE, Abigail and Millard
FINC!I-1D, r. Edward
FINLEY, Sarah A.
FISHBECKA, lma
80,81,85
80
85
Bl
237
395
294
270
326
326
80
78
146
43
333
331
146
260
36
37
137
281
103
277
99
77
333
4.2
141
brothers 45
Charles 46,173,316'
11
FISHBECK, Elsie
family
Freeman
Isabella
Jacob
Jemina and John
Leonard
Levi
Mae
Nicholas and Philip
Richard
46,47
193
46,216
46
46,47
46
260,347
46
282
46
37,46,191
260
46
316
Stephan
FISHER,
William
George L.
Mrs. Geradine
John
Mrs. John
Joseph
FITCH, Mrs. E.A.
Payne
William P.
FLEMING,
FLETCHERD, onald
Judge
William A.
FLYNN,
Francis
FOEY, grandpa
FOGLE, Glenn W.
FOLEY,
J.S.
Rev. Johns.
FONTAINE,A thanas
FOO, Dr.
FORSYTHB, etty
FOSKET, Wayne
FOSTER, Emma
Horatio
Joseph
FOULKS, Clifford
FOURNIER,D onald
Dan
Nicky
FOUST, Ardus
FRANCIS, carrie and
FRANK, Richard
FRANKLING, race
K.S.
FRANSWORTMHis, s
FRASER, Alexander
Margaret
FRAZER, Golda M.
Robert E.
FREDENBURGM, ary J.
FREDERICKSM, rs.
FRENCHM, rs.
Ethel
FRIID1AN, Mrs. Alfred
298,399,401
398
288
398
326
34
199
199
328
153
312
144
249
117
263
429
195
201,202
97
322
206
266,/433
182
42
229
267
302
432
270
85
272
302
431
202
153
37,191
398
294
314
281
282
279
326
FRISBEE, A.T.
Dora w.
FRISBY, Ezra
FRITCH, Edward
FROSTIE, Fred
FRUSH, Charles E.
FRY, Mr.
Mrs. H.G.
FRYER, Clayton
FRYKMAN, Betty
Doris
Otto
FUCHS, Rev. J.M.
FULK, Harold
FULLERTONM, r.
GAFFNEYF, rancis
GALKA,H arold
316
222
35
269,324,437
430
288
322
399
264
52
191
52
297
143,429,433
144
Jill and Joanne
Linda and Lori
GALLAGHERR,e v. Michael
GALLET, Grace H.
GALLIGER,H erbert
GALLOWAY,
288
47
47
47
202
51
248
37
128
142
57,192,216
Cline
E.D.
John
Mr.
Pearl
GALPIN, Florence
GANNONA, lice
GARCIA, Raleigh
GARDNERM, rs. Frank
Lyon
GARLAND,Alfred
Arthur
Ed
Mrs. Edward
Eppie
Ford
Margaret
Mr.
Thelma
GARLOCKL, ester
GARMERN, ancy
GARNER,H elen
GARTRELL,
H. and Mabel
GARVEYM, rs. Elizabeth
Michael
GASTON,E lijah
Marvin
GATES, Flora
Hezakiah
GATESMAMN,r s. Calvin
Lillie
Ruth Ann
56,59
334
184
326
229
303
31
402,428
34,184,216,219
399,402
235,402
274
274
402
150
204
326
60
34
281
61
117
304,399
304
137
37
48
37
271,273, 399
273,326
280
12
GAUSS, Neva and William
GAY, Edward F.
Mylo L.
Mrs. Mylo
GEHRINGER,
GENTLES,
Jean
Richard
Mrs. Richard
Dr. Edward
GENTRYH, oward
Joan and Robert
Patsy
105
37,374,375,398
216
399
429
264
430
264
331
216
145
GEORGEM, r. and Mrs. Martin
GERKIN, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
GESKE, Walter A.
281
277
301
324,325
186
80
273
263 264
263,264
GIBNEY, Abbott M.
GIBSON, Elizabeth
Mrs. Katherine
GIDDAY, Delores
William
GIES, Lloyd and Robert
GILBERT, Grace
John
Joseph M.
152
146
117,187,216,231
GILKES, Nehemiah and William
GILL, Donald
99
199
151
322,391
401
399
GILLETTE, Herbert H.
Mrs. Herbert
Mrs. H.R.
GILLULY, John
GIIMORE, Dr. Charles W.
Clare L.
Jessie and Lula
GINSBURGH, arry
GIRARD,J ohn
GLASPIE, Douglas
Wiltsey
GLASS, Thomas
GLEASONJ, ames
GLENN, Mrs. Bernard
Mrs. Edgar
Dr.
Jay T.
Nellie L.
185,186,205,206
154
288
117
229,275
151
316
198
331
197,202
137,305,398,401
263
270
245
267,268,305
Sandy and Mrs. William 276
GLOVER,D ora
Irwin
Mrs.
Dr. Wellington
William P.
GOETSCH, Werner
GOEWEYR, achel
GOLDSMITAHl,i ce
Thomas
GONIEA,B etty
Doris
GOODCHILDA, rdus and Ellen
Linda and Marion
326
325,326
145
37,91
153,394
399
87
75
201
270
281
85
85
GOODNOWCh, arles A.
Mrs. C.
Don w.
Grace and
GOODRICH,
Hiram
GORDENF, red
GORDONT, homas Jr.
Mrs. Thomas
GORE, Fr. James
GORTONw, aiter
61,227,349
399
Elizabeth
61
61
120
320
219
216,232,234,399
393
294
94
GOUGHC, harles and Maude 269
182
229
295
John B.
GOUGHNOURR.,L ee
GOY, Loveen
GRAETZ,R ev. R.J.
GRAHAMM, ary A.
Mr.
Robert
GRAINGERM, rs. Herbert
GRANGERE, velyn
GRANOWSKKI,a rol
GRAVES,H .H.
GRAY, Alice
Rev. Allen G.
GREELY,B url "Bud"
GREEN, Adolphus M.
Edith
Hugh
Mr.
Rueben
Severn T.
GREENAWAEYd, 1vard
George
GREENERM, argaret
GREENWAYG,e orge
GREGORH, elen
GREGORY,
Alex
Rev. Edward E.
Edward P.
Mrs. E.P.
Mrs. George
Leo
GRELLING,A lice
GRIESOVERM, rs.
GRIFFETH, Elizabeth
Harry
301,302
90
146
286
273
81
329
320
391
297,399
391
199
269
296
347
199
97
348
37
76
296
282
428
246,248,250
37
199,216,348
39
4
249,432
92
282
272,273
228
Pauline and William
GRIFFIN, Mr.
57
117
432
286
280
331
347
399
Richard
GRIFFITH, Elizabeth
Harry
Mrs. Mary
William F.
GRIFFITHS, Lawrence
GRIGG, Minnie
GRINDLE, John
GROFF, Walter
GROSS, Hildred
Rev. Ronald J.
GROSTIC, Andrea
Joseph
GROSTICK,M r. and Mrs.
Josephine
Martha
GROTE, Elaine
GROVE,D ebbie
Vivian
GRUBB,M ary J.
GUERNSEYM, arlene
GUETSCHOWM,r s. Howard
GURDENA, lger
GUY, William
GUZMANE, dward
HAACK,I la
HAARERA, nn
HAAS, Lynn
Joseph V.
HABERL,L loyd
HACKENBERTGh, eodore
HACKERB, en
George
Helen
Mrs. Lyle
HACKETTU, .S.
HADDENE, lectus
HADLEYE, rsyl
HAFFEY, Helen
HAGMANE,l la
John A.
Marvin "Mike"
HAGNI, Richard
HAIGHT, Dr. Cameron
Rueben
HAINES, Horace
Ruth
HALBERTH, orace
HALL, Alfred
Alice
Don
Ethel
Grace
Herbert
Ralph J.
Richard B.
HALLER, Eldon
Mary and Maude
Sherman
HALLEYR, ev. Ora
13
220
303
428
146
302
282
292,388
John 301
326,329
59
278
272
270
326
281
304
249
332
35
282
230
326
245
319
288
320
249
191,326
281
42
216
114,145,395
329
174,176,277
177,296
3,4,7,35,127
177,230,392,400
429
333
33
98
150
216,348
296
281
388
262
269
387
388
37
429
282
292,317
303
HAMBURGEFRra, nk
HAMIL,M iss
283
141
HAMILTOND,o rothy and Thelma
Mrs. Mattie H.
234,299
299
278
281
HAMMELBLe, ssie
Mabel
Mary
HAMMILLP,a trick
HAMMONADm, ariah
HANCHEMA', bial
HANCOCKR,e v. Alan
HAND,C ecilia
Jerome w.
HANDYE, arl and Ralph
HANNAJ,o hn
HANSOND, orothy
Glenn
Karen
HARDYE, phriam
Frank
Harold W.
Jack
Rebecca
Roy
Royal
Spencer
HARE, James M.
HARGERA, ndrew c.
David P.
James
HARMONA, marilla
Gerald
Henry
HARRINGTON,
George
Homer
Mary
HARRIS, Joseph
Mrs. Mae
Martha
Rick
HARRISONG, us
Milton
HART, Clarissa
Pauline
William
HARTEAUE, leanor
HARTMAcNat,h erine
Hartwell, Cleon
HASBROUCKG,e orge
Ruth
HASENBUSCH,a rry
HASFORDJ,o hn L.
HASKINS, Glen P.
HASTINGSW, alter
HATH, "Bob"
HAUER, R.F.
142,282
347
30
33
303
104
199
195
176
101
101,275
233
301,320
269
245
430
301
260
269
388
324
199
216
200
95
229
123,153,182
37
347
288
90
176,287,289,392
326
191
430
335
288
54
140
267
98
272
292
429
268
302
288
288
154
264
329
14
HAVENSH, arry J.
Merrit s.
HAWKINSR, alph
HAYES, James
HAYS, Rose
HAYWORTDHo, n
HAZARDC, hester
E.E.
S.H.
216
36
334
263,269
")
l
William 3~ :J
HEDBERGM, rs. Axel 213
HEDRICK,C lay 118
HEEG, Charles S. 106
Mrs. George 275
Gladys 286
Herman H. 267,428
HEIGHT, Ina 326
HEINIG, Kristin :)o
HEINO, Mr. 2~0
HEITMANB, etty 331
HELBLINGR, ev. and Mrs. Doyle 303
HELLER, Clifton W. 3,7,216,219,229,230
269,273,324,325,379
Earl Davis
Margaret and Nancy
Sharon L.
HEI110RE,J oseph
HENDERSONC,h arlotte
Ollie
HENDRENb,r others
Mrs. J.J.
HENDRICKSONJo,h n
HENDRIND, r. J.J.
HENEKS,M rs. Ell wood
HENRY,P lin
Shirley
HENSICK, Bert
HERBERTH, azel
HERBONR, ev. Robert L.
HERBST, family
Henry
Mrs. Henry
Phoebe
HESS, Lois
HESSE, Julius
HETCHLEBRe, rneta
Clyde
HEWE'TTL,e wis
HEWLETDT,o nald
HIBNER,
HICKEY,
Louis
Rebecca
Mrs. Henry
Nancy
Frank G.
Mrs. F.G.
M.J.
215
215
215
152
399
277
271
326
245
324
274
90
216
436
172
302
318
120,301
301
276
274
204
79
320
37,390
268
237
151,267,268
272
274
37,61
348,349
271
192
HICKEY, Mrs.
Nellie
HICKS, Earle
Eugene
Launa
Mrs.
Thomas
William
HIGBY, Thomas
HIGGENS, Abigail
Milton E.
HIGHT, Bird
Mrs. Bird
David
Deborah
Hannah and
Mrs. Ina
John
Methabell
Mrs.
Nathan
349
399
245
316
33
191
429
191
325,329
32,34
278
195,235,39/J,395
401
30,33,35,190,197
33
Harriet 33
273,398,399,400
33
33,190,197
235
33,35
Sally and William
HILDEBRANTM, rs. Maybelle
Ross
33
273
394
Mrs. Solomon 275
HILL, Andrew L. 37,374
229,324
85
124
271,280,323,324,329
Charles N.
Ellen
Gertrude
Dr. Harold
Jennifer
Mark
Mrs. Peg
V.E.
HILLS, Charles w.
HILTON, William
HIMMANV, olney
HIMMELSPACHJo, seph
HINES, Estette
HINSMAN,D erastus
HIRVELA, Pat
HOAG, Charles
HOAGLANDC, hristopher
HOCH, Mrs. K.
HOOOES, Gil
HOFF, Bert
Mrs. Eunice
HOFFMANM, ary
Mildred
Dr. Stanley
Mrs. Stanley
HOOAN,P atricia
HOISEL, "Mame"
HOISI~N, Gale
HOLCOMBM, ary
HOLCOLMS, eymour
HOLDEN,D orothy
299
98
326
233
325
429
94
272
60
394
302
288
and Fidelia 227
399
329
217,286,322
277
329
140
327,329
273
281
273
269
85
150
319
15
HOLDEN,F rank 348
HOLDORTHE, lizabeth 326
HOLFORTHM, rs. A.E. 326
HOLKINS, Ruth 280
HOLLING, Maria 89
HOLLOWAYJo, hn 303
HOLLUMSD, on 267
HOLMESA, rlene 320
Ralph A. 288
Willabelle 149
HOLSTED,D olly 266
HOLT, Fern 277
Goldie 114,233
Ray 388
HOOKERA, manda 82
Bessie and Blanche 82
Charles and Clare 82
Ernestine and Helen 82
Lewis Cass 82
Melatha and Nellie 82
HOOVERB, urr 245
Margaret 150
HOPKINS, Loisann 328
Robert 430
HOPPER, Hiram 260
HOPPONERC, heryl and Lucinda 60
Elma 59
HORN, George 316
HORNER,G race 276
HORNUNGC, larence 350,376
George 227,297,350
Mrs. George 350
Myrtle 399
HORTONJ,o hn G. 301
Joyce 281
HOSKINS,D r. Thomas 319
HOSLEY, Betsey and caroline 95
Clarence 96,97,123
Emmaa nd Esther and Helen 95
Eliza and Holland c. 94
Henrietta and Ellen 82,96
Jennie~ . 95,97,277
Joseph 94
Katherine and Lois 96
Margaret and Marion 96
May and Miner 95
Martha 94
Nancy M.
Robert Kendall and
Roger
Sterling E.
Virginia K.
Wilfred
William K. Sr & Jr.
HOOOHTALINGE,d ward
Enma
Garret
95,97
Sarah 94
96,97,270
95,96,97
97
94,97
94,95
56
191
35
_I
HOUGHTALINGGra,c e
HOUSTONJ.,S .
P. Fred
HOVEI YL .W.
HOWARDC,h aristine
Etta M.
Janet and Sue
Vern
HOWE,E lnora B.
85
153
302
283
48
47,48
48
48
299
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene 275
394
116
George
Mr.
Robert L.
Mrs. Ruby E.
Mr and Mrs. w.c.
HOWEI.J.E,,d ward
Effie
Thomas
HOWEYA, wilda
HOWLETI'F, red
Louis E.
Mrs.
HOYLANDO, .A.
HOYT, George
HUBBARDH, enry
HUBBEL,M artha
HUBBEIL,
HUBBLE,
Mildred
Bernadette
Floyd
Fred
Gerald
Rena
Rodney
Sardis F.
HUCK, Leonard
HUDSONH, enry
John
HUFF, Bert
Mrs. Kenneth
HUGG, Phyllis
HOOHES,D orothy
Ernest
Gerald
Harvey
John J. Jr.
HULL, Clarence A.
M.P.
HUMPHRIESJ,a mes
HUNT, Sarah
HUNTER,E rnestine
Howard
HUNTINGTOFNa, nnie
Harry
288
299
275
288
140
36
152
332
216,250,399,401
271
214
296
90
268
391
149
243
57,174
245
270
245,248,432
216,272
428
199
269,270
311
216
281
281
47,226
322
395
388
225
245
275
288
33
82
302
144
44,216
Dr. Harry
Mrs. Dr. Sr.
27i
174
Samuel 81
16
HUNTINGTONT,h erina C.
HUNTLEYM, r.
Dr. William
William c.
Mrs. w.c.
Dr. W.B.
Theodore
William E.
141
37,44,235,271
44,216,271
399
347
331
348
347
263
298
HUPERT, Christopher
HORR, Rev. William
HtITCHINS,A ndrew and Cordelia 49
49
50
Gardener
Georgia s.
Govenor o.
Maud
Ruahrnan
Steven
HlITSON, Flora and Larry
Vola
HUITON, Mrs. Thelma
HYA'IT, Adeline
HYDE, Mary C.
IDZIKOWSKIM, rs. Richard
ILLINIK, Barbara
INCHES, Dr.
INGAILS, Richard W.
INGRAMP, amela and Tammy
Thomas
IREY, Louisa
IRWIN, Wilfred
ISBEIL, Nelson G.
Wilson G.
W.N.
ISHAM, Harry w.
ITSELL, Andrew J.
Alice
Barbara c.
49,50
49
50,140
50
282
174,282
299
281
44
263
399
245
296
47
47
277,282
286
37
199
289
288
42
43
43,265
Buelah and
Charles
Charles E.
Charles w.
Christopher
David Q.
Christina 42
42,43,141,262,304
42,195,295
Dennis and Debra
family
Finley J.
Frances
Gary and Gloria
Henry J.
James and John
Judith
Kate
43,44,229,230
44
43
44
318
43
42
44
Keith M. and Lucille
Lillian C.
42,43
43
43
195,295
43
42,43
Manley J. 42
Mark 43
ITSELL, Mary
Matthew R.
May N.
Michael J.
Paul
and Mildred
42,43
43
42
43
42
Ruth and Stephanie 43
Robert H. 43 , 325,329
Sarah and Steven 42,43
Stephen G. 141
Thomas 44,429
Treves V. 43
ITZELL,
IVES, Frank
42
316
JACKSON,A ndrew
Claudine
84,269,275,328,375
84,269,270,275
Dolly Sirnbles
Doris
Edna M.
Elisha
Enrid
F. June
Fred Tuttle
Grace and Isaac
Jennie and John
Lee and Lillie
Lew
Loralene Allison
Maria and Naomi
Orval
Ron and Shirley
Rose
Washington
323,324,328
85
86
53
85
85,86
272
85
85
85
84,85
145
84
85
86
267
81,85
298
JACOBS,W endal 327
JAEHNIG,D avid L.
JAMIESONM, ary
JAPPINA, Fred
3,4,7,10,206,391
126
JASZEWSKIF, rank and Joseph
JAYNE, Daniel
151,436
204
316
37
58
311
JEFFRIES, Dr. Charles A.
JENKS, Mrs.
JESSOP, Philester
JEWE.TI', Charles
C.J.
George w.
Josiah P.
JEWITI',
JOCELYND, r.
JOHNIDES, John
JOHNSONA, lice
Charles
Clarissa
Don
Dorothy
Ethel
F.K.
154,315,348
399
37,148
37
427
298
297
117,149
316
298
432
274
140
348
17
JOHNSON,J erome E. 229,430
Marion and Mrs. Max 326
Minnie
Miss
Nathanial
Peter
Wilbur
William
JONES, Mrs. Arthur
Casey
Doris
Gerald
Mrs. Gerald
Gladys
H.W.
John
Lee
Lorraine
Margaret
Richard A.
Mrs. Sam
Trevor
William S.
JOY, Arthur
JOYNER, Benjamin
JUBB, Elijah
Grace and Henry
Marion and Pauline
Sherman E.
William
KAHLERD, orothy
KALINOWSKIF, r. Leo
KANOUSEJ,a cob and Luther
KARNEYR, ev. Ralph
KEDDLE,B urla
Glenn
Mrs. Joseph
Mrs. Ross
KEESLER, Charles
KELLAMS,W .R.
KELLER, Bert and Elda
Jacob and Matilda
Oscar
KELLEY, Ruth
KELLOGN, ellie and OWen
~, Annabel
Baldwin and earl
Boyden A.
Carlton and Cindy
carol and Celinda
Charles Davis
Clara and Cora
Clifford
Danny and Deborah
David
Ebenezer
269
146
36,298
37
269
302
326
432
195,326
432
294,326
286
87
195
288
276
326
391
276
288
55,325
204,322
32
85
61
85
324
51
191
294
316
300
273
410
272
273
325,326
331
86
86
86
145,146
299
52
87
59,60
59
87
59
87
59,60,87
60
87,200
59,87,200,301
KEL.Lcx:;GEd, ward
Elijah
Elizabeth
Elma Grace
Erastus
Frances
Ira
Joseph P.
Kern
Linnie
Loren
87
59,87
87
59,60
59,89
87
87
59
Randy and Shirley
Spencer and Wealthy
59,87
87
59,87
87
87
200
201 202
288
348
4
KELLY, Aaron
Rev. Edward D.
Franlt J.
Franklin
Mrs. John
Patricia M.
KENDALLO, rin
KENNEDYI Amy
Helen Swanson
Jeffery
Loretta
Rebecca
Dr. Robert L.
Ronald B.
Ted
KENYONW, illiam K.
W.W.
KERR, William E.
KETCHUMR,e v. Ronald
KEYES, Earl J.
KIEF!', Howard
KILPATRICK,R ev. Jesse
Sarah
KIMBALLK, endrick
KIMBERLYB, oyden
Mrs. Boyden
KING, B.P.
Delores
Ermnett L.
family
Grace
Jane
Kernie
Mildred
Miss
KINLOCH,J ack and Wanda
KIRBY, Paul A.
KIRK, Arlington
Bessie H. and Burdick
Frances
Hazel
John
Louis and Mary
51
429
47,226
331
47
47,226
270
331
47
47,226
216
394
269
304
288
264
57,314
57
154
320
301
197
292
245
318
114
93
292
142
141
267
288
98
98
98
98,182 .
98,301 394
98
18
KIRKBY, Jennie
KIRKLANDB, arbara
George
KIRKOWSKIC, arl
KIRTLANDG, .A.
85
329
324,325,326
324
316
KITTLE, Simeon 198
KIZER, Thomas 176,325,326,327,329
Thomas J. Sr.
KLEEHAMMEMRr,.
KLEIN, Clayton
Mrs. Don
KLINGENSMITHR,e v. E.F.
KLOsrERE, Mary E.
KLUMPR, ev. F.
KLUMPPA, nn
KNAPP,
Ernest and Mary J.
Fred w.
Grace
Isabelle
Mildred R.
Stella
T.B.
Walter
William R.
KNEELANDG,e orge w.
John B.
Judge
KNIGHT, Jesse F.
Stanley
KNOOPG, uy
KNCYITM, rs. Annie
KOBISKA,O nalee
KOWALSKFI,r ed
Gary
KRAFT, Rev. Oscar H.
KRAKAUM, iss
KRAMERM, rs. Allen
KRAUSEM, arilyn
Robert
KRIIDER, T.
KRIESLER, Nicholas
KROGsrADA, ndrew B.
KROIL, Stanley
KRUEGERR, ev. C.
KRIDER, Eunice
KRYCHA, rthur
KUEHND, avid L.
Ruth
KUEHNLEM, r.
KUHNS,R hea
KULICK, Beverly
KURDERKOT,e d
KURKOWSKMYr,.
KYPKE, Carmen
and Mrs. earl
292,324,409
144
273
273
302
275
297
48
48
387
269,282
117
104,282
227
283
269
260,349
191
148,153
347
304
176,195
113
299
76
229
429,430
302
149
281
281
399.401
399
197
272
266,433
297
34
332,334
267,268
326
399
282
270
431
273
429
LABOE, Dr. Edward W.
LABOurER, M.
LACE, Alta and Frank
Lafay
LADNER,W illiam
LADNEWR, obert Wm.
331,332,333
296
123
123
229,230,399
61
Mary and William
LaFLAMMEM, aurice and Nancy
LaGRANGEA, aron
James and John
Mary and William
LAKE, George
Glenn
Henry F.
Rial
61
220
104
104
104
200
LAMB, Adaline
Dr.
Gary
Harry
James
Peter
Rev.
LAMOREAUXA,. J.
Arny and Anne
Arlene
Daniel and David
Kathleen
275
35,90
200,318
44
323
400
332
331
198
153
142,154
4
Michael and Richard
Timothy
3,4,7
4
4
4
4 LANE, family
Mrs. Herbert
Joshua s.
Leroy E.
Richard
LANCOURH, oward
LANGWORTHBYy,r on D.
LANNENE, stella
30
272
153
205
329
10
260
88
Grace
Lawrence and Roy
Mrs. Roy
400
88
401
173
65,173,204,269
271
184
, 199
LANSING, Alice
Frank M.
Mrs. F.E.
Nellie
LARKIN, John
Norman
LARSEN, Esther and Gerald
Harold and Marjorie
Sarah
Thorwald
LARSONA, rthur
Mr. and Mrs. H.J.
LaRUE, Frank and Lola
LASHER, Cecilia and Claude
Daisy
Ford
104
89
89
76
89
146
301
144
104 ·
104,105
105
19
LASHER, Ione 105
James 104,105,199
John 104
Maria 104,105
Neva and Nida 104,105
Orel 104,105
LATHAMR, ev. Richard 303
LATSON, Ada and Alvin 51
LAVERY,
LAVOIE,
Albert 50,170,230,264 356
Alice 50,282
Bernice 50
Charles 50,51,87
Eda and E.E. 275
Edward 50,87,88
Eugene
family
George H.
Gladys
Hazel and
Hazen
James and
Leslie
Lewis
Loraine
Mary
Miram
Nellie
Robert
Roy
Ruth
Sarah
Stanley
Virginia
William
Pauline
Peg
Richard L.
Helen
Joel
50.54
318
51
282
125
50,88,282
50
51
50
50,54
50
88
282
50
50,277,292
51
50
51,125,146
51,125
LAWLERJ, ames
LAWRENCJEe,n nie
50,87
282
278
229
374
146
LAWRENZM, r. and Mrs. Ferdinand 301
LAWSON,
Adelaide and Arthur
Bertha and Catherine
Charles F. and David
Edith and Ernest
Gavin and George
Harriet and Howard
Herbert
John and Kathleen
Levena and Margaret
Rebecca
Richard
Sarah
LAWI'HER, Amari !la
Eva
James
Nancy M.
428
89
89
89
89
89
89
89,146
89
89
89
89,143
89
95,122
95
95,122
95
324
332
LAYTONJ, ohn W.
LEAVENWORT"Hda, d"
LEE, Eli
Elizabeth
Etta
Mrs. F.G.
Mrs. F,J.
Frederick J.
George
Lyman
Maria
Martha
84,311
84,85
85
271
173
37,58,59,313
37,154,313,390,394
84,85
85
59
Rosalie
Stephen
LEFERVE, Rev. Paul
LeGRANTE,D ouglas and Mary
LEIBERGER,D onald and John
Robert
LEIGI-rrON,R aymond
LEITH, Mrs. Thomas
LELAND,R obert
LEMON,R uth
LEONARDC, harles F.
LEPARD, Cecil
LePIORS, Mary
LEPPEK, James H.
LERITTENDERW, .W.
LESIAK, Joseph
LESLIE, Dr. George L
Mary E.
LESS, Dorothy
LEWIS, Darius
Edwin c.
Fred
Helen E_L.
Marion
Mary
William
Dr. William M.
LIDDY, catherine
Mrs. James
LIGHT, William M.
LILL, Gregory
Jerry and Joanne
Michael and Otto
LILYWHITE, Willabell
LINDOR, Frank
LINDSEY, Dennis P.
LINE, C.S.
Daisy
Francis
39,58
B,298
202,301
84
48
'18
245
273
325
146
198
325,326
399,400
229
276
288
331,332
51
281
197
267,268
267,394
267,268
269
281,299
B
154
100
273
288
48
48
48
149
183
288
229,232
232,299
236,241
Grace 140
Winfield 150,229,233,242,388
304
265
75
LING, Rev. C. E.
LIPP, Coralyn
LISTERMANE, mma
LIVERANCE,L orraine 323,324
20
LIVINGSTON, Edward
LOCKE, Jane
LOCKWOOD,a niel
LODER, Dwight E.
LONG, Dr. Charles D.
LOREE, Jo~m
LORENZ, Laura
LOSEY, Verne
LOSO, James M.
LOTT, Hannah
Zoe
LOUNSBERRYfa, mily
Mrs. Lloyd
LOUNSBERYA, llen and Audrey
Charles
Clark and Ernest
Fred
Hattie
Maryctte
Vola
LOVAS, Stella
LOVE, Alta
Bruce
Elisha and Henry
John
Thomas
LOWRYE, leanor
LUCAS, George
LUDWIG,C aroline and Fred
Lurz, George
LYMANGROVEWRi,l liam
LYON, H.
Solomon T.
Theodatus T.
Willis
W.L.
LYONS, Anna and Cornelius
Charles
Mrs. Ellen
Frances
Hugh
Mary and Patrick
Sidney
Willis
MAAS, Ed
Mrs. Edward
Evelyn
Mrs. Clyde
MacDONALDM, rs. Donald
Isobel!
John R.
Mrs. John B.
311
52,54
199
297
279
42
277
177
288
33
146,244
318
273
54
50,54
54
54,86,100
282
50,5'1
54
272
123
77,31
19(.
199
123,199
90
292
219
199
401
399
390
379
129,146,387
283,291
51
140
51,;99,401
51
152
51
302
300,322
431
302
145,326
276
282
272
267
324
Robert B. 229,325,326,329
MACK· ,Catherine and Glen 198
Jesse 429,433
S.R. 198
MACKIE, John
MACKINDERJ,o seph
MADDENW, illiam W.
MAGESKI, Charles
379
245
325,326
430
and Marge 276
281
MAHONEYM, rs. Frederick
MAIN, Mrs. Keigh
MALAFOURISM, rs. Theodore
MALBY,H .F.
MALCOLMPa, ula
MALMQUISTJ,o an and Richard
MALONSONJa, net
MALTBYA, lmon
MARBIG, B.H.
MARBLEO, .J.
O.P.
MARCINKOWSKJeI,f f
MARDIGIAND, oreen
Masis
Mrs.
MARENCICR, ichard J.
MARKOFFC, harles
MARKSG, erald
MARR,C lifford
Mrs. Clifford
Erastus
Harlem
Jesse
John
Mrs.
Mrs. Ruth
MARSHF, .H.
MARSHALLM, r.
MARTELLE, dmund
MARTIN, Dorothy
Ephriam
Helen
Irene
James
Louis
Thomas
MARVINM, ary A.
MASA, Allene
MASCHKEA, rthur
MASON,C arl D.
Charles
Dudley and Earl
Dr. Gardner
J.C.
MASTERS,W illiam
MATHERSL, aura
MATHESONM, rs. Robert
MATTER,R ev. Mark
MA'M'HEWSM, rs. Cedric
Jean
Mrs. Robert
MATSONH, elen
266
316
326
101
329
317
316
198
316
431
304
274,304
225
229
334
331
90
273
201
90
201
90,201
384
195,399
390
322
400
281
34
278
146
349
296
233
81
281
78
90
90,260
90
37
33
332
54
266
297
266
278
281
412194
21
MAUL, Jack
MAUPIN,H erman
MAURERH, elen
MAY, Floy
and Leona
229,399
304
281
262
Dr. Louis "Pat" 230,264,271,279
323,324,329
MAYBERRYW, illiam A.
MAYCOCKC,a rrie and Donald
Fanny
Harold
Mrs. Harold
Harry and James
Josephine
Leslie and Loreene
58
91
90,91
91
195
90,91
51
91
Mary A.
Sarah
90,91
91,114,141,142,146
McCALLUMGl,a dys
McCARTHYD, ennis
Rev. Hugh
Timothy
McCLEERM, erlyn J.
McCLENATHALNu,c ille
McCLERNODNa, vid
MCCLOSKEYD,r . Gerald
Mrs. Gerald
John
Mary
145,151,152
201
294
201
288
114,149
429
49,323
324,399
49,429
Patrick and Richard
49
49
Thomas 49
McCLOUDJ,o hn
McCOLL, Don and Jean
McCOLLUMGl,a dys
McCONNAOOHECYha, rles and Mary
McCOOKE, lizabeth
Wade
McCORMICWK,i lliam
McCREEDYE,s ther
McCULOOORHo,b ert
McDACEF, r. George
McDANIELS,O rual J.
McDERMOTIL',e on
McDEVITT, Frances and Gale
McDONALDB,a rbara A.
McDONOOOAHg,n es
Ambrose A.
Howard and Julia
Robert and Ruth
Thomas
McDOUGALLJe, anne
McDOWEILL, ela
Prudence
McEWENR, ev. G.F.
Thomas
McGILL, Lottie
McGIVNEYJ,o hn B.
McGRAINE, ffie L.
Fred and Rose
347
263
140
304
281
288
331
326
434
294
288
149
195
43
48
195
48
48
48
264
146
117
153
348
272
124
43
202
McGREGORD, r. A.J. 280
Dr. 270,327
McGUINNESJ,a mes A. 171,17~
McGUIRE, 49
James 201
Michael 202,301
McINTYREM, rs. D. 393
Josephine 281
McKANEW, illiam 316
McKEE, Lynn 430
McKEENERC, lare F. 288
McKEONR, ichard 429
McKEONEJ,a mes and John 201
McKERNONM, ichael 153
McKINLEY,G eorge and Robert 92
Sarah and Thomas 92
William 245
McLARENE, sther and James 282
McLEANJ, .B. 187
McLOED,F lorence 282
McMACKERNi,c hard J. 295,429
Robert 428,429
McNAMARKAa, te 140
McPHERSONA,l an R. 39
Alex. 37,39,45,58,192,399
Ed 58,264,322,324,325,326
Edward Gregory 37,39,40
58,60,216,399
Elizabeth 37,39,60
Ella 37,39
family 193
Hugh A. 40,154,216,269,399
Isabella 37,39,58
Marguerite 39,58
Martin J. 37,39,40,41,154
Mary
M. F.
Mrs. Mimi
Miriam
M.J.
322,399
37,39
402
326
58
45
R. Bruce 40,41,52,174,217
229,233,317,322,399
Robert 39,40,41,229
248,251,323
Rosa 322
Mrs. Rosalie 39
William 37,39,40,58,60,192
229,316,374,379
William Jr.37 to 41,58,192
217,314,384,399
William 3rd, 39,40,58,60
322 to 325,428
William 4th, 39,40,58 ·
230,262
McQUEENG, eneva 150
22
MCQUILLAN,
Barbara
Dorothy
Mary
William
MCLE, John E.
MEABONC, lara
Helen
MEADD, eborah and David
Jennifer A.
MEEDENR, ev. Merle
Mrs.
MEIER, Martha
Dr. Walter
MELENDYR,o yal P.
MELLIS, Dr.
MELTONM, rs.
MELVIN,M r.
49
143,281
143
149
429
288
87
151
60
60
300,328
276
230
333
154
271
282
44
William
MERCERA, lice
George
MERIANS,J o Ann
MERITHEWM, rs. Olive
Peter
37,57,123,347,374
326
52
302
P.L.
MERRELSJ,o hn
Mary
MERRILL, Alden
Alice
Bernice
Benjamin and Bolisti
Charles E.
Charlotte
Ezell and Horace
Hiram
Ira
Vera
MERRIT, Leslie
Mrs. Leslie
MERRIT!'L, es
L.B.
MERROWM, rs. Hazen
MERWINM, rs. Lois
METZ, Mrs. Joseph Sr.
Mrs. Mae
MEVIS, Joseph
MEYERD, oris
Duane
MEYERS,
Mrs. Duane
E.E.
Robert
MIESLE, Joseph
MILES, Mr.
MILET, Anna
MILFORD, Edna C.
286,401
410
299
198
269
82,92,283
92
272
92
272
92
92
92,93
92
82
391
273
229
399
267
328
195
97
243
326
191
273
399
429
76
148
282
282
MILLER, Alice
Bruce
Cynthia
Daniel
Donald E.
Doris
Dutch
Emma
Evelyn
F.A.
Florence
George E.
Helen
Hollis
James D.
Joan
Karen
Lawrence
L.C.
Lloyd D.
Mary A.
Michael
Nettie E.
Paul
Robert
Roy E.
Ruth
Samuel
Dr. Stephen
Vance
MILLIKEN, Gov. William
MILLIMAN,R ichard L.
MILLIS, E.L. .
MILLS, Frank and Henry
270
94
60
94
288
281
204
93
281
324
150
93
94
269
391
292
263
388
390
93,94,195
93
94
332,334
292
388
199
150,268
94
154
269
206
391
292
216
Mrs. H.H. and Marguerite
MINER, Charles H.
39
201
326
143
267
282
281
Edith
Gale
Marjorie
MISSLIT'Z, Donald
Evelyn
MITCHELL,C arrie
Mr.
MIZINE, Michael
MOELLERB, ert
MONROEA, bigail
Addie M.
Almira and Archibald
Arthur L.
Benjamin
Charles B.
Cora M.
Donald
Dwight D.
Elizabeth
Ernest
91
427
288
177
32
34
32
34,394
32
229
34
325
34,399
32
191
23
MONROEF, rancis B,32,33,34
190,193,216
Frederick and Freedom 32
33,34
33
George
Henri O.
James
Launa A.
Lemuel
Libby B.
Linda
34,190,193,276
33
31 to 34,190,200
34
Lucinda M.
Mary and Margaret
Nancy
Norton and William
MONTEGUEA,l ex
Burr
Lukes.
MOONEYR,e v. Edward
MOORER, ev. E.C.
Fred
Mary Pane
Mervil
Mrs. Mervil
Susan
MORANB, lanche
Elaine
H. Larue
James
William
MOREYJ, esse
MORGAN,
Robert and Sally
Benjamin B.
Hulda
Melbourne
MORLANR, obert E.L.
MORLOCKE,d ith
MORRIS, Lewis
Margaret
MORRISONH, attie
MORRISSEYF, r.
. MORSE, Dana
Daniel w.
MORTEMORJEu,d y and Richard
MORTONL, eonora
Miss
MOWREYD,e nnis
MUELLERR, ev. Marcus c.
MULLINJ, ess s.
MULLOY,
James
MUNGERM, rs. Abigal
MUNNJ, ohn
Mrs. Roberta
MUNSELLA, rthur
Catherine and Carol
276
33
33
32
33
433
348
153,314
202
237
199
55
201,325
195
47,78
55
104
105
104,105
105
88
53
427
33
329
288
288
326
35
35,190,192
282
197,301
34
187
267
117
146
3,4,264
302
324
37
187
55
151,'129
276
101
101
MUNSELLE, lnora
Frank
Garon
Mary and Molly
Michael
Robert and Teena
MUNSONF, erdinand
F.W.
101,149
101
101
101
101
101
318
116,152
152
277
MURBACKR,e v. John
MURNINGHADMav, id and Polly
Mr. 411
201,323,324,325
49
124
145,149,326
MURPHYJ,a mes
Mary
Mr.
Pat
MURRAYA, udrey
Mrs. Donald
MUSCH,f amily
Mrs. Hannes
MUSONF, rederick W.
MUSSO,M rs. Inez
MUSSONC, layton
Mrs. Clayton
Elizabeth
Estelle
Frank
Gerald
George
Grace
Jennie
Leonard
Linda
Lulu
Lyle
Marjorie
Martha. and Maude
Mary
Mrs. Max
Ralph
Robert
Thomas
William
W.E.
MUTI'ER, Emily
George
MYERS,R obert
MYNAHAI i"JJ. ' w.
NAGEL,M iss
NAUSS, Brent B.
Joan and Miclcey
Ralph
NEARY, John
NEELY, D.D.
John R.
NEFF, Henry
399,400
282
318
270
200
289
96
273
97
272
96
58
98
96
98
55,97,98
326
98
55,98,195
273
96
97
273
430
97,98
98
55,58,96,98
283
122,154
117
143
283
146
288
267
266,433
347
282
37
320
24
NELSON, Betty
Mel
Mrs.
NEQUETTEA, llen C.
NESMITH, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
NEU, Mrs. Lloyd
NEUBECKE, d and Joan
NEUMANG, race and Lily
NEVERETHH, ennan and Ruth
Marie
NEWBERRY, Dell
275
152
277
229,391
273
263
267
282
60
140
76
NEWCOMB,
Howard
Olive and Onalee
274,283
76
204
116,427,428,436
Bruce
Ray
NEWCOME,
NEWLAND,
NEWMAN,
Roy
Bruce
Fran and James
NICHOLAS,D r. Mildred B.
NICHOLS, George
Howard N.
Myrtle
NIMPHIE, Max E. Jr.
NIRIDER, Cecil
NIXON, Clark
family
Gale and Hattie
NOBLE, Edgar
Elnathan
Dr.
Rev. H. M.
John
NOEL, William H.
NOLL, Betty
NOONEYL, ewis
NORMANW, illiam
NORTHRUPS, arah
Mrs. William
Norton, Carol
Francis A.
Horace
Helen and Henry
H.W.
Lucinda
Malcom D.
NOSS, family
OAKLEYD, oris
O'CAVANAGHR,e v. Bernard
o 'CONNELL,N ora
O'CONNOR,J ohn
O'DONNELL,A lice
O'HEARN, Neil
O'KANE, Margaret
116,427,436
144
288
428
333
394
437
48
288
58
282
318
282
187
311,312
292
399
198
288
52
245,248
217
94
195
326
35
316
35
275
35,190,200
35
182
328,329
197
51
195
277
216
51
O'KELLY, Fr. Patrick
O'LEARY, Mrs. Laura
Mr.
Mrs.
Virginia
OLDENBURGG,l adys
OLDS, Dr. E.F.
Ransom E.
O'LONE, John
OLSEN, Hazel
Mr.
OMEL, Richard
O'NEIL,Alex
ORMANDA, nna M.
ORTH, Henry
OSBORNG, ov.
OSGERBYJ, .K.
Mr.
OSTRANDERD, oris
OTT, Frad and Carl
OTWELLR, alph Jr.
OWEN, James G.
John
Ruth Byron
195,201,294,301
273
225
225,282
143
281
37,153
378
296
148
149
325
195
51
331
2'15
148
144
268
61
328,329
245
45
236
195
268
PACHARDW, illiam
PAGE, Mrs. Bonnie
John 114,141,142,144,147
149,152,218,236,262
Mr.
PAILTHORPER, ev.
PAOLI, Angelo
PALMERE, rnest J.
PAPWORTH,
Edna
Logan
Walt S.
PARK, A. Colton
Dean
Mrs. Dean
Molly
PARKE, Janet Sue
PARKER,A ndrew
Asa
Mrs. Blanche
Clarence
David
281,286,324,429
124
292
302
288
B
292
32,ll3,292
260
324
292
280
279
43
61,224
Bl
299
95
Mrs. Dona
Donald and
E.D.
Scott
199
331
288
Edna L.
Elizabeth
family
Frank
Grace
Duane
299
276
191
3~0
61
276
25
PARKER,I sabella,
Jane
PARKS,
Jennie
Jessie
Maria
Miss
Ora
Rev.
Robert
Roxanna
William
Betty and
Dean
Robert
Billy
61,266,326
118
95
123
61,214
144
224
158
10,61,216,222,224
158
61,154,224,272
292
388
PARMENTERF,l orence and Louis
PARRISH, Edward
429
220
325
PARSHALLA, rvilla
Chester
Thomas K.
Vincent
PARSONSB, urt F.
C.D.
Ralph
PASMOREI,r ene
Mary E.
PATE, Bert S.
PATTERSONG, eorge C.
Sarah
Thomas
PATTIN, Donna B.
PAULI, Mary Jo
PAYNE, George
Jim
Mary
PEACH, Edna and Trumen
PEARCH,C arol
PEARSONF, red
PEAVEY,G eorge w.
John w.
PEAVY, Adelbert
Mrs. Adelbert
A.F.
Calvin A.
Edith and Ethel
George and Ichabod
Homer B.
Josephine
Rhua
Rosette and Sally
William H.
126
216
317,320
320
305,348
275,316
225
282
281
322
315
92
226
281
51
269
113
269
60
281
387
154
311
55
275
71,275,276
55
55
55
27, 55, 71,277
244
277
55
PECKENS,A lbert and Alexander
55,275
98
98
98,99
99
98,99
98,99
Alton
Charles
Clara and David
Eliza and Ernaline
Howard
PECKENSJ, ohn
Justin
Lena Shaw
Lynn and Mary
Marcena and Rose
Ralph
98
99
98
99
98,99
PECKINS, Alex. and Marcenus
Mildred
99
201
283
288
304
299
Otto M.
PEDERSENR, ussell
PEIRCE, Leilah
PELKEY,G erald
Lotta
Preston
PELL, Mrs. Carrie
PENNELLD, orothy
PENTICOFF,R ev. O.C.
PENZIAN, Judy
PERKINS, Clifford
Floyd
Frank
Mrs.
Mildred
PERRY, Annie
"Hank"
PERSON,M rs. R.H.
PESTLE, Beverly
PE'TER, Mrs.
William
PE'TERSMARBK.,
PE'TERSONC, arl
Harold
PE'TRICK,R ev. B.E.
PE'ITIBONE,B arbara
Fern
Mrs. Harry
Henry
Lyle
Mrs. Nelson
Norman
PE'ITIS, Harriet o.
PFAU, Albert
Herb
PHILBURNJ, ames and Linda
PHILLIPS, Foster
Elizabeth
Galen A. Sr.
Glane and Irene
Larry
Mabel
Maude
PHIPPENY, Maxine
PHIPPS, Byron
PHLOR, Thora
PIERCE, Dr. Eugene
David B.
Harry
122,431
431
431, 432
299
1/JS
297
270
283
394
191
191
283
82
ll6,428,436
271
281
146
52
392
267
283,288
302
35,267
234
302
260
286
194
267,436
Bl
395
241
295
334
61
58,59,191
61
148
270
126
333
260
282
33i
46
429
26
PIERPONT, Kenneth
PIERSON, Lt.
PINCKNEYJ, ohn D.
Margaret
PIPP, E.G.
William
PI'ITINGER, Edward J.
Phil O.
PLACEWAYH,a ttie
PLA'IT, Mrs. A.A.
PLESS,
Charles
Samuel S.
F. Robert
Mrs. Maybelle
William
PLUMMERW, ayne K.
POHL, Dorothy
POHLY,M rs. P.H.
POLACKD, r. Robert
POND, Jabez A.
POOL, Clarissa and Fred
Howard and Irwin
Jeremiah and John
Marcellus and Mary
Nathan
POOLE, Mary
POPPY, Guy and Nellie
PORTER,M rs. E.S.
Joseph
William
POST, Elder
PO'ITER, Anna
Mrs. Edla
Sally
PO'ITS, Gladys
Russell
POWELLE, .B,
POWERS, William
PRA'IT, Chuck
Mary A.
PRESTONA, lva
Bessie H.and Fred
Henry s.
PRICE, Clayton and Mrs.
Irene
Rev. Lawrence
PROBSTFELDR, obert
PROCTORJ, ane Topping
Herbert T.
PUCKETI',O rvell
PULLEN, Merritt and William
PURDY, Albert
Augustus and Ermna
Jane and Leander D.
Mandanie
296
180
B,37,44,191
372,373,398
398
154
301
288
229
52
271
248,249
216,286
428
188
177
195
288
319
297
327,328,333
187
54
48
54
54
54
100
283
271
36,148,153
204
305
32
194
55
279
280
390
316
248
141
35
98
187
282
283
302
430
93
267
288
187
394
93
93
93
PURDY,M ary
Maurice
PUI'NAM, Effie
PLYES, Howard
Mr,
QUACKENBUSNHa,n cy
QUIGLEY,K enneth
QUINN, John
Maxine
RADDATZC, arl
RADEBACHH,a rvey and Merely
RAFFERTYD, an and Thomas
RAHRIG, Rev. Gilbert
RAMSDEILN, oah
RANCOURA, gnes
LEO
RANDALLM, r.
Pearl
RATHBUNF,r an
RATZ, Daniel
RAVEN,F rank
RAWLINGSM, artha
RAWSONM, r.
RAYMONDH,a rold J.
Jess
RAYMOURG,e orge
READ,C atain
READERL, loyd C.
REAM, Leroy
RECKER,M arilyn
REDDINGW, illiam
REDINGERC, atherine
REED, Alta
C.A.
John
Mrs. John
Juliette
Clara and Edwin
Etta M,
Harriet and Hazel
Howard and Hulda
Jay Kerr and Laura
Linus and Loretta
Louisa P.
Mahlon and Nellie
Mina
Ray and Rex
R. Clark
Robert
Ruben Clark
Tazona and Walter
Willard and Zur
87
248,249
183
229
220
46
275
333,334
332,333
324
148
263
294
195
282
428
204
140
262
260
128
32,33
150
288
128
199
303
288
152
270
319
42
277
302
270
48
154
48
47
48
48
48
48
47,48
48
146
48
47,275
329
48
48
48
REEVES,G eorgia 52
REID, Robert M.
REINER, Richard
225,226,229,230
150428
27
REINHARDTM, el
REKOWSKAI, nnie
RENER, Eric
RENTOND, r. Charles
REPIK, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Vicki A.
RESE, Rev. Fred
REYNOLDSW, inston
RHODE, SDonald
Mrs. Donald
RICE, Dr.
Mary
Ward
RICHARDSB, eryl
Helen
Len
Rosemary
Mrs. Sherman
Will
RICHARDSONC,h arles
Jeffery
Kenneth
Louis
Louisa and Susanna
Thomas
RICHMONDT,r acy
William F.
RICKETT, John
Marion
RICKETTS, James
325
334,335
216
331
4
268
197
275
229
282
327
299
32
140
148
277
150
270
277
99
99
436
151
99
191
199
288
197
282
292
RIDDER,A rlene 126
RIDDLE, Andrew
Cynthia
Elijah
Elizabeth
family
Frederick
37,39 ; 60,320,374
61
201,320
37,39,58,60
Isabella and Maria
Mae and Marybelle
Sallu
William
RIDER, David
Ersyl
Gladys
Jemina and Joseph
RIDING, Norah
RIECKHOFFF,r ed
REID, Neil
REIMANNE, rnst
RIGGS, Henry
RIGNEY,E lizabeth
RILEY, Charles
RINK, Donald E.
RISCH, Julia
Martha
RISDON,
320
61
60
61
201
60,61
46
114,145
282
46
329
391
395
41
385
80
204
267
80
59
260
ROBB, Henry
James A.
Lloyd
Ross
William E.
ROBBINS, Martha
ROBERTSA, lbert L.
Andrew B.
Beatrice
Brad
Bruce w.
William
ROBINSONB, ede
David
333,334,335
324,328,334
303
324,325
2i7,316,322
171
245
288
96
276
200
304
429
199
Mary
ROBITALLEM, rs. C.Arthur
ROGERS,M rs. Byron
104
273
195,281
281
282
Cora G.
Fred
Mrs. Fred
Jim
Kathleen
Leroy
ROGGENKAMBPla, nche
Mrs. Henry
ROHRABACHEARd, am
Albert
Mrs. Al
Christian
Clare w.
323,324
429
325
304
326,329
270,326
37,44,56,398
30,45,191,195
7,153
359 398,401
44
245
Edward and Ella 44
Freeman 45,260
Gabriella
Janet
John c.
and Jane 44,56
3,171,267,268
44
Kenneth
Nancy Smith
Peter
Sarah
ROLASONc, arrie and Henry
ROLISON, Louis B.
ROMNEYG, eorge
Roor, Rev. Henry
George P.
ROSE, Mary
Orson A.
Ralph
SUsan
ROSS, "Dick"
Dr. E.A.
James
Lorna
Robert
Thomas
Winifred
ROSSEN, Edwin
45,288
398
44,45
44
269
387
205
37,56
390
262
245
268
50
428
296
268
48
150-
34
393
288
28
ROSSINGTONM, rs. Alfred
ROUNDSA, sabel and Polly
273
298
93,298
197
316
Sylvester
ROUNSIFER,A sa
ROUNSVILLEF, rank
ROWE, Joseph
Samuel
RUBBINS, Burt
Mr.
RUBERT, S.B.
Rudolph, Alene Ivah
RUMSEYC, larissa
Joseph
Mrs.
William
RUPERT, Mark
RUPPERT, Seth
RUSISCHER,G eorge
RUSSELL, Gladys
Helen
John
Joseph
Mayme
Wheeler
RUSSO, Rosemary
RUSTON,M rs. Fred
RYAN, A.W. and Fay
Golda
John
Fr. John
Mary E.
Patti S.
Robert
SAGE,
George
James
Mr.
Mary
SALMONH, elen Laird
Mary
Mrs. Rayroond
SALSBERGE, ugene
SANFORDM, rs. A. F.
Ellie
Ezra
Rev. Ezra
Ida
James
John
SARGISON,G eorge
SAROSKI, Edward
SAUNDERSF, rederick
SAUSE, Rev.
SAVAGEH, annah
SCHAFER,C harles
SCHAIBLE, Anna L.
37
191
195
128
260
88
153
320
158
320
348
233,388
201
282
281
37
201
282
201
281
304
296
294
195,201,316,391
294
229
294
294
300
B,36,58,390
B,36,373
297
34,298
328
82
323
316
278
326
89,98
201
278
201
89,201
260
288
199
302
33
154
281
SCHANCKENBERMGa,r y E.
SCHANERI,r ma
SCHAUERA, lice
SCHAYERA, rthur
SCHEFFER, Francis S.
SCHELKE,E lsie
SCHMEIK,A dam
SCHMIIJI',A ndrew and Frank
Elizabeth
Gus
John and Joy
Louise and Mary
Rose
SCHMIT!', August
Dr. Phillip
SCHNACKENBERLGuc, ille
Lyle
Ruth
SCHNEIDERE, lizabeth
SCHOENHALOS,s car
SCHO'I'TSH, erbert
Mrs. Herbert
SCHREPFERM, erle
SCHROEDERD,e Folia
Fred
SCHUCHC, harles
SCHULTHEISJ, ack
SCHULTZ,F ern
Mr.
SCHULZ, Elsie and Louise
SCHURTZZ, oe
SCHWEITZERR,e v. F.
SCOFIELD,B arbara
Benjamin
281
326,328,329
126
292
288
302
42
61
61
428
61
61
61
229,431
271,331
149
388
281
326
201
57,324
273
429
269
231,269
387
429
279
144
326
148
297
149
374
Joy -
William B.
265,399
229,230,266,296
SCO'I'T, Wilson
SCULLIN, James
SCULLY, John F.
SEALS, Keith
SEAMANG, eorge
SEARS, Roy
SEATON,N ellie
SEELYE, Ralph A.
SEIM, family
Frances
SELLERS, John
SELLMAN, H.G.
SEMES, Helen
SESSIONS, Gordon L.
325,433,436
288
201
267
278
292
260
272
278
318
126,282
197,198
348
47
288
Harold and Madelyn 283
409
11';1
SEXTON,N ellie
Orville w.
William
W.K.
126
106
29
SHAFFIER, Frank
SHAFT, Jane and William
SHARP, Alvin
Andrew and Anney
Catherine
Clara
Dwight and Elnora
family
Frank
Mrs. Frank
Fred
George
Hannah
Hattie
Helen
Henry
Jonathan s.
Kester
Mary
Sam
Thomas
SHARPE,A lma
Earl
Elnora
SHAW, I.H.
Mr.
SHEAR, Peg
SHEEKS,G ordon
SHELBY,M rs. Harold
SHELTERSB, etty
SHELTOND, orothy
SHELVERM, elvin
SHERER, Rev. Luther
SHERTONC, arol
SHERT'ZERD,r . Boyd
Mrs. Millie
SHERWOOJDo,h n
SHIELDS, Dennis
Edmund
F.J.
Mary
SHINDORFT, heodore
. SHIPPY, Mrs . Emma
Harold
SHUART, Mabel
SHUKER, Jaclc
SHULKINSM, arjorie
SHULTZ,F rank
Mr.
SIGLER, Caroline M.
Dr. Claude
Dr. Fred
Dr. Hollis
SILSBEE, Archie M.
SILVER, Louise
SIMMONS, Margie
Jim and William
288
118
101
100
100,101, 198
118
100
318
100,101
272
100
54,100,120
100
54,100
195
198
187
101
100,282
118
81,197
117,140,148,150
292,353,391
149
199
220
265
288
304
272
326
152
302
270
43,324,327,429
326
334
195,216,375
116,387
399
149,195
218,400
280
229,230,280
301
229
267
296
146
52
271
271,316
271,327
387
270
152
429
SIMONS, Connie
"CUff"
SINGER, Frederick
SKALSKI, Norma
SKILBECK,E lizabeth and
278
37,180
288
152
Frances 35
Franke
John
Joseph
Mary A.
Mrs.
Parley
SKINNER, C.E.
398
35
35,37,56
35,190,192
153
35,347
399
Charles and Flora
SKRONSKI,D r. Marion J,
SKUSA, William
269
331
229
SKUTr, Ray
SLADER, Amos S.
SLATER, John
Ruth
SLAVIN, Frank
Will J.
SLAYTONG, len
Richard
SLIDER, Charles
Elbert
SLITER, Samuel
Subel B.
SLONAKERA, wilda
SLUCTER, Capt. Glenn
SMALL, Gordon
T.A.
SMART'l, J.N.
SMITH, Abigal
A.H.
Mrs. A.V.
Albert
Arthur
Beryl
catherine
carolyn
Chauncey
Clara
Dean
Elisha H.
Eliza
Elizabeth
Ella
Elmer
Ephriam
Frank
Fred G.
Glenn
Gus
H.
Mrs. H.B.
Hannon
245
35
325,326,327
326
150
317
145,324
216,220,436
81
98
374
37
152
437
204,303
288
316
298
199
273
55,154,269,272
275
272
262
274
34
99
229
36,45,394
34
53
148
152,332
32,33,34,190,192
39,288
57,59
332,334
187,188
390
399
56,59
30
SMITH, Harold V.
Henry H.
Joan
Jim
John w.
Julius D.
Kathryn
Leander
L.C.
288
32,33,34
262
400
45,199
187,294,390
89
37,58,216,394
182
Lewis M. 56, 57, 59
L.M. 390
Lorenzo 199
Lucy s. 34
Madeline 326
Max 229
Nancy A. 44
Nellie Wood 398
Odell J. 191
Olivia F. 34
Patricia 281
Pierpoint 200
Rev. 318
Robert 149,150 269,302 323
Fr. Roger 301
R.R. 275
Mrs. R.R. 275,299
Ruth 49
Sam 387
Sidney 316
Tompthy 394
Vernon c. 199
Villeroy 45
Waitstill 32,33,34,190,192
W. B. 216,347
William B. 390
Wirt 199 w. McPherson 4,39,40,41
SMOCKF, ord 204
SMOUSEM, rs. Ermia 277
SNEDICOR,B ert 55,181,182
George and Marshall 55
W.N. 55,69
SNEED, Herb 229,323 324
SNELL, Jacob 320
SNOW,M r. 116
SNYDER,E li L. 260
Margaret 33
W.E. 125
SOBER, Margaret and Merle 96
SODERBERGI,n r.a 399,400
Mrs. Paul 281,282
SONNENBURAGl, ice 173
SOPCAK,M rs. Ed 273
SOPER, Eugne W. 288
SOPP, Thora 149
SORG, Mrs. Betty
John
Katherine
Mrs. Lucy
Odelia
SOULE, William
SOWLE,E nos and Justina
Rosa A.
SPALDING,M rs. Burton
Ernestine
Florence
Mrs. Jesse
Lother
SPENCE, Mrs. Richard
SPENCER, Dr. Claudius
Dora
273
124
326
272
124
374
102
102
301
273
150
270
292
280
154
332
Henry N. and McPherson
Miss
41
182
48
48
142
SPRAGUEE, velyn and John
Marion and Milton
R.
Theodore
SPRING, Benjamin
SPUNK, Rev. David
SQUIRE, Mrs. Robert
Walter
ST. ONGE, Richard
Mrs. Richard
STAEBLERR, ev. S.
48
266,374
297
280
292
429
270
297
STAFFORDS,
STAIR, Ed D.
Orin
49
154,182,183,184,383,390
182,184,390
STALEY, Hattie
STAMBAUGRHe, v. M. W.
STAMPERR, ev. Henry
STANSBURYJa, mes M.
Stapleton, Ella and John
Jack
Mary A.
STARK, Samuel
STARKEYM, abel
STEDMAN,
Margaret
Mrs. Stanley
Frances
Hannah
STEEL,
Miriam
Mrs. Ernaline
Joseph H.
Walter
STEINACKERL, aurence R.
STEINER, Edwinna
STELZER, Henry and Margaret
Olive and Wolfgang
STENSAAS,G ail and Randy
STEPHENS, Georgia
William H.
99
298
300
312
52
394
52
200
282,326
229,282
229
50
100
50
298
37
392
288
90
76
76
101
49,50
387
31
STEVENS,C larence
James
Mary Alice
STEWARTE, thel
James
Margaret
STICKLER, Loui se
STILES, E.H.
STRIPE, Fran
STODDARDE,l izabeth
STOKER,L ance
STOLLSTEIMERK, eene
Mr.
STONE, J.L.
Ziba
STOREY,B eecher A.
STORRIN, Elsie
STORY, Robert
STOWE,I saac
Leon
STREBBINGE, velyn
STREIT, Mrs. Mary
STREKER,M anuel
STRENG, Paul B.
Mrs. Richard
STRINGER,D oug
STROBEL,
Harold
H.G.
STRONGR, ichard
STROOPS,S haron K.
STUBER, Darbi
Dr. Roscoe
Mrs. Roscoe
STUIBLE, Ronald
STUMPHK, en
SULKA, Sue
SULLIVAN,E sther
James
John T.
Joy
Nicholas
SUITON, caroline
Charles
Mrs. Charles
Katherine
Samuel
SWANND, ouglas
SWANSONH, elen
SWEENEYE, dward
Jay P.
SWEENYG, eorge
SWEET, Gordon
Herbert
235
229
93
199
33
60
99
198
145
61,326
329
149,151,273,280
292
347
89
387
46,47
123
316
204
282
273
199
346
273
429
428
432
399
288
300
280
271,280,282,329
266
324
267
274
326
323,324,327
183
262
37,390
219
142,176,184,216
218,230,279,290
291,292,323,400
177,229
220
187
229,354
331
201
267
103
436
387
SWENSONL, t. Governor
SWINEHARTR, ev. H.W.
SWINNEYD, on
176
302
304
227
292
227
292
SWITZER, Aaron and Helen
Joan
Mary and Millie
Richard
Thomas G.
SZ\'MANSKIV, ictor G.
TABER, Henry P.
TAFT, Charlotte
family
Noah
TANNER,C leve M.
292,348,394
288
199
92
320
92,93
245
TAYLORA, ndrew and Alexander
Elizabeth
37
37
Enos B. 37,312
Isabel
James
37,60
37
Mrs. Lucille 35
Margaret 37
Milo
William
TAZZIMANJ, .B.
TEASDALEJ, ulia
TEEPLE, George W.
TELLER, Joyce
Samuel A.
TEN EYCK, Scott
TENGLE, Thomas
TERHUNEW, ill
TESCH, Emma B.
Kenny
TESTER, Ernest L.
THATCHERM, ichael
THEDE, Mrs. John
THEIS, Fr. Allen J.
THOLEN, Fred
THOMAS, Ben
George E.
Helen
THOMPSONA, . 0.
Albert D.
Crystal
Edward
Frank
H.B.
Jane and
Lewis
Lucinda
Margaret
Morris
Moses
Rachel
Randolph
229
37
316
269
80,316
281
201
299
100
176,204,205
99
332,334
288
201
273
301
217
291
288
114
216
192,399
47
35,36,57,191,312
452
316
Joseph 35
35,36,57,191,394
35,36
35,36,190,192
35,36
B,35,36,148,15.3
191,214,378
35,36
36
32
THOMPSONR, ay 245
Rocelia 191
Stacey and Terry 47
THORNTONF,r . James 294
THRASHERE, lsie 151
THUMMJ,o hn 48
Lamar and Lewis 48
THURESONE, arl 229
TIBBITS, Rhode 44
TIFFANY, John 245
TILTON, Theodore 182
TIMMONSD, avid 268
TITTERTON,M ary 329
TITUS, John P. 390,391
Joseph T. 296,390
TOBIAS, Mary 268
TOOLEY,A lbert 90,91,103,116,427,436
Spencer and Wilson 394
TOPPING, Gordon and Jane 94
Norman 94
TORONLEYK, ress 316
TOTMANJ,o nathan 32
TOUSH, Clyde 103
TOWAS,A lex 391
TOWNSENDIs, aac 90
Lee 263
William 90
TOWSERA, nna 31
TRANORM, ary 146
TREVES, Anne M. 43
TRIMMR, oy 217,260,304
TROWBRID3EC, .C. 376
TRUESDELM, r. 56, 59
TRUHN, family 318
TRUMBULLM, argaret 326
TUBBS, Almada 273
Marshall 33,190
Ralph M. 281
Samuel K. 202,320
Thomas J. 141
TUCKER,G iles and Joseph 37
Radney H. 229,278
V.E. 57
TULIP,
TUPPER,D onald
TURNERJ,a mes
430
245
61
Jerome w. 180,266,374
Josiah
Judge
Roger
'IUM'LE, Sarah
TWILLEY, Margarette
TYNDALL, Myron L.
UBER,· Paul H.
UDE, Salley
37,314
184
391
85
77
304
41,229,262
378
ULRICH, Ernest
Patty
UM'ER, Mrs. Ann
VANBLARICUMV, erta M.
VAN CAMP, J.A.
VANDERCOOEKv, a Ackley
VANDERHOEFE,. R.
VANDEUSEN, J.I.
Mr.
VAN HORN, Clifford
Mrs. Clifford
Josie
VAN KEUREN, Alex H.
Charles
family
Henry P.T.
James I.
Mrs.
Tjerick
VAN KLEEK, Asa
VAN LOON, Mrs. Alfred
VAN PATTON, Mrs. A.
VAN NEST, Abram
VANSLYKE, Mrs. Minnie
VAN WINKLE, Carey V.
Charles
277
281
3:-n
281
320
114
390
347
44
324,325
270
277
154
78,101,202
320
154
202
123,219,234
101
216
266
271
199
399
52
34,52,190,199
220,428
Don W. 52,399
Florence 220
Harriet 3~,52
Helen 52
Jacob Locke and Jane 34
Johannes 34,52
John 34,52,199,220,288
Katherine 220
Madge 52
Margaret and Mary A. 34
Nancy 220
Naomi 34
Nellie 52
Peter 34,52
Susan 34
William P. 52,216,271
Mrs. W.P.
VANW ORMAMR,a rion
VAN ZEE, Miss
VARNEY, A.C.
VAtxm, William
VAUYA,R obert
VEAL, Donald
VEITH, Arthur
Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon
VELME, mery
Henry
314 316
323
104
281
180
56
48
296
302
302
302
334
33
VEI11, Emery
VERNIER, Mrs. Theodore
VEY, Herb
VINCE, Jacl;:
VOGT, John
Ted
- VOSS, Kay
VYSE, Orvin L.
WADE, Donald
WADDELLA, ndrew D.
Frances J.
Samuel
WADLUNDD,r . Robert
WAHAB, ruce
WAIT, Sarah
WAKEFIELDB, etty
WAKELINb, rother
WAKEMANLu, cinda
Margaret
Stephen
WALDRONE,d ward
WALKEM, arie
WALKERB,r ian
Carl
Chad
Dorothy
family
Frances
Goldie
Jc1ne
Joseph
Laura P.
Lewis
Linda and Nancy
Patty
Rachel
Ralph
Raymond G.
Richard
Robert L.
Thomas
Todd
Veronica
William
WALSERJ,a mes
WALSH, Betty
James and John
Joseph
Patrick and Robert
Sally
WALTERM, artha
WALTERSD, .Peter
Mary G.
WALTONJa, y C.
Mary Beekman
334
266
143
434, 435,436
289
229
142
288
272
35,188,216,390
43
36
280,296
430
47
281
298
35,190,200
48
25,200
348
140
47
392
47
48
320
48
82
48
199
79
48
47
47
227
48
47
200
288
53
47
326
48
302
48
48
201
48
48
44
391
299
216
35
WARDM, rs. Carl
Phyllis
WARNEE,v elyn
WARNERFl,o rence
Gov. Fred M.
195
294
328,329
114,142,143,147
Gertrude and Gratia
Miss
Wilbur
WARNKER, ichard E.
WARRENb,r other
Charles
WASHBURNC,h arles
Roy
WASKINL, ois
WATERBURFYre, deric]< J.
WATERMAMN,i ss
WATERSR, ev. G.F.
WATKINSM, rs. Phyllis
WATSONE, rmnaa nd Hiram
Jane
John
Margaret
WATTS,B ruce
Mrs. Bruce
WAEVERJo, seph
Merle
Rev. E.
WEBB, Nancy
Thomas
WEBSTERD, aniel
WEEKS, Francis
WEHNESG, ladys
WEIAND,C lare and Mrs. Eva
WEIBRECJITC, arrie and Ermna
WEILANDB, .
WEIMEISTER,
331
91
150
91
303
298
34
245
191,193
399
288
153
305
273
224
137
37,245
274
323
324
295
275
153
148
82
90
326
51
299
349
429
428
Carl 122,242,248,282
Henry Sr.and John 57,297
Matilda and Nellie 57
Paul 273
WEINMEISTERfa,m ily 318
John 318
WELCHJ, oseph
WELCHERC, arl
Karl
Miss
WELKERC, harles s.
Karl
WELLER,C arl and
Michael
Thelma
WELLMAN,
WELLS, A.M.
Dr. Cyrus
Eunice
Frank
Ione
201
144
260
144
288
292
105
302,329
326
430
276
194.
117
394
34
WELLS, Helen
Marilyn
Dr. William
WENKM, rs. Lavern
WENZELM, rs. Anthony
WESSINGER," Bud"
Joseph
Lyle
Ruth
WEST, Dorcas
Ebenezer and Matthew
WESTERMADNr, . Kenneth
WESTMORELANGDal,e n J.
WESTPHALT, homas
48
274
58
52
263
393
195
61
80
55
37
292
288
429
WESTONA, llen C.
WESTRANR, oy
WHALENC,l int
Katherine M.
WHEELERD, r. Gardner
Henry
WHEELOCKP,a ul
37,266,374
331
333,334
43
37,45,56,191, 269
191
394
WHIPPLE, Almon
Frederick c.
Gladys
Henry A.
Judge
Martha
WHITACREM, r.
WHITAKERA, ndrew
Ella
WHITBECKO, live
WHITE, Basil
Delia
Edward
Mrs. Frank
James
John
Les
Lulu
Mary
Vincent
Wilbert
WHITEHEADS,a rah
WHITEHOUSED, r. Walter
WHI™ORE, Mary and Pauline
WHYMAGNe,r aldine
WICKMANM, rs.
WIIMAYERW, illiam E.
WIEBER, Fr. Joseph
WIECHERS,J ohn E.
WIER, Dorothy
WIGGINE, dward
WIGGINS, Mrs. Annette
Casey
Mrs. Casey
WIGGLESWORTFHra, nces
37,57,394
390
57,142
260
347
227
200
348
176,177
55
334
282
198
272
37,44,398
317,434.436
334
98
273
35,262
302
35
333
85
91
144
44
294
201
326
331
273
54,273
273
262
WIGHT, Lemuel A. 199
WILBER, Henry 348
WILBUR,H enry 394
Jerome 260
WILCOXA, delbert 99
Alta 123
Alonzo 99
Calvin 216,314
Deborah 99
Eleanor and Ermna 99
Florence 124,277
Hattie 99
J .A. 124
Jennie M. 48
Mabel 99
Rosette 55
Ryland s. 99
Surah and Susanna 99
Theodore 99
WILDES, Mrs. Joseph 263
WILES, Lois 81
Tholan 81,260
WILEY, Bernice 292
WILKINSONC, harles 43,202
Herman and Joan 270
Mary and Mildred 43
Mrs. Myrtle 399
Mrs. Robert 302
WILLARDA, lta 326
WILLER, Rev. Earl 302
WILLE'IT, David 391
Robert L. 229
Wesley 391
WILLIAMSA, rthur 114
Rev. Don 300
Mrs. Don 276
Harry 60,188,273,296,394
Mrs. Harry 188,273,399
Marge 270
Gov. "Soapy" 176,226
WILLIS, Loren 114,149,428
Mrs. Loren 280,281
Mildred 282
WILLISTON,C arlos A. 123
WILLS, William 148,153
WIU1ER, Ruth 282
WILSON,F . 283
family 271
Fromilda 57,226
Lelan 125
Mrs. Lillian 272
Lucius 230
Mrs. Rex 270
Stanley G. 154,272,296
35
WILTSE, Anson and Glenn
Max
Vernon
Willard
WIMBLESA, rthur and Bessie
Clark
432
262,432
432
150,432
90
90,91
90
91
90
90
90
Clyde and Eleanor
Edwinna
Ella and Eva
George
Susan
WINANSG, ov. Edwin B.
George
WINEGARA, mos
Carrie
Sarah
T.J.
WINES, Darwin
Donald
E.D.
Edith
Fr.
George H.
Henry
Julia
Michael
Mrs. Naomi
WING, John N.
Hiram
WINK, Verne
WINKELlIAUHS,e nry
WINSHIP, Pat
WINTER,T heodore
WIRICK,J ames
WIRTHM, .H.
WITHEY,J ack
Jane
Robert w.
WI'IT, Ada
Mrs. Sally
WITI'ROCKR,u di
WITTY, Mrs. Wes
52,58,316
316
216,269
269
141
260
61
144,249,266
349
269
197
288
269,323
48
320
177
34
200,319
245
215
264
201
302
393
433
145
230,304
114
205
304
WOJNICKI, Charlotte and Geraldine
Stanley
272
398
398
WOLCOTI'H, arold 296
Norman
WOLOWIC'ZA, lice
WOLVERTONE, va M.
WOODM, rs. Grace
Lamar
Robert
Rhodora
Shirley
William H.S.
30
399
90
401
267
229,400
267
81
315,316,394,399
WOODHAMBSer, thold
Carolyn
WOODHURSMTi,s s
WOODRUFFR,a lph
Russell w.
Whitely
WOODWARMDab, el
WOODWORTDHr., Edwin
WOOL, Conrad
WOOLCO'INTo, nnan
WORKW, innie
WORNTAINW, illiam W.
WORTHINGTOJNo,h n
WRIGGLESWORTJoHh,n
WRIGHT,A lfred
Arthur
Mrs. Arthur
Bernard
Ernest
Frank
Mrs. Fran!<
George w.
Mrs. Guy
Hazel H.
John
J.P. and Lewis
Mrs.
William
WRUCKA, gnes
Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Carl and Otto
YEAKEYL, eon
Mr.
YELLANDE, lizabeth
YERKES, Esther
Samuel M.
YOON, Mr. and Mrs. D.S.
YORK,D on
YOST, Mrs. Betty
216,217,292
322,323,399
281
124
244
60,267,286
324
36
117
271,327,329
37
31
329
154
233
216
200
51
272
294
195
122
272
50,51,52
272
51
216
199
233
52
302
302
302
144
244
50
142
102,200,276
273
430
331
36
YOUNGA, lma
brothers
Carol
David L.
Doug
E.A.
Edward F.
Fromilda
J.
James
Mrs. James
Mrs. Joseph
Laurie
Nellie
Orland C.
Sue
William H. Sr.
YOUNGLOVAE,a ron and
William
ZALESKI, Fr. Alex
ZANDER,R ev. W.F.
ZEEB, Cecilia
Donna
family
Harley W.
William Fred.
ZEMAITIS, Dan
ZEMPER, Dan
Duane
Rick
Steve
ZIMMERMAENlv, ira
Janice
June
Lynn
ZINK, Julius
ZIZKA, Lawrence
ZUCK, C.H.
ZULAUF, Henry
57,149,226
427
262
226
262
348
57,226,227
57,226
429
262
282
282
262
57
216 229,323,324
262
226
George 199
199
301
297
l !J5
103,104
318
103,104
103
431
430
3,7,10,143,176,427
430
429,430
282
326
323,324,325,329
302,323
268
288
292
312
INDEXo f PHOTOORAPH'S
Howell Bicentennial History
5th Michigan Regimental Band
ADAMS, W. D.
204,206
55
163
405
322
Airial act
Airplane
AKIN, Robert
American Legion veterans
American Revolution Bicen. flag
288
10
"Annie Oakley" 162
Ann Pere
Ann Pere station interior
AVERY,Earl
Mrs. Ernest
Avery home
Balloon Ascension
Baptist church women
Barn moving
Barn stalls
BARRONR, ichard
Barron building
Basketball team
Bathing Beauty'~
BEACH, Ed
Beard Contest
BECKWITHF, ord
BEEMANM, ary B.
Belles of Howell
BENNET!', Paul
Bennett Hardware
BERGRENJ, oan M.
Bible Baptist church
Big wheel bike
Blacksmith shop interior
BODE, Emil
Bogue mill
Brick house
Bridal picture
BRIGHAMM, ary
Brinaina sheep to market
BROOKS, "Bill"
BROWNA, lice and Thomas
Clyde
Ernest
Joe
Boy Scouts
Boys of Bootcamp
Buffalo & wagon
Building the Presbyterian
BURDICK, Arlene
BURKHARCTl,a udine
family
BURSLEY,S tate Senator Gil
360,361
362
156
156
193
162
198
58
92
401
350
430
120,306
386
444,445
433
260
107
254,428,435
179
204
295
170
370
67,430
65,363
38
306
102
26,27
401
75
401
432
197
398
241
125
church 223
4
75
83
9
1
Cabin on Marr road 15
Car float 117
Car wreck 369
CARR, Congressman M. Robert 9
CARPENTERA, sa 61
CATREIJ.,, Fred E. 224
Centennial flag 35
Centennial parade 38,115
Champion Fire Extinguisher engine 349
Children's wagon 62,63
Christmas Tea Party 112
Church 296,298,299,300.304
Church of Jesus Christ, LDS 295
Citizen Mutual Ins, Co. employees 257
Civil War cannon 309
Civil War monument 196
Civil War Veteran's 186,188
CLARK, Chester 356
CLEAVYW, .E. 90
Clinton Street fire station 352
Club fun 147
Coats of 1900 403
Cohoctah depot 371
station interior 364,365
Corner Drug store 64
COTI'ER, 432
County Fair 56
Courthouse crowd'. 308, 309
speech 256
Currency
Cutting wood
Cyclist
Deadwood, South Dakota
Depot crowd
DEVEREAUXM, argaret
Diamond Dot ration line
Doctor with sleigh
Drug store
store interior
DUDLEYP, ercy
EAGER, William Blake
Eager farm
Early Football uniform
Early Howell village
Early log cabin
machine shop
truck
East Ward school
356,357,358,359
76
177
402
251
222
287
325
177
119
401
47
78,79,80
426
310
36,37
413
375
70,!97,424,425
ELLIS, Joseph H.
Enlnanuel Evangel.
Entertainer
311
United Brethern 297
172
Fair Entertainment
Fairgrounds
Fancy Women
Farm family and horses
Farm home and family
Fashion 1900 1 s
Faussett farm
FAWCE.'TJIa',m es R.
FIELDS, Joseph C.
FINLEY, Hugh
Fire
Fire of 1890
Fire bell
station
166,167,176
404,405
156
100
93
307
81
82
137
432
346
344,345
350
350
truck 351,353
First air~lan2 362
traffic siynal 373
train 368,379
truck in Howell 121
First Baptist church 300
Fishing picture 114
FISHBECK,G eorge 401
Fishbeck home 46
FISHER, Geraldine 398
FITCH, Roy 401
Flander's motorcycle 372
FORCE, Howard 401
FORD, President Gerald R. 8
Foot race 168,169
Four Mile Tavern 116
Frog hunting 16
Galloway house 57
GARLANDA, lbert 58
Alfred 58
Edward 58,401
Jepson 58
Garland shop 403
store 178
tailor shop interior 224
Gasoline Train car 371,378
GEHRINGER",C harlie" 436
General McArthur 290
Genoa township float 125
GENTRYH, oward 222
Girls 399
GOODNOWM,r s. Grace 44
Goodnow & Jubb store 240
Governor Dickson 192
Ferris 216
Grand River Avenue 22,23,164,165
414 to 421,446,447
Grand River Avenue in winter 254,255
Grand River street scene 5
GRIFFIN, Senator Robert 9
Grocery wagon 18
2
HAGMAN"M, ike"
HAGNI, "Dick"
Halloween
Hardy United Methodist
Harvest Time
HART, Senator Philip
HEEG, Herman
HELLER, "Cliff"
Homecoming
HOOVERf,a mily
Margaret
Horsebacl~ Riders
Horse and Buggy
Horse-drawn Binder
HOSLEY, Wi1 1 i am
Hosley home
House of Prayer
HOVEY,
Howell airial view
Armory
baseball team
basl<:etball game
basketball team
Carnegie library
Central school
City band
church
4
435
57
301
72.73
9
106
215
308,309
59
59
67
75,108,363
81
94,95
96
300
232
132,215,440,441
196
424,425,432
435
431,433
237,258,259
397,398
144,314
115,203,205
354,355
212,213,396
Howell
City fire hall
City map
Condensed Milk factory 219
fire 336,337
Howell Electric Motors workers 252,253
Howell Firemen 115
Howell first football team 427
football game 434
football team 435
Howell Foundry 99
Howell Highschool students 137
Howell Hospital 311
Howell Melon Queen 257
Howell Motors Company interior 406,407
Howell O.i:JeraH ouse 178,179
Opera House interior 165
Opera House play 171
Howell Rotary Club 192
Howell School Board 143
Howell team 428
Howell telephone operators 98
Howell Theatre 421
Howell Tire Company 355
Howell Womens Club 40,397
Womens Club play group 442,443
Howell view 70, 71
HUBBLE, 432
Ice cutting 127
Ice skating on Howell Lake 113
Implement shop 412
Irbin's Saxaphone Orchestra 207
JACKSON, Andrew and Claudine 75
Jaclrnon farm 84
JAEHNIG, David L. 4
JEWET'I',C harles 432
JEWETT, CHARLES 175
Jewitt Street bridge "cut" 319
Johnson Drug store 255
Johnson House hotel 220
"Jolly Joshers" 401
JUBBS, 54
Grace 44,191
Roy 191
KAMMERS,t ate Senator Kerry 9
Kellogg log house 86
Killing a beef 88
Kirk's Millinery store 159
KIZER, Thomas Sr. 409
Knight Ternplars 418,419
Knitting group, World War 1, 241
LaFLAMMEN,a ncy 55
LAMOREAUXA,r lene 4
LANCOURH, oward 10
LAWSONE, rnest and Kathryn 89
LEWIS, Lyon 432
LIDDELL, Dr. 188
Lions Club performers 257
Little boys 109
child 124
Little League Baseball kids 254,255
Livingston Co. courthouse 255,291
Jail 317
Livingston Co. Press paper 285,388
Livingston County War Memorial 288
Livingston Hotel front 236
Log cabin home 54,76,108
Log Cabin on Marr road 190
Logging 91
LYONS, Judge Willis 129
Maccabees initiation 284
Masonic Lodge banquet 196
McCLOSKEYD, r. Gerald 199
McMACKEN, "Bob" 434
McPHERSONfa, mily 39
William 39
William the second 257
William the third 67,430
William the fourth 39
McPherson bank 65
bank interior 223
home 40,41
Methodist church 293
Michigan Avenue school 132
3
Milk wagon
MILLIKEN, Governor William G.
220
9
222
50
103
417
47
432
122
4
"Miss Michigan"
Model "T" car
Modern kitchen
Monroe Bros. Shoe store
MOORE,S usan
MORGANO, lin
Motorist
MOWREYD, ennis
National Bank
National Guard group
NEWCOMBR,a y and Roy
New Post Office ceremony
North East school
Oak Grovc,Mi.
Oak Grove depot
hotel
mill
Oceola Giants football team
Old bi-plane
421
437
432,436
438,439
132
1}13
363
64
363
429
388
Old
car,
County
County
Howell
jail
courthouse
foundry
44,58,232,366,367
313
Howell fountain
Howell hospital
hospital kitchen
operating room
Mill inlet pipe
Monument
Municipal Electric plant
Post Office
Post Office carriers
Railroad coal chute
Railroad turntable
School
Threshing machine
Truck
Shoemaker
O'Leary's Bakery
·an the Beach
One room school
Original courthouse
fire station
OSGERBY, W.K.
oxen team
Parade,
car
watchers
PARKER, Mayor Robert
Parker Garage
Parking meter
136,312,314
293
261
321
329
330
87
200
42
390
394
385
380
17,139
413
412
409
421
171
130 I 131,133
17
348
432
74
17,125
124
120
10
377
410
Pastor- Wrights Corners church 303
"Potato Bug" gas train .
Paving Grand River Avenue
Peavy's Mill
Peckens log house
PETTIBONE,B arbara
PFAU, Al
Picking Water Lilies
371
221,237
70,71
159
35
395
2
Plan of Early Detroit 12,13
Posters 208,209,210,211
Presbyterian church
Prince of Peace Lutheran church
Prize Bull of County Fair
305
302
106
Purdy & Woodruff store 352
Racing cutters on the lake
REINER,E ric
Restuarant
River scene
ROHRABACHER,
RYAN, Golda
Sail boat
Janet
Santa Fe Express wagon
Saw mill operation
Schroeder-Butka Hardware
School children
SCHMIIYrG, us
66
286
202
14
30
294
172
386
228
255
133,134,135
142,145
430,431
SHARP, State Senator Thomas
SHARPE, Clara
G. 8
388
6
317
109
James 401
218
229
20,21
"Sharp Set" of people
Sheriff home
Shiawassee river bank
SHIELDS, Edmund, Frank and
Shindorf Blacksmith shop
Sidewalk Days in Howell
Sketch of Fort at Detroit
Snow storm 194-1-
Spencer house
Snedicor Egg Stnre
Sprungtown Hardware
St. Joseph catholic church
Stage Coach
Steam tractor
Street Fair float
Fair parade
STRENG, Paul B.
Strobel Grocery
42
56
68,69
320
294
402
74
157
19
346
234
Studebaker car 266,267
Sunday Auto Club
Swinming
236,258,259,368
160,161,164
4
Team and Buggy
Telephone lines
Telephone operators
TERHUNEW, illiam
Thompson grist mill
Thompson lake
Three horse team
Thureson saw mill fire
Todoro's Amber Lounge
TOOLEY,B ert
TOWNLEY,
74
408
411
283
214
214
105
352
421
432,436
432
Train wreck 338 to 343
304
240
430
Tyndall Memorial church-Nazarene
U.S. Navy "Jackie Band"
VAN WINKLE, Charles
John Adams
Veteran's Memorial
Veteran's Presentation
v. J. Day parade
Westphal HardwJre
WILHEIM, Robert
WILLIAMS,H arry and Louisa
WIMBELS,C lark
WILSON, Frank
"Womenless Wedding" play
WOODSF, rank
World War Draft Parade
World War One camp life
funeral
soldiers
World War Two Honor Roll
¥ELLANDG, lenn
YOUNG,I rving
Joanne F.
Leland
Young's Market interior
Young & Pohly Market
ZEMPERD, uane L.
55
291
289
286,292
320
369
60
432
195
110,111
101
238,239
247
243
242
288
123
432
262
432
67
24,25
15
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American Revolution
Bicentennial Committee,
City of Howell, Michigan
Photographic
Supplement
1776
The Howell
Bicentennial
History
1776-1976
Written and prepared by Howell
residents past and present
1976
The Howell
Bicentennial History
Photographic Supplement
The Howell
Bicentennial History
Photographic Supplement
David L. Jaehnig, Executive Editor
Arlene Lamoreaux, Coordinating Editor, Co-Chairman
Mike Hagman, Co-Chairman
Dennis Mowry, Business Manager
Cliff Heller, Consulting Editor
Janet Rohrbacher, Consulting Editor
Duane Zemper, Consulting Editor of Photography
Published by The American Revolution Bicentennial Committee, City of Howell, Michigan
First Edition
Ah! Relaxing on the front porch with a good book .
Bicentennial
Chairman
David L. Jaehnig is a Michigan State
University graduate , B.A ., M.A. and
advanced graduate work . He is married
and has two children, and has lived in
Howell for more than three years, serv i ng
as the editor of the Livingston County
Press . He is a former college professor
and magazine editor , and a Michigan
native . He is the manager and president
of the board of the 5th Michigan Regiment
Band .
Bicentennial
Secretary
Arlene Burdick Lamoreaux was born in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, she married
Richard Lamoreaux in 1951 and they have
seven children, Michael, Timothy, Anne,
Kathleen , Amy , Daniel and David . She
moved to Howell in 1972. Richard has
been employed in radio and television and
works for Paperworks Systems.
Printed in the United States of Amer ica .
Inquiries concerning this work should be addressed to the Howell
Bicentennial Committee, 402 S. Michigan , Howell, Michigan 48843.
Published First Edition , November, 1975 by The American
Revolut ion Bicentennial Committee, City of Howell , Michigan.
Bicentennial
Emblem Winner
Howell Sophomore , Bill Kenney, son
of Mr . and Mrs . William M . Kenney
Jr . of Howell , won the Howell Bicen .
tenn ial Emblem Contest in the Howell
area . Kenney ' s emblem was top
choice from some 800 entries . It will
be reproduced for use on stationery,
posters and advertising material for
the city of Howell .
Mike Hagman was born June 4th, 1919
in Howell, Mich . He attended the South
Mich . Ave . School, kindergarten thru
twelfth grade . He served thirty three
months in the U .S. Army . He bought the
Service Station at 202 N . Mich . Ave.
January 1, 1946. He married the forme r
Ruby Dennis in May, 1947, has three
children, Sheryl Underwood, Daryl and
Michael.
Bicentennial
Vice Chairman
Dennis 0 . Mowrey was born 1941,
raised and schooled in Lincoln Nebraska .
He married Celesta Criswell , has two
children , Danette and Darren . In business
with his father till 1966, joined H .
Kohnstomm Co. Inc . in 1972, transfered to
Michigan . Wanting to be involved in his
new community he joined the Howell
Jaycees , of which he has the pleasure of
being President this year . Still furthering
his community interest , he joined with the
Howell Bicentennial Commission to help
celebrate our country's 200th Birthday .
Bicentennial
Treasurer
Bicentennial
Trustee
Duane L . Zemper, E .M .U. '42, Yale
Univ . '43. On 4 All ·American teams as a
distance runner . Taught and coached
high school , instructor of Physics .
E .M.U ., Metalurgica! Engineer . Married
Tillie Reiner, daughter of Eric Reiner of
Howell , '43. Europe WWII as Photo
Officer . He bought Nelson Studio in
Howell , Jan . 1946. Three times top state
photographer. State President of
Professional Photography of Michigan 60.
Named top Portra it Photographer in
United States '66 . State President of
Michigan Society of Photographers , ' 70.
Forward
Where do we go froin here?
As I reviewed the Howell history book, on which the
Bicentennial Committee has done such a beautiful job, I got a
tremendous amount of enjoyment. A State Bicentennial official
recently stated to me that this book was the finest book of its type
he has seen printed by any community in the U.S.A.
One conclusion that I drew while reading the book was the
feeling that its people really cared about people. While you could
read about one problem or disaster after another, you could also
read about a person or group who would rise to the occasion and
help solve the problem. Fun, friendship and pride seemed to be a
real part of the people.
The Bicentennial Committee, wanting to update the first edition
and create a photo supplement, asked me to comment on the topic
"Where do we go from here." In trying to answer this I asked
several people the same question and have received about as
many different answers as the number of people I asked. I find it
hard to speculate on the future of a country, community or people.
I do feel the many problems our country has faced the past few
years and will face in the future will challenge us all. I have
always believed in the freedom of people and that people in a free
society produce better when they are challenged .
My involvement with people everywhere but particularly in the
Howell area has helped me discover how many community-minded
people live here. The concern, interest and friendliness of our
people seem to be the real strength of this community. I would
love to start naming all the people who have made this community
what it is both in the past and in the present, but the fear of
missing many names prevent it. As long as people volunteer their
time and talent to make living better for other people, our future
has to be brig ht.
This is the answer to "where do we go from here" in my opinion.
With people like this living in our community, we will continue to
be the friendly and beautiful community we have all come to know
and love.
JAMES YOUNG
Mayor, City of Howe I I
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A Message from President Gerald Ford
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Congratulations to Howell and
Livingston County on your Bicen -
tennial celebration .
Kerry Kammer
State Senator
17th District
My congratulations to Howell and to Livingston County as you
celebrate our Bicentennial year . It is a time for each of us to
reexamine and reaffirm the best of our traditions and to move
forward in the great American spirit to plan the third century of our
existence as a nation . We have much to offer and much to gain as a
people if we work together . Livingston County represents the main
strength of our system and I am hopeful that your Bicentennial
celebration in 1976 will be a most fruitful experience. I am proud to be
serving as your Congressman during this important year .
Warm regards,
M. Robert Carr
Member of Congress
Congratulations on your fine
effort to bring back Howell of
yesterday.
Senator Philip Hart
As a member of the Michigan
Bicentennial Commission I ex -
tend my warmest wishes to
Howell and Livingston County
and that the spirit of '76 remain
strong in this area and the
coming years .
Gilbert Bursley
State Senator
18th District
Introduction
Welcome to the Photographic Supplement to the Howell
Bicentennial History.
This volume is intended as a completion of the original History,
adding hundreds of historic pictures of the Howell area to the
thousands of words appearing in the first work.
The supplement is not intended to stand alone, although much of
the material is interesting and significant in its own right.
Instead, it is meant to add information on families, events and
organizations to that already published. We urge readers of this
supplement who have not examined the original history to obtain
that work as wel I.
Again, this is the work of hundreds of area residents . They have
scoured their attics, scrapbooks and family archives for outstanding
pictures and stories about the Howell area.
Most importantly, they have deluged Photographic Archivist
Duane Zemper with their finds, and the success of the book has
rested extensively on Zemper's shoulders.
As you all will be able to see, Zemper has done a remarkable
job.
Assisting him closely were the wonderful enthusiasts of the first
book, including former mayor and local historian Cliff Heller,
American Revolution and D.A.R. researcher and writer Mrs.
Albert Rohrabacher, and the originator of the entire history book
concept, Mrs. Richard Lamoreaux.
The corrections and additions to the first book appear in this
supplement, in so far as they were brought to our attention.
Again, great credit must be given to the composition and
photographic staff of the Livingston County Press. A list of their
staff appears on the last page of this work.
This supplement was a labor of love in a community of love and
history . It would not have been possible without two behind -thescenes
workers who did the dirty work . . . the bookkeeping and
handling of the books, Bicentennial Vice Chairman Mike Hagman
and Bicentennial Treasurer, Dennis Mowrey.
For all of those who worked on the book, we wish the Howell
community a Bicentennial year of history, tradition, and appreciation
.
Fashionable gals on a picnic and a big date .
David L. Jaehnig, Chairman
American Revolution Bicentennial Committee
City of Howell, Michigan
and Executive Editor,
Howell Bicentennial History
Photographic Supplement
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From 1898 to 1909 the August Krause family lived in this house on
West Grand River in Howell Township. Krause and some of the kids
appear in the picture ; ..
Howell Is History
The clothes were always so white and clean smelling when dried out
in the sun.
The E1nbers' Heritage
FOREWORD
This little monograph is dedicated to the scattered few who
remember the once well-worn path to the swimming hole and
the picture of an old orchard on the hillside, the enchantment
of the lake's lily-filled coves and pebbled beaches, the allseasons
' lure of stumptown and the old-time winters' neverfailing
gift of perfect ice along the cemetery shore. In particular,
it is dedicated to my boyhood chum, Tar Barbour,
whose muzzle-loading army musket was much longer than
the one I shouldered but it couldn't kick so hard nor spread its
load so wide.
To him and to other old-timers, much of the lake's former
glamour and appeal would be missing. The swimming hole
hill, a rough but ready-made toboggan slide, has been cut into
and its noble proportions thrown out of balance. The
peninsula, the lake's distinguishing landmark, where yellow
warblers and sandpipers once nested and where, in late
summer, robins by the hundreds came at the day's ending,
has been "improved" and taken over by summer cottages.
The north cove, beloved of teal and mallard, knows them no
more and Parker's woods, where we hunted squirrel, is now
the habitat of the year-round registrants of the County
Infirmary, known in Will Carleton's day as the Poor House.
Well, if they get one-half of the enjoyment out of that ancient
hunting ground that we did in a bygone day, they are far
luckier than most of those who come, in time, to direct their
faltering steps along the devious paths of adversity.
Lately, I stood, again, where a certain old apple tree,
prophetically , had so often scattered its leaves over the hillside,
and thought upon the erstwhile, rare companionship of
one who loved the woods and the hills and the gleaming
waters between. He said little but smiled easily and often,
and it was my happy privilege to teach him, as a young lad,
how to swim and what I knew of hunting and fishing. But,
with time's passing, tragic days overtook and overwhelmed
him and never, by lake or river's margin nor among upland
game coverts, will I meet his footsteps again . There is a
hallowed spot on the bluff above the lake, whose waters, on
carefree ventures, he and I had so often cruised together, and
there he is sleeping away the years where the patient sod
holds communion with the ageless stars that will look down
upon his abiding place until the last day. For him, till then, a
dreamless sleep. Peace to his ashes .
Letzter Heller
February, 1940.
In the embers' "Gold of Ophir,"
Once, a sturdy, hillside tree,
Appear familiar scenes and faces
Through Mem'ry's magic alchemy .
We fare, again, on youthful ventures ,
By trails we followed long ago,
Across the lake to beckoning hilltop,
To wintry woods and fields of snow.
We live, once more, past , fleeting summers
And hear, again, Springs' wakening call;
The mellow, hunting days of autumn-
Our fireside dreams review them all.
THE OPEN FIRE
By EMIL ERNST BODE
At the last , it had been a broken and weatherbeaten old
apple tree , a landmark known to four generations, that had
been planted with its fellows by pioneer Moses Thompson in a
time before the memory of living man. One of a scattered
group of neglected and almost forgotten trees, bearing oldfashioned
apples : Ben Davis and Winesap, Sheepsnose and
Bellflower, Gravenstein and Winter Russet , this particular
tree stood at a high point overlooking the lake, with a commanding
view of the grove at the south, the peninsula and the
woods beyond, the island floating in the middle distance , and,
on the far horizon, the hills of Oceola.
During the years of its long life, it had absorbed , along with
its toll of the soil and its share of the sunshine, the dew and
the ra in, some of the very life and spirit of the lake. It knew
when the first hepatica were in bloom and where the pungent
and tender young wintergreen leaflets could be found. From
its high stand , it could see the blue patches of lupine over on
the peninsula and sense where, in the quiet waters beyond,
the great snakelike roots of the water lily, lying in the primal
ooze at the bottom of the lake, sent up their immaculate ,
flawless blossoms to float upon its surface.
In those far-away years of its early life, much of the
surrounding country was still covered with timber, teeming
with wild life. The howling of wolves was a not unfamiliar
sound and not all the bears had retreated before the settler
and his rifle, an occasional one coming down to seek the
cooling waters of the lake and, in early summer , to scoop up
hapless sunfish off their spawning beds in the shallows near
shore. In still earlier times it had been a common runway and
crossing for both elk and deer and not a few of the latter still
came down out of the woods at the west, crossed the pioneer
trail-road, sought temporary sanctuary in the dense stand of
tamaracs in the swamp, to make their way, finally, through
the heavy timber to the lake, once a favorite stand of the
Indian, armed with bow and arrows, lying in wait for his
quarr y coming down to drink. Even in that early day, before
its shallow outlet had been dammed, the present north arm of
the lake was a deep and sizable body of water, which deer , on
the move, either swam or circled by way of the island, then
but a projection of the mainland , swimming the narrow
channel between there and the farther shore. In the fall,
great flocks of that matchless game bird, the wild turkey ,
roamed the nearby woods for acorns and those farther to the
west for beechnuts and, with every returning spring, flocks of
passenger pigeons came , as late as the 70's, literally by the
millions, to loiter for a day or two on their way to their
nesting grounds in the great forests around Petoskey . Today,
neither in Michigan nor anywhere on this earth is there a
single living survivor of that host whose numbers once
darkened the skies and the sound of whose flight was like the
roar of a storm.
Once, in the late summer, when the new orchard was but a
year or two old, a file of Indians appeared coming out the
woods, crossed the little clearing and came on up the hill.
They were following a centuries old trail that had its
beginnings far to the southwest, in Ohio, led up past the "old
crooked tree ," one of many such trail markers found by
pioneer woodsmen, crossed the shallows at the north end of
the lake, turned and took its way over hill and dale to the
Huron country , far to the northeast. They were a chosen band
of Shawnees, from below the line, and were bound for the still
virgin forest country a sun's travel beyond the little village of
Pontiac , where they would join many of their blood relatives
from among the Sacs, Hurons and Wyandots in a series of
ceremonial dances lasting many days. Here with both wood
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and water available were many inviting spots offering a
camping place for the night but they tarried not for there was
a well-founded Indian tradition that here , in the once thick
cover at the end of the lake and on the higher ground to the
east , a mighty battle had once been fought to a decisive
ending. A great war party had come down out of the north,
attacked the defenders of the Indian village located here and
in the ensuing battle, many braves on both sides had fallen,
their spirits still roaming this once happy hunting ground.
The truth of this legend was attested by those, who, in later
years tilled those sandy acres for a meagre reward but who
never failed to garner a bountiful harvest of arrowheads ,
year after year , when plowing that historic ground. These
flint and obsidian heads were of two types and among them
was found a spearhead of copper, hardened by some process
unknown today, proving beyond a doubt that the members of
that ancient war party were Chippewas from the Straits
country or from the far off shores of Superior. And so this
band of Shawnees kept on in the gathering twilight until they
came to the park-like glade, where that little stream , now
called Dibble Creek, comes in from the east to join the larger
one from the lake that flows northward to merge its waters
with those of the Shiawassee. There , under the stately and
venerable oaks, they made camp and ate sparingly , for they
traveled light. Later , during the great ceremonials , there
would be much feasting . Neither kin, nor any of those who
had dispossessed them, came to light a pipe at that campfire
but a great horned owl, cruising wide on questing wings, sent
them greeting .
At long ago first , the tree heard little but the sounds of
nature, the songs of birds , the cry of the loon, the scream of
the hawk, and, in the velvet hush of the night, a fox's bark or
the far-echoing howl of wolves. It listened to the soft patter of
rain on the lake's surface in summer and to the rumbling
protest of its ice-burdened waters in winter ; but in good time ,
the lake 's never-failing drama was enacted within plain view
of the fruit bearer on the hill. It became a silent witness of the
carefree pastimes of old and young and of bitter and purposeless
tragedy . Men rowed out on its placid waters to spend
hours in pleasant idleness and, from early spring until late
summer , an endless procession of boys with fishpoles on
shoulders followed the winding path along the shore or
hurried by on their way to the swimming hole, that mecca of
enchantment where the town boys and the country lads, the
well born and the poor, the daring and the cowardly, the
white and the black and all others met on an equal footing to
seek refreshing ablution or an hour's frolic. Incidentally ,
every true believer , before taking the initial plunge, performed
a certain preliminary and time-honored ritual , the
efficacy of which as a preventive of swimmer 's cramp was
never questioned.
One warm and still moonless night in spring , three young
men came down to the lake by the path over the pinnacle , and
unlocked a wide heavy boat chained to a leaning willow. They
put out from shore and when the flaring light of a fishing jack
lit up nearby waters and the trees along the peninsula , a
black-haired , athletic fellow, armed with a many tined spear,
took his place in the bow and they headed for Steel's Cove,
considered the best spearing ground of the lake. That same
night and on other such nights during the years to come,
boats similarly accoutred and manned pulled away from
shore, in pursuit of a sport that had a fascination of its own,
hard to describe, and a lure hard to resist.
During those irrecoverable years when Life still moved
along to an unhurried tempo, the lake had become the
recreational center of the community . Boats and, in time,
canoes plied its waters from the time of spring's first
greening until chill and somber November 's shortening
days ; and in the long twilight hours of summer, they who
were in love with life and they who were in love with each
other, knew the magic of its moon-silvered waters , where
Night spread her glittering mantle of glamorous pattern and
gemmed with myriad stars . Then were heard again, Stars of
the Summer Night, Moonlight On The Lake, Juanita , and
snatches of old songs and ballads that the listening tree had
heard on other moonlight nights, melodies sung by unknown
and forgotten voices whose harmonies echoed back from the
receding shores of Time.
One summer afternoon , two boys came down to the lake,
undressed in the deserted grove, rowed out and dove off the
end of their boat-a favorite sport.Thereupon Fate , envious
and unkind, took a hand. A treacherous puff of wind came
across the waters and a freshening breeze hurried their boat
toward the farther shore too fast to overtake . They turned
back to the nearer shore where they had left their clothes and
one of them reached that haven without mishap , but from its
distant hillside an old apple tree saw the reach of a drowning
hand and caught the questioning, disillusioned look of a face
we once knew.
On winter nights, the tree heard the ring of the skater's
steel and saw the cheerful gleam of bonfires on the nearby
shore or in distant windless cove. The tyro on skates, in
hopeless admiration , watched some expert do the Figure
Eight or the Dutch Roll; but the wizard, who, nonchalantly
and with the greatest of ease , could describe the intricacies
of the single and double Grapevine 's maze was the envy of
all. In earlier years , pull-away was the standard ice game,
hockey coming in later . Between games , they skated endless
miles, down to the mill, down to stumptown, around to front
lake, down to the mill again and so back to the bonfire on the
shore by the grove. Skiing, a sport of Norway and Canada,
had not yet come into its own here but every hill that ran
down to the lake offered a suitable runway for coaster or
toboggan and the swimming hole pinnacle was the king of
them all.
One always remembered winter 's night, the "old gang" of
that period had made the usual circuit of the lake for a last
time, to come back once more to gather round the nearly
burned out bonfire built by that great rock, of gruesome
history, resting there on the shore below the cemetery . The
hour grew late and the town boys left for their homes but a
lad who lived down by the mill, loath to quit the perfect ice,
soon to be covered by the snow predicted by the weatherwise ,
accompanied them around to Front Lake, to return alone and
sit for a spell beside the dying embers .
High and aloof rode the gibbous moon, encircled by a huge,
sinister appearing ring and darkened again and again by the
uneasy clouds that hurried across its face. The echoing calls
and shouts of the skaters and the tintinnabulation of their
steel-shod feet had long since died away and, except for a
vague and eerie whispering, sensed rather than heard, a vast
and unreal silence had settled down over lake and field and
wooded hill. Then, a chilling breath , unlike any ever felt
before, bore in upon the watcher by the fire; a strange ,
prickling sensation coursed the length of his spine and each
separate hair of his head, literally and truly , stood on end.
Without a single backward glance, he pushed himself to his
feet and with no conscious attempt to hurry , but hoping only
to neither trip nor stumble , he casually but purposefully went
away from there to head for the lower end of the lake and
home.
The old trees in the orchard witnessed the flight of the
wraithlike form of a skater and of another that , like a
shadow, fared silently ahead , both quickly lost in the swirl of
flakes that ushered in the heaviest snowfall of the winter .
And a certain lad surveyed the thick blanket of white that
covered the countryside next morning, with a strange and
deep content ; it promised , in that day, weeks of uninterrupted
sleighing and coasting and the probable end of
skating till another year.
There came a New Year 's day, something more than fifty
years ago, when the whole lake was one marvelous glare of
solid ice and nearly everyone who skated or ever had skated ,
helped to swell the greatest crowd of pleasure-seekers that
had ever come together on the lake. Old-timers, who hadn't
been on the ice in years , except perhaps to fish, caught the
spirit of that day and ventured forth to live, again , an hour or
two of boyhood. Fred Preston and Will Pelton , flawless
performers , remembered all the old fancy figures, and Sid
and Frank Cooper, who had turned up and strapped on their
old-style "wooden-bottoms," narrow-bladed skates of an
even then obsolete pattern , did things on the ice that none of
the younger generation could duplicate .
A free-for-all, so-called hockey game was organized and
everyone, with a love of adventure or with a drop of sporting
blood coursing through his veins, entered the lists. The
hockey stick of the period was usually of hickory, with
somewhat trimmer lines than those of a baseball bat but with
a formidable knob at the end that gave it the general air
pearance and all-round efficiency of an oversize Indian war
club. The puck in use, on this particular occasion, was a
maple croquet ball and whether a knight enrolled under the
suppositious Green Shamrock colors of husky, Irish Ed
Shields or followed the imaginary Red Rose banner of rangy ,
English Fred Titus, he assumed all the hazards and every
now and then he found his armour woefully inadequate .
Incidentally , to be among the first ones chosen was a bit of
preferment secretly coveted but nonchalantly accepted and
was, in itself, considered no small honor.
The game started off with nearly every player in motion
and when hickory met maple, the ball not infrequently
hurtled through the air like round shot from a cannon's
mouth and it was then every man for himself. A superb shot
by Butter Pate scalped the crown from the Sunday derby of
some now-forgotten warrier , who passed a solicitous hand
over his miraculously unblemished features and thereupon
called it a day. Darby Arnold took a crisp half swing at the
rolling pellet and connected neatly with Pompey Lewis, who
had coasted swiftly within Darby 's orbit , unpredicted and
unannounced. Jim Shields snared a short spinning poirup
with one hand and crossed up the opposition with a purely
inspirational heave, rolling the ball straight and true for one
of the few goals of this hectic and historic game . In the
vociferous debate that ensued, Jim , as usual, more than held
his own, quoting freely from a rule book of which, it
developed later , he possessed the only copy. Two forwards ,
making a simultaneous dash for the puck, collided midway
like a pair of battering rams ; one to withdraw with a
sprained ankle, the other to regain his normal , active senses
hours later , to find himself with a badly swollen jaw and
several loosened teeth , idly skating by himself on a seldom
frequented part of the lake, with no recollection of the
haphazard route by which he had arrived there and the
major events of the afternoon a blank. There followed other
incidents and lesser casualties which Time, relentless and
uncaring , has erased from the pages of memory.
Through all that memorable afternoon, the clash of club
against club and the crash of body against body resounded
from shore to shore. The sun lingered to view the strange
pattern made by the whirling, darting forms of many skaters
and reluctantly moved on to other scenes , leaving the old tree
on the hill to watch over the field. One by one the wearied ,
surviving contestants left the ice, limping homeward to nurse
bruised faces , skinned knuckles and battered shins, but to
review, with deep satisfaction, some valiant save or brilliant
assist on an occasion when the race was altogether to the
swift and the battle entirely to the strong.
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Happy days!
Not all of them. One holiday morning, a boy appeared in
the channel between the island the point, skating alone, and
the old tree waved its branches in warning for it knew of the
trap laying there in wait for the feet of the unwary. Perhaps it
was but a passing breeze, but if so it was fanned by the wings
of Death. Up there, where the shallows drop off into the
depths, a patch of water, kept open by a perverse and
vagrant wind, had frozen over only the night before and
young and friendly Charley Tunnard coasted out on its inviting
glare. Nobody knows how long he fought off the
numbing chill of the water and we can only guess at the
desperate hopelessness of his efforts, but a certain voiceless
witness far down the lake heard his last despairing call for
help and saw his last futile clutch slip off the ice's mocking
edge.
The years passed by and while the panorama of life on the
lake and around its shores was unrolled before it, the tree
lived its own life. It withstood the heat and the storms of
summer, the snow and the icy blasts of winter. The sun of
seed-time and harvest, the moon that came up from behind
the distant woods, and the shifting constellations of the
seasons found it anchored to its accustomed place, leaning
over the old rail fence that staggered up the hill from the
lake. But like men and the flowers of the field, the trees of
woodland and of orchard, sooner or later, wither and decay.
One spring the old tree put forth a valiant display of blossoms
and nurtured a last single branch full of apples, but when
verdant May came again, the robins, bluebirds and orioles
that in years past had sought food, a home or sanctuary
among its branches, found it gone and soon to become, like
him who planted it and like them who followed after to gather
its fruit, only a fleeting memory.
And so, in time, a portion of the old tree found its way to my
fireplace and these and other scenes and incidents appeared
in the open fire before me. In that most companionable book
Emil Ernst Bode
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CAMP-FIRES AND GUIDE-POSTS, Henry Van Dyke
devoted a chapter to Fireside Views and wrote knowingly of
fires for various purposes, how to build them, and which
kinds of wood to use.
"Old apple-wood burns cleanly, brightly, serenely, with a
delicate and spicy fragrance. The flames bloom softly over
logs; they play around them and dance above them with
shifting colors of canary yellow, and pale blue, and saffron;
they send unwavering pennons of pure golden light, which
sink down again into fringes of mellow radiance. Deeper and
deeper the transforming element sinks into the heart of the
log, which still keeps its shape, an incandescent round,
silvered with a fine white ash ; until at last the stick breaks
and crumbles into glowing coals, of a color which no words
can describe. It is like the petals of a certain rose, whose tint
I remember and which, I have been told, bears that perfect
name, Gold of Ophir. So the lovely ruins of the old apple tree
lie heaped upon the hearth, and over them flow tiny ripples of
azure and mauve and violet flame, lower and lower, fainter
and fainter, till all does down into gray, and the tree has
rendered its last offering of beauty and service to man ."
Thus wrote the Doctor, a wise as well as a learned man. He
knew the ways of men and of nature and, among many other
things that which gave him the most satisfaction, how to
build a fire. And, in the heart of that old pioneer apple tree, I
too saw the glow of that matchless rose he knew and I saw,
also, the gold and scarlet of hickory, sumac and maple in
October's mellow sunlight, the golden haze of Indian Summer,
and lived, again, the golden years of youth that had
slipped away and retreated through the woods across the
lake and behind the once beckoning hills of Oceola.
"Wahrlich, hinter jedem Berg leigt unsere Jugend." The
wood of the old tree blazed and glowed in cheerful, final
usefulness. I watched the last blazing ember burn to ashes
and the deepened shadows of the room became peopled with
the ghosts of yesterday.
Jerome W. Hand born April 30, 1836 in Livingston County, New
York. Elma Coonradt born July 13, 1835 in New Brunswick, New York.
They were married October 14, 1857 at Farmington, Mich. They were
early Howell settlers . 1865 Jerome enlisted in Co. 2, 22nd. Michigan
Infantry. Fought in battles of Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain and
Chickamaugua. They built a home at 421 S. Walnut Street, Howell
where they lived until death .
The Pless Family and Their Pioneer Neighbors
In 1834T homas Pinckney, and his wife Abigail, came from
Dutchess County, New York to the area that was to become
known as Genoa Township. They were the fifth in locating
land, and first to settle , and to build a log house, and among
the first to build a frame barn. The first white child to be born
in Genoa was born in that log house. The Grand River Indian
Trail ran through their farm , but it had not been cleared for
wagon travel , and travelers used blaze marks on trees to
guide them .
The Pinckneys stayed there until 1838. They had sold an
acre to Lawrence Euler , and he built a log store , the first
business venture in the area, and called it the Dutch Grocery.
Pinckneys had also sold two acres to Lewis Dorr , who built a
frame house, barn and blacksmith shop there in 1838. In the
next three years the farm was sold to Ellis Luther , then to
Sarah Hunt, who married Nathan Cook, and they sold it back
to Ellis Luther, and he bought out Lewis Dorr.
In 1841, Ellis Luther sold the 159 acres to Henry Andrew
Pless , and his wife, Maria . They had been living in Detroit for
two years. They and their ten children, all under 15 years old
moved into the house Lewis Dorr built, and that house
sheltered five generations of the Pless family for the next
thirteen decades.
At that time in the wilderness this location was considered
better than most . The Dutch Grocery , and the first log school
house were nearby , and Lucius Peet had built a log tavern
across from the school. The St. George Lutheran Society was
organized and the first church was built a half mile south of
the trail in 1845. Several families in the neighborhood were
charter members , including such well known names in
Genoa as : Baetcke , Bauer , Bode, Behrens , Beurmann ,
Crasman , Conrad, Dorr , 3 Eulers , Engel, Hatsfield , Hyne,
Haecker, Hartman , Opel, Pless , Suhr , Seiman, Westphal,
Weichers and Winters . They were led by Fredrick Schmid, a
pioneer churchman from Ann Arbor, Rev . E. A. Buek, and
Pastor Meyer , the last two were retired Lutheran ministers ,
who settled in Genoa.
In addition , a host of other pioneer families soon became
members, or attended church there , including : Becker ,
Bremer , Birkenstock , Damman , Dankers , Dingler , Funch ,
Faulk , Fick , Fischer , Fink , Foland , George, Gerkin ,
Grostick , Hunter , Hazard , Herbst , Krebs , Larson , Martin ,
Marschner , Musch, Mackenroth , Neverth , Neuendorf , Pfau ,
Pipp , Ratz , Rancher , Riedel , Risch , Romer , Scheonhals ,
Schmidt , Seim, Scholdt, Stricker , Schwienberg , Stuible,
Steinmetz , Steinacker , Truhn , Vogelsberg, Struhrberg ,
Wagonknecht, Webber, Waltz, Weimeister , Winklehouss,
Whenes and some probabl y have been overlooked.
The majorit y of the foregoing names can be found on
headstones in that original St. George Lutheran Churchyard
cemetery , where they are resting from their labors ,
peacefully and faithfully awaiting the resurrection .
Henry Andrew Pless was born , ra ised, and educated in
Mecklenburg , in northern Germany . He went to Moscow,
Russia where he operated a chemical business , and several
of his children were born there . During the cholera epidemic
in Moscow he performed so many deeds of mercy that
through a general , Peter the Great authorized the presen-
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Plessland Originator
Frederick E. Pless and Elizabeth A. Grostic, married December 10,
1890. This picture possibly taken about five years later . They were
parents of Louis, Harlow, Harriett and Frederick . Their home was
midway between Howell and Brighton in the original Henry Andrew
Pless homestead. Pless was a member of the Holstein Fresian
Association and his large herd was registered under the name of
Plessland.
tation of a Golden Eagle in front of his house of business , a
significant mark of honor.
Due to political pressure and high taxes put on foreigners
in Russia , he returned to Germany , soon after removed to
Detroit, and then to Genoa, where he spent his last 35 years ,
and his wife Maria , lived there for 44 years.
They had had no experience in farming , and their survival
had to depend on using funds they had intended to put into a
business, and on the energy and determination of the
children , especially the two oldest boys Lewis and Andrew,
aged 12 and 11 respectively . Those two boys put off marriage
until the other children were quite grown up. However, they
were away from the farm when Lewis went to California to
prospect for gold, and when Andrew returned to Germany to
attend school there . Both were glad to get back home. The
girls married , and all but one left the area , three spent the
remainder of their lives in Lansing, one sister and brother
went first to Jackson and then on to California, the other
brother died at home at the age of twenty-six. Lewis married
Julia George, and Andrew married Margaret Euler , both
were the daughters of nearby pioneers .
In 1861, Lewis and Andrew bought the farm from their
parents , and divided it. In the following years they each
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Henry Andrew Pless, 1788-1876.
Maria Louise ( Klessonl Pless, 1801-1885.
added acres and buildings. By 1890, Lewis and Andrew had
accumulated about 560 acres, and Andrew had two sets of
farm buildings. Lewis turned his acres over to his son,
Frederick E. Pless and Andrew divided his farm between his
sons, George E. and Charles H. Pless . Then each of these
third generation Pless men had a farm, complete with
buildings, livestock and tools. Next the ownership passed to
the fourth generation, and the parcel where the old home
stood is still owned by some of that generation , making it 135
years in the Pless name . The remainder is occupied by a few
small business places, and factories, and there are houses
scattered on small acreages through the fields.
The farms could not provide for the lifetime of all the
descendants of Henry and Maria Pless, but the generations
who spent a happy and secure childhood on those acres have
forever after remembered the place as home.
The fourth generation living here were Louis, Harlow,
Harriett and Frederick , children of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
E. Pless.
The last and fifth generation having lived in this house
were Frederick Robert, Edward James and Richard Lee
Pless, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Pless .
Acreage of this original farm is still held by Maybelle
Pless, widow of Harlow Pless and by Frederick Pless and
wife, Luella .
Plessland Dairy
The Plessland Dairy was owned and operated by Harlow and
Frederick Pless. In the 1930's they built a tile creamery building on
the Pless farm on Grand River. One room was equipped for an ice
cream parlor and dairy bar . This was operated for three years by
Maybelle Pless and one year by Harriett ( Pless) Baker . Modern
War Hero
Marine Pvt. Frederick Robert Pless, son of Mr . and Mrs . Harlow
Pless graduated at the age of 16 from the Howell High School with the
class of 1941. The following January he enrolled at Michigan State
University, East Lansing. On August 24, 1943 he enlisted in the Marine
corp. June 8, 194S, he volunteered to secure communication wire from
the field of action, and was shot by a Jap sniper at Okinawa which left
him paralyzed from the waist down. He was brought to the United
States and spent some time in several California hospitals . He was
brought home from Great Lakes Naval hospital and was guest of
honor for V.J. day in 1946. In October he was transferred to veteran's
hospital at Dearborn so he could be near to his family. Death occurred
April 30, 1947. In the picture Robert is seated next to driver .
Pless home built in 1838 by Lewis Barr .
equipment was installed in the creamery for pasteurizing and bottling
milk and then stored in a 12x12 foot walk-in refrigerated room . The
milk was then distributed to stores and homes, Harlow operating the
Howell area with the help of his sons Robert, Edward and Richard.
Frederick operated the Brighton business . After several years
Harlow bought the Martha Farms Jersey milk route from Mrs .
Wherry. The business in the two towns increases to such an extent
that bottled milk had to be secured from the Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy.
After a number of years Harlow discontinued the Howell route and
devoted his time to farming and helping in the Brighton delivery until
his death in 1970. Frederick retired the following year.
Nellie Burhance, 1876-1919, daughter of Mr . and Mrs . Guy
Burhance, pictured at age 16. She was the mother of Maybelle Pless ,
Frances Harding and Rhoda Grostic.
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Parkers Arrive in 1835
Edward, Jane and James Parker, natives of New York state, came
to Michigan with their parents, David and Esther Bliss Parker in 1835.
They first settled in Hamburg township where they were farmers. In
1853 they bought farms in Section 30 of Oceola Township, on what is
now M-59 .
Jane ( 1820-1903)
James ( 1832-1906)-Great grandfather of Clayton Musson
Edward ( 1826-1898)-Great .grandfather of Martha Musson
Jane's Husband
Jane married Wm. c. Shaft . They were proprietors of the Shaft
Hotel which was built in 1847 on the southeast corner of Court and
Grand River Streets, where Kontz Motor Sales, Inc . is located today .
Wm. Shaft and his son, Wm. Henry, also ran a line of stages between
Howell and Detroit until 1857 when the Shaft family left Howell to take
up a Homestead in Kansas .
James Lawther and his wife, Amarilla A . Harmon Lawther were
the fourth proprietors of the Union Hall hotel beginning in 1850. The
hotel was built in the spring of 1845 by Hezekiah Gates upon the
southeast corner of East Street (now South Michigan Avenue) and
Grand River Ave. Amarilla rented rooms and prepared meals for the
townspeople and for those traveling through Howell. The hotel was
burned in 1871 when owned by a Mr . Beach.
James Lawther and W.P . Melvin opened the second wagon shop in
Howell . This place of business was also on East Street, on the nor -
thwest corner of East and Sibley Streets . They started their
blacksmith business in 1846.
In 1861 Wm . Melvin built the Melvin House at this location. It continued
to be called the Melvin House for many years, then the John -
ston House and in 1880 it became known as the Commercial Hotel and
owned by John M . White.
James Lawther was one of the members of the first Board of
Trustees of the Howell School District in 1849 with George Jewett,
R.P. Bush and Wm. McPherson .
Jennie Parker (1883-1972). This picture was taken about 1899 in
Boulder, Colorado, when she was 16 years of age.
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Civil War Veteran
Danford Parker in Civil War Uniform. Born May 30, 1825 in
Gennessee County, N .Y.
Blanche Smith Parker was a graduate of Howell High School in the
class of 1893, with her gifts of flowers in baskets. A picture of Minnie
Wing on lower shelf of little table, who became a dentist about 1895 or
1896 and practiced dentistry in Saginaw many years.
Lois Parker Hicks
Dr. Louis Watkins-
Former Howell Dentist
This picture of Dr. Watkins and his dog, Bob, was taken at the Harry
Maycock home. The Dr. boarded his dog at the Maycock's and came
every fall for pheasant season. He was a Howell dentist for many
years, before going to Detroit to practice, but never missed coming to
stay a few days with his friend, Harry Maycock and family during
hunting season, and enjoying hunting with his faithful dog.
Harold J . Maycock
Almon Whipple
Almon Whipple-afterwards, for nearly forty years, a well-known
and highly-respected citizen of Howell-removed to this village from
the township of Handy in 1839, he having been elected in the preceding
autumn to the office of county clerk. He was born in Hardwick, Mass .,
in the year 1800, and remained in that State until the year 1825, when
he removed to Otsego Co., N.Y . There he carried on a mercantile
business from 1828 till 1835, when his health became poor, and he
emigrated to Handy, in this county, in 1837. In 1838 he opened a store
in that town, and in the following year removed to Howell, as
mentioned above. On the 14th of January, 1840, he married Mary
Curtis (daughter of Victory Curtis), with whom he lived for nearly
thirty-seven years . Upon his settlement in Howell, he engaged a
mercantile business in partnership with John Curtis, under the
firm-name of Curtis & Whipple . They purchased the business of
Edward F. Gay, and became his successors in the store built by the
latter, near the southwest corner of the old public square. His partner
died in 1841, and Mr . Whipple afterwards removed to the main street
of the village, and remained in the business of merchandising until
1860, when he retired from it , but continued to engage in real estate
and other operations during the remainder of his life, and was
successful in amassing a comfortable fortune. Besides the office of
county clerk he also held that of county treasurer, and was for some
years, the•first postmaster of Howell. He died Feb. 14, 1878 "He was
one of the early settlers of Livingston County, and ever manifested an ·
active interest in the welfare of his adopted State . His record was
honorable, and he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who
associated with him . He was ever the poor man's friend . Honesty,
generosity, and charity were his marked characteristics."
Two additions have been laid out on the east side of the village, on
lands of Almon Whipple, in the west half of the southeast quarter of
section 36. The first of these, lying on the north side of Grand River
Street, and bounded by Cowdrey's first addition on the west, and by
the Livingston County Agricultural Fairgrounds on the east. This
addition is dated Jan . 27, 1868. The second Whipple Addition, dated
Sept . 4, 1871, lies opposite the first, on the south side of Grand River
Street, and alsa has its west boundary on Cowdrey's first addition.
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The Wright Families of George Washington and Hester Belfry
Wright .
L. to R .- Arthur , Fran k , Fred Haller, Roy , Emerson, George Jr .,
Guy, Robert , Clyde , Margaurite , Marion and Eva . Second row :
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Joseph i ne holding Daisy , Abbie , Maude Wright Haller , Irene , George
w. Sr ., Daisy, Ruth, Hazel and Gladys . Third row : Rose , Clarence,
unknown , unknown , unknown , Ford , unknown, Lula and Josephine .
The Stapleton-Euler Family
By Doris Frykman
Since the first edition of the Howell Bicentennial History
was published, I have come into a great deal of additional
information on the early Eulers in Genoa Township. The
original John Euler, Sr. (1775-1848c) ame from Germany in
1828 and lived for a time in Detroit. He came on to Genoa
(along Euler Road) about 1835 with his wife Elizabeth, a
sister, Susan and four sons. He stayed briefly in Genoa and
then went on to Shiawassee County accompanied by his wife,
sister and one son, Peter . His other three sons, John Jr. (my
ancestor), Henry and Lawrence remained in Genoa, married
and raised their families here.
I have no intention of making a genealogy of this article but
did want to bring out the above information and correction. I
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John Euler, Sr. 1775-1848
This is a reproduction of a pencil drawing made in Germany prior to
coming to America in 1828. He came to the Euler Road area of Genoa
Township in 1835 where he lived for a time before moving on to
Shiawassee County . However, three of his four sons, John Jr., Henry
and Lawrence remained in Genoa and raised their families there.
There are many descendants in and around this area. John Euler, Sr.
was my great, great, great-grandfather.
Doris Frykman
am grateful to cousins Lloyd Euler of Howell and Bill Pless of
Brighton for their assistance . Under separate cover I am
submitting a picture of John Euler, Sr. which I hope will be
included in the pictorial section of the new book.
In answer to queries about there being no Stapletons in
Howell at present, I wish to say that although my grandmother,
Ella Stapleton Euler had four brothers, Charles,
George, Fred and Frank, none of them had any sons to carry
on the name. When Frank died in 1961 at the age of 96, the
name disappeared from our branch of the family.
I would also like to mention the other four children born to
Fred and Ella Euler in addition to my mother, Mary Isabelle
Frykman . There were Ralph, Kenneth, Doris and Phyllis.
Ralph married Bertha Gray and they lived most of their
married life in Sewickley, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
. They had no children, and Ralph died in 1972.
Kenneth is married to the former Genevieve Ubsdell and
they live near Fowlerville. Their only daughter, Carolyn died
in infancy. Doris is married to Harold Hatcher of Dearborn
and is the mother of four daughters-Barbara Mardigian,
Peggy Grover, Mary Jo Terry and Nancy Barrett . The
Hatchers also have one son, Fred. There are also several
grandchildren and a few great-grandchildren . Phyllis
married Leo Rancour and they recently returned to live in
Howell after spending twenty years in Ann Arbor. They are
the parents of twin sons, Bob and Dick, and a daughter, Ruth
Anne Rieckhoff.
Concerning my parents, Isabelle and Otto Frykman (both
now deceased), I stated in the first book that there were two
daughters, Betty and I. Betty married Ralph Noll anc! they
live in Ann Arbor. They have two daughters, Mrs. Donald
(Patricia) Case of Milford, and Barbara of Ann Arbor. The
Cases have two little daughters, Susan and Barbara, so we
are now in the eighth generation of the Euler family in this
area.
Azel Carpenter
Azel Carpenter was born approximately in 1828 or 29.
About 1848o r 49, he was married to Miss Maryetta Stedman,
daughter of Daniel Stedman . To this union was born one son,
whose name was Edgar. Edgar was born June 13, 1849.
Maryette Stedman Carpenter died when her son was about
twelve years of age. She is buried in Lakeview Cemetery,
Howell, Michigan.
Edgar lived with the Latson family on Beck Road for a
short time and went to school. From then on I do not know
anything about him or his father till 1878 when Edgar Carpenter
was married to ldd C. Austin, daughter of George
Austin and Lydia Smock Austin. At this time Azel Carpenter
was living in a small house on East Grand River in Howell.
He was married twice since the death of his first wife and had
at least one son by the second wife. After her death he
married a third time. No children.
Edgar Carpenter was born June 13, 1849. Ida C. Austin
wasborn May 9, 1857. They were married in May of 1879. To
this union were born seven children. Maryette born March 5
1880,d ied June 16, 1927;H attie May born March 2, 1882,d ied
March 11, 1969; Perry, born Oct. 22, died not known; Roy,
born May 23, 1887, died July 7, 1888; Azel George born May
29, 1890, diea in Jan. 1949; Wallace born November 30 1892
died Dec. 1, 1892; Frances A. born July 2, 1894. Edga~ Car:
penter died April 15, 1896.I da Austin Carpenter died June 15,
1947.
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This picture was taken in 1912 at the Fred Euler home when their
good friends , "Scotch Hugh" and Georgia McPherson came to call.
McPherson is the shorter of the two men, Mr . Euler the taller one . The
white haired lady at the upper left is Mrs . Euler's mother, Mrs . John
Stapleton . Next to her is Mrs . McPherson, then John Kennety Euler
and his mother Ella Euler holding her baby daughter , Phyllis Euler
Rancour . The others on the lower steps are Doris Euler Hatcher and
Isabelle Euler Frykman. Shortly after this was taken Mr . Euler put a
large stone porch on the house which stands at 316 West Washington
and is now the home of Rodney Street .
Doris Frykman
A BirthdayP arty
The "birthday girl" in this picture is Elizabeth Spencer (Mrs .
Wendell Page). As you will note, hair ribbons were the "in" thing
back in the early 1920's when this was taken . At that time the Spencers
lived in the large home located at 814 West Grand River .
Top row : Bill McPherson IV , Sandy McPherson , Hudson Dunks,
Jim Ludwig, John Hildebrant, Bill Spencer, Sheldon Dunks , Wm.
Peter Van Winkle and Frederick McPherson . Middle row : Mary
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Courter, Dorothy Ludwig, Nancy Norton, Elizabeth Spencer , Carolyn
Sutton, Evelyn Culver and Iris Avery . Bottom row: Gretchen Schultz ,
Doris Frykman, Donald Spencer , Bud Hildebrant, Margaret Ludwig,
Charles Van Winkle, Margaret Gartrell , Betty Van Winkle and
Margaret Purdy .
Doris Frykman
Horse Power on the Latson Centennial Farm
One hot summer day in 1907 when Albert Latson and men came up
for their noon meal they found a photographer waiting to take farm
pictures . Quickly they lined up their teams with the windmill and
barns for background and the result was this picture of these beautiful
animals. These horses and men were the work force on the 500 acre
farm . The women cooked 3 meals a day for all.
Never again will such a scene be possible for 35 years later not a
horse was left on the farm as tractors and other newly invented
machines had taken over much of the work . Fewer men were needed
also .
For most of his working years Albert farmed 500 acres. He built two
large basement barns , the larger being for his dairy herd when the
Borden's milk factory came to Howell. He also had a large grainery
built and chicken houses and tool sheds as needed .
The farm home was built in pioneer days by the brother of Edward
Latson. John was a master carpenter and built originally a large 8
room 2 story frame house to which was later added a large kitchen,
pantry and open sided wood shed with storage attic above where we,
the grandchildren, were introduced to spinning wheels, candle molds,
candle lanterns and rope spring hand made beds .
Hazen & Nellie Latson
The Dolph Family
Jonathan Dolph, wife Maranda, and five children moved from New
York state via of Canada to Livingston County in the early 1840's.
They settled north of the village of Howell on what was later called the
Staley farm.
The children married, Mary Ann to Elias Mann , Catherine to Wm .
Carpenter of New Hudson, Simon to Catherine Andrews, and after her
death married Axa Cordelia Howe, Margaret married Wm. Earl and
Sylvanus married Catherine Canfield .
They were simple farm people and probably their greatest mark in
history was the loss of their two, union soldier, sons in the Civil War .
Simon (pictured) enlisted in the 8th. Mich . Vol . Inf. Co. Bat Pontiac
, Mich ., Feb . 29, 1864, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Spottsylvania,
Va ., May 12, 1864. Imprisoned at Andersonville Prison in
Georgia, he died Aug. 14, 1864. Brother Sylvanus Dolph enlisted in 27th
Mich . Vol . Inf. Co. G, Jan . 26, 1863 at Howell, Mich. Taken prisoner
Feb . 8th, 1864 at Strawberry Plains, Tenn., he died at Andersonville
Prison, May 22nd, 1864. Both brothers are buried in Andersonville
National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga .
Descendant of this family still lives in the county .
Harold Dolph
The old Bickhart Flour Mill on the site of the present Coop Mill,
North Walnut .
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Fisher-MorganF arm
A parcel of Section 34 of Cohoctah Township was purchased from
Mary Sanford by Edward Fisher on June 9, 1854. Edward Fisher was
the son of Adam Fisher who was one of the first settlers of
Chemungville, or what is now called Oak Grove. Edward married
Cornelia Vandercook, and had two daughters, Florence and Myra .
When Edward died on April 21, 1893, he left his estate to his wife and
two daughters . Florence married Albert Staley and Myra married
Jerry W. Roberts. Jerry and Myra bought the property, April 22, 1893.
They had one child, Laura Roberts. Laura married Sidney Morgan in
this home on March 20, 1902. They bought the property on July 16,
1914. Sidney and Laura had five children. Carl, Lloyd, Mabel, Robert
and Myra . Carl married Doris Russell and had five children, Dorothy
Arrand of Howell, Carl Jr . of Howell, Russell of Chelsea, Roberta
Coddington of Howell and Lyle of Howell. Lloyd married Maud
Yelland and had three children, Charles in Florida, Donald of
Ellsworth, Michigan, and Evelyn Bolan of Lansing, Michigan. Mabel
married Stanley Boutell and had three children, Jerry in Deerfield
Township , Dwight of Hartland and Duane of Howell. Robert married
Helen Tucker and had two children, Kenneth of California and
Darlene Olrich of Fowlerville . Myra married Paul Deane. They had
three children, Mary Jo Donnelly of Livonia, Michigan, Kathleen
Thomas of Howell, and Richard of Brighton . Carl resided in Cohoctah
Township on Byron Road with his wife until his death, June 1964.
Lloyd bought the property from his parents on January 5, 1935. He and
Maud and their two sons and daughter, farmed the land until he
moved to Florida for his health. He still owns the northwest corner of
Section 34. Mabel and Stanley now reside in West Branch, Michigan .
Robert and Helen are still residents of Oceola Township, and Myra is
a resident of Deerfield Township .
Mrs . James Sage.
Carleen Mikkola
and Myra Deane
E. D. McRose , left; Isabel Mc Rose and young man seated center is
Wm . McPherson Ill.
Howell Residents by 1840
The Livingston County Historical Society has sponsored a
project of the collection of picture of Howell's earliest settlers,
particularly those who were in Howell before 1840. It is
hoped that in time pictures of settlers before 1850 may also be
collected.
MRS. JAMES SAGE
Mrs . Mary G. Sage, wife of James Sage, Sr. was one of the
first three women to settle in Howell. She was born 1786 and
came to Howell May 14, 1834 with her husband, James Sage,
Sr. The other two women were her daughter-in-law, Louisa
Austin, the wife of her son, George T. Sage, who came with
them from Salem , Washtenaw County, Mich. Formerly they
had lived at Ossian , N .Y. They were joined soon by John
Dearin Pinckney and his wife, Margaret Fraser , also by the
way of Salem , Mich. These were the first thre~ women in
Howell.
Later , a fourth woman came , Hannah Maclin (born 1784)
with her husband David Austin on June 1, 1834. David Austin
was the father of Louisa (Austin) Sage, wife of George T.
Sage. They were from Bloomfield township, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
With David Austin came his son, Jonathan Austin with his
wife, Sarah Davis , the daughter of Sardis Davis .
Mary G. Sage was left a widow by the death of her husband ,
James , between January and June 1839, and was left with
children who were minors. Her children were; George T.
Sage, James R. Sage, Chester Adgate Sage, Louisa Sage,
Mary Anne wife of Joseph A. Pinckney and Hannah wife of
Peres Walker .
The widow, Mary G. Sage married on November 14, 1844
her second husband , Waitstill Smith . Mr. Smith was a war of
1812 veteran and died December 14, 1845. She married for a
third time , another War of 1812 soldier, Barker Wing on
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February 24, 1948. Mr. Wing died March 21, 1863, but his
widow outlived him. She died as Mary G. Wing on May 14,
1870a nd is buried on the Sage lot in Lakeview cemetery. She
had the distinction of being the wife of three men, all of whom
were outstanding in Howell's history .
EDWARD F. GAY
Edward Fairbanks Gay was born August 30, 1800i n Sharon
Conn., the son of Edward Gay and Mary White. His parents ,
Edward Gay and Mary White moved in 1806 to Franklin,
Delaware County, New York. Edward F. Gay first moved to
the Mohawk River region of New York and then to Ann
Arbor, Mich. where he resided six years before he moved to
Howell in 1837.
He bought some merchandise of Mr. Flavius J.B. Crane
which Mr. Crane had stored in the attic of Amos Adams'
Eagle Tavern. Mr. Crane had sold merchandise from the
Tavern for a few months before abandoning this project.
With these goods Edward F . Gay opened a store in the second
frame dwelling in Howell, and was the pioneer storekeeper .
Part of this store was wrecked, and the remaining part was
moved to the south side of West Sibley Street, west of Center
Street. Mr. Gay was the first native-born New Englander to
reside in Howell. He also owned what was afterward known
as the Isbell farm. Mr. Gay married Clarissa Metcalf Lee,
the daughter of Dea . Milo Lee of Salisbury, Conn. Mr. and
Mrs. Gay had a large family of children most of whom died in
childhood. Those who survived were Hon. Milo L. Gay and
Lizzie Gay wife of Charles Ellsworth.
MRS. RICHARD FISHBECK
Mrs . Richard Fishbeck was born July 31, 1815 (gravestone
record ) as Mary Ann or "Nancy" Quackenbush, the daughter
of Barent or "Barney" Quackenbush and Mary Rosa. The
Quackenbush family was one of the old Dutch settlers of New
York City and the Hudson River Valley. She married Richard
Fishbeck of German ancestry who was born April 27, 1800 in
Pennsylvania, the son of Jacob Fishbeck and his wife Elsie
Storrin or Stearnes, old settlers of Genoa township,
Livingston County, Mich.
The Fishbecks left De Kalb, St. Lawrence County, New
York and settled first at Milford, Mich. Richard and Nancy
Fishbeck came to Howell in 1837 and he was the first
shoemaker in town. He built the third frame building in
Howell which served as his home and also his shoemaker
shop. They had three children , Laura A., Winslow R., and
Fenton Fishbeck who died in childhood and were buried in
the old Howell cemetery in 1856 and 1857. The children who
survived them were; Stephen G., Leonard N., Murray P. (or
Philander M.) and Douglass A. Fishbeck. Son Leonard
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became a member of the Howell Fire department. Richard
Fishbeck died April 20, 1874. His wife survived him many
years and died March 31, 1903.
ELIZABETH RIDDLE McPHERSON
WILLIAM McPHERSON
When Elizabeth Riddle McPherson and William
McPherson arrived Sept. 17, 1836 from Invernesshire,
Scotland, they had been more than two months traveling .
Their voyage aboard a sailing vessel had taken six weeks .
Then they came by Erie Canal, Lake Erie, and Stage Coach
to the area now known as Howell. The children who came
with them were Isabella, who was four, William Jr. the
second child, and Alexander , age three months . Born in the
new country later were Elizabeth, Martin, John, Edward
Gregory, Mary Lenore, and Ella.
Elizabeth and William came to join Elizabeth's father,
Andrew Riddle, in blacksmithing, and her two brothers who
had bought farms in Oceola. Elizabeth Browning wrote later
of her grandmother (Elizabeth Riddle McPherson) "falling
in love with some property that reminded her a bit of
Scotland-hills and a pretty lake, which was very picturesque,
but poor farm land. Being very poor, and with four
children to support, it became necessary for grandfather to
do something about it. As a boy in Inverness, Scotland he
used to spend time watching men at a forge in a blacksmith's
shop. So that was something he could turn his hand to. It kept
his family for a few years, and then he opened a general store
with his brother-in-law William Riddle (1842). Later this
became Wm. McPherson and Sons and was run under that
name until 1925."
Elizabeth (Bess) Browning, who was a daughter of Mary
Lenore McPherson and her husband Dr. Thomas Browning,
also told that her grandparents, Elizabeth and William
McPherson were Scotch Presbyterians and the church was
their main interest. They gave generously and also entertained
ministers from all over the country at their home.
The ministers were well educated and took wit and wisdom
into their home. At one time while the parsonage was being
remodeled, the minister, Mr. Foster, and his family of eight,
lived at the McPhersons .
Elizabeth Riddle and William McPherson were remembered
for their kindliness . Their family and descendants
have been influential in the development of Howell.
DR. GARDNER WHEELER
Dr . Gardner Wheeler was born 1794 in Massachusetts . He
moved early to Norwich, Chenango County, New York when
it was the "Far West". He studied in Chenango County under
Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Wilcox and there married his wife,
Fanny . He settled first in Washtenaw County at Scio, a year
before he came to Howell in 1838.
When Dr . Wheeler came to Michigan he left a brother, Joel
Wheeler and a sister, Mrs. Mary Ambler in New York state.
He also had three half-sisters in Chenango County; Abigail
and Calpurnia Smith and Mrs. Calista Scott. But most important
to Howell's settlement were his three half-brothers ;
Villeroy E ., John W., and Elisha H. Smith. Elisha H. Smith
wrote the first history of Howell in 1868.T he Smiths left West
Bloomfield or Honeyoe, N.Y. and settled west of Howell in
1835.
Dr. Wheeler practised twenty years in Howell and was a
respected physician. He was active in all kinds of civic enterprises
. He was also Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 38 A &
FM of Howell, 1850-53a nd his daughter , Miss Emily Wheeler
belonged to the Eastern Star . His son Henry Wheeler died
1841a nd was the first burial in the Barnard Street cemetery .
Dr. Wheeler died January 11, 1859a nd his wife, Fanny died
October 28, 1868. His children were ; Henry M. Wheeler, Miss
Emily Wheeler and a daughter who married W.A. Buckland
and a son Dr. John A. Wheeler of Whitehall, Mi.
• Ali.f ~--!ll!ft~ __ _:__~___:__?:;,: -..._. - _-,__,
The old Marion stone school house built about 1845.
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The ArmstrongH ome
This house was built by Samuel M . Armstrong in 1885, the land
being part of an 80 acre farm sold to John D. Pinckney by the U.S .
Government in 1833. It stood on what is now Swann Ct. Frank R.
Crandall purchased it in 1915. L. Harold Crandall , a son, relates that a
horse barn which housed 4 or 5 horses and that many rigs stood out
back . Esbon Swann took possession in 1926. It was around that time
that part of Grand River was being bricked and it is rumored that
Jackson prisoners doing the labor on it were housed here. Esbon
Swann tore part of it down and moved the remainder to 115 Swann Ct .
and is now occupied by Ed & Betty McKeon who purchased it in 1943.
Shields' Home
It is not known when the house at 1325 West Grand River was built
but probably in the late 1850s. The Freeman Fishbecks moved into the
house in 1864 purchased from Mrs . Blackmun. Later the Frank
Hubbells lived there who sold to Mr . and Mrs . John Haas . Mr . and
Mrs . Frank Shields bought it from Henry Haas in 1923. They
completely renovated the interior of the house but the exterior was
left in its original style of architecture except for the sun porch built at
the back of the house to replace the lean-to porch . They also built the
barn and garage. Mr . Shields died in 1960 and in 1965 Mrs . Shields sold
the house and forty acres to the Sieben Corporation . Mr . and Mrs.
Leigh Thomas lived in the house until the death of Mrs . Thomas . Then
it was sold to Mr . and Mrs . Maynard King in July of 73.
Mary Shields
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Swann built 3 small brick houses, one on the court and two on Grand
River and a cottage on Earl Lake, from the remainder . During ex -
tens i ve remodeling McKeons discovered 2 hardwood floors and a pine
subfloor. Lumber was cheap and Armstrong owned a lumber yard in
Howell.
The athletes were a Mr . Purdee and Darwin Peavy whose grandfather
, A .F . Peavy .owned the house next door . They were from
Oregon State College and were known as "Peavy & Purdee-Power
Personified ." Fancy pants !
Betty McKean
Dr. Charles E. Skinner
The picture of Dr . Charles E . Skinner . He was a physician in Howell
many years and his son Burrill is in the 8th grade class picture . He
was killed electrically in 1911 I believe .
A Michigan F a01ily and It's F ar1n
By James I. Van Keuren
Reprinted from the University of Michigan Quarterly
Review
The Van Keuren Centennial Farm , situated five miles
northeast of Howell in Oceola Township, Livingston County,
Michigan, was homesteaded by my grandfather, Charles
Van Keuren, in 1836. At that time, just prior to Michigan's
being admitted to statehood in 1837, the land was in the
Northwest Territory . The original land patent bears the
signature of Martin Van Buren , then President of the United
States, by his son A. Van Buren, his personal secretary , and
Joshua S. Wilson, acting recorder of the General Land Office
of the United States Government. Charles Van Keuren,
before migrating to the west, had been a member of the New
York City Police Force . In order to supplement his income,
he had also engaged in fine cabinet making. As one of his
police duties, he belonged to a troop of cavalry which served
as an honor guard on special occasions.
Real estate promoters, in those days, evidently served as
colonizers and prospectors for land at a price per acre. When
they came back from their trips to the Far West with maps
and other information regarding the lands they had surveyed,
it was their custom to assemble groups of prospective
pioneers. My grandfather joined one such group in the year
1834, and came west from New York State to prospect. He
brought with him a nephew, Tjerick Van Keuren.
Finding conditions as they had been reported, he selected
an acreage near where Howell is now located. It was in a hilly
section with a little stream running through it, and a large
spring conveniently near the spot where he decided to build
his house. This stream is still known as Van Keuren's Creek.
For temporary shelter , they set up poles, which they covered
with marsh hay. This crude shelter, somewhat like an Indian
wigwam, served them until, with the help of neighboring
settlers , they were able to build a log cabin. They then began
the galling task of cutting out the timber, burning the trees
and underbrush, in order to clear the land on which to plant
their crops. In about a year, they were able to comply with
the requirements for a land patent, and returned to New
York City to bring their families out to their new home in the
West.
The trip West was long and tedious. Their furniture ,
bedding, and cooking utensils were loaded on a barge drawn
by mules driven along a towpath on the banks of the Hudson
to Albany ; thence, by way of the Erie Canal to Buffalo; there
they embarked on a Lake Erie steamer for the port of
Detroit. Thus far, the trip had been by water and had not
been too difficult or unpleasant; but from Detroit to their
destination it was, indeed, tough going. It was along rough,
narrow trails, through dense woods and across vast marshes
by ox team and wagon. The main trail west from Detroit
passed through Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor to Dexter . From
there, it branched off to my grandfather's log cabin, which
was twenty-five or thirty miles to the north.
The abstract of title covering the land which my grandfather
received from the Government in the year 1836s hows
no record of any mortgage ever having been filed. Evidently
no money had been borrowed for the erection of buildings or
for making improvements on the farm . With the frugal habits
of the pioneer, my grandfather must have accumulated funds
for the development of his holdings, for in the 1850's he was
able to build a large house near the site of the log cabin. This
house, after a hundred years, still stands. It has experienced
many vicissitudes , but it has finally been restored as far as
possible to its original state . In 1951 it was honored by the
Detroit Edison Company, which presented a centennial
plaque in a ceremony witnessed by neighbors and friends,
marking it as one of the "State Centennial Farms." After
proof of ownership the Michigan Historical Commission
issued a certificate, signed by the Governor and other state
officers, along with members of the Commission, that the
farm had been in the family for over a hundred years.
The house was a replica of houses common in New York
State in the 1850's. Since my grandfather was a Hollander, it
was also reminiscent of the Dutch houses along the Hudson
River . It was built almost entirely of timber cut on the land.
The frame was of hewn logs, pegged together with dowel
pins. The doors, window frames , stair treads, and banisters
were of solid black walnut, fashioned and molded with hand
tools. My grandfather had been a skilled cabinet-maker in
Holland, as is evidenced by the beautiful , heavy walnut
cornices over the windows and doors.
As the house was built on the side of a hill, the entrance to
the kitchen was made conveniently from ground level
through a typical Dutch door. The cooking had originally all
been done in the huge fireplace with its Dutch oven.
Adjoining the kitchen, excavated from the side of the hill,
there was a large cellar, in which the pans of milk were set on
shelves hung from the ceiling for the milk to cool and for the
cream to rise. In this cellar there were also huge bins for
storing potatoes and other vegetables for winter use. There
was a pantry convenient at hand, and a comfortable nook
with a couch on which Grandmother Van Keuren could rest
and smoke her pipe-a habit not unusual for elderly women
of her generation .
Meals were served in this comfortable kitchen-huge
platters of salt pork, or, occasionally, of chicken, with heaps
of potatoes and vegetables , all placed on the table so that
everybody, even the hired man , with his sleeves rolled up and
his hair slicked down, could help himseH. The coffee was kept
hot in the fireplace, and was poured as required. As all the
men had beards in those days, they used "mustache cups." It
was customary to pour the coffee into their saucers,
balancing them on the tip of the thumb and their fingers. It
was also quite proper to cool the coffee by blowing across it
somewhat noisily and sipping it with a loud inhaled breath.
From the basement kitchen , stairs led to the first floor,
where one entered a large room, which is now used as a
dining room. An upper kitchen , adjoining it, is now fully
equipped with electric refrigerator , stove, and other modern
conveniences. Opposite the dining room, across the hall,
there was a large parlor and a parlor bedroom in which we
four boys were born. The long center hall, with stairs leading
to the upper rooms, ran straight through from the front door
to the rear door. There were altogether fourteen rooms,
including a large attic. The house was thus a four-story house
on the south side but a three-story house on the north side.
Not far from the house were a large horse barn with stalls
and partitions of solid black walnut, a large hay-and-straw
barn , a granary , a tool shed, and a large sheep barn with a
hay-and-grain loft. In addition to these buildings, there was a
large, separate washhouse and laundry , in which a barrel of
soft soap was always ready for use. This was connected with
the woodshed. There were also a smokehouse for curing
hams, a henhouse, hog pens, and of course , the regulation
"Chic Sales." These buildings had all been built by whatever
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skilled carpenters could be obtained in those pioneer days,
with the help of friendly neighbors, who volunteered their
services in old-fashioned "raising bees."
Clearing the land, cutting down and burning the trees ,
pulling stumps, breaking ground with the heavy breaker
plow drawn by oxen to prepare the fields for planting-it
takes little imagination to appreciate the back-breaking
work required for all those operations . The pioneer women,
too, had their full share of work-cooking the meals ,
washing, spinning, weaving, making clothes, caring for their
children, and, in general , keeping their families going.
Threshing time was a gala time. The neighbors all turned
out to help-the men in the fields, in the mow, pitching
bundles to the thresher table, stacking the straw; the women
helping in the kitchen preparing the hearty midday meal and
helping serve it to the hungry workers. We older boys do not
forget the mammoth slices of bread spread heavily with
butter and brown sugar which we got when we came home
from school on those happy occasions. No banquet ever
tasted as good.
The Van Keuren family was typical of hundreds of pioneer
families that settled in the Michigan wilderness in the 1830's
and '40's and '50's. Our state owes much to their courage,
their thrift, and their sturdy industry .
My grandfather and grandmother had, in the course of
years, acquired a family of five children, two of whom died in
infancy. It was quite evident that they could not manage to
give all of them an eduction beyond that afforded by the
district school of their neighborhood. The only daughter ,
Martha, obtained a teacher's certificate and taught country
school for a number of years . Grandfather himself had had
educational opportunities, but he was a highly intelligent
man, a master craftsman, and he was ambitious for one of
his sons, at least, to have a high school and college education.
The lot fell to James I., possibly because he was the eldest
son. At what sacrifices one may imagine , the family saw to it
that James should attend high school at Howell, five miles to
the southwest, and should prepare himself for the entrance
examinations at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
James I. had a keen, brilliant mind and a serious appreciation
of what an education could mean to him. He made
the most of his opportunities. He not only passed the
examinations for entrance into the University, but, in due
course, completed the prescribed curriculum of the Law
School with a creditable record . He was graduated in the
spring of 1862. He opened his law office that autumn and
began his practice in Hubbardston in Ionia County, a small
village in a rich agricultural community.
In those first years, as a young lawyer, James Van Keuren
made a brilliant beginning. He had few competitors, and soon
built up a profitable practice. Hardly had he established
himself in his practice, however, when he was faced with a
critical decision. His father, now an aging man, had been
stricken with a serious illness. His mother, a frail little
woman, aging also and unable to supervise the farm, needed
James at home. Apparently he had no choice but to go back
home to look after the large sheep and stock farm. He seems
not to have hesitated. He closed his office and went back to
the farm. No doubt he secretly hoped that it was but a temporary
interruption of his professional career. Unfortunately,
it was almost two decades before he was able to
resume his practice.
It was really a heroic sacrifice for my father to make, but I
do not remember ever hearing him utter a word of complaint
or of regret. Possibly those years at the farm gave him the
time to read and to meditate, which was quite to his liking.
He was a man of scholarly taste and great physical and intellectual
vitality . However taxing his farm duties became,
his cultivation of his literary taste and his philosophical
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reflection on life and its meaning were unflagging. During
those years he accumulated a valuable library of scientific
books on philosophy, astronomy, and biology. He was
fascinated by the new Darwinian theory . He read Latin and
Greek, and both French and German. He subscribed
regularly to a German language newspaper. He read the
Bible and puzzled over the apparent conflict between the
account of creation given in Genesis and the new Darwinian
theory . He found great zest in discussing that conflict and
other theological problems with the Methodist minister in
Howell, a Rev. Mr. Kilpatrick . He wrote voluminously,
especially articles for the Livingston Republican , published
in Howell. Their theme was "searching for the truth in
everyday living." They appeared under the general heading:
"The Old Thought and the New Thought." I have a file of
those articles. They are evidently the product of a scholarly,
philosophical mind. Possibly those years, with the long, quiet
winter evenings, were compensation for the interruption of
his professional career.
It was fifteen years after James Van Keuren 's graduation
that Fanny Ann Morgan came into his life. She was a little
country schoolteacher, the daughter of Benjamin A. Morgan.
Perhaps the most important contribution Fanny Ann Morgan
made to our future as a family was the inheritance of a new
and distinctly different strain. From our Van Keuren father
we had inherited a taste for reading, a passion for study, and
a thirst for all that education could give us. From Fanny Ann
Morgan, our mother, there came to us an inherited urge for
artistic expression and for invention. Our mother's mother,
Grandmother Morgan, was related to Thomas Edison's
mother, and my mother's brother , Benjamin Boomer
Morgan, "Uncle Ben," as we knew him, became an inventor
of some note. One of his inventions, a railroad safety blocksignal,
was adopted years ago by the Michigan Central
Railroad. It was, however, as professional portrait painters
that both he and his brother, "Al," became known. They had
had, of course, only limited training, but their work was
notable. Portraits of our Van Keuren grandparents, painted
by B. B. Morgan in the 1870's, hang today in our living room
at the farm, and a portrait of our father, James I. Van
Keuren, has a place of honor in our Lansing home.
B. B. Morgan lived in Ann Arbor during the 1880'sa nd early
1890's, and during those years painted several portraits of
members of the University faculty. Three of them, of
Governor Alpheus Felch, of Professor Edward Olney, and of
Henry Betts Parsons, conspicuous examples of his skill as an
artist, are still in the University's art collection.
"Uncle Al," Allen A. Morgan, was also a successful portrait
painter and photographer. He did a portrait of former
Governor Groesbeck's father, who lived in Mt. Clemens, in
Macomb County. Uncle Al told me that when he was working
on this portrait young Alex, who later became Governor of
Michian, was a harum-scarum barefoot boy whose chief joy
was spearing frogs in the marshes around Mt. Clemens.
Like her two brothers, our mother was endowed with an
artistic temperament. She had had lessons in oil painting and
took great pleasure in her palette and brushes. Two of her
landscapes hang on the walls at the old farm today. One is
copied after a picture of the ruins of Carthage. The other is a
jungle scene of the Amazon. Her easel brushes, palette, and
paint tubes were tabu so far as we boys were concerned, but
they quite fascinated us. How we did want to dabble a bit with
the brushes and oils! The temptation was almost irresistible
when there was a nice white canvas tacked on a frame on
Mother's easel just waiting for something to happen. One day
we got our hands on a paint tube and proceeded to experiment.
Unfortunately, we squeezed just a little too hard
and then, to our consternation, found that we couldn't
possibly force the paint back into the tube. Our mother was
no Sherlock Holmes, but she had little difficulty in finding the
culprit.
Another interest of these two brothers of our mother was
violin-making. If the Italians could make beautiful, richtoned
instruments, why couldn't they? B. B. Morgan was the
first of the brothers to take up violin-making. It seemed to
challenge his craftsmanship in wood-working. Then Al felt
confident that he could make a better violin than his brother .
Al had the advantage of being younger than Ben and, as he
lived near Portland, Maine, where the long winters and deep
snows kept people indoors, he had more leisure time than his
brother to work at his hobby. He became so well known for
his skill as a violin-maker that he was elected president of the
New England Violin-Makers' Association.
At his death, I was appointed executor of his estate . An
inventory of his possessions disclosed over one hundred
violins strung up like curing tobacco leaves in his attic. So far
as I could determine, he had never sold one of them in his life.
He had made one after another, evidently with the hope that
his product would ultimately match for excellence the best of
the famous old Italian violins. I still have in my possession a
few of those he made . Experts have judged them excellent as
to workmanship, finish, graduation , and tone.
I have never painted , as my mother and uncles did, but I
have, in later years, become a camera fan ; I take great
pleasure in my battery of cameras, and in experimenting
with every sort of gadget. I find color photography a very
satisfactory substitute for the painting which, considering
my heritage, I suppose I should have done. And since the
days when, as a little boy, I played my violin in our little
orchestra-the four of us-I have had a passionate interest in
violins. Like my uncle Ben Morgan, I have through the years
made a collection of rare violins. It is now my great pride .
One of them was made in Warsaw in 1846 by a Polish violinmaker.
It was brought to the United States by Michael Press
when he came to this country to teach violin at Michigan
State College in East Lansing. After his death, I purchased it
and presented it to Emily Mutter Adams, a talented Howell
girl who is now a member of the first violin section of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She had studied under "Mike"
Press, and has felt it a privilege to play her former teacher's
violin. Before disposing of his instrument, my son Paul and I
had Rubinoff try it out when he was in Lansing for a concert.
He pronounced it a fine instrument and wanted to purchase
it. He found it especially interesting because it had a neck a
quarter-inch longer than standard. I also have a genuine
Guarnerius and a very fine old violin that claims to be a
Stradivarius.
It is interesting to note that the artistic temperament of the
Morgans has been transmitted from one generation to
another . One of my sons, James Stewart Van Keuren, studied
art as a part of his course in architecture at the University of
Michigan, and has now taken up painting as a pastime . One
of the sons of Admiral Van Keuren , Alex, Jr ., has simsilarly
become interested in painting both in oil and in water-colors .
And their work is strikingly similar.
Both cousins find pleasure in playing the piano, as does my
son Paul, who studied music with private teachers at
Cranbrook and at Michigan State College. He is an accomplished
pianist and also sings in the church and in the
Orpheus Club in Lansing .
My parents were married in the little country church near
the farm in 1877. Within six years they had the four sturdy
boys to whose upbringing and education they devoted
themselves with wholehearted consecration . Those were
happy years for all of us-those years at the old farm . To be
sure Grandfather was gone, and we missed him, but the frail
little grandmother presided as the matriarch of the family . It
was really our wonderful mother , however, who managed us
all, including Father . He entered so wholeheartedly into
everything that interested his four boys that he was almost
like another boy himself. He boxed and wrestled, coasted and
skated, and played our rough games with us; and was always
able to see our point of view when arguments arose. It must
be admitted , however, that he held us all strictly to our
prescribed duties . His whole life interest, at that time, was
concentrated on training, disciplining, and inspiring us to
make ourselves strong, agile, both physically and intellectually
. His boys were his compensation for the sacrifice
he had made in interrupting the career for which he had
prepared himself. His devotion and his consideration for our
mother, and his unstinting cooperation with her in her plans
for us, left a lasting impression on all of us.
Mother saw to it that our prescribed duties on the farm and
our joyous outdoor activities did not interfere with our school
work. Having been a teacher, she was able to help us in our
difficulties, and she felt it her duty to hold us strictly to our
school routine. She observed our progress, criticized us
sharply, but tactfully, and when, at last, she saw the district
school was no longer adequate for our development, she
insisted that Father rent the farm and move to Howell. There
we boys would have the advantages of the high school.
Neither she nor Father had ever, for a moment, thought of
the possibility of our not having a college education .
The plan commended itself to us all . Father was glad to
resume, at long last, his practice of law; Mother looked
forward to the more congenial life in a community, where she
would find friends with tastes like her own. Even Grandmother,
young in spirit, though now nearing ninety, also
approved the plan. Accordingly, the farm was rented to a
German family by the name of Snively, and we went to town.
We soon found ourselves settled in a rented house on a
pleasant shady street in the busy little town of Howell. Father
was as eager and proud of his law office, just off Main Street ,
with its swinging sign "James I. Van Keuren," as if he had
suffered no interruption of his life plans for those many
years. Fortunately, while at the farm he had maintained his
personal contacts with his friends in town. He had written
often for the weekly Howell paper. He was known as a
serious, thoughtful, clever man . The town welcomed him
back-he would be a useful citizen. Very shortly, he began to
see his practice return to him.
The household at Howell, during those first years, was in
charge of three wonderful women who had a great affection
for each other and a rare faculty for working together harmoniously-
" Grandmother Charlotte," still bright and
active ; "Aunt Martha, " my father's maiden sister ; and
"Fanny Ann," our adored mother. Things at home ran
smoothly, and we four boys found life in town full of interest.
We made new friends at school and in our neighborhood, and
were thrilled by the prospect of preparing for college.
Then, suddenly, within one single year, all the beloved
women of our family were taken by death , and Father was
left alone with four boys to care for. It was a tragic year,
indeed, for us all . Grandmother Charlotte was ninety-two;
her death seemed in the order of nature . Aunt Martha , too,
was elderly. But Mother seemed so young and so· full of life!
She had just nursed us four boys through a terrible illness.
There had been in Howell one of those epidemics of
diphtheria which were so common in those days before antitoxins
had been developed. Shortly after we had all
recovered, Mother, assuming that she would have developed
immunity to the disease , went to offer her help to one of her
neighbors who had diphtheria. She was taken violently ill
shortly afterward and died. Her loss was a blow that stunned
us all.
After a few months of helpless groping, Father was fortunate
in obtaining a housekeeper, Mrs. Gillette, who proved
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a great help to us. She brought her own little boy with her, so
that Father found himself with us five boys, besides himself
and Mrs. Gillette, to support. To feed, clothe, and educate a
family of five boys was no slight task, especially in the early
1890's, when the country was suffering the depression of the
Cleveland administration. If we had not had the farm to
supply us with some of the necessities-potatoes, beans,
pork, fruit, butter, and eggs-we would not have fared as well
as we did. Money was scarce, especially as Father's clients
had little or none with which to pay for his legal services.
As business was, of necessity, conducted by barter and the
exchange of produce for groceries and meats, Father had
cordwood cut on shares at the farm and delivered to the
stores where we had bills for produce of one sort or another.
One of our Saturday jobs was to drive Ned, the old family
horse, out to the farm, where we hitched the team, Boney and
Bill, to the wagon and loaded up a couple of cords of wood to
deliver in town to people to whom Father owed bills. Then we
had to drive back to the farm in the empty wagon to get our
horse and buggy. By the time we reached home at night we
had had quite a day of it. We were fortunate, of course, to
have all the wood we needed for our own use, and we did use a
lot. I well remember the huge pile of "chunk wood" in our
back yard that we boys had to split and pile in the woodshed,
cord on cord for use in the kitchen cookstove and in the large
wood stove in the living room which was conveniently placed
between the parlor and Father's bedroom.
We boys did all we could to help earn what we needed for
clothes and spending money. We worked during summer
vacations at odd jobs of all sorts. We mowed lawns, worked
on farms; even sold books and tool subscriptions for
magazines. One summer, I remember, I went into partnership
with Emil Bode, a friend of my brothers. We
managed somehow to acquire a view camera which used 5x7
and 8x10 glass negatives. We walked through the country
taking pictures of farm buildings, livestock, and family
groups, which we developed, printed, and finished after we
returned to Howell. We then went back over the same route to
sell and deliver the pictures. There wasn't much profit in this
project , but it helped piece out our limited personal budgets
and it developed an interest in photography which has been
my personal hobby ever since.
By one project or another, all four of us were able to supplement
what our father was able to provide us for our
college education. Charles, Alex, and Harry all, in due
course, attended the University of Michigan. Charles the
eldest, was graduated in the class of 1902w ith the Bachelor of
Arts degree. To help with his expenses, he waited table at a
boardinghouse, did advertising on a student publication, and
almost anything else that came his way. In his senior year he
reported for the Toledo Blade and for several other papers,
which brought him into the acquaintance of Fielding H. Yost,
"Hurry-up Yost," the famous football coach. Charles and
some of his newspaper friends conceived the idea that, if
Yost would write a book on football, it would sell like hot
cakes because of his reputation as a successful coach. Yost
finally consented to furnish the copy, diagrams of plays, and
photographs of the teams, if Charles and his friends would
provide the text. This book was published as Football for
Player and Spectator. At this point I enter the scene.
Yost wanted someone to look after finances on the project,
keep records of sales, pay bills, and render accounts. Charlie
got me to come over on week-ends from Howell, where I was
working in a bank, to set up and keep the records on the
project. The first edition of the book sold quite widely to
coaches and students in high schools all over this country and
even in foreign countries, wherever there were Amaricans
interested in football. When the mail orders began to pour in,
as a result of our advertising in Youth's Companion and other
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publications , our success went to our heads, and we rashly
placed a huge order for a second edition. Unfortunately, by
the time the books were off the press the football season was
over; we had a monstrous supply of the books and, of course,
no demand for them as Christmas was approaching and
enthusiasm for football had cooled with the winter snows. It
was fun, anyway, while it lasted, but right then and there I
decided to keep clear of the publishing business.
After his graduation from the University of Michigan,
Charles went into politics. He was elected to the State House
of Representatives on the Republican ticket from Livingston
County. From that time and during his entire business life,
both he and his wife, Florence, were active workers in
Republican politics. While engaged in developing oil
properties and various industrial enterprises, he found time
to report and write for a number of important newspapers
and periodicals . He died in 1950 at the age of seventy-two,
leaving his widow and married daughter, Betty, with two
granddaughters who now live in Detroit.
Alex, or "Al" as he was called by his associates, worked at
odd jobs during his freshman year at the University of
Michigan. On returning home at the end of that year , he
found that his younger brother, Harry, had entered a competitive
examination for appointment to the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. When the examination was to be held in Pontiac,
Father sent "Brother Al" along with Harry as a sort of
sponsor, because Harry had never been that far away from
home before. Harry unfortunately did not pass his physical
examination; so Al decided that he would take the
examination in his place. Al not only passed his physical
examination but had the highest marks of all the contestants
and, by a strange irony of fate, won the appointment to
Annapolis. Al was an excellent student; he was graduated
number one in his class at the Academy. He divided the
number-one honors in his class, however, with his roommate,
who strangely enough, had exactly the same scholastic
grades for the four-year course . This was the only time that
two midshipmen in the same class had ever been graduated
from the Academy as number-one men ; I doubt if it has ever
happened since.
After his graduation from Annapolis as an ensign, Al joined
the Pacific Fleet on the battleship Wisconsin and saw service
in the Philippines, Japan, and China. While on this duty, he
was ordered back to the United States for further education
in engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After graduation he entered the Navy Bureau of Construction
and Repair, in which he served in nearly all the navy yards in
the country. He was finally appointed, by President
Roosevelt, Chief of the Bureau of Ships, U.S.N. He was held
over as a rear admiral during the Second World War, even
though he was beyond retirement age, in order to take advantage
of his valuable experience gained during a lifetime
in the Navy. He is now retired and lives in Washington, D.C.,
with his wife Helen. They have one son, Alex, Jr ., who has
followed in his father's footsteps; he served in the Naval
Reserve as a lieutenant senior grade during the Second
World War. Their daughter, Frances, who is now married
and has two children, entered the service of her country in
the WAVES. It has thus been a strictly Navy family. In fact,
the Van Keurens were represented in the different branches
of the Navy be a rear admiral, a lieutenant commander, a
senior lieutenant, and three WAVES.
Harry, after his graduation from Howell High School,
entered the engineering college at the University of
Michigan. He was so disappointed at not getting an opportunity
to take the examination for appointment to
Annapolis that he left Ann Arbor and enlisted in the old 14th
U.S. Cavalry, then stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He hoped in this way to gain a commission from the ranks.
He would probably have done so if I had not, through political
influence in Washington, obtained his discharge. He had
misrepresented his age when he enlisted and had not had
Father's consent, as was required, because he was underage.
After his discharge, he continued his education at M.I.T.
and later at Columbia University, from which he was
graduated with a degree in engineering. After graduation he
spent some time at his chosen profession both in the United
States and in Mexico.
When the First World War broke our Harry was commissioned
captain in the Air Force and sent to Langley Field,
Virginia, to help develop and test planes of all types for the
government. British, French, and Italian planes were sent to
this field for testing, and experienced flyers from these
countries came over to advise and help build better fighter
planes for our forces .
In the Second World War Harry joined the Inventors'
Council in Washington, D.C., to assist in helping improve all
types of military equipment. As a result of his strenuous
work in the service of his country while on his last assignment
with the Inventors' Council, he suffered a heart attack
and passed away in a Washington hospital. He rests in
Arlington National Cemetery with other loyal patriots who
gave their lives to make this country what it is today. He is
survived by his wife, Marie Steel Van Keuren, and two
daughters, Katherine and Virginia, who both served as
WAVES during the war .
On June 18, 1913, I married Miss Margaret M. Kennedy of
Lansing. Her father was the late Samuel A. Kennedy, who
served as Deputy Secretary of State when Washington
Gardner was Secretary of State . We have two sons, James
Stewart, who was graduated from the University of Michigan
in 1938 and is now a lieutenant commander in the Naval
Reserve, stationed in the Navy Department, Washington,
D.C., and Paul I., a graduate of Cranbrook School, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, who is now Assistant Secretary-
Treasurer of the Ingham Abstract and Title Company,
working in the Mason office. During the Second World War
Paul served as a sergeant in the Adjutant General's Office,
Pacific Theater, under General Douglas MacArthur's
command, from August, 1945,u ntil January 1946,i n Manila,
and from February to September, 1946, in Tokyo, after which
he returned to the United States for discharge.
The Van Keurens thus continue their record of service to
their country into another generation.
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Charles Emil Beurman, sheriff of Livingston County in 1876. Glen and Kern Beurmann .
The Beurmann School in 1886.
The two coal black horses that hauled grists and flour back and
forth from the Lakeside Mill to "The Exchange Station," six days a
week, and then on Sunday faithfully took the family to church in
Howell.
The Hutchings Family
Andrew 0. Hutchings in the living room of the Lakeside home.
The following pictures relate to "The Hutchings Family" (see
pages 49-50 in the Howell Bicentennial History Book).
Ruins of the mill after it burned on April 15, 1915.
The Love Family
Henry G. Love and his family arrived in New York City from
England on the 10th of June, 1836, and immediately began a journey
westward, with the intention of settling in Illinois. Proceeding to
Albany by steamer, they disembarked , and again continued their
journey to Rochester, N .Y . by the Erie Canal .
At the latter city the female portion of the family were left in
comfortable quarters, while the father and son, Thomas, kept on via
the canal to Buffalo; thence by lake steamer to Detroit.
In Detroit they met some English friends who had already entered
land in Township 2 North, of Range 4 East and were persuaded by
them, on their representations, to enter lands in present town of
Marion.
Henry G. Love purchased 4 lots of the west half of Section 33,
situated South of Cedar Lake . About the first thing done, after getting
settled, was the cutting of the largest whitewood tree to be found on
Mr . Bavin's premises, this was fashioned into a huge ca'noe, and
launched upon Cedar Lake . This was the first boat placed on the lake
by white men, and proved a source of great benefit to the settlers, for,
as one of them remarked, "There was an abundance of fish in Uncle
Sam's waters ." These remarks taken from History of Livingston
County, date 1880.
Henry T. Love, son of Thomas and Lavina Love, was born in 1843.
He stayed home and worked with his father until he was a young man.
On September 17, 1873 he married Sarah Lakin. They bought 80 acres
in Section 20 of Marion Twp. Floyd Love, son of Henry T. Love and
Sarah Love was born Oct. 2, 1876 on the old farm.
Floyd Love bought the farm when he was a young man . In 1912 it
was known as Loves Corners. As a young man he went to Marion Twp.
school in the old town hall. On March 31, 1915 he married Hazel Huff in
the house he was born in . Running water and a furnace were installed
soon after .
To this union were born four children, three boys and one girl. The
boys Charles, Fred and Bruce were born in the family house, Mary
was born in Pinckney Sanitarium. Charles and Fred attended school
at Marion Center, later the Andersen School. Mary and Bruce
attended Andersen School. All four children went to Howell High
School.
In 1927, the family farm was sold and the family bought 300 acres in
Section 16 & 17 of Marion Twp . Charles Love was married to Dorothy
Miller in 1937, land was purchased in Section 16 & 17, Marion Twp .
Charles is still farming this land.
Two children were born, Norman, and Charlene Love . Fred Love
was married to Elna Kleinschmidt in 1940. Fred farmed in Conway
Twp . and is semi-retired on land in Conway Twp.
Mary Love married Henry Miller in 1946. Four girls were born,
Carol, Virginia, Rebecca, and Marlene . The Miller family are
farmers in Conway Twp .
Bruce Love was married in 1948 to Grace Riemenschneider, they
have one son Paul, who is farming with his father , on the family farm.
Thus have we briefly traced the settlement here of a small company
of English people-men and women of sterling worth-who, to the
present time, have honored themselves and the land of their adoption .
Bruce Love
Scene at Howell Fair in 1915.
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The A.O. Hutchings home and water-powered mill that stood on
North Michigan Ave . near the present M-59 and Oak Grove Road
intersection.
The Boothy Family
By Viola Neil
Noah Henry Boothby was born in Lockport New York, 1831.
His father was a shoemaker. He learned the trade and came
to Michigan, settled in Howell in 1954 on Mason Road. The
Indians had a trail that led to the Pinckney Rd. They always
left before daylight.
Noah married Harriet Borger and moved in town, now
Michigan Ave. He enlisted in the infantry with the Fighting
Fifths .
His little son Willis felt bad . He told him he would make
him a pair of copper toed boots and they would have their pictures
taken . He made the boots, took the picture . A week
after he left for the war. A large team and wagon drove up in
front of the house to pick up Noah. He was on his way to
Pontiac Mich. The wagon was full of drafted men . Willis
stood by the muddy road with his little dog Doie. When the
horses started up the dog took off and Willis after the dog. His
father tried to make the dog go back . No luck, Willis was mud
to his knees . His mother was sick. A young boy went to find
Willis. He ran over three miles, lost one boot his father made
him . But got home safe. His father's boot and his dog were
gone.
And a sad little boy was left. Willis was six years old. Noah
was wounded in service, his leg was saved after eight months
in the hospital until he was able to go back to his work as a
carpenter. He ran a shop on State St. Butcher shop carving
and shoemaking in the back part.
By 1875 the large square houses were built again . Noah
Boothby, Willis Boothby and Fred Brockway built
most of them. The early ones have a lookout on top, the last
ones were flat.
Noah built his Ann house around 1879 on N. National. He
had five children, Willis Boothby, Jennie Rushford, Albert
Boothby, Carrie Brockway, Mettie Laurenze. Noah's wife
died and Willis stayed with his father . Noah wanted a larger
Methodist church. Nights after work he would take the team
and stone boat and draw in large stone, then split them so the
men could put up the wall. He got his church and he loved it.
Noah passed away in 1914 at 82. Willis went on with the
carpenter work. He did finish work and log cabin floors.
Willis Boothby married Mary Lawrenze from Detroit in
1897.
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He loved baseball and played on the Howell team for years .
He liked to fish, he caught 26 fish out of one hole. Frank
Cooper got 14 fish out of the same hole. This was the talk of
Howell Lake about 1910. The last house he built at the age of
76 years. It was on Fowler and Livingston St. Willis was a
Methodist also . He got his first skates on the church
Christmas tree at 9 years old. He was a good skater. He had
two children, Ethel Frey of Detroit and Viola Dunlop at
home. He lost his wife in 1920. He still lives in the home his
father built.
Viola married John Dunlop. Willis made his home with
them for twenty eight years, and died in 1945a t the age of 87.
John was employed at the Howell pistons 23 years and
Electric Red Bond Motors twenty one.
Viola had an antique shop on E. Sibley Street for thirty two
years. She retired in 1967-they have four children, all in
Howell. Margaret Erb, owner of the Erb Lime Stone on
Bower. Robert Dunlop lives in the old Skilbeck house where
the cattle buyers stayed on Sibley St. John Dunlap owns the
old Blain home on Bigelow and Eager Rd. Betty Sartwell
owns the old Wilcox farm in Oceola and Viola still lives in the
old home on National that grandad built .
Noah Boothby
Boothby home , N . National, 1882.
The Walker Home
This picture was taken in 1913. They are Mr . and Mrs . John Walker
and 2 daughters, Ruby and Lucille . The lady standing on the porch is
Mrs. Henry Beurman a sister of Mr . Walker . Mr . Walker had retired
from his farm on Latson Road and bought the Doctor Mills house at
S09 N. State St.
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Culver's Triangle
Yes , I remember when - and I th ink there are numerous other "kids
my age"-younger,-older , who recall the good t i mes at Culver ' s
T ri angle , espec ially du ri ng the JO's and early 1940' s.
My folks, Charles K. and Ruth B. CP hi llips) Culver built and
operated the Triangle , located on a triangular piece of land (thus the
name ), 2½ miles west of Howell on Grand River Avenue . (I always
will remember hear i ng those big trucks shifting and grinding up that
steep hill!).
The original upright was erected in about 1924, and sometime later ,
my father enlarged the place by adding a double width room across
the front , plus porch and entry.
At this time, customer service was provided through one of the front
windows for drive -in customers, as well as tables available inside for
leisure d ining .
We also had the old t i me " crank " gasoline pumps . We sold gas and
oi l, there was a cabin so travelers or truckers could stay the night , and
we also provided space for house trailers.
My mother was an excellent cook and for a time we served home
style ch icken dinners w ith all the f i xin's , every week-end . However , it
proved to be too much for her , so we specia l ized in sandwiches ,
homemade pies , etc, from then on .
Later, my father further improved and enlarged the bu i lding, by
enclosing the front entry.
Ours was a family operation and we were the chief cooks and bottle
washer. The specialty of the house was a variety of delicious Bar - B-Q
sandwiches, C Ham, beef, pork and ch icken) enhanced with a special
chili sauce . C People still ask me about them .)
Many of the local people were regular customers as well as
travelers who made it a point to stoo in for some of our sandwiches
whenever they were in the area .
The Triangle was also a gathering place for th~ school crowd . They
could come there, dance and have a good time , not to worry about
static at home as a result .
It had a family atmosphere and we knew most of our customers by
name . They would stop by after the show , fellows would bring their
dates for a snack, groups came out after bowling or playing ball . We
often had receptions and other special occasions for those requesting
it.
My father was a great horse shoe pitcher, and kept a court in
readiness on the lawn . Whenever he could, he and a customer or two
would take time out for a game .
My folks gave me a party one winter-it was either for my 16th
Birthday or Valentine ' s Day-not sure now , which, but there were
quite a few friends from school. We were having a great time dancing
to the Juke Box, probably the Beer Barrel Polka or other lively tune
and suddenly the door opened to a nearby buffet and a whole stack of
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china went rattling onto the floor! Surprisingly, nothing was broken ,
but the incident stuck in our minds and was laughingly mentioned to
me several times after that , by those who had been present .
In May , the 21st, 1940 I marr ied Don . B. Britten, who was in business
w ith his father, C.E . Br itten , Garage and Wrecker Service at 714 E .
Gd . River . C Incidentally , the i r phone number at that time was
Number 4).
In the fall of 1941 my father died suddenly after a short illness.
The second World War was in progress, help was hard to find, and
due to this, we initiated a self-serve program into the business which
eventually proved to be quite popular, since it made for quicker
service . I believe we were one of the first to use this method .
An episode of a "near miss" stands out in my memory-We had
qu ite a few customers that afternoon, when a tornado struck. The sky
was black as night and it sounded like many freight tra ins passing
over . We could see the ceil i ng fluctuate and the lights dimmed ,
blinked and went out . We lit some candles and put them in strategic
places. We had a gas stove and oven that we used to heat the sand -
wiches , so could continue fo fill the orders for our customers.
We were lucky . When the storm abated , we found it had wrecked a
big barn across the road , but the funnel had lifted enough to miss our
building, although it had ripped off all the railing on the roof. We
never found any of the signs it blew away .
Another incident that went over with a bang, literally! One of our
regular customers was traveling east on Grand River . He decided to
stop in that afternoon, but when he started to turn, his auto struck a
patch of ice on the pavement and the car smashed into the front entrance
of our place before the car stopped moving . The gentleman
was alone and was not hurt , nor was anyone hurt in the building, but
the coll is ion jam med the front door . It had to be removed before
anyone could get i n or out .
The accident happened on a week-end, so with canvas draped over
the entry as securely as possible C middle of winter}, it was business as
usual, for about three weeks until repairs could be made .
Three years later , we decided to sell the Triangle. It had been under
or iginal ownership for over 20 years .
After we sold the business , it changed hands several times, and
eventually burned to the ground .
Since growing up in the business world , I found that even though my
husband was in business and we had a growing family, things didn't
seem complete without my having a finger in the pie somewhere! My
husband and his father discontinued the garage-wrecker business and
went into Excavation work for a number of years . Many local people
had their basements excavated and lawns graded by C.E . Britten and
Son.
During this time Don bought his father's share of the business, then
later sold the equipment and we entered the new and used furniture
business at our farm, still in the Howell area.
About 1 s years later we sold the farm and moved to our present
location.
There has been an unusual twist in our world of business. I play with
dolls all day-how's that for a fun occupation? I am referring to
Herriette's Doll Hospital and Sales, 205 E . M59, Howell.
It is a unique and extremely busy home business where local and
distant Michiganders, as well as out of state customers bring or send
ailing dolls for "tender, loving care".
All kinds of antique and near antique dolls travel many miles to the
hospital to be restored back to health.
An unlimited variety of handmade costumes are fashioned for these
dolls in appropriate styles. Designing originals, or copying old garments
or pictures is a specialty. Wigs, stands and other accessories,
dressed dolls, kits, old fashioned sunbonnets in all sizes and colors for
dolls, children and grown-ups are displayed in the showrooms.
This is our 5th year in "Dolls" and we are celebrating along with the
Bicentennial.
The doll has a limp, and her hair is a mess-
There's a pain in her sawdust, she needs help-oh yes!
An arm is missing and her eyes are crossed-
Her clothing's in shreds and she feels so lost.
The poor little darling, long lost in the attic-
Send her to Harriette--no need to get frantic.
Dolls are my business, its a pleasure for sure-
All manner of dolls come here for "the cure"!
Now her body's restrung, or patched if its leather-
Her eyes are working and she's all together.
Every hair is in place--a real lady, but oh-
Last but not least-now, wouldn't you know?
A new wardrobe to suit her is next, I trust-
Especially designed for her age is a must!
A little girl and her Christmas gifts.
Undies so fine, with tucks, ribbons and lace-
Then a gown that is stylish, to flatter her face .
No matter the problem, there's always a way-
To fix up your doll, so send her today!
HARRIETTE ROSE CULVER BRITTEN
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cars .
The Craft Family
Laura Jane Hunn was born in Bronson Michigan April 22, 1848. She
with her parents Gideon and Anna Hunn moved to this farm in 1850,
when she was only two years old . And where for more than 70 years
she lived . She was married to George Craft Feb. 17, 1869. George Craft
was born in Orange County , N .Y February 11, 1837. Came to Michigan
in 1863. Lived in Genoa Township, worked around Chilson when he
met and married Laura Jane Hunn of Marion Township. To them
were born two children . Harvey G. Craft and Hattie Craft . Hattie
Craft married Charley Rider of Handy Township. They had one child,
Cecil Rider .
Harvey G. Craft was born on the Hunn farm in 1870, and in 1901 he
met and married Edith Mabel Pierce, to them were born 6 children.
Eveline, Walter, Anna, Leila, Rex and Bruce . After their marriage
they lived with his folks a while then bought the Gail farm and lived
there 2 years . They had to sell, come back and care for his father and
mother .
George Craft died January 19, 1913. Laura Jan Hunn Craft on Oct .
24, 1921. She lived on the farm all her life, except 2 years .
There was a log house that stood farther West in the field from the
house. We have no picture of the log house. The old part of the house
that now stands is well over 100 years old. The beams are logs that
were cut from the farm. The new part was built in 1900. The land in the
farm was considered about the best in the township. Our greatest
attraction was our windmill. It was one that would tilt, so it could be
worked on without climbing up . We did this good many times for
people to let them see how it works . Only one like that for miles
around . Our first car, a Regal, black leather top, we think about a 1913
model.
George Craft as a young man worked at the Ann Arbor railroad .
When it first went through Howell, Howell was just a swamp he
remembers .
Our great-great-grandfather Parson Hunn had a big peach orchard.
He had one special kind of peach people seem to want called
milkatune. It was quite a large peach. I remember I saw just one of
them. After some years passed his grandson Harvey wanted to follow
in his grandfathers' steps. He started out berries, for a year or two.
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Then he started his peach orchard, but couldn't find a milkatune
peach, so he put in some apple trees. He always had a good sale in
Howell and around. He always let the people come to the orchard
which they all loved to do . The women would gather the fruit up in
their aprons, which my father liked to see. He knew they were all
happy ,
Anna M . Craft
8am Builders
Barn building 1913 at the Hardy farm Highland Rd . by the Gontack
brothers and Frank Daniels (holding hammer) long time resident of
Howell. Frank's parents Paddy & Catherine Daniels came to this area
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from Arthur, Canada and lived on Greene Rd. Later when the house
burned, Frank moved his family to the house on Eager Rd . which is
still standing .
The Smith Farm, 1835
By Harold F. Smith
The farm (Section 7, Marion Twp.) was taken up from the
Government on September 16th, 1835 by my great , great
grandfather, Stoddard Smith. He came to Michigan from
Greenville, New York at that time. His son, Pierpont, came
to Byron Michigan from New York a short time before, and
built and operated a water powered mill in that settlement.
Soon after 1835, Pierpont came to Marion Twp. and purchased
property adjoining that of Stoddard's. The Gus Smith
that is mentioned in the Civil War report in The Howell
Bicentennial History was Pierpont's son, Wm. Augustus
Smith, an older brother of my Grandfather, Junius.
Junius also was a soldier in the Civil War was wounded in
the same battle in which Gus received his fatal injuries.
Stoddard Smith and wife, Betsy Lee, were two of the first
burials in the Lake Cemetery, he in 1842 and she in 1847. In
later years, Pierpont and his wife and their three sons and
three daughters were also buried there . My grandfather,
ShropshireS heep
Timothy Smith , former post master in Howell and Robert R . Smith,
grandfather of Louis Parker Hicks in the i r sheep shearing clothes .
This probably was taken about 1868-1870. They acquired quite a
reputation for shearing the largest number of sheep in a single day .
Junius, was the only one of this large family to have a family
(my father , Gus B. Smith, and his two sisters).
I am the only son of Gus B. and now own the farm. Now our
son, Ron, also has a home on this farm .
Order of descendents of owners of this farm (Sec. 7, Marion
Twp. Liv. Co.)
Stoddard Smith-1835
Pierpont Smith
Junius Smith
Gus B. Smith
Harold L. Smith
also
Ronald M. Smith now has a home on this property. It has
never been out of the Smith family since 1835.
Indian Legend
This Indian Tree is one of six in the state. It is at Cedar Point on
Cedar Lake . The legend is when Indian tribes make peace treaties
they would take a small oak and bend it in this shape. They would then
be friends as long as the tree lived. The tree is believed to be 300 years
old .
Reed F annhouse
Rocky Ridge, dairy and fruit farm on Jewell Road owned by Hiram
E. Reed and his wife Rebecca Tubbs Reed. Starting in the early
1900's, their sons, J. Lewis, then Charles P. Reed managed this farm
in Marion Township. This picture shows the back of the 14-room house
with the windmill used for power . Note under the clump of bushes
near the side porch, the stepping-stone rock for passengers and hitching
post for buggies. The farm totaled 180 acres, part of it backed on
the north side by the Michigan State Sanatorium . Charles P. Reed
( 1878-1955) had master degree in horticulture from Michigan State
University and spent five years with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture before returning to the farm . He served on the board of
directors of the Howell Co-op Company for 27 years and as its
president for several terms. His wife , Ora Woodin Reed, remembers
leaving the farm at 2 a .m . to take a load of fruit to Detroit's Eastern
Market . After the cows were milked, Charles would follow with a
second load. All kinds of small fruit were grown on the farm . During
harvest time about 40 pickers were needed. Ora Reed recalls when the
telephone was installed there were 23 subscribers on their party line.
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Reed Leader in Holsteins
R. Clark Reed was one of the leading livestock growers in Michigan.
He owned one of the largest herds of Holstein-Fresian cattle.
Fairlawn Farm, located North-East of Howell, owned by Reed-
Knowels was known throughout the state for its Champion Holstein
cattle. The Diamond Dot Market now occupies that location .
Reed was a candidate for Michigan governor in 1906. He was one of
the founders of the Michigan Milk Producers Association. He was
secretary of the Livingston County Breeders Association and
President of the Holstein-Fresian Association .
Clark came with his Father Linus and stepmother Hulda, from
Cortland County N.Y. to this state in 1865. They settled just South of
Howell where his Father owned and operated what was later known
as the Parsons Farm, located in Genoa Twp.
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Liebermans in 1947
Liebermans Farm Service
In the early 1900's Elmer Lieberman ran a very successful business
in Detroit Mich . on the weekends he and his family visited his cottage
in Oak Grove . As the depression approached he felt he should sell his
business in Detroit.
In 1930 Elmer and his oldest son John decided to purchase a garage
and start a family business to service the rural community of Oak
Grove . Elmer's first business was located in the back of a barn
located on the corner of Sanford and Faussett Rd. in Oak Grove, now
owned by his son Harold . Business was doing so well that Elmer
purchased a much larger building on Hicks Rd . now Faussett Rd.
formerly owned by the Rohrabacher family, adjacent to Pearce's
Store . Elmer was not only a good mechanic but a good machinest , he
also was director of local schools.
By about 1940 John was married and returned to Detroit and
Elmer's younger sons Arnold, Harold and Donald worked for their
father in the garage . By about 1945 Elmer purchased another building
across the street from S. Campbell formerly a grocery store and used
this building to sell farm equipment and implements also many other
misc. items.
Later in the 1950's still another building was purchased in Oak
Grove from Fred Bell who used it as a Blacksmith Shop . Elmer used
his new building to assemble large farm machinery . Later the
building was used as a body shop by his youngest son Donald . Elmer
and sons spent many long enjoyable hours meeting new people and
serving the community . The business was sold in 1967 and is missed
by all.
Barbara Lieberman , Pat Lieberman Van Patten
And Marguerite Lieberman
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Delivering a new tractor in 1947.
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Anderson School on the corner of Cedar Lake Road and Jewell, 1933.
1st row-L. to R.-Merrit , Merrit, Donna Marshall, Martin, Pearl
Marshall, Harden, Wayne Hayden, Unknown, Gorden Ely, LaRue
Mead, 2nd row-Unknown, John Harmon Jr., Unknown, 3rd row-
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Beverly Mead, Merrit, Merrit, Eleanor Harter, Doris Harmon, Sumner
Drew, Donald Harter, Samuel Bailo, Teacher, Cystal Steinacher,
Merrit, William Martin .
The Drew Farm
Townsend D r ew , wife Sarah and two year old son Sheridan headed
west from the fi nger lakes region of New York in 1936 in a wagon
pulled by oxen . They reached M i chigan in the spring of the same year ,
as they were fording the spring flooded Shiawassee River , the wagon
got wet and their youngest daughter, who was born on the journey
died . They settled there at the grave site, section 3 of Marion
Townsh i p. This was later called the Drew Cemetery still located on
County Farm Road directly across from the entrance to Hillcrest
Center .
Townsend took up 23S acres from the government and went on to
acquire 6S4 acres total. The first framed house in Marion Township
was built for Townsend Drew and his family by Thomas Bennett,
which now stands at 2800 Norton Road . Townsend and wife Sarah had
eight children . Sarah and the youngest son Mired died of a virus
within the same week . Townsend remarried Jane Austin in 1847 and
had eight more children .
Sheridan Drew , Townsend ' s eldest sond married Eliza Love in 1863.
His father gave him 71 acres west of his farm . Sheridan Drew was a
farmer and a poet , he lived to be 93. His wife Eliza was coming home
from town on Walnut Street as a train was approaching, it frightened
the horses into a run-a-way and she was thrown from the buggy and
was killed in 1910. Their first child Byron died at age one . Eula
married Willard Hoyt of Marion Township . They both were school
teachers for 17 years in Chicago and returned to Howell. Mary
married Fredrick Phelps and they were divorced . Mary remarr ied
Samuel Lyons of Howell. Both Eula and Mary were childless. Their
fourth child, a daughter died at age two .
Arthur L. Drew the youngest son married Louise Marlow. Her
father , Charles Marlow owned the land that Hillcrest Center is located
on. The State of Michigan wanted to build a hospital on Charles
Marlows land because it was the highest point in Southern Michigan .
The State requis itioned the land from the Marlow ' s, then they bought
the Clement's farm west of their original land which is now 1205 Cedar
Lake Road . Louise Marlow Drew, their only child, inherited the farm.
The farm was ran by various share-croppers until 192S when a renter
could not be found . Louise and Arthur had to sell their farm on Latson
Road to farm on Cedar Lake Road. Louise and Arthur had four sons,
Morris, Ellis, Theron and Sumner . The three oldest sons married and
went to seek their livelihood elsewhere . Sumner being the youngest
son, decided to carry on the farm which he bought from Arthur in 1949.
Sumner now owns and operates a productive dairy farm .
Sumner Charles Drew
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The wedding picture of Catherine M. Frank Pipp and William F .
Pipp, taken November 2S, 1886.
72nd Wedding Anniversary, 19SS, of William F , and Catherine M.
Pipp . William was born in 1863, died May 21, 19S8. Catherine was born
June 8, 1862, died November 1S, 19S8.
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The Family of James Curdy
By Arnold J . Reed
James Mccurdy was born in New Hampshire on May 17, 1782 and
was raised in Vermont . James married Cynthia Walton on February
17, 1807, probably in Vermont. Cynthia died in New York State on
March 5, 1835. To this marriage ten children were born. Matilda,
James Jr., Miron, Levana, Thomas, Calista, Wilson, Willis, Myron,
and Danial. All lived in various parts of the country. Thomas died on
March 17, 1898 at Milford, Michigan. Calista died on April 6, 1886 at
South Boston, Michigan . Wilson died in September of 1855 at South
Boston. Myron died on January 22, 1904 at Oceola Twp. , Livingston
County . Danial died on June 25, 1913 also in Oceola Twp. Myron and
Danial are both buried in Riddle Cemetery .
James moved to this State in 1836 with at least part of his family . He
settled in Highland, Oakland County, remaining there about two years
and then moving to Deerfield Twp. Livingston County. The tax rolls,
lists him as owning thirty acres in section 32 with a valuation of sixty
dollars . During his lifetime he dropped the "Mc" from Mccurdy. The
family has used the name Curdy since that time.
James and Mary Roberts were married on September 12, 1841 by
Aroswell Lamb, minister of Gospel at Parshallville .
James died on June 3, 1848. Mary died on September 29, 1856. Both
are buried at Parshallville . Old tombstones mark the graves .
LOUISE SKELTON CURDY
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tn Atknll an
®lo D,ntCt'
11!t l1r An1litn1·imtt , l·foludl, J·Hirl ].,
Jlfrit1a~~ ftmin:1,, ]Jmmar~ 8tl1, 1913,
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FRANCIS CURDY
CATHERINE CURDY
MYRON CURDY
SON OF JAMES CURDY
Myron was born on November 29, 1825 in New York State . He moved
to Michigan with his Father about 1836. He married Frances Smith
and to this union , two children were born , Fobes was born on January
27, 1850, and Fred was born in 1868.
Myron died on January 22, 1904, and Frances died on June 28, 1914.
Fobes d ied on June 14, 1850. All are buried in the Riddle Cemetery .
THOMAS SPENCER SPAULDING
SON OF DANIAL CURDY
Spencer was born in Ionia County Campbell Twp. on December 8,
1854. He moved to Oceola Twp . w ith his parents and sister in 1864.
On September 26, 1876, Spencer married Lou ise Skelton . To th is
marriage were born four children. Max was born on September 3, 1877
in Oceola . Mark Bayard was born on May 25, 1879 in Oceola . Roy
Danial was born on June 11, 1881 in Oceola . And Mary Alta was born
on September 19, 1885 in Oceola.
Louise died on November 12, 1885. On November 25, 1886 Spencer
marr ied Lydia Pruden . Lydia died on December 28, 1887. Spencer
again marr ied, this t i me to Minerva Pierce on April 16, 1889.
Spencer died at Howell on October 12, 1933, and is buried in
Lakeview Cemetery .
DANIAL SCHUYLER CURDY
SON OF JAMES CURDY
Danial was born on April 10, 1827 at Clarence , New York . At the age
of nine or ten , he came with his Father to Michigan and settled at
Highland . After remaining there about two years , he again moved ,
th is time to Livingston County, M ichigan . On August 8, 1852, he
married Catherine Snell. Cather i ne was born in Elmiva N .Y . on
March 2, 1828. Coming to Michigan, Oceola Twp., Livingston County
in 1836.
Shortly after their marriage, Danial and Catherine moved to Ion ia
County Campbell Twp . Here their two children were born . Thomas
Spencer Spaulding and Corie Annette . About the year 1864 they
returned to Oceola Twp . where they lived the remainder of their lives.
Danial owned and operated the D .S. Curdy Farm .
Danial died on June 25, 1913 in Oceola . Catherine died on March 27,
1901 in Oceola . Both are bur ied in Riddle Cemetery .
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The Hosley home taken in 1930.
Spring Valley Farm-I IO Years
Wm . Hosley and son, Roger taken in 1924 by Emil Bode .
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The buildings on the Hosley farm on Fisher Rd . The 100ft sheep and
hay barn in the foreground. The renovated house in background.
Wm . James Hosley , ( 1869-1927) , son of Elijah and Nancy Hosley and
his wife , Jennie Parker (1883-1972) Hosley taken in 1899.
Great Grandparents
of Hosleys
Elijah Beach Hosley ( 1845-1920) and his wife , Nancy Maria Lawther
Hosley (1847)1917) taken on their wedding day, December 28, 1868.
Elijah B . Hosley and his wife, Nancy Maria Lawther Hosley-taken
in 1917.
Clarence Hosley at Spring Valley Farm taken by Emil Bode i n 1921.
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Wm. James and Jennie Hosley's children taken in 1916 by Emil
Bode.
Kneeland School
Pupils of the Kneeland School on Fisher Rd . at west end of Curdy
Road . Taken in 1916-1917. Teacher: Winifred Cone. Back row:
Clarence Hosley, Roger Hosley, Fred Hornung, Wilfred Hosley . Front
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row : Martha Hosley (Musson), Eleanor Hornung, Ena Bedford ,
Joyce Wilcox ( Drayton), llah Durfee, Ila Wilcox ( Rossman), Louise
Hornung and Gladys Wilcox .
The Hosley family at a Thanksgiving gathering in 1974 (21 of the
family missing) .
The house and barns at the Hosley farm after the tornado on April
17, 1941.
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Minnie Leah Copeland (Mrs . Wm . H. Peavy), Mr. Alfred Copeland,
Harriet Sharpe Copeland .
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Blue Ribbon Team
Grandpa Elijah B. Hasley and his blue ribbon pair of horses at the
Livingston County Fair in Howell in 1917.
Roger Hosley
DeVries Family
Dr. J .R. De Vries , Mrs . H.L . Williams, Mrs . J.R. DeVries, ( Frances
Williams) daughter of H.L . Williams, who, for many years, was a
Howell business man and active in church and civic groups . The
Devries reside in Owosso .
Frances for many years worked in Howell as a care worker for the
Emergency Relief Commission .
The Hacker House
The two story brick house was built by Frank and Tilly Hacker, in
1883. They had one son Ben . The house replaced a log cabin and was
the main house on their large dairy farm . Frank was the first farmer
in the county to drive a gas driven tractor . The original house was
designed with 5 bedrooms upstairs, a front parlor, large living room,
with bay on the south side, large dining room, and kitchen. Through
the years the house has been redesigned, inside and out . But some of
the spacious 10 ft. ceilings and large rooms still remain. Joseph &
Tilly Foldenauer and children lived in the house and ran the farm for
about 25 years following the Hackers, and possibly one other family .
In 1973 the house was purchased by it's present owners, Paul &
Barbara Buwa and their two children . A new demension in the lovely
house is the 3 sided field stone and brick fire place that opens into both
the living room and dining room.
Historical Museum
Depot Museum
The Toledo-Ann Arbor Depot located at the foot of North Walnut
Street was built in 1885-1886. A plank covered tunnel under N .
Michigan , State and Court streets to Barnard, carried the tracks east
to Grand River, crossing south at about the site of an early Toll Gate
on Grand River road .
The Depot was purchased in 1970 Dy the Livingston County
Historical Society as a museum to house a large DAR collection of
memorabilia pertaining to the past of Livingston County. Generous
contributions from Livingston County residents have been added to
the original collection. Funds for the purchase of the Depot from the
railroad were obtained by an auction and County Fair in August of
1969. Total county-wide support made this all day event a great
success. The museum and grounds are maintained by the members of
the society with proceeds from the Flea Market held on the grounds
during the Annual Howell Melon Festival.
PAT MALAFOURIS
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Mrs. Nellie Lansing Glenn
Nellie Deborah Lansing shown sitting in her office at the Michigan
State Sanatorium . The "San " opened September, 1907. During the
first three years , Nellie Lansing was secretary and receptionist ,
handling patient records, account books and correspondence . On
September 7, 1910, she married Dr . Bernard H . Glenn, who had been
assistant superintendent of the sanatorium from August to December,
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1908. They resided in Fowlerville where Dr . Glenn had his medical
practice . Nellie Lansing Glenn (1881-1975) was active in the D.A .R. ,
was charter member of the Livingston County Historical Society , and
was a noted expert on the people and history of Livingston County .
Mary V . Reed
A Howell g i rl , Nellie Lansing , who later married Fowlerville's Dr .
B.H . Glenn , for many years was known as Livingston County's
historian. Her demise in 1975 saddened many , many hearts. A large
part of the DAR , and in recent years the Livingston County Historical
Society , were the handiwork of Nellie Glenn . Permanently affixed in
the depot museum in Howell of the LCHS is this bronze plaque,
recently presented to the Society by two 1911 Howell High grads,
Harold Armstrong now of California and George D . Monroe of Howell.
Mrs. Nellie Lansing Glenn, a Howell girl of a noted Howell family,
married Fowlerville physician Dr . Bernard Glenn , and was the
beloved historian of the DAR locally . Later she helped organize the
Livingston County Historical Society, and each Chr istmas opened her
home to the membership for an old fashioned Christmas . Here in 1971
she chats with Mrs. Dorothy Blanchard , center, president of the
LCHS , and with Mrs . Barbara Pettibone , wife of museum curator
Norman Pett i bone , both Howell ladies .
Anel A . Quigley in front of his gas station at Pinckney Rd . and Coon
Lake Rd . in 1934.
Quigley Gas Station
Quigley came with his folks when six years old in 1872 from New
York State to Chesaning , Mich . In 1933 he moved to "Wright's
Corners " with his wife Eugenia (Carpenter) , (she was born in
Fowlerville and l ived in Howell for many years) and a son Kenneth,
just out of high school. Anel had barbered in Chesan ing for 48 years, so
he had a barber chair in the station and also sold some candy and
tobacco in the limited space . Additional liv i ng quarters were added ,
but Mr. Quigley passed away in 1939. The station was kept open by
Mrs. Quigley and others for a few years , but eventually became the
residence of Dorothy and Kenneth Qu igley . In 1960 the corner was sold
to Russel Bens i nger, and the Quigleys moved to a new house on the
N .W . corner of the four acres . Eugenia passed away in 1956.
K.A . Quigley
Maycock Centennial Home
Th is picture of the Maycock home was taken about f ifty years ago .
It is not known how old the house is as it was on the property when
James and Mary Ann Maycock, with their three daughters, came
from Canada and bought the farm in 186S. Later a son, Harry , was
born here . The farm has remained in the family and the third
generation of the family lives here .
Harry and Carr ie M itchell Maycock , with their three~ons, Donald ,
Leslie , and Harold , next owned the farm . Now it is owned by Harold
and Loreene Maycock who are the parents of Susan Brooks of Detroit
and Sarah Coselman of Fowlerville .
At one time the house faced on Pingree Road but later the interior
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was changed to face on Coon Lake Road . The exterior of the house has
not been changed in all these years except to be covered with asbestos
shi ngles . During the past forty years the house has been modernized
with electric ity and running water .
The spacious lawn in front of the house still has the large catalpa
tree that was here in 186S. It is bel ieved to be one of the largest in the
state .
Four generations of the family have enjoyed the lawn , and shade of
the old tree .
Mrs. Harold J . Maycock
The Family Car
This picture of the Harry Maycock family was taken about 1917
when Donald , the oldest son, was home on furlough from Camp
Custer. Don later served in France during the war . Soon after his
return he married Sarah Batchelor of Oceola Township and moved to
Howell where he opened a tire and battery shop in the building now
occupied by the Standard Office Supply . Don was a Howell
businessman for many years before his death in 1959.
Harold J . Maycock
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Green School
This old school picture was taken of the Green School in Marion
Township located on the corner of Pingree and Vines Roads. This
bui lding is still standing but has been converted to a home . Among the
families represented in the picture are those of Smith , Ward,
Backhus , Moore , Haynes, Horwood , White , Tilson , Devons, Bliss, and
Maycock . The Ward and Maycock families are still represented in the
neighborhood .
Harold J. Maycock
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The Brady House
Though others lived there before us, and after us, the white house
with its cupola, charcoal shutters and Victorian wrap-around front
porch, at 108 South Street and East Grand River, came to be known as
"The Brady House" possibly because our family's tenure was the
longest, some 47 years. It has been occupied since 1966 by its present
owner, the Ray Kleehammers .
Recorded as "Village Lot No. S9 on the Whipple Addition to the
Village of Howell," the house is believed to have been built and first
occupied by Philo B. Wines and his wife Mary E., some time beforeor
just into-the 1870s. It is clearly delineated, from cupola to barn, in
an old "bird's-eye-view" picture map of Howell now hanging on a wall
of the Old Howell House. Another copy of the map may be seen in the
old Howell depot , headquarters of the Livingston County Historical
Society .
Our parents, Matthew B. and Blanche C. Brady, purchased the
house about 1910 from the Winton Fishbeck family, who had bought it
in 1903. Records show previous owners to have been the Elizabeth M .
Field Family ( 187S to 1896) and Harriet M . and Frank Bailey (1896 to
1903).
The exterior of the house, when we moved there, was of white
wooden siding, which my father later had covered with "Kello Stone"
much in vogue at the time. Now the house appears much the same as
it first did to us, since the Kleehammers recently had the old gray
stone covered with narrow white vinyl siding .
The front porch was also much the same as now, except that my
father had it slightly extended, and this porch became almost an extra
"room" for us in the summer . We all enjoyed it, but my father,
especially, liked sitting there and visiting with the neighbors as they
passed by or stopped for . a chat . How times have changed!
From some blinds which we found stored in the attic, I am led to
believe that the house originally had small windows. However, the
existing large windows were in place when we moved there.
Various structural changes were made by my parents through the
years that followed. Doors and walls were added here, taken away
there. A bedroom off the dining room was incorporated into the
parlor, and this alcove we call the "music room." The old -fashioned
large kitchen was divided, to form an efficient galley kitchen and a
generous breakfast room. A woodshed attached to the rear of the
house became the present enclosed back porch . A basement was dug
under the main part of the house, to supplement the original Michigan
cellar.
Heat was originally furnished by a base burner in the East Room
and by the kitchen range. Registers in the downstairs ceilings carried
heat to the bedrooms above . The parlor was little used in winter!
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Howell had no sewer system when we moved there, and I remember
being impressed, as a child, that a switch by the back door turned the
light on in the outside "privy." When the sewers were installed, my
father had a toilet put into the basement-a great comfort, especially
in the winter! Later on, a full bath and half bath were added. I
remember clearly, when they were digging for sewers in front of the
house, of their digging up remains of the old plank road which ran
from Detroit to Lansing.
In the early days of our residence, we had four kinds of fruit
growing in the yard-a very large cherry tree, a fairly large pear
tree, a quince bush, and the same grape vine that still climbs the
trellis by the side porch. There were also lilacs and spirea bushes and
roses .
I have many happy memories of our days in this home . My sisters
Katherine and Helen were born there . Fortunately, each of us had
plenty of playmates our own ages in the neighborhood. And my
brother Edmund and I had a team of Shetland ponies that won us a
first prize one Fourth of July, also prizes at the first Livingston
County Fair .
JOSEPH V. BRADY
Wooden Classic
Howell has one of only a handful of rare wooden Classic Greek
Revival homes left, in the state of Michigan .
Crandall Realty and the home of L. Harold Crandall , at 322 East
Grand River , is a historical landmark . Greek Revival architecture
was used sparingly, in Michigan, before the Civil War . Thomas
Jefferson is credited with bringing the style to America. About the
time of the Revolutionary War, the home owners in the East
popularized the style for residential housing . Soon after our pioneers
moved here , the style filtered into our area as it became settled.
Almon Whipple was a postmaster for Howell, for six years . In 1848
he had this home built for him and his wife, Mary. There has been only
four owners of the home since then and the home's exterior remains
virtually the same .
Zinas and Sarah Crossman owned the home from 1864 to 1908. One
hundred years ago, they had decorative glazed art tile added to
surround the fireplace openings. Carved cherry fireplace mantels
were added in the living and dining rooms. The clear glass
surrounding the front door was replaced with beautiful colored glass
which is still there.
Dr. Jeannette Brigham, a practicing physician, bought the home
from the Crossman estate in 1908. She owned the home for thirty
years. The Detroit Edison Company, owned the property for a short
time, before selling the property to Mr . Crandall in 1943.
In recent years, Mr. Crandall, his business partner, son-in -law
Harry Griffith, and daughter Mary , have purchased the corner lot
next to the house which was the original Whipple lot .
With the help of grandchildren Scott and Carol Griffith, the now
vacant lot has been developed into a parking garden in hopes to
preserve the character of a lovely Greek Revival structure.
Mary Griffith
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Milford Home
The Harvey Milford home at 218 South Walnut has a history that
dates back at least 117 years . In 1835 Alex Fraser, father of Mrs. John
D. Pinckney sold land to David Wetmore and Edward Brooks and they
proceeded to plat the 120 acres into the village . A man named
Andrews is believed to have built the Milford home . Andrews was a
shrewd business man ; he owned a hardware business with Edward B.
Winans ; he carried a stock of carriages, buggies and farm equipment,
and because he was so astute, he owned the marble shop and provided
monuments whenever necessary .
Schoeberlein Home
The Greek Revival farm house at 1016 North Michigan Avenue has
long been a landmark in Howell . It was built about 1840, and was
known as the Bower farm for many years . Mrs . Esther Clark told me
that as a young girl she walked to the house to buy m i lk each day from
Mrs . Bower . Many people in the area did the same each day . The farm
land surrounding the house extended back to what is now Bower
Street , and occupied much of the McPherson Subdivision.
My mother and father , Audrey and William "Percy " Richards ,
lived in this home their entire marr ied life , from 1937 until 1966. Many
classmates from my sister Rosemary Earl's class of 1956, and my
class of 1958 may recal: the many gatherings enjoyed in the home . I
remember one night we were allowed to have thirty-six girls in for a
pajama party.
Mr . and Mrs . John Schoeberlein are now owners of the home , and
have done extensive remode ling to beautify the old home.
Ra i ny Richards Kirchhoff
Stapleton House
This is how the Stapleton home looked originally . It was built in
1852. The front porch has since been changed . The side entrance to the
old k itchen has been removed and a rear entrance made . The outline
of the old well still shows in the back yard. Mr . Stapleton in the earl y
days also owned the lots to the west where the large cement block
house and red brick house are located . Th is part of the property was
the family "cow lot ." The home is located at 321 West Sibley Street
and is the home of Marie Wenk. She has done remodeling to the
interior also and it is still a very pleasant home .
Phyllis Eu ler Rancour
Crandall Home
The Tracy F. Crandall home in the 1940s. 3792 Byron Road . Tracy F .
Crandall and Ada E . Howe were married in 1907 and remained on
Ada ' s childhood home after the death of her mother Adelpha Howe
(Mrs . Eugene E .l Their ch i ldren were born and grew up here ; Helen
E . now Mrs. Allred Vogel , Rhodora now Mrs . Lamar Wood , Eugene
Merle , Tracy Ralph , and Alice Louise now Mrs. G . Howard Walter .
Tracy and Ada became members of the Methodist Church at an early
age which continued through their l ives . Tracy being interested i n
civic and community affairs as well as farming held either a township
or county office continuously through the years . Both Tracy and Ada
were accustomed to farm life and accomplishing a full day of work
before retir ing.
In the late 1940s the farm was sold to son Tracy Ralph Crandall who
had been operating the farm for some time previously. Tracy F . d ied
of heart illness in 1952. In 1954 his w idow , Ada (Howe) Crandall built a
house at 209 N . Court Street i n the city of Howell, where she lived
comfortabl y for nineteen years . She is now l iving at Defiance , Ohio
near her son -in-law and daughter, Mr . and Mrs . George Howard
Walter . The son Tracy Ralph Crandall died very suddenly in 1964.
Rhodora Wood
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Rubert House
The apartment house on the corner of South Court Street and Sibley
Street is a portion of a hotel that was originally located on Grand
River and South Court, where John Howell's service station is now
located .
This was formerly a hotel known as the "Rubert House ," built
sometime in the late 1840's by William C. Shaft , who ran a line of
stages between Howell and Detroit . The hotel changed hands from
time to time. In 1860 it was purchased by Amos S. Adams, who ran the
establishment as the "Adams House ." Adams was succeeded by
Joseph H . Steel, who was followed by owner brothers, Cyrum and
Handel Winship, and it was then known as the "Winship House ."
Benjamin H. Rubert , who engaged in the hotel business in Novi
purchased the property and moved in it , in 1867. He enlarged the
building, adding a third story, and it was probably at this time that the
addition known as the "big dining room" was made to the hotel. From
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that time and as long as the building was occupied as a hotel , it was
known as the "Rubert House ."
Here Mr. and Mrs . Rubert lived and had a thriving and prosperous
business. Their son Seth B. Rubert, continued to operate the business
until 1907. By this time Seth Rubert had married Elizabeth
Cummiskey, and had three daughters, Alta , Mary and Hazel. Alta
later became the wife of William McPherson Spencer, and Hazel
married L. Harold Crandall , all of Howell. Mary Rubert never
married .
After the Foskett Brothers of Byron sold to a Mr . Wilcox, he divided
the house moving a portion to the place where it now stands as
apartments.
Mary Griffith
Daughter of Harold and Hazel Crandall
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Teacher Mary Perkins and her pupils of the Howe School on Byron
Road about 1911.
Seymour & Phebe Howe
The Seymour E. Howe home which they built on Byron Road, 4 mi.
north of Howell, when they came to Michigan from New York in the
late 1850s.
The Howe Home
By Rhodora (Crandall) Wood
In October , 1856 my great grandparents Seymour E. and
Phebe Ann Howe moved from Genesee County, New York
with their family of five children to Livingston County,
Michigan . They located in Howell Township, Sec. 15, three
miles north of Howell on the Byron Road . The children : Alice
C., Eugene E. , Mary Jane , Martha Ann, and Willie C. were
very young at the time and the family found hardship and
difficulties the first few years . Son George F . and daughter,
Ida were born in Howell Township a few years later .
However, as the children grew older and became very
helpful the family began to enjoy a more prosperous life.
The need of schools at this time was great. Seymour E . and
Phebe Ann Howe gave the small piece of land from their
propert y on the southeast corner as the site where the Howe
School District No. 2 was built in the early 1860s. (Picture--
on page 133 in First Edition ). Some of the first school board
members and teachers were :
1866/ 67-Enos W. Hill, Director and Clerk ; 1868/ 69-L.
Barnhart , Director and Clerk ; 1870-Enos W. Hill, Director
and Clerk ; 1866-Franklin Spring, Teacher-4 months-
Summer School; 1866-Philander Bennett, Teacher-16
weeks-Winter School; 1967-Alice C. Howe, Teacher , Summer
School; 1867-Andrew J . Whitaker , Teacher , Winter
School; 1869-Mary E . Swits, Teacher , Summer School;
1869-Charles P . Graham, Teacher , 14 weeks-Winter School;
1870-L . W. Mills, Teacher , 12 weeks-Winter School; 1870-L .
W. Mills, Teacher, 12 weeks-Winter School; 1870-Franc
Wheeler, Teacher , 16 weeks-Summer School; 1866/ 67-
Seymour E. Howe, Moderator of School Board ; 1868/ 69-
Seymour E . Howe, Moderator of School Board .
For more than eighty years the Howe School served the
community on many occasions, such as : spelling bees,
church and Sunday school services and township voting. In
the 1950s the school building and fixtures were sold to Howell
Public Schools. A few months later the building was purchased
by a resident in the Howe School District , Arthur A.
Macauley , who donated the building to Howell Township to
be used for the purpose of voting as well as a community
center for social gatherings. The Howell Township Clerk,
Roy E . Latson and wife, Maxine have done an excellent job of
supervising , which makes the old school in its present roll as
Howell Township Hall the pleasant place that it is today .
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Henry Whipple's Hotel located on the N.W. corner of S. Michigan
and Sibley St. Mrs. Whipple was John Musson's sister, Ann Musson
Whipple.
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Sabatos Home
The Donald Sabatos home on E. Highland Road, Oceola Township,
was built in 1849 by Mr . Joel Rumsey. The home is unique in that it
was constructed primarily of cobblestones laid in measured rows, an
art which flourished between 1825 and the Civil War. Although a
second story and a wing have been added to the original 'five rooms
and upper loft, the main stonework remains intact and one wall now
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enhances the interior decor . This is one of but a handful of such homes
in Michigan and it is registered with The Cobblestone Society
"dedicated to the Preservation of Cobblestone Architecture in
America."
Donald E. Sabatos
The Muasona
Thomas Musson and his wife Ann Potterton Musson . Thomas came
to the United States from England with his parents and lived in Oceola
Township where they formed .
John Musson , son of Thomas and Ann Musson, his wife . Elmenetta
Parker, and their family Mabel , Clay Thomas, Ollie and Estelle.
John and Elmeretta Musson's home on Pingree Rd. in Marion
Township from 1896 to 1903. In 1903 the Mussons moved from the
Pingree Rd . home to one on Pinckney Rd .
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Howell Roads and Rails
Road gang on Owosso Road , 1921.
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The road gang digging up Grand River for the paving in 1915.
The last passenger train on the Ann Arbor R.R . stops in Howell, 1951
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As the cars got larger and faster, the accidents got worse .
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1-96 Opening, December 12, 1962, State Highway Commission, John
C. Mackie, Mrs. John Mackie, Lawrence Gehringer, Clifton Heller.
Mike Hagman's gas station as it was in the 1930's.
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The Pere Marquette depot, east of Michigan Ave .
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The Diesels replaced the steam locomotives in the 1950's.
The Ann Arbor Railroad
By Bob Wilhelm
Research and interviews : Jeff Shaffer, Jim Sinclair, Fred
Burike, Bob Wilhelm.
Special thanks to the crews and dispatchers, past and
present, whose reminiscents made this report possible.
Recovering from the Panic of 1893, the Ann Arbor Railroad
emerged from bankruptcy . From 1900 to 1925 prosperity
reigned.
The financial problems of the 1890's were headed by the
high start up costs of the carferry operations. Being the first
on the lakes there was much room for mistake. After 1900t he
Lake Michigan operations became profitable.
Poor public relations , questionable cost-cutting construction
methods, and suspicions created during the Ashley
regime added to the problems.
During this twenty-five years of prosperity, the independent
railroad provided good service . The people along
the right of way had confidence.
On May 19, 1925 the Wabash Railroad purchased the stock
of the Ann Arbor. The sale was made because it would be
easier to raise money for improvements if owned by a larger
railroad . Under Wabash control the railroad would have a
better balanced traffic pattern .
The Ann Arbor preserved its corporate identity, but the
route was managed from the Wabash corporate headquarters
in Saint Louis.
The Great Depression was not good to American railroads .
Both the Wabash and the Ann Arbor declared bankruptcy .
The roads were reorganized and once again became
profitable just before the outbreak of World War II.
The demands of transportation were hard on the railroads .
It was during this period that the Ann Arbor purchased its
first diesel, a small Whitcomb diesel. This one-man
locomotive was stationed in Owosso, but did switching at
various points on the route . Two more Alco-GE switchers
were purchased to ease the war demands . By 19457 5 percent
of the switching was performed by diesels.
Most of the heavy tonnage was hauled by eight and tendriver
steam locomotives. With shifting demands for motive
power, equipment from many railroads made appearances
on the Ann Arbor. Motive power was shifted away from the
Ann Arbor. Four ten-drivered locomotives were sold to the
Kansas City Southern in 1942.
With the purchase of 14 Alco road engines, dieselization of
the Ann Arbor was completed in December , 1950. These
locomotives were selected because of their ability to pull
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A steam locomotive on the run between Fowlerville and Howell in
the 40's.
heavy loads at low to medium speeds . Many of the crews
preferred these locomotives to the newer GP 35's which were
purchased in 1964.
With dieselization the average tonnage per train increased
15 percent and speed increased an average of eight percent.
With total dieselization, all Ann Arbor steam power was
scrapped .
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in
collecting railroad memorabilia such as lanterns and
switches. There is little available from the earlier days of the
Ann Arbor. Much of the collectibles were second hand and
had the markings of the Wabash or the Detroit, Toledo, and
Ironton. Equipment purchased new by the Ann Arbor was not
marked with the "AA" symbol.
In 1963 the Wabash was merged with the Norfolk and
Western under a fifty year lease agreement. The N&W
wanted no part of the Ann Arbor so the railroad was "pushed
off" on the Detroit , Toledo, and Ironton.
The early days of DT&I management appeared favorable
to the future . The carferries were rebuilt and modernized,
heavier rail was installed where needed, and new second
generation diesels were pucrhased .
There were problems with the new locomotives. The trucks
("w heels") were second hand, taken from the Alcos.
According to crews this caused a much rougher ride than
normal. At a cost savings of $1000p er unit, the 2500h .p. units
were not equipped with a dynamic braking system. The
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dynamic brakes would have made the negotiations of the
steep hills much easier .
During the early years of DT&I management, locomotives
from many railroads were regularly seen: Baltimore and
Ohio, Lake Superior and Ishpeming, Lehigh Valley, the Soo
Line among others .
In the later 1960's the Ann Arbor GP 35's were substituted
for DT&I GP 38's (2000 h.p. units with dynamic brakes).
In 1972 the GP 35's were returned because of the possible
abandonment of the Ann Arbor.
One of the locomotives, No. 385, was wrecked by the DT&I.
It was rebuilt and upgraded by General Motors Electro
Motive Division. This locomotive is the most modern on the
route and the only one without "we have the connections"
emblem .
The early good intentions of the DT&I disintegrated in the
late 60's and early 70's. The property was allowed to
deteriorate. Major track work was neglected for several
summers . Rough track, speed restrictions, and derailment
resulted in poor employee morale.
Since October, 1973t he Ann Arbor has been in receivership .
The trustees ordered the repairing of some of the poorest
track sections . Even though the speed dropped to an average
20 miles per hour the service improved .
March 31, 1976t he Ann Arbor Railroad went out of business
as a separate corporate entity . The track and equipment
have been purchased by the state of Michigan.
Operations of the Ann Arbor Railroad
The Ann Arbor Railroad operates 292 miles of track from
Toledo, Ohio to Elberta, Michigan on the east shore of Lake
Michigan. Unlike most railroads, branch lines are very
minimal. The one branch line to the Ford Motor Company in
Saline is very profitable .
The railroad hauls only freight . The last regularly
scheduled passenger service ended in 1950.
The railroad operates fifteen orange locomotives. Five of
the locomotives are used primarily for switching operations .
The ten road locomotives GP35s (GP means General
Purpose ) numbers 385-394 operate on the mainline and
perform switching chores . Operating between Toledo and
Owosso each locomotive uses 300 to 325 gallons of diesel fuel.
The cost in fuel for an idling locomotive is 45-50 gallons for
twenty-four hours of operation . Each of the locomotives is
equipped with a chart recorder to monitor the speed of the
train .
The Ann Arbor operates a fleet of seventeen road cabooses.
Ten of the cabooses (Numbers 2830-283)9 were built in 1952b y
the Wabash Railroad at their Decatur, Illinois shops. Five
years later seven additional cabooses (Numbers 2840-284)6
were purchased from International Car Company.
In October, 1974 the railroad operated 378 freight cars , two
hundred of which were covered hoppers used in sand and
cement service . The total in March, 1976 is fewer due to
scrappings and cars destroyed in wrecks .
An additional fleet of cars is used in maintenance of way
service : track and roadbed repair and cleaning up wrecks.
The Ann Arbor operates four trains: two northbound and
two southbound.
T-F 1 (Toledo-Frankfort ) operates from Toledo to Owosso
and performs occasional switching chores. T-F 5 operates
from Toledo to Elberta with a crew change in Owosso.
The southbound trains F-T 2 (Frankfort to Toledo)
operates straight through with only a stop for a change of
crews in Owosso. Train T-F 6 does switching en route.
A local train for switching, "Ann Arbor turn," works from
Ann Arbor as far north as Bruce Products in Howell.
In addition to its own trains the Ann Arbor operates about
five coal trains a week from Toledo to Owosso using Penn
Central locomotives and equipment. Originating at either the
Sunny Hill Coal Company in southern Ohio or from Mingo
Junction on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border the trains move an
average of 100 cars per movement to Dow Chemical at
Midland. The capacity of each car is 100 tons, but there is
often less than a capacity tonnage. The total round trip cost
per movement is about $45,000. The Ann Arbor's share is
about $10,000. With reorganization , the coal trains stopped
operating on the Ann Arbor April 1, 1976.
The couplers on the unit trains are stronger than those on
the regular trains. A normal coupler can't withstand the
tremendous pressure caused by the weight when the train is
slowed down.
Despite the heavy weight couplers, a coupler knuckle
broke near the rear of the train on March 6, 1976 blocking
traffic on the east side of Howell for nearly an hour. The
problem was solved by removing the coupler from the end of
the caboose and placing it on the damaged car .
The crew reaction to these coal drags is generally unfavorable
. The bankrupt Penn Central does not properly
maintain its locomotives resulting in constant breakdown of
one or more of the units. An Ann Arbor unit is often placed on
the front of the train to compensate for the inoperable unit.
The hopper cars are plagued with derailments and coupler
problems .
A hopper car on the March 18, 1976 train bottomed out on
Riddle Street. The hopper bottoms began to break open.
Luckily the train was moving at a low speed, derailment was
prevented. The offending car was removed and the train
continued north.
Many of the Penn Central cabooses are more comfortable
than the Ann Arbor's. However, on this March 18 train the
stove blew up spraying dirt and soot all over the interior. An
Ann Arbor caboose was added to the end of the train for the
comfort of the conductor.
These day-to-day operations of the railroad are centered in
Owosso. A key to the operations is the dispatcher who must
keep watch on the train movements. He must know where the
trains are and keep records . South of Ann Arbor there is no
direct radio contact with the lines.
Portable radio communications exist between the
dispatcher, the engineer, and the conductor. The radios can
be removed and worn on the back of the crew member while
switching.
The dispatcher must call crews and make crews available
for upcoming trains .
The crew of each train usually consists of four men :
Engineer, two brakemen (or one brakeman and one fireman ,
although the fireman's position is being phased out), and one
conductor.
Occasionally the trains run with a three or five-man crew.
The maximum crew time on board a train is twelve hours.
If the train has not reached its destination in this time, the
train is stopped until a new crew arrives . A recent Penn
Central coal drag made it from Toledo with less than fifteen
minutes to spare .
To become an engineer it is necessary to pass both
brakeman and engineer tests . The duties of the engineer are
run the train , regulate speed, and maintain air pressure .
With much automatic equipment on board , the job of the
engineer is much easier than in the past.
The brakeman backs up the engineer in case of disability
and does switching.
The caboose is the domain of the conductor. His job is to
keep records and prepare written reports . He may also do
switching.
Loaded freight cars make money for the railroads. Northbound
trains contain many empties . Loaded cars include
loads of new cars (Fords, Mustangs, and Jeeps) and farm
equipment. The coal drags also increase the revenues .
The southbound trains provide great revenues. With the
exception of the coal drags and empty auto carriers , most of
the cars are loaded.
On a typical southbound movement there is a great variety
of cargos.
Detroit and Mackinac hoppers carry limestone and
alabaster from northeastern Michigan.
Several mechanical refrigerators are loaded with Idaho
potatoes destined for MacDonald's distribution plant in the
Toledo area .
There are loads of lumber from Canada and the northwest,
paper goods from Wisconsin, and in season loads of Christmas
trees.
A major source of revenue are carloads of special foundry
sand bound for Detroit, Flat Rock, and Cleveland. At the
present time 3000 carloads are shipped each year from the
Sargent Sand Company in Yuma (near Mesick in Wexford
County). The ten year projection is for up to 10,000c arloads
per year . The short base covered hoppers used to be at the
end of the train. With the short wheel base the ride in the
caboose was most uncomfortable. Today most of the sand
cars are not at the end of the train-adding to the conductor's
comfort .
The railroad must further develop its northbound revenues
and improve the service provided on both northbound and
southbound routes . The future of the Ann Arbor is beginning
to brighten.
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An engineer in the cab of one of the old steam locomotives .
A Trip through Livingston County
with an Occasional Glimpse into the Past
By Bob Wilhelm
The original name , Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern
Michigan is a most fitting name for today's Ann Arbor
Railroad . All but one of the northbound trains originate in
Toledo and slowly wind in a snake-like pattern through
Livingston County and then northwesterly toward Owosso
and terminating at Ferry Boat Landing in Elberta .
Leaving Ann Arbor, the trains crawl up the long grade out
of the Huron Valley. It is often too steep for the long, heavy
tonnage trains to reach the summit of Osman Hill.
The ten thousand ton coal trains regularl y must be broken
in half and each section is brought to the top of the hill where
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the two sections are coupled together and the movement is
continued north toward Livingston County.
Not all trains must be broken. Even the most heavy trains
can make it to the top on occasion if all locomotives are
functioning properly . On one Saturday in March a hundred
car coal train couldn't make it to the top, so the engineer on a
trailing train pushed his five locomotives to aid the original
five locomotive train over the top of the summit. The trains
move through Whitmore Lake and enter Livingston County.
Moving at 25 miles per hour the trains no longer stop at
Hamburg . The old siding has long been neglected and rusty .
The old depot and the once thriving resort business at
Lakeland is only a memory from the days when passengers
came to the area in the summer.
The speed limit is lowered to five miles per hour where the
track crosses the recently abandoned Grand Trunk Western
roadbed. The interchange "diamond" is scheduled to be
abandoned during the 1976 summer and many of the
problems will be eased .
Wrecks have been a continuing problem over the years.
Much of the area is swampy. This swampy condition was
lessened when a line of covered hopper cars loaded with sand
derailed and dumped its cargo into the swamp.
The Penn Central coal cars have derailed on several occasions
.
A derailment may not always cause damage . Three boxcars
loaded with new batteries from Owosso derailed. The
seal locking the door was not broken and the cargo was not
damaged. The cars were put on the track and delivered .
When a derailment occurs the crew may not be immediately
aware of pending disaster . Awareness usually
occurs when the air hose breaks. One derailed car was
dragged for more than a mile. When the boxcar hit a tree the
air hose broke and the train was stopped. '
With the abandonment of the Grand Trunk track the
thirty-one miles of right-of-way is causing a conflict behveen
public and private rights . The state wants to develop this
area for a recreational path for hiking, bicycling, and
motorcycling .
There is much opposition to this proposal. Typical opposition
is expressed by the Waterloo Township Planning
Commission, "Recreational land brings an influx of people
who are totally irresponsible and dumps them on a township.
Then the township has to provide police and fire protection
and other services .. . for land that isn't on the tax rolls."
With the possibilities of future track abandonments
throughout the state , this dilemma could be often repeated .
The track turns north and moves up the gradual grade
towards the once thriving resort area at Chilson.
The old two-story depot no longer used by the railroad is now
a private residence. A water tower used during the steam era
has disappeared.
Southeast of the station area was a gravel pit which until
abandoned in the early 1930's was a source of revenue . An
asphalt plant in the area has also been abandoned .
When Michigan entered statehood in 1837 it appeared that
Chilson and the Crooked Lake area would play a major role
in the development of the state .
The plan was to build a canal across the southern portion of
the lower peninsula. The route of the canal was to follow the
Clinton River westward to Crooked Lake . Crooked Lake is a
watershed , the source of streams eventually emptying into
Lakes Michigan and Huron.
A 25 mile canal was to be constructed southward to Dexter
and join the Kalamazoo River . The canal was to cross the
Cedar and Shiawassee River . Construction began at Mount
Clemens and advanced a few miles, but the project was
abandoned as railroads began to criss-cross the state .
Around 1897 Laughton and Henderson, who operated a
store , built a cottage on the north island. This "camp" ( camp
meant the same as a cottage ) was one of the first in
Livingston County.
The "camp " was sold in 1903 to Howell blacksmith Carl
Weimeister. On the property was a large frame-structured
barnlike building. It had no interior finish and few windows.
Bolts a~d bars we.re designed to frustrate break ins. On the
roof shmiles was a single word "Nordica". Used for parties,
the building was named for Lillian Nordica, a popular singer
at the time . Young people came by horse drawn vehicles
from Howell, Brighton , and other nearby settlements for a
week of camping. Naturally, the young people had adult
chaperones.
Convenient rail service brought many "cam pers " from
Toledo and Ann Arbor.
Tenting and camping on the beach was very popularmainly
on the west shore.
In 1914N ordica was sold by Weimeister and was converted
into a private residence.
Today Chilson is basically a passing track on the Ann
Arbor. Two tracks parallel for a mile. There are at least two
passings here each week. A southbound train waiting for a
northbound train often stops at Coon Lake Road. This is done
so that the road at Chilson will not be blocked.
Crews often patronize the Chilson store while waiting for
the other train .
The northbound track crossed the Chesapeake and Ohio
interchange at Annpere. Until 1906, this interchange, the
scene of many bloody brawls in the 1880's, was called Howell
Junction .
The switching tower is gone. Today the area is an interchange
of cars between the Ann Arbor and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads . Many boxcars from the
Ford Motor Company's Saline plant are switched onto the C
& 0 for delivery to the Detroit area .
With the interchanging of cars it is possible for losses. A
mechanical refrigerator car was switched from the Ann
Arbor and disappeared . It was found after two years in the
Chicago area .
The present speed limit across the interchange is 10 miles
per hour. The speed limit has been 25, but a November, 1975
derailment on the C & 0 necessitated the lowering of the
speed limit. Auto carriers loaded with new 1976 automobiles
derailed and tipped on their sides damaging the track of both
routes.
The railroad enters Howell over the viaduct constructed in
1938. Grand River Avenue goes under the bridge. The
problem is flooding that has been caused after many rainfalls.
Pumps were installed. In addition to draining the area
of water, the pumps dried up many wells. New wells had to be
drilled to soothe the bewilderment of the residents.
The east-west track through Howell is in a deplorable state .
The maximum safe speed is 10 miles per hour. Inching
through the "tunnel" between Barnard Street and Michigan
A venue, there is the constant danger of cave-ins. The
maintenance crews have been propping up the walls over a
period of time. During the late summer of 1975, the crews
were placing metal supports into the ground and severed a
water main . The railroad was unaware of the main , and the
city didn't know its exact location. The main was repaired
and the city marked its location.
The restaurants on the east side of Howell are stopping
points for many of the crews . When the train is long, the
engineer moves through the town to let the conductor in the
caboose get off, then the train is backed up so not to block
traffic for a prolonged period .
Many businesses are served in Howell. The siding
paralleling Haggerty Lumber was built by the railroad for
Purdy and Woodruff and leased for 99 years. Both lumber
and coal were unloaded here.
Over the years the railroad crews have developed many
friendships along the right of way . Usually the friendships
are a wave, but sometimes long-lasting friendships develop.
Jeff Shaffer , a Howell teenager has developed friendships
with the crews of the passing trains. For three years he has
been delivering the Detroit Free Press . One afternoon while
watching a train , Jeff threw a paper onto the caboose. On a
later train, a brakeman came off the locomotive asking for a
paper , and the tradition began .
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An old Brush auto, photo taken about 1910.
Today the trains slow to a crawl as they pass through
Howell. If Jeff isn't around to personally make the delivery ,
there are papers in a delivery tube beside the track .
In return the crews have given Jeff many pieces of railroad
memorabilia including a switch stand and a five foot long
trailer car formerl y used in maintenance of way service .
Today, when a train approaches Howell, Jeff checks the
trains for air leaks and hot boxes (smoking or odor on the
wheel bearings ). If there is a problem he immediatel y calls
the Owosso dispatcher on the WATS line and notifies them of
the problem .
Turning north on the west side of Howell the trains pass
under the M-59 Bridge and move north toward Oak Grove.
The depot at Oak Grove has been removed but the foundation
survives on the east side of the track .
When the depot was constructed the original builder was
constantly drunk and had to be replaced . You could see
where the new man started .
The grain elevator is no longer used for train loading.
The switch at the north end of the passing track has been
removed. A short train can be brought into the passing siding
from the south, but the train must back onto the mainline if
used for passing .
The siding can also be used for car storage . Panhandle
Eastern has used the area for unloading pipelines.
During 1974a nd 1975w ith the slowdown of auto sales there
was a temporary surplus of boxcars. Many of these 86 foot
cars were stored here .
A continuing problem , especially in the fall and spring, is
deer on the tracks. At night, the lights "spook" the deer and
they stay on the track . When the crew has enough warning
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the lights are turned off and the deer are scared away by
noise of the approaching locomotive.
The most northerly stop in the county is Cohoctah. A siding
serves Lott's Elevator and chemical fertilizer plant.
Leaving Livingston County the trains pass through Byron,
Durand , and stop at Owosso for a crew change before continuing
the trip to Lake Michigan.
The Future of the Ann Arbor Railroad
The state of Michigan has purchased the Ann Arbor
Railroad . This purchase includes all facilities , tracks ,
locomotives, rolling stock, and car ferries . The transfer of
ownership occurred April 1, 1976.
The future is presented in the first phase of the Michigan
Railroad Plan for the preservation of the Ann Arbor:
1. "Preserve the . . . Ann Arbor route as an integral
operation from Toledo . .. to Wisconsin as a key corridor for a
long-range system configuration ."
2. "Preserve, at least on an interim basis , all of the car
ferr y operation-while service needs and alternatives are
thoroughly analyzed for the long term ."
3. The state of Wisconsin has agreed to "share the federal
subsidy and state matching funds required for the preservation
of any necessary car ferr y operation ."
Michigan has signed a contract with CONRAIL to operate
the railroad for one year beginning April 1. At the end of the
year the state will make an evaluation of the operations . If
this is favorable, a new contract will be issued .
If the evaluation is unfavorable a new operator will be
sought, possibly the Grand Trunk Western or the Detroit
A big school trip on the train to Detroit .
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Toledo and Ironton . However, at this time neither railroad
has shown an interest in the management.
Many problems must be solved. The track on many sections
must be improved or replaced . The ten year goal for
track speeds if 60 miles per hour . Sections like the "tunnell "
through Howell would operate at a reduced speed, but the
track must be upgraded or replaced .
One problem faced in the track rebuilding program is a
shortage of new steel rail. Second hand rail may be available
in the interim . One estimate is that with the backlog of orders,
it may be 1978 before orders can be filled.
During the next ten years there is a strong possibility that
passenger train service will be resumed on the Ann Arbor
and / or the Chesapeake and Ohio routes .
With massive rail reorganization occurring throughout
Michigan and attempts by railroads to abandon some of their
least profitable routes, the state may purchase additional
routes and incorporate them into the Ann Arbor. One of the
most likely new routes is the purchase of 147 miles of C & 0
trackage running from Manistee through Traverse City
Station Agent
John D. Hamilton, station agent, at his desk in the Howell station of
the Ann Arbor Railroad , January 1914. Standing is Mr . Wright. Notice
the ragged green curtains, coal bucket, and the wall oil lamp . The
room with the bay window looking out onto the tracks has been
preserved by the Livingston County Historical Society .
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north to Petoskey , interchanging with the Ann Arbor at
Thompsonville.
Trackage rights may also be acquired on the old Penn
Central route from Owosso to Saginaw. The addition of this
route might result in the resumption of the unit coal trains
which stopped operating on the Ann Arbor, April 1.
The present western terminus of the Ann Arbor is the ferry
dock in Kewanee, Wisconsin where traffic is interchanged
with the Green Bay and Western Railroad . The Burlington
Northern Railroad is attempting to take over the G .B. & W. If
this merger should occur it would fulfill a dream of nearly a
centur y expressed by the Ashleys and the Delaware and
Lackawanna Railroad management to develop a direct route
from the east to the west coast .
Much of the future is still in the planning stage . The name
Ann Arbor may disappear , but the railroad will survive .
Customers , employees , and railfans can peer into the
" crystal ball. " The future appears bright for an expanded
route carrying increased tonnage.
Utah Tour
John D . Hamilton , station agent of the Ann Arbor Railroad depot in
Howell , is shown on tour in Ogden Utah in June 1915. Hamilton stands
second from the left . Seated behind him is his wife Mattie B. A good
photo of an early tour bus .
Ann Arbor Depot At the tracks at the Ann Arbor Railroad Depot in Howell, about 1914
or 1915. Station Agent John D. Hamilton stands at the far right.
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AGRICULTURE'S most constant and steadfast link with civiliza -
tion is the rural mail car-riu·-man of a thousand and one servictt.
Inhabitants of isolated areas rc1ard the carrier as an invilluablc
£ricnd, counselor and public servant , for his job goe s far beyond the
mere Jdivcry of letters and sc-cd catalogs. And to "customers" in
•hickly setllcd areas he is equall y a Godsend , for his co-operation
extends from helping to pull a car from the ditch to filling in as witnes,
at a wcddin1 .
If a tractor breaks down hf!' will bring out the needed part next
day to save the farmer a long trip to town . And if a pound of confectioner's
sugar is required for a birthday cake, he will sec that the
farmer's wife &ets it alon& with the family newspaper and the card
from Cousin. Emma visitin1r at Indian Riv er .
Dur111g &asoline rationin11 his service!. .ts a meSUi:e bearer and a
shopp er were extremely valuable to national defense.
Typical of Michi&an'1 1,135 rural carriers and an equal number of
substitutes is Emmett Harris, of Howett, who has been on the job
31 years . Startin1r with a hors e and buggy, he has cov ered enough
miles to constitute four trips around the world .
He travels 70 miles a day to bring mail to 232 families. An excellent
baritone, he often sings as he rolls along to the next mail box,
heraldintt his approach by the booming chorus of " On the Road to
Mandalay ." He sings in the Cath olic choir at Howell.
ln his 31 years Harris has participated in many rural dramas. On
countless occasions he has warned farmers their stock had broken
fence and strayed into someone's corn. He has stopped runaways, put
out brush fires, rescued picnickers from menacin& bulls and returned
all sorts of articles lost from trucks or wag ons en route to town.
One time hj5 attention was attracted by a small boy screaming
bu iJe the roaJ. WaJkin& behind a nearby barn , he found the mother
holclin1 up the child's youna;cr sister , whose foot had &ot caught in a
cement block. Obta inin g a hammer and coJd chisel fro:n his car,
Harris freed the captive: and then delivered the mail.
"All rural carriers love their daily associations with the people
they serve," he said. " We 'r e just one big, happy family."
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The 1960 Howell Melon Queen delivers a bushel of melons to Presi -
dent Eisenhower . L to R-Cliff Heller, the President's secretary,
Patty Dowen, Melon Queen, Mrs . Chamberlain, Joy Slayton, the
Queen's sister and U .S. Rep . Chamberlain, and D.L. Zemper .
Loading melons into the trunk.
Spanish American War veterans passing through town .
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The Drum and Fyfe Corps.
Joe Brady and his family in the 1945 V.J. Day Parade .
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You can tell how hot it was in the 1946 V .J . Day Parade by the way
the candles were melting .
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Photography I•D Howell
By D.L. Zemper
Photography has probably been an art form in Howell for
longer than any serious painters. A travelling itinerant
photographer first came here before the Civil War, in 1858.
He travelled in a horse and wagon, in which he lived and did
his laboratory work, using the wet plate process . Normally
he would start toward the South in the fall because he needed
sunshine to take his outdoor pictures with the very slow
emulsions of those days .
An early September snowfall kept him here and when more
snow came and winter set in, he decided he might as well
sta y, because he couldn't get out anyway. Soon after , he sold
the studio, which he had moved indoors, and the chain of
fourteen photographers started which has become now to be
called Zemper Studio. According to the records of the
National Association, it is the oldest portrait Studio in the
United States. Very likely it is the oldest in the world, but
there is no way to prove that.
Some of these photographers should be mentioned here .
W. E . CLEAVE-Cleave was a small man with large
talents . In addition to being a photographer of great talent,
he was also a musician of good calibre , and a good artist in
oils. I have some of the glass plate negatives that he exposed
and were found by Mary Reed in the attic of her garage,
4th of July fireworks at Joe Harris' Diamond Dot.
where they had been stored for almost 100 years . He painted
his own backgrounds and had a good feeling for the fine
points and aesthetics of photography .
H. A. LUDWIG-Ludwig had the studio from the late teens
to 1926, when he sold to C. J . Nelson. He was a good practicing
photographer , but is better known for his work on a state
level. He was one of the earliest members of the Michigan
Society of Photographers , and its president. He also was the
working figure in the starting of the Professional
Photographers of Michigan, a statewide organization . He
was state president of this group, making Howell the only
city in Michigan to have two presidents of both groups from
the same town. This happened when D. L. Zemper was
president of the Society in 1970, after having been president
of the State group in 1960.
D. L. ZEMPER-Zemper bought the studio from C. J .
Nelson in 1946a fter two years overseas as a photographer in
World War II. During the 50's he was named top
photographer in Michigan four times, on the state board of
directors for seven years and made State President in 1960.
In 1962 he was declared the best photographer in the Midwest.
In 1966,h e was rated the best portrait photographer in
the United States. Enough of this stuff, let's put the book to
bed.
Howell Schools -
. I Remember When
&ottom Row, Left to Rtghf-Rollin Briggs '22; Everett Toncray '23;
Thomas Taylor '2'3; ttarolcf'Strobel '22; Edmund Brady '24; Everett
Webb '25; Unknown 4"Mack Hoagland '24; Clifford Cook '25; Donald
Johnson:tf()Ward Haller '24; F.S. Sanford, Principal of Senior High
School, mariag~r of Jackie Band.
Se<:1:mdlk Jvtf rom Bottom, Left to Right-Instructor Ling; Gerald
Hughe$ '24; <ieorge Cowdrey '24; Ford Garland '23; Fred Pless '24;
Rllfl)h Papworth '25; zur Reed '25; Max Groom '25; Ralph Risch '24;
Robert fy\usson '24; Robert Borden '25 .
Third Row from Bottom, Left to Right-Miller Beurmann '24; Leon
Monroe '24; Lloyd Teeple '24; Robert McPherson '22; Maurice Purdy
'22; Lawrence Gordanier '25; Vernon Rounds '25; Clayton Driver '24;
Sherman Haller '25; Stephen ltsell '23; Tazoni Reed '25; Cleon Rathbun
'24.
Rear Row, Left to Right-Spencer Worthington '24; Lorris
Ellsworth '22; Ralph Merrill '24; Ford Haller '24; Duane Beame '25;
Ford Hubbel '25; Stanley Knight '24; John Jones '24; Austin O'Dell
'24; Percy Richards '24.
Howell Jackie Band
Approximately 54 years ago the Howell Jackie Band were invited to
accompany Howell Commandery Knights Templar to the State
Conclave held in Detroit. After the parade the band attended one of
the many theaters (which one I do not recall) downtown Detroit that
evening and to their great surprise a picture came on the screen
1975 and as I 'look at this picture I recognize many who have
Gladys (Knight)
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The West Ward School & Park
WEST WARD GRADE SCHOOL
By Sarah J. Maycock
In the fall of 1929 the enrollment for the Livingston County
Normal was so large that more room was needed than could
be provided at the Michigan Avenue School; so during the
summer the West Ward school which had been vacant for
several years was restored, so that the County Normal could
occupy the two upper rooms, while the two lower rooms had
children in grades similar to a rural school, where the
enrolled students could do their practice teaching . This
arrangement continued until the County Normal was
disbanded, and the two grade teachers returned to the main
building.
After the County Normal was phased out at the West Ward
School, the vacant school was rented for storage by a
milking-machine company. In 1948 with the increased
enrollment in the Howell schools the West Ward opened again
to accommodate the first, second, third and fourth grades ,
using all four rooms. Grace Dibble taught first grade , Sarah
Maycock, second grade, Joy Bigelow, third grade and
Mertice Radkte fourth grade and later Shirley Gatesman,
fourth grade.
The custodians during the time the building was thus used
were: Mr. Monroe, Mr. Weibreicht and Mr. Mann. This
arrangement went on until the four new elementary
buildings were completed in 1955, when the West Ward was
vacant again. It was later dismantled and the lot made into a
playground .
WEST WARD SCHOOL AND PARK
By Janet Rohrabacher
Hugh Mann was custodian and crossing-guard at the West
Ward School. The students learned as much from him as
from the teachers. He taught them how to observe safety
rules crossing the street and in traffic. He tolerated no
fooling around in the roadway . He also taught them not to run
on the neighbors' lawns and also not to litter either the
schoolyard or the neighbor's yards with scrap paper .
While he was strict , he was very well-liked by the children.
Almost every noon-hour he could be observed sitting on the
steps with a large group of children around him, while he was
telling them stories or just visiting with them and showing his
interest in their activities.
In the fall of 1955, the school closed and the children all
went to the four new grade schools built in Howell. Most of
the West Ward students went to the Southwest School. The
next year the building was razed, but first the school district
sold the contents of the school for nominal sums . The school
desks were sold for fifty-cents to two dollars apiece. The
bricks from the old school were used to build the four brick
homes on the north side of West Grand River near Burkhart
Road, west of Howell.
The neighborhood children continued to use the school yard
for an impromptu baseball diamond in the summer. In the
winter , the yard was flooded, and the area was crowded with
skaters from the west side of Howell.
The school district planned to sell this land for private or
multiple dwelling use. This led to the formation of a West
Ward Parents Association, whose goal was to save the park
as a recreational area for both children and adults on the
west side of Howell. On January 8, 1958 the City of Howell
leased the land from the school district for use as a park.
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
By Mary Misslitz
The West Ward School having served its purpose was torn
down, but the playground sounds of "recess" lingered on.
The neighborhood children stood with bewildered expressions
one early spring day in 1956 as the West Ward
school playground swings and slides were being uprooted and
loaded onto trucks . In answer to their questions of "Why?",
they were told the property was being sold.
The city had been divided into four quarters and each area
now had its elementary school and adjoining playground .
However, for the group of youngsters who crossed Grand
River to attend the Southwest School, the old West Ward
playground served as an area gathering place for many
children because a group of families cared enough to become
involved and petitioned the school board not to sell the school
playground property . The property was then leased to the
City of Howell for a dollar a year, and the neighborhood
group volunteered to maintain the playground .
The West Ward neighborhood association consisted of
several dozen families who met at first to round-up and install
the playground equipment which had been removed. As
the fathers dug holes, mixed cement and figured out how the
swings and monkey-bars fitted together, mothers set the
tables and brought out food for neighborhood picnics, as
children raked twigs together to roast marshmallows .
The comradery that developed as people worker together
to provide a place for children to play led to several summers
of neighborhood family get-togethers . Men pitched horseshoes
several nights a week under lights they strung up
between the tall trees, and women drank coffee and visited
while children climbed the monkey-bars and took turns
pushing each other on the merry-go-round. This all sounds
reminiscent of family activity of a by-gone era , but it happened
for a period of time just twenty years ago.
WEST WARD PARK
By Kenneth Richardson
The Howell Jaycees took on a Community Pride Project of
improving a neighborhood park on Spring Street and Byron
Road. The goal of this project was to supply good, safe
equipment and also to supply the community with a well
designed park layout.
The project was carried out in the following order:
February, 1974-Ken Richardson and Ed Eaton met and
decided on the safety and equipment needs.
March, 1974-Ken Richardson and Ed Eaton held a design
and layout meeting; contacted the equipment salesman for
the cost of the playground equipment ; contacted D&J Gravel
to donate the concrete; contacted Duane Meyer, of the City
Parks and Cemetery Department , to remove the old
equipment.
April, 1974-Equipment was picked up. Ed Eaton attended
the city council meeting for approval of the project. Ed also
attended the school board meeting for their approval.
April 27, 1974-Playground equipment and plantings were
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installed . Larry Scott was in charge of the plantings, twenty
members helped install the equipment.
July , 1974-Picnic tables were installed by Duane Meyer
and staff , completing the park . Total cost of park, $1,570.00.
CARE OF THE PARK
By Maude Phillips
About 1970 the City of Howell secured the services of
Ernest Phillips as care-taker for the West Ward School Park.
Phillips was well-known for the care he gave to his own lawn
and flowers and vegetable garden. For three years he took
complete care of the park for a small fee. He pruned shrubs
and weeded flowers, raked and mowed whenever it was
needed. The park has never looked so good as when cared for
by Phillips and he took great pride in the looks of the park . He
died August 30, 1973.H e had worked forty-seven years for the
Holkins Lumber Company, under four generations of this
family . He was a prominent Mason and office holder in the
lodge for years.
The Alma Young Home
The residence of Mr. and Mrs . Herbert F. Schott, 216 Higgins T .,
Howell, was built by John Galloway who came to Howell in 1844. He
and Nathan Hickey formed a partnership and operated a foundry
known as the Hickey & Galloway Foundry . It was located on the west
side of Michigan Ave., just north of the Ann Arbor railroad tracks . He
built this house the following year with bricks hauled from Detroit. It
was one of the first brick houses built in Howell and the external walls
and some of the inside walls are of solid brick construction .
John Galloway was a man of som importance in the early history of
Howell and Livingston County . He was a member of the Board of
Directors when the first railroad, the Detroit to Howell, was built. He
was elected to the Senate in 1860, when the first Republican Governor,
Kingsley S. Bingham, was in office . Galloway is known to have lived
in this house until his death in 1890.
The Galloways had one son, Durfee, who married Elizabeth
McMichael. Durfee was the first graduate of Howell High School in
1869. A scholarship in his name to the University of Michigan was
presented to the school and is still in existance . Durfee lived here until
his death in the late 1920's. Mrs . Galloway continued to live here until
her death several years later. The home was the center of much
hospitality and was an outstanding showplace of the early town.
After the death of Durfee Galloway, the west part of the lower floor
was rented to various young couples. Among those who lived there for
a short time was R . B. McPherson and his wife, Eva Hickey
McPherson. It was during this time their son, Robert H. McPherson,
was born.
About 1935, the house was sold to Dr . J. Stevens, who constructed an
addition to the rear of the building facing Court St. for his medical
offices.
Most of the above information came from the notes of the late Mrs.
Bernard Glenn, long-time resident of Livingston County.
Mr. and Mrs . Schott purchased this home in April of 1946, and have
occupied it continuously since then. There are three children, John
Frederick, Susan Lee and Robert Alexander.
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The first county government day, about 1947. Students from all the
county schools participated .
Howell girl's band in the Memorial Day Parade to the cemetery .
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Florence Dickerson, Mabel Hurry, Chrystal Lameraux , Josephine
Wessenger , Zelma Davenport , Ella Elis, Irene Pearce, Carl Mason,
Gertrude Burnell, Mr . Conklin (teacher) , Leola Slayley and Merril
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Virginia Schrepfer, Marilyn Frisbee, Helen Stuible.
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llruco Hopper, lli* Mott Wilcox, 13 I Alier L,m sing, 17•
Loton Hoyt, 1r,• D.lilh Hap \lon , 17 A,·orngr ;w,• of thoao prmnotP<l , 17.
Nctt..io Jfolt, 1~• W.ilH runR 10ha,:da1, 7 Grade XI.
Nc,1110 Holt , 15* MJ!hc Avery, lb*
.Nora JipnJnnd, 1~ ,Inst in Hatch ,•lnr, ltl
l'lzra Loohno 111• Alfre,ln l'hntlMton, 17
Mand Mole,uly, 11• llilu1ch!''£homai;, 17
l,inf\ hiilJH, lfi t;toph e n .MiJJer, :t!Y"
Nclllo Morgun, lti Jlom nr P01wy. 1~•
Hon Mclntrr o, 17 IWn ~·('(•nay, lo*
Oliv er Davis, lll Mndi;r McCar ty, l ';
l,nwre11co Mel 'arty, lll l!'retl Milkr , 18
Mvrtir- J~1t~on 1 17 Bonnie, Pnrt(•r. Ll
AvPra~t 1 Hj.!<' of th nl'lt1 11romotPcl. 15.:fi~i.
Grade IX - H igh School.
' l'rachf'r~, ~. H. Hnrkh on<I, HnpPriutcnr l,•nt .
J CSAio 'l'homn R- , J>r( •CPJtrN:i,A.
Mntti11 K ~rnR. AsHiHtnnt.
H ('{'itntion , 1 'Charley Mn<'hr{\("·1 -Cla,·n :-tniltli .
PUPTl,l<.
Alh ort S111i1h, J6* Clnrn Hmith, 17(1:
MinPrva Brockwn~ ·. 1fi* Mary Gilh('rt 1 1~~1 I ltoH<• 8mith, i::!O•
A \IOrag-r-11~Co' f t,ho~f' promotcxl, 1:-1.
\ t ' liortt f.l, ' 1 Vrtl·n.tiou" - On o Hnndr(\(l Pnpih i.
Grade XII.
I pnv1r.!-l .
, Jl Cn' r·r 1'1onrcl<', :tl• NPlli,. Htntin. lW l. . W~IJinm Pndli •r, :!:!*- ·'!•t~Y1'ir -1hhPek . l H
Mll<lrt•d rr11l'k<,r, J{I* h.,dw1n Thor1tl', :!r 1
l, uln t 1 hild or;.., ;:m• j rno~cn<• l 'lark, 1f'"
Loin l_)lncowoy 1 2:0• Hnc1rg0 P f'fwy . t (P
A<ln Fnrnf'worth, 22* LC'nna Brncllny , "!0*
01'1\tion , HThu Mnn who \VNlrf\ tht\ Bnttnn 11 -1 Ashl py ( '<Kt JH'l' , 1H*
l~n(;t,nC" LnHowt'. Avt'i':U~l· llg't.' of thof.u • v1omot1>1l. 20.
Nnt, , 1- Voca l n\utlic it-1i n (•}1nr~··< ,f Mi t:f.t l~ttn Hn,it h, tho i-:pPcinl tooclH ' f'.
t - ln f:>rtnm r-nt.al rnnHi<· \,Ul bu inl (~rt.4porHO<Il ,y tlw llow 0ll ('nrn,•t Hand,
:1-r l.1ho80 Ht1l1\lt.•twl for th f\ cir\.~~• ,xtwci~I'~ rank 1irt-1t in tJw gpn,•r:il nv, •r:lJ:Cr Il lf attPndnnr f'.
pnnctnality 1 <lt>por1m cnt and HChol11rHhip.
I • Promot ed. i nt'<'PHt-1t\fl,
:l-· b[nst of thoBP not J,r ontot('(l hnvo been in Behool ,)nly J1ill't of tJw yAnr. Thm1f' whn nrnk1 •
up thf'w <,rk luHt will ho 1•x1mnnocl for j,rmnoiion n, ,x t ter m.
H- 8,m10 of till' pupilri in tht• ow<•r g-rndc~ of Ou.• ]]_hd, Hchool hove F.tndi<'R in thf'\ }l! ,.twr
7 -'l1his catalog-up nnd prng-1·n11\i ,;honlcl he pr n1:1nrvP<fnI r futur,• rrfor P1w,•.
'lill~' Jl!llll~ll llll"ill!l,>11\ :11•i1/lo:r; 111,:11·1111111l1l1l1l''1.I'-;I'lJJ,ik ,,,.,. , ·, ,,"l<' > :- 'r !I'll 1·11' ·Cti.'.1 H1; ··o··1 f*1:!I ~.o·-
~; ,illli'*lillllilll"9;: ''• 111 ,r.,;i lli:KI9]:llililiil/K,!U~li'l IIJIIJIJ''M 1' I '( : ii,,, ·9, '\f', ,,,ll , l:111l~11il:JIII•' ·•'
~w:ell ~hlic_5:chnnls ~
-;;:i - - - - - &. - f) ro mo t i on at © exercises!
- --· AT THE OPERA HOUSE,
~Th ursday MorrrinJh Jun:e HHh~ IHHIL~
Prayer .- REV E. F- V OOR~IES .
Grade I- First Ward.
l'~n~hrr , Eli¼nl,.,th t 'lnrk.
· ( 'rmlll' :-{cnu~." Hll~nlw l.
PllrILS.
Jdn AIJ,•11, ti May Mct'ah,,, HI'
lt :,y,uon d Axt,•11, H Lulu McCnb ~, ~·
,Ji·~~i,• llirkhnr l. ~" ( }e rtrrnl t1 ).Le( 'nbf' 1 tr•·
J:Hn<.•H('avl•I, H \Vi11iam .McPh C'r!-'<m, Ii,..
(')wlrtPa t!nlvrr 1 7 .Mand (· Pettion r . ll*
lla0tll' t 'ornpo 1 HI 8 0th Porl(•r, 11*
.Jnnion t'ompo, 7 D,viH"ht Pnrdy, H
lt'rnncis .llutlhnnot Honry ltat z,
l 'l:1rn h.1 .lt:.url'll, H (iract, 'l1ill'un .. , ti
1,;,-a l•'n•11ch1 8* l'h n rl et:i Vrmf11aricoiH , >-c•
H.nh4•rt l/(1ntl'r , 7 'L1ov·n. lC'y '\Vood, 7*
V1ddi Oan·ii:;on,; Louili \\'l•s.-.ing<.•·1, 'i
l<ut11( Tnn ln f'r , I:!~ Harr) We ssingC'r, H
Thorutm1 8ohnnnh, U Hr11a .Marvi n, H
lh •rtia (-lohannh. 7 Jkll ~ Pettibone , 11
\Vil limn Jlayr\l' s, Ii* H o ward Piatt , I\*
! 'lnrn J !av er, !I Waller lllcPhai l. H
r,lyrtit, Horunng, H {'nrri <->M aliby, fl
Al.rhi<' Kellui;g-, o• Alico .liishP,., U
Kat o D0Wlll'Y 1 8* \Villiam Down {')".
Olt·lln l'l'ttil, fi Maud e r11 npholmf' , 11
Hay \Villin ms, 7 Alh rrt Harn es , !i
Hrn c,• Wright. 7• }Jny O'N eil , 7'
Jl,·ll'n Lak P1 'i
AYl'n\l!P ngn of pupils prrnnotPd. 7. I l t•;u ~:.
Grade I- First Ward.
T,•nch t·r-. 11,·rf! in ( 'nrti!-1~.
('In'"'~ Hn ng-.
PU Pf LS.
Aihf' AnHtin , i
Lo ni:-1,pB rin kman. r."
\ValkPr B11t,;il, i
, ' lautl r, Hritt!·11. k
I1' rank HPJtt\(liet , h
Edwm· d Ho)Ct' , 7 •
t ·orn 3ln y BnnlPra, r<
Una Hay ( 'hnft•f', >-i"'
L ouis ( 'raiμ-P.
(lrH<"I' {'ooh., Ii
!ta, l'arli11 . 7•
.\lay Jlil,J,J,,, 1tJ•
( 'hnl'i,•, Dihillr• , h
J{: 1rJ} Dn111111<1n 1 M,._
J IHI t\l• l1,1"rgn1-1on, ~.t
)lury lt'itzpat rii-k. j'
'"·' :o ;llilliil*'.Wl l!h.' .o''
E-va L t.•\df'-1 h• ·
LPwiA M org-nn, I"
Ha.)o'111<dm i' iCl'C'ndr, ,;,..
HoyH l !\I c Dornmgh. 7
J l,, wn rti 1\leD01u111g-h, Ii
l!,•rn ir c· Phipp f.:.',i '"
FrP rl !1(~tt•ri,;on, ><
!'-if'lli" Hq.a.tl·tt'i , o•
Juli a H,•1<,;Mls, II
lJnvid Hnp11l ny(•a, H* 1t:,\ 1l
1.~:{.:st:11~t\~.~ \~~~·
Anua Belle 8111livn11. 'i
.\!thi n i!lmith , \I
PPit• r H111itl17.
\. ida t41111th, ~,,.
:"0·,11111f1-«l!!1il1lli1,
, l>'rnuk Farn•ll, 1• .\latilda i:lmit h, rit
li\\rn Oarlnnd . ,.. \Villi,• Snhnon,1, A•
Ella Holl ett. II Louis~ 'l'hompson, 7
1 JJ ,·nr r H~tcld, ,r . ti Frank W !'i<hrrrht. 11•
Fn,1 l smay, II Jkrt Wright , I\
Frank J,,hneon . Lenn Otto, 0
Bttu Kit~, H Huy i:lmith, 10•
Albert J,ie teruurnr Milo Cnrtis, 7
Unr WmTr·n , \l* Clyd e Wnrr cn , 7
D1·nry Portor , 7 ltichard Armstrong , 'i 1
Bt•rt \Vollman , H Ninu SaJmuncl, a
Lu ~ Hi s<lon Frank Kl ein,
Haymond Mcl(ecv or, k* Wert t;annrl ~rs 111
(-tl;tcP Tiffany , 7• ('nrlo,-.; ~ow lC'1'17,"
,\ vt ~n\,;f• aJ,{P ofthoi:te promotP<I , 7.\1~.
Gr ade I Sub. - Walnut Street.
I 'L'('nchPr , lJllHly Mf'll'n<lr.
(hovrr Pn •rton, fi John J)umm(1H, ti
lt'. N. 1,orf'f' ,:) L t•we llyn \-Vnrinl'.{, ft
1 ~lnhh• Prf•st o u , i 8Ua l)onl eyt 7
MUA"gli' Kndth,O <'harlas Lt.\VPrC'ltc, U I Miuni P Brinkman . :l Jo se phin o l.,nin" , n
I
NelliP Hall e tt , ti )fillnr<t llnrMR, 7
Hni Pl Brown. :\
Grade I I- Walnut Street . I T, •achcr, Lincly l\lulend, .
'' WakP Up "-· Alta Holt.
I .U. err ii Franklin , lfJ H enrr (hrgory. d'
J Larrr Pnrkr ..r . ~· Hort H11etor ,
; Cic·m·g-p \Vnlt Pr:-i, ~,. D~1niP1 Jlog-nn , W i Alma J<'rankli11, ;.:ada Jlolt, 11•
I NNti <· Molthy . Ill Kntil' Winr~, 7*
,\l tn ] [olt. I\'
.\V Pl'i\g"P ag-c) of pnpil1-1 tlrtunotf'd , H ycnr fi.
Grade Ill-Walnut Street.
TParl h·r. IJiudr ~-1t•l(l1uly.
•·Jlahy ii,. goiu~ to hp .. ln ]an(l 1 " Mrt-1. ('harl "
( ' nlt1111 Nina Ooodnow.
( ' lnmt.• Dolph , It Dou <ioudnvw, ltl'
Waltl' r Jl, •lmick. 11• J,,·on Wi11e,, 11
E111mPtt Bnrdt"n , ,1 {-i royp .Mnlt hy1 12
I ('harl pi,; Brow n . 101 t-iflor~t· 8nt'llic<)J' , H
l ( il'org-ia Hur t on, rt Hcf-lii,n; ( 1hnfoe , l i!*
· t'ai1h • P<•mr:on, 0"' Hmw Howf.lton, l7
I
l'Parl i,· Malt hy \I :-Iona lll:1tl1<•ws. 11'
HPrf JJuv P1', 1~ Ni na Orn11lnow , 'i"'
, \ \ ' ('!'il t~f' il~I' of tlttlHI' fll'()Jll{llf't(, 1(1 l 1"1\l'H
" .•. '6 :0:,11:l!l<iWl>' lil·"''" .•. ..
:1:~';;,:;,1i!lH~ llllli!lilllllllllllil,'Y.,i•i.t.ri,1il:lLl:lr!;l»1,llJ1olll!lltl:illll~l,:>: p;Il:!
Grade IJ-First Ward .
'J'Mchnr, J ossio Axt ell .
"We Little Boye ," Cnrl Cook.
Habriolla Allen , ll
Isabel Browning, 7
Viola Brooks, 8*
Cncia Curtiss, u
Ressie Hayn es, 8*
Selwy n Moon, A*
Ltettn Port er, 8*
Rt,hnl Smith u~
Clnn<le Schaffer, ll
Amelia Zahn, 10•
Ef.!.it.hC olet
Mario Piatt, 9*
PUPILS.
Lavern o Brockway, ll
Clan<le Brown , n•
Carl Cook 8*
Ne lli e DnShnne, \J
Floyd lfois cr, I I•
Mny Bell Owen, \I
Clyde Pettibone, O*
J,eon Stowe, 8
llnnni<lc White , R
Berth a Harriugt.on, JO•
Harry VanKr-nrnn, 7*
Average age of those promoted, A.a.
Grade Ill-First Ward,
Teacher, J eBBio Axtell.
"A Little Girl's Tronbles" -E lla Wino1:ar.
PUPILS.
Fred Allon, 10 Htolln Chil<lers. 14°
IlASPiio Du8hnne, 10 Maud HnrTiRnn, 11
F!mmn Grcanawnr 1 10 Gortru,lo Fnrroll. 10•
Cieorgo Herbert, II'" Ray Hickok, 10
Uuth Johnson, 8* Louis Konnedy, 10*
Grace Pettibono, 10 Willi e Pettibone, 12*
,Tonettie Smith 1 n• Louisa Smith, 9*
FJoy,l Stamp, lu Irma Tuttle, 10*
MA Winegar, ·10" Alice Whittaker , 11
Hnsic Barnes, 9* John Mcl'hor son , 10,.
Lona Kenneay, 11• George Lako, !l
Average age of claas promoted, 10.28.
Grade II - Second Ward .
Teacher, Iloso Miller.
"LitU o lmt lCoon"-Liva Lnlt own nnd lllnhC'l
Otto .
PUPILS,
F.tho l Cook 7* Hattie ('nrpeutor, fi'
Millie I1'if..1hhf'ck1 fl* Livn LnHow", 7*
l•~rwin LnHowo 1 H* HnU ,io Lef', 8*
Nolli e Lm1sing, 8,. Mabel Otto, k•
l~tella l'hili pa, 11 Martlm Paddock, 8*
[i'ra.nci s Uce<l, 8 !t'Iadclin u 8rnit.h, 7
Urnco Salmond, 10* 8cottn 8almonil, 11•
Lu cila Tyler, 9 Milli e Wliitnk,•r, b
Mand Wilcox , !l• Bull o Smith,!1
Alic e Hack er \ 8 Jessi e Farrar, II
'l1rncy Bt=>.nrdcs y, H Danil,1 Hog-an -:c
Average ngo or thoAr promoter!, 8.41.
Grade II I- Second Ward.
'J'nnche r, Hos e MiJJor.
wrotal AnnihiJnUon" - Jennit" J>ntP.
.John Awalt, 10*
Loalin Ronrdsl uy, 10
E liza Bn tt•, 11'
PUPILR.
(.'Jm1do Pnt11, 11
.J onn i ,• Pat<', ~t"!:
H Ion HroM1 . 10•
· •) """ll:~i llll•rl••!(lilll!l~l[ ll!llilll~l:11~1]l1ll1lll1llori ' '!:I,. . ~11111::-
PUPILS. Hrl'l,ort <'ook. rn•
ltichnrd Dnmmon.
Haz el Harland, H"
Bennie Houk. 7*
Lonise Redinger, 11 •
Neil Person, u•
'l'illie Pipp, !l•
Mng-gio J>mnmon, 1r
HI* ,Jnlia Bcofir lcl, HI
.Frank Southwol 1, 10
8yd Hall ett, !>
H enry Klein, 10
Willie Re,ling~r. 1l
B.n th Roberts, 11 •
i:ladio •.ry lc-r , 10
Lottie Wollman, 11.
( 'larn Happl r yea, 1l
Milli e Reed, !l
Hert \Vhitnkcr. 12•
AvC'rngo ngo of those prom ot c<l, Y,\12.
Grade IV-First Ward,
Teacher, I<'ranc Blackman.
Son~ -u 'l'ho Bobolink,'' 1'-1.E . 8crvosfi - Al,•x.
VanKouron, Abbin Haller. MyrtiP <:nlvcr, ('111'l'iP
Porter.
PUPILS .
Frnnk Barnum, lll* Elsie Bick hart, 1:l*
Myrtie GnJ vor, 11 • Frances C:lnrk, 11"
Arthur C:llStorton, 14* Hnrry Cavellt
John Downey, JO Harm on DuShnn,•, H
Etfio Do11n1 lfi* Emma Havm·, 12
Lil Lie Herbert, 12 Abbie Haller, 12*
Paulin e Griffith, 10• Wilber John son, 11'
Lot.t,il' Kollof:g, 10,. Carrie Porter, 10*
Clara Sanders. 12 Mami e Switzer , n•
Eclith Maltby, Alox. Vm,Keur on ll*
Glenn Williams, 12 Porter Woodworth, 10*
Avt'rnge nge of class prom0t£1cl, 11.J~,
Grade V- First Ward ,
'l'oncher, Franc Blackman.
Song-"'l'he Boboliuk," M. E. i:lervoss ,- ltm,
Gilbert, Gortrudo Pnlmer.
Lula Brockway, 14*
Edwin ( ':will, 12
Hex Cl i l hert ,, H*
. Mary ,Lyon, 10*
I J nhn .lllc('nbe, rn
CharlC'H Phil Ji !)H, 111
I) , Wiil inm l 'iatt, 1~
< ~inrn SnPdicm·, 1-l
William Smith, H
Loi tit· \Vook, u•
lfol en Win i; .
PUPILS, n. .s sie Browning, 1 l
Milli e Cn rtiss, 12
Hoy Hi ckok, l:l
Holl<' llcPliurson, 12•
Gertr rnlr• Palm Pr, 11*
Hattin Port Pr, 12*
.f/p(lrg(: Hv:it'.I.Or, 11
!fcrhGl't. Swort, JI'
Jam('r-1 Van.Kournn. 1 l*
lfownnl Willi!, 1~
Avf'1·ng-0 ng-P nf p np i IR promot ed , 1 :!.t L
Gr·ade IV- Walnut Street -
'l'encher, l 'ora Monroe.
"BPcnn~e." \V. L. 'l1nylo r - l?lorenco LockwoCM I.
PUPILR.
Clifford Al<lrich, J Lt Nellie Barrett , 13*
L0nn ( 'ook, llt Hrrmnn DnHhnnr,, 11-
11<m. ry Dmnmon, la* Alury Farrn,worth, 1 J:. .
lflor 0ncP Farrell, 11* llo.tti H ~1ishh<.'ck. 1:\"'-
Alicc lfornini: , 11* William Hall , JI
('har ·lPH .fohnson, Ji Ho w,"":.dr ftl11·1g-nn. l i"-
1Aahl'l J\!c.•U11no11,~ 1h~,.., Hurt N1·,,·1:ll, 1:1'""
Lillie ow .. n . Ill M~Tlil' Ow,•n, 1l
''i!ll~ill:Uilll!Liilil!lllill!lol i1l'lllill~llillll,li.\IIIIJlliill*ll-1ll1llil~l 11,,~,l!i.1!'1,li!lo1:l· :, 1~:. (o ,l:illi>1o:1i,:!>,o'.,;1, 1::·,o 1<i:ll!,*,'·,{,i!:i:'<,,~>1J::!!*i1'.:!1!i,1,
:,. :i,.•u1or:111!1:1~!1llil!llll~l•liirlb•'9·)-.!ili'•i!l'+rlil~l!lll:i+!i:m111~Jllllllli~:ill!lll~l!lllili';# :,11,)1t!:ill!!ill~l·l:!11'lfllll!lllll:iJ..l .' .\_;'11•:~!'' l!ili jj,1,i:lr
\•l'PJL~.
Kh1111wi Nmith. H 1;:11aH hafft·1·.1 1
J' f•arl Hwri't, 10* Al tnro 'J1hompRon. J.1*
l•'rm1k Wines, l ~ .MP.rniu \Vinuf.l, 10"'
1'-ni ..d VnnRlari cnm, ll Flor encP. Lockwo<1tl 1 10*
Edwin i:lannders. l:i Frank Hogan, 14.
Averng-A ag-e o{ 11111,ilrp-.r omnt•·d, l t yf'R.r~.
Grade V-· Walnut Street.
'l'(lncher, ( 'orn M on ro e .
'"Thf> l'urned LeRsou." Francii--1 Hnvproll-LilJy
Thon1p~on.
Ncllio Boyce, 1-1•
Eva GE-ssler, rn•
Vern Hupper. 11"
IS<ltih !::lchroeder, lti
~mnu el Tomion, 14*
Hobe rt Bnr<len, 13*
Nora John son, 12
PUPILS.
Daisy ( 'Jcmgli ,l!'i*
Jol,n (frimadcll, rn
Hertha i\forgnn, u•
Lily Thomp so n, 1,•,
Grant :French. 1H*
( '!yd<' Culver , ]Ii*
A VHrngfl age of pnpih: pro:notPd. U .1 YPJ\fl-(,
Grade VI - First Ward .
'1'11acl.or . En111ia Lnmb .
"Hnilty or n11t Guilty,'' Anon -Ev n L. Jfir.kor .
PUPIJ,H.
Ninn Ay,•rs, 1~ Alex Allen, U
Emil~ L. Bench, 11* Emma Casterton, 1f\
Hru-ry ( ' . Ellis, 14* Herman J<'renc h, 14
(foori:e F. Fish beck, rn Gay C. Fnrrell. 12*
Grnc e V. CJ.ilbert, 13* Eva L . Hickey, 11*
Hoy J. JTnntley, 12* Ward Kellogg 13*
('Jarenc e Momoe, 15 Eugene McCabe , lli
Willi e fl. Porter, 1~• Don C. Piatt, 16•
J<.;clward Smith, ii Flora B. Switzer , 12•
Charles VanKeuren. 12• George Wines, 14*
Amy A. Wood, rn Belle Woodworth, 13
Nellie Winegar, 13 Eddie Nutting, 12•
8usnn Cole1nan, 14 Minnie Reason, ll'i
Frrrl Loftus, rn C:alvin A. Peavey, 14
Av~m"" !ll(P. of those promote<!, 14 yoara.
Grade VI I- First Ward.
, , 9rade IV-:--Se cond Ward, Tuacher, Emma Lamb.
l oacher, l<anny H,munK ton. "F· 'le<l ,, Ph'll' Th N · ,
"What 1'11 Do in After Years, " Anon-Myrt .ie ,u , . I IP ompson- P.lhaVnnlnttl'n
Miru "lr, • PUPIL8.
PUPILS. WilJie T . Brooks, 17 Allie 0. Brown, 17•
t:Inrn Hrin.kmiu1, 11 Dai •Y Boyce, 10 Wm . Mac Browmng, 13• Wm. E. Bnrhonr, 13
MnyCJemonts , 11 Dell evan Clark, 11* Iva Dempsey 14 Frances Freund, 17•
Evurntto Dihl>le, 11* ll enry Link, IM Clyd e E. {forl and, lo Bruca N. Hickey, J~•
Florence Fi old, 11 Alice Franklin, 12 Millie Herbert, 15• Hattie He sse, 111•
Alta Herrington, 11• A. V. Holt !l Carl Kinquest, 17 John F. Ma~er, 14*
l!.'va Johnson, 12* Fred Jenks, 10• Bert Milla 19 L. Ceslestin Parshall 12*
Mami e Knapp, 10* Harmon Owan, U Gertrud e Sne<licor, 16* Florenca J. l:lweet., iii•
Myrti e Miner , 11• J osep h McD ono ugh , 10 Charles F. Spears, rn• Lizzi e 'l'nrner, lli
Lizzie Pelton 1 10• Charles Rector, 11 Nellie VanPatten , 15* Nina E. Winegar, lli•
L'i1lio Hichara, H ' Mury Schnck , 11 CJ.eorge Weitbrecht, 14*
'L1heodor~ r_I._~athP1r,0 , .Emml_l Smith, 1_2 AvPrngc a,.w of thoBe pron\o te, l, J~ yenre.
J\lah c l W1llrn111svn, 11* Harloi~h Helmtc. 14
Av orl\g'o age of thmm prornote<l. 10.t(
Grade V- Second Ward.
'J'c:1che r , .l?ann3· lln ntington.
11 Catch in K Chnrlin, 11 JI . \V. HPPClwr'' - S1-\)'lllOUr
J' erAon,
J csflie Allon , 1;1
('!ancl Burkhart, lU
Lncina llrighmn 1 1~,;,
Nina C:hafee. t~•
l1'!on1 Deuq ..i,,:cy! H:*
!,fay Ho! t, 1l
Heymonr PerKon , 11"'
Jt'n •d l'ipp, 1~
El via Handal!, I I •
Alma Shnrp, 11
(/,11re11i" Jl11sh. 11•
Edrn 1 F it:·h. 11*
l'U1 1 1LS.
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Fro<l P~urson, 13* Edrli" Pnpworth, 15
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Dr.- H.G.HUN11NGTO. N
1920'1
Board of
Education
Members of the
Howell Board of
Education in the
early l 920's. These
pictures appeared in
the 1922 Howell High
School "Torch ." C.S.
Line had two sons,
Winfield and
Francis, and R.B.
McPherson had one
son, Robert, in the
1922 graduating
class.
Th e old H igh School opened in 1922.
School dance in the gym of the old high school about 1952.
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Barb Pierce , Helen Stuible, John Chamberlain , Bob Meyers and
others spend a few nights at Zemper's Studio to get the yearbook put
together , while eating cookies and Cokes .
One of the four new elementary schools built in 1955.
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Water ball fights are still part of Howell fun .
Tornado Damage
A house hit by a tornado northeast of Howell.
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This picture probably sold more silos for the Smith Silo Co. than
anything else they ever did. The tornado went through this area where
the old Wilson Farm used to be, west of Howell .
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Bruce Products about 1928.
Howell Industry
Bruce Products Corp.
In 1917A .J . Bruce decided there were greater advantages
in producing one's own products. Therefore, using a few
garden tools from home he started to manufacture a line of
metal cleaners .
Mr. Bruce had left his father's farm and moved to
Indianapolis after graduating from high school. He supported
himself as a streetcar conductor while attending business
school at night . After trying some other occupations , he
became a successful salesman for a Chicago firm in their
Michigan territory.
It was then that he became interested in manufacturing.
Following a partnership of short duration, Bruce Products
was established in 1919 and incorporated in 1920.
Soon after , a line of buffing and polishing wheels were
added , which were followed by the development of a
complete line of buffing and polishing compositions . Over the
years the manufacture of products has been expanded to
cover the needs of those companies working with all metals
and plastic . In addition to the finishing materials there is a
full range of lubricants for machining, grinding, stamping ,
dra wing and die casting , as well as specialty products , which
have been developed in the Bruce laboratory . The Bruce
Products Corporation has long been recognized as one of the
leaders in its field throughout history in the United States , as
well as shipping direct to many foreign countries .
When the second location in Detroit was outgrown in its
early years , it became necessary for Bruce Products to
obtain manufacturing facilities which would furnish the
space needed for continued growth. In 1926 the Borden plant
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at West and Factory Streets, in the northwest area of the city
of Howell, Michigan , was purchased . The manufacturing and
laboratory facilities were moved to Howell, while the main
offices and a warehouse were located in the Twelfth Street
Terminal Building in Detroit . In 1947 the offices were also
moved to Howell.
On Februar y 28, 1942, the plant was almost completel y
destro yed by fire . In a front page article in the December 2,
1942 issue of the Livingston County Press , reporting on the
nearl y completed new building, A.J. Bruce , President , was
quoted, " ... for a time following the fire , the obstacles to
rebuilding seemed insurmountable , but the cooperation of
the Howell business people gave the Corporation encouragement
to make such plans ." One of the major problems was
the extreme shortage of all building materials because of the
war .
In December 1946, A.J. Bruce , founder , died (1890-194)6.
His son, S.H. Bruce , was elected President in July 1962, and
his grandson , C.D. Bruce, was promoted to Plant Superintendent
in February 1975.
In this Bicentennial Year the Bruce Products Corporation
salutes the community of Howell.
Chem-Trend Inc.
An interest in plastics , and the unsolved problems of
releasing these materials from molds, sparked the beginning
of Chem-Trend in 1959.
When he got his first customer, Peer Lorentzen formed the
humble beginning of Chem-Trend . The first "plant" was
located in a garage in Howell. Since the garage was in a
residential area, he was soon asked to move; and for the next
few years, the company's quarters were in Brighton.
The company's insistence on excellence and continuing
research into product development and improvement soon
brought the second customer ... and Chem-Trend had started
its growth.
In 1963, a plant comprised of 6,000 square feet was built in
Howell. This plant was expanded in 1964, in 1965, in 1968, in
1970,i n 1973,a nd again in 1976t o the 55,000s quare feet it now
occupies. The product line over the course of these years has
been expanded to include casting lubricants, quenching
compounds, plunger lubricants, mold release agents, fireresistant
hydraulic fluids, and most recently, concrete mold
release agents.
Chem-Trend now has three operating sales divisions known
as : Die Cast Industry Products Division, Mold Release
Division and New Ventures Division.
The Die Cast Industry Products Division supplies die
casting lubricants, quenching compounds, plunger
lubricants, and hydraulic fluids to the die casting industry.
The Mold Releane Division sells mold release agents to the
urethane industry for use with flexible, semi-rigid, and rigid
foam applications.
The New Ventures Division is responsible for developing
new opportunities to provide future growth and expansion.
Chem-Trend has established its own overseas affiliate,
known as Chem-Trend International, to provide overseas
customers with the necessary products and service.
Although Chem-Tren<i's employees (35 in Howell) enjoy a
small-knit production force and a local setting, they have the
added satisfaction of knowing their efforts result in worldwide
business, sales, and success.
Diamond Tibon Plating Co.
Diamond Tibon Plating Company, known as Diamond
Chrome Plating Inc. until February 1974, started up in
January 1954a t604 S. Michigan Avenue, Howell and has been
growing at that location ever since. The product, hard
chrome plating, is an industrial coating applied primarily to
aircraft, hydraulic, machine tool and engine components.
Diamond Tibon Chrome Plating.
Operations commenced in 1954 under Manager, John C.
Beatty, and Superintendent, Noel VanHoff, both from the
parent company in Connecticut. The original 7500 square ft.
building was purchased from Robert Menzies. It was built in
1937w ith an addition in 1941a nd prior to 1954s aw service as a
foundry, auto body shop, county garage and tractor
dealership. It was more room than was needed and some
thought was given to leasing out space.
Business came slowly. The initial account which prompted
the move to Howell never materialized. Fortunately quality
work and good service prevailed and things improved.
Employees went from three to eight in the first year. Soon
Charles E. Cain joined the company as salesman to assist
John Beatty . By 1960t here were 15 employees and equipment
had filled the whole building.
1964s aw the start of plant expansion. First was a new office
followed by acquisition in May 1965 of the adjoining property
from blacksmith David Jones. Steel building additions were
made in 1966, 1968 and 1973. Adjacent property on Walnut
Street was purchased in 1974 for possible future use as
parking space. The plant area is now over 35,000 square feet.
John C. Beatty retired as manager in 1974. His son, John C.
Beatty, III is now manager. Ronald R. Sharpe is now Plant
Superintendent and Charles E. Cain continues as Sales
Manager . Total employment has risen over the years from 42
in 1965t o 51 in 1970-75a nd will continue to grow. Company
trucks now service southern Michigan from Port Huron to
Kalamazoo and other business comes in from Canada to
Florida.
Diamond Tibon is firmly established in Howell and is proud
to be among the larger industrial employers in the city.
D & J Gravel Inc.
By Harold Corser and Cindy Jonckheere
D and J Gravel, Inc. sits on 100 acres of land bordered by
Mason Rd. and Dieterle Rd. in Howell Township. Beginning
in 1924, this land, called "The Loree Hill" was farmed by
Eugene (Gene) Loree who bought the farm from his mother.
After about four years of hog farming "The Depression" hit
and Gene continued farming and working at the Howell
Motors. Approaching retirement in 1945, Gene began selling
gravel from the pit on his farm with only a dump truck and a
"barber-green" excavator . Previously gravel had been
hauled from the gravel pit by farmers for the surrounding
townships with a team of horses and a wagon. This was a
means for local farmers to pay their property taxes to their
township.
By early 1950 business was booming. Gene's son-in-law,
Clayton Damman then bought into the business under a
partnership agreement. At that time gravel was loaded by
means of a tractor with a front-loader . Soon a gravel wash
plant , a crusher and a triple-deck screen were purchased to
increase production and efficiency. In the summer of 1950
Gene Loree suffered a stroke. This was to precede a change
for the future of Loree and Dammon Gravel Co. Because of
his health, Gene decided to sell his interest in the company .
In Nov. of 1950 August P. Jonckheere, full-time farmer,
bought into a partnership with Clayton Damman, his former
country schoolmate. This was the beginning of D. (Dammon)
and J . (Jonckheere ) Gravel.
Under the new partnership part-time help was hired.
Lauren Reddinger worked afternoons after delivering milk .
He learned to operate a new war surplus P&H crane. In
March of 1953, Harold Corser was hired as D&J Gravel 's first
full time employee. In July of the same year the company
diversified into the ready-mixed concrete business with a
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used 1951F ord mix truck and a brand new Reo truck with a
Yager mixer. In September of 1953, Bernard Kourt was
employed full time for the company. Both Harold Corser and
Bernard Kourt are still employed full time for D&J Gravel
Co. today.
The business was growing. As sales increased , so did the
need for new machinery. A Sourman hoist was purchased to
haul gravel up to the plant. Later a more efficient method
was developed which pumped gravel to the plant. David and
Alan Jonckheere and Richard and Ron Damman, sons of the
owners, worked summers on both the hoist and the crane.
Steady growth continued for the company through the
1950's and 1960's. In 1961, the employees were organized by
the Teamsters Union.
In 1971, Clayton Damman was ready to sell his interest in
the company for retirement plans . August Jonckheere and
his son, David , each bought half of Clayton's share in D&J
Gravel. In 1972, the company incorporated . After college
graduation , Lauren Jonckheere joined the business with his
father and brother in 1973.
In September of 1974, August H. Jonckheere passed away
at the age of 57, leaving a growing business, which he had
helped operate and expand for 24 years . Today, two of his
sons, David and Lauren , own and operate the business with
21 persons on the payroll. Presently 19 licensed vehicles
deliver approximately 100,000 cubic yards of material
removed from "The Loree Hill" annually . Royalties are paid
monthly for this yardage to the Loree family. D&J Gravel Co.
has recently diversified into the sale of septic tanks, concrete
blocks, and building supplies . The company continues to
grow and expand with Livingston County.
Howell Construction
The fore-runner of Howell Construction Co., Inc. ; Lake
Construction Co., Inc ., was originally incorporated in 1948.
An asphalt paving contractor , the plant and office was
located on a railroad siding in Chilson. Five years later the
plant was moved extensively within the state including ,
Allegan, Willow Run Airport, Genesee, Lenawee and
Oakland counties. Ultimately the plant settled in 1961 at the
present location on Mason Road. The office was located in
Whitmore Lake across from Hoover Chemical on Eight Mile
Road .
Howell Construction Co., Inc. was formed in 1951 for the
purpose of buying equipment needed to pave roads , parking
lots, tennis courts and subdivisions.
Lake and Howell became a common name around the
Livingston County area. Eventually Lake Construction
moved much of its equipment to northern lower Michigan to
enable Lake and Howell to cover a wider area of service .
The two companies were formally separated in 1972.
The office of Howell Construction Co., Inc. was relocated
on Grand River , Howell, Mich. in 1969 and , continues to do
business from this location at the present time .
May & Scofield, Inc.
May & Scofield was founded in 1934b y Harold W. Scofield,
Sr. and Roy May of Detroit. The company manufactured
hardware for the casket manufacturers and was located in
the building formerly occupied by the Brannon Appliance
Company. This building was purchased for $2,500 and was
100x40 square feet , however , only about one third of it was
actually used in the beginning by May & Scofield. They
initially employed three people-Harold W. Scofield, Sr .,
Harry Fisher and Harold W. Scofield, Jr.
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Harry Fisher started with the company soon after it was
established, and during his time with the company he and
Harold Scofield, Sr. developed the Christmas Tree Light Clip.
These eventually became a part of every set of Christmas
lights-known as the "bubb le light"-sold by Noma Lites
nationally . Over the years, over 100 million were manufactured.
The success of the Treelite Clip was instrumental in
establishing the foundation of May & Scofield. Harry Fisher
went on to establish his own Fisher Tool & Die Company in
Howell.
In 1948R oy May's interest in the company was purchased
by Harold W. Scofield, Sr. and Harold Scofield, Jr . and the
company then became a family owned partnership . William
B. Scofield joined the partnership in 1949. Harold W. Scofield,
Sr. passed on in 1963 at the age of 74.
In the late 40's the company began to supply the
automotive industry with metal stampings. In the 1960's the
company started manufacturing mechanical and electromechanical
assemblies for the automotive industry -as it
does today.
In 1968 the company was incorporated with Harold W.
Scofield, Jr. as its first President. It has grown over the years
to its present employment of approximately 100 people.
With Harold Scofield, Jr .'s retirement in 1974, William R.
(Rick) Scofield, the son of William B. became active in the
business. In its 42 years , three generations of the family have
been involved in the running of the business .
R & D Screw Products
The R&D Screw Products Company is a manufacturer of
high quality screw machine parts. The company was formed
in 1944 by Norm Dymond and Carl Rogers. They occupied a
building at 110 South Michigan Avenue at that time . The
building has since been torn down.
During the war years R&D made parts for bomb fuses and
aircraft engines . In 1945 they contracted Clarence Geheringer
to build the plant at 810 South Fowler Street in which they
are now located.
In 1946, upon returning from the service , William Dymond
purchased the interest of Carl Rogers and the two brothers
have operated the business together for the past thirty years .
The company presently manufactures precision parts for
several industries including auto , aircraft, computer ,
plumbing , and many more.
R & D Screw Products Company.
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PLASTIC TOOL COMPANY
Unified's Plastic Tool plant.
Unified Industries, Inc.
This Bicentennial year marks the 25th year of Unified
Industries ' service to America 's most vital industries .
Unified Industries was incorporated in Eaton Rapids,
Michigan in 1951 when its primary business was the
construction of tools for the aircraft industry. The company
moved to Howell in 1953 to obtain expanded building space
and a more favorable location from which to serve its
customers .
In 1955, when the aircraft industry was decentralized from
the midwest and concentrated on the west coast , Unified
Industries incorporated the subsidiary of Plastic Tool
Company of America and made the conversion to tool
building for the automotive industry. The company has
continued to serve the auto industry since that time and has
expanded its physical facilities in Howell to meet the
changing complexion of the American auto industry.
In 1972 new government standards regulating auto
emission controls required the increased attention of the auto
industry to meeting those standards and consequently less
attention to automobile design changes. Adapting to this
shift , Unified Industries began increased development of its
patented trolley-a product used in an overhead conveyance
system . Trolley production had previously been a sideline in
the overall operation of the company .
In the past four years the trolley trade has grown to
represent 65 percent of Unified Industries ' gross annual sales
and the market continues to grow.
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8th Grade-1910
8th grade 1910, Leona Morton teacher . I wish I could give all the
names , but I have been away from Howell since 1915. I can give some
of them : Vera & Stanley Latson, Alma & Hilda Weinmaster, Viola
Joslin, Bertha Bennett, Julia Crintenden, Ruth Larson, Gladys
Golden, Bertha Whitacker , Maude & Leona Nash, Mary Bullis , Vica
Lare, Harold Hardy, Lawrence Lyon, Burril Skinner, Ivan Brayton ,
Uhl Wink, George Garland , Earl Lorenz, Don Frisbee, Lloyd Ratz .
I was in the Family Restaurant last summer and was seated at the
table with an elderly lady and in visiting I discovered she was Leonora
Morton, my 8th grade teacher 65 years ago . Hard to believe after all
those years. I wish I could give all the names of the class. Sure would
love to see it in the new book .
Vica Lare Bruce
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Howell Bus Drivers
Bus drivers of Howell schools about 1956. Seated, I. tor ., Maynard
Bird , Guy Knoop, Robert Gies , Duane Meyer , Carl Walt, Sam
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Hasbrouck . Standing , I. tor ., Jesse Parham , Frank Green , Fred Fox ,
Joe Helmore, Harry Waldron. Maynard Bird is still driving .
Spencer Machine Shop
A group of men that worked at the Spencer Machine Shop in 1915. He
received less than $10 per week and we paid S10.00 per month rent. But
very thankful for work. The other picture is inside of the shop .
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How Our ChurchF aces
the Challengeo f 1976
Wright's Comers
Church of God
By Timothy K. Andreanopoulos, Pastor
The Church of God is seeking to lead in developing better
communication that will result in understanding. We believe,
whether it be an individual, family , community , or any level,
the final result will be closer ties and security .
We are attempting to provide an environment where
individuals can come to know themselves without fear of
criticism: An environment where individual growth is
encouraged. In these conditions their needs can better be met
by their lives being transformed according to the plan of God
and not by people conforming to any given life-style. We
believe, as individual needs are met , people will be stronger
and more capable of serving others.
The Church of God is seeking to change our community, not
by social reforms nor by dictation of do's or don'ts . We are
seeking to witness with our lives the more abundant life
through the discipline of a Christ-centered life to be both
creative and positive .
We are seeking to lead people in regular worship to
celebrate the Living God: The Living God that loves each of
us enough that He has a special plan for each of our lives and
is seeking to guide us in it. The Wright's Corner's Church of
God is seeking to meet the challenge of 1976 in the age-old
method of seeking God's will and the only thing that is new is
that we are just trying harder to do it better.
The Salvation Army
By Captain Jerry Sword
The Salvation Army has been in existence for 109 years and
in operation in Howell, Michigan since 1892. Through the
years The Salvation Army , as well as other "long term "
organizations , have undergone some real deep " trouble
waters ;" however , 1976, like many other difficult years , such
as the Depression in the 30's, will go on record of being a
mighty challenging time to be here and in which to work.
God has raised up " The Army " through all kind::; of
circumstances and yet , made it through.
We are living in the era of time when we see the destruction
of America , but we ought not be alarmed at these happenings
because God has said in His Word these things would come to
pass in the last days.
The Salvation Army has been known to help people through
emerg ency basis and in very difficult times . This Bicentennial
year of 1976, The Salvation Army is planning to help in
the same way as in the past.
The Army's Slogan for 1976 is "Share Your Faith. " By
shar ing the faith God has given us, might mean that more
people will have the opportunity to know more about the Lord
Je sus Christ and the salvation He has to offer to the
whosoever.
In conclusion, The Salvation Army is looking forward to
working in 1976w ith the great challenge we face to spread the
Gospel.
By Richard F. Hennig, Interim Pastor
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church is a relative!~ new
church in the Howell community . Although the church is new
to this area, it is affiliated with a long standing Lu~er~n
body, the Wisconsin Evangelical Luthe~an S_ynod,w hich m
this Bi-Centennial year is celebratmg its own 125th
Anniversary. .
How Prince of Peace faces the challenge of 1976m ight well
be summed up in the anniversary theme of its parent b<>?Y
" Grace ." By God's grace we are in the How~ll co~mumty
and by His grace we will continue to proclaim His Word.
Although the challenges placed before the church in ~976 are
different in scope than those of 1776, they are essentially the
same in effect. Man must still be reminded of his sin and
comforted by means of Christ's Gospel. We at Prince of
Peace shall face the challenge of 1976 by pledging continued
faithfulness in the proclamation of God's Holy Word.
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This picture of the Baptist Brotherhood was taken about 1924 while
C. W. Kruger was superintendent of the Sunday School. Beginning
with the front row from left to right the group includes E .E. Latson,
George Dailey, Reverend Ambrose, B. Commiskey, Al Heminway,
Clyde Garland, Mr. Cooper, Samuel Lyons, C. W. Kruger, Harold
First Baptist Church
By Rev. Donald E. Williams
Our world is changing so rapidly and with it our culture , so
that it is difficult to accurately anticipate and plan for the
future . This in itself constitutes a challenge . Because human
nature and the basic emotion-spiritual needs of the individual
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Howlett, Judge Willis Lyons, Mr. Berry, J. Eager, Ford Garland, Bert
Purdy, L. Mendorf, Bruce Newcomb, Douglas Marr, Wm. Culver, W.
Haines, W. Perkins, Mr . Coulard, Archie Arnold, Fred Berry , D .
Randall, Wm. Young, T.S.S. Curdy, N . Yelland, Don Goodnow, W . H.
Wood, H . Miller and Ed Garland.
do not change , our church plans to continue the essential
ministry of introducing individuals to Jesus Christ , and
fostering growth in Him. We especially plan to concentrate
on a ministry to youth because of the tremendous peer
pressure brought on today's youth, and upon a ministry with
the aged and aging because this will be an ever-increasing
group of our population.
The above photo shows the hand bell choir in 1976.
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Mrs . Viola Neil, Sidewalk Days, 1952.
Top-new Grace Lutheran Church .
First United Methodist Church
By Rev . Lewis C. Sutton
The Bicentennial observances of 1976 will stand out as
some of the most memorable of this century. However, we
must think beyond the present moment in history to the third
century of our national existence. What will it mean for the
churches? What will it mean for our church here in Howell?
We look forward to serving the ever-increasing community
as we expand our own resources . People are in constant need
of spiritual guidance and a deepening faith. We hope to
continue serving and helping people in this area of need. Our
facilities are excellent. Our people are inspired and
enthusiastic. We look forward to another century of sharing
God's love through the church.
The above photo shows part of those who participated in a
Colonial Worship Service, Feb. 29, 1976.
Church of the Nazarene
By Rev. Ronald C. Ketchum
The Church of the Nazarene is a composite of personalities
united under the lordship of Jesus Christ. The Church faces
the challenges of 1976 only as each individual member faces
the challenges personally. We are united in the belief that
though times change, our responsibilities to God as our
Creator and Savior remain unchanging .
The way to better society and change the direction of the
world toward peace is not to legislate more laws, but to
internalize the laws of God within man. Any man who obeys
God's laws and lives a Christ-like life is an asset to his
community and a positive force for good in the world.
Individually and united, the members of the Church of the
Nazarene faces the problems and opportunities of the future
with courage and the conviction that "If my people, which
are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray ,
and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways ; then will
I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land." II Chronicles 7: 14.
The above photo shows the Senior Adult Retreat of 1975.
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By Rev . Henry Stamper Jr.
As our great country comes to its Bicentennial Birthday ,
never was the challenge so great to the church world and to
the Christian as it is today.
The Christian once again is becoming inspired to take his
rightful place in the body of Christ and reach out a helping
hand to a world with many problems and that is in great
distress . Our church people are greatly inspired to help
perserve our great country and our religious freedoms and to
go forth and fulfill the great commission of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
As stated in Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 16, Verses 15-18f or
we realize that any nation's future depends on how they
honor God. Our nation was founded upon God's Holy Word
and there is a great need to return back into that close
fellowship with our Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ is the
same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrew 13-8.
Picture of church in action-water baptism by immersion taken in
Jan . 1976.
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West Marion Methodist Church
WEST MARION METHODIST CHURCH
The West Marion Church in Marion Township was first organized as
a Methodist Protestant Church. The congregat ion met in homes and
the school house until in 1884 when, Augustus Purdy deeded the land
on the N .E . corner of Pingree and Coon Lake Roads and a building
was erected . There were eleven charter members. In 1891 the
membership had grown to 72. That year a Sunday school was started
and a ladies aid was formed .
In the early years the church was on a circuit with the Fleming
Church at six corners, the Lake and Thayer congregations . Later in
1903, it changed to the Livingston Circuit with Plainfield and Parkers
Corners Churches . With the merger of the Methodist churches it was
not a Methodist Protestant church any longer.
During these years there was an active ladies aid and the West
Marion group became famous for their homemade ice cream socials
in the summer , the harvest suppers in the fall and their New Years
dinners . The specialty at the New Years dinners were the casseroles
of escalloped oysters. In 1940 the aid changed to the Womans Society
of Christian Service and joined with churches in the Detroit Conference,
Ann Arbor district, in the missionary work .
The church building was destroyed by fire in March of 1958. The
congregation met for a year at the Marion Town Hall until in 1959 they
merged with the Green and Parkers Corners Churches to form the
Trinity Methodist Church . In 1960 ground was broken at the corner of
Iosco and Bull Run Roads and a new church built . Many willing hands
from the three churches helped to erect the building.
This is now the Trinity United Methodist Church on the circuit with
Plainfield . There is an active womens group, a growing church school
that meets Saturday mornings every two weeks, and an active
U.M.Y.F . group meets.
A parsonage has recently been built on land just West of Trinity
Church which serves both churches . Rev . and Mrs . Jerome Smith are
the present occupants of the parsonage.
Mrs. Harold J. Maycock
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The Sunday School class of the Walnut Street Methodist Church
taught by Will Whitaker, entertaining the girls class on Halloween in
1914.
Robert Krause
Maple Grove Class in 1948
This picture is of Maple Grove School class in 1948 on the corner of
Pinckney Road and Kiddle Road. The teacher is Mrs. Dorothy Reed
now retired and living in Howell.
The back row from left to right are Shirley Buckelew Breslin living
in Brighton, SDam Buckelew, at home on Sexton Road, Jackie Sober
Laine in Vernon, Michigan, Marilyn Musdson Brown in Arizona,
Russell Coddington on Peavy Rd .
Second row, Janice Gates Wartenburg on Fisk Rd., Sylvia
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Buckelew Stead of Ortonville, Leonard Buckelew of Brighton,
Richard Sober, Chelsea Mich., Don Buell, Howell, Ross Kiddle,
Sexton Rd .
Third row, Marilyn Howle Mathews, Buena Park Calif ., James
Grainger, Howell, Margaret Coddington Mitschelin, Malott Wash.,
Lee Alstott on Mason Rd ., James Gates, died in a motorcycle ac -
cident, Sharon Buell O'Keefe of Detroit.
Olive Coddington
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Seven miles north of Howell is a quiet little community known as
Oak Grove. Here are pictures of this little town in the early 1900's.
The Ed Pearce home, later known as the John Staley home--1902-
presently owned by Gregory Luberman .
Oakgrove, 1895-1911
By Zelma Davenport
My family moved to Oak Grove when I was two years old.
My father rented a log house from Will Slider. Farm now
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Allen. About three years later
we moved to the house across from the parsonage . Rent was
$4.00 a month . A big swing was put up on the large limb.
Adults and children enjoyed alike .
The town had two general stores. George Woods and Edd
Pearce . The Pearce store is still active. The saw mill was
owned by Tom and John Pearce and was one of the means of
employment
The grist mill owned by Art Pearce was burned down with
three other buildings about 1906. It was rebuilt and operated
by George Switcher . The hotel was owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Bird Ellis. They also had the livery barn. The hotel burned in
1967. The blacksmith shop was operated by Bert and Will
Conine. After school would stop and watch them shoe the
horses . Mr. Kenny operated the elevator . Besides the farmers
benefiting from it many of us earned our spending
money here by picking beans . The beans were on a rotating
belt and we picked the bad beans from the good ones. Our
doctor was Dr. Erwin who made all his calls with his horse
carriage . His office was in his house.
My first day of school was Sept. 1898. Edith Hotelling was
the teacher . We learned our 3R's in the Oak Grove High
School. There were two rooms. The small room on the back
had the grades up to the sixth. The large room the grades up
to the eleventh . The teachers were Harry Durfee , Roy
Lannen and Edmond Conklin. In the small room, Edith
Durfee, Edith Hosley, Erwin and Leola Statey . If we were
disciplined at school and complained about it at home we had
no sympathy .
Many of the farmers hauled logs in the winter to the saw
mill. They hauled them on sleighs Dec., Jan. and Feb. had
steady sleighing.
They also put up ice for the summer . The ice was cut in
blocks of 12 by 16 inches from the pond and put in ice houses
(a small building) and packed between layers of saw dust
from the saw mill. It usually lasted till late August. The ice
was used for making ice cream on Sundays, the Fourth of
July and the many ice cream socials not many home with an
ice cream freezer .
Transportation was by railroad , horse and carriage or
cutter or walking. Edd Hotelling had the first auto about 1907.
There was a gasoline motor coach on the Ann Arbor that
stopped at the road crossin_g to discharge and pick up
passengers . It was called "The Potato Bug," we would go to
Howell on it to the roller rink on Sat.
The Ladies Aid of the church gave a dinner once a month .
The dinner was $.25, proceeds going to the church . The food
was furnished by the church members . The dinners were
always well attended .
Oak Grove had a very good band . They gave concerts on
Sat. nights. Mr. Isham was the band conductor . The
huckleberr y swamp back of town gave us our berries for
winter . It is state owned now. The Sears and Montgomery
catalogs were an important way of shopping. The Catalogs
gave us many pleasant hours. Weddings and funerals were
held in the home. A wreath of flowers was placed on the door
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Winter i n Oak Grove in early 1900's-house in background now
owned by B. VanPatton, but at one time owned by S. Campbell who
also operated a grocery store in Oak Grove .
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Now known as Larch St.
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Viewing Oak Grove from the west side of the mill dam-the house
on the right is Ed Winchell's place-Campbells' store, the church &
mill can also be seen .
of the home of the deceased . The swimming hole was in the
creek below the grist mill. When the mill was running we
would have to wait for the race to slow down.
We did not have radio , TV, autos and not many phones, but
it did not take long to get a crowd to gather for the many
socials and birthday parties . In summer the chautaugua
"Old Maids Tea Party" was one of the projects to raise money for
the church . Mrs. Edd Pearce, Mrs. Staley, Mrs. Stodard, Mrs.
Dickerson, Mrs. Lamoreux, Mrs. Reader, Mrs. John Pearce, Mrs.
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came with the big tent and an important way of shopping.
Also the medicine shows and stock companies "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" and Ten Nights in a Bar Room" were favorites . In
winter there were sleigh rides, plenty of buffalo robes and
blankets to keep us warm . The singing , fun making and
sleigh bells on the horses are pleasant memories.
Bixby, Mrs. Rodgers, Mrs . Erwin, Edd Hotelling, Lee Pharis is the
leader .
There were no cars and not many phones . But it did not take long to
get her fr iends together for a birthday party on Mrs . lshan . The house
is across from the parsonage . Creamery & grist mill opposite m i ll pond-around 1910.
One of the projects in entertainment for the church , was the Ladies '
Independent Band of Oak Grove .
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Graduating class of 1911, Oak Grove School
Oak Grove High School, now Geer Hall.
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Howell Poets
Grace Lannen
Grace Lannen was born in Oak Grove and until recently
has lived with her husband Roy on the Lannen farm on 8003
Byron Road.
Mrs. Lannen graduated from Howell High School and from
Ypsilanti State Normal College.
She taught school in the Howell Elementary System and in
Hartland.
She is the mother of four children.
She was always interested in all Literary projects . She was
a charter member of the Lansing Poetry Club and for many
years a member of the Howell Women's Club. For several
years she worked two afternoons a week in the Howell
Carnegie Library. She also was a member and an active
worker in the Oak Grove Methodist Church and former
member of Philip Livingston Chapter DAR.
Grace Lannen helped to create an atmosphere of intellectual
growth and understanding in whatever group she
was associated with.
Written by her dear friend ,
Carrie Howell
AUTUMN'S EVIDENCE
Ido not know how Love began
For Dawn surpasses human ken,
Nor can I comprehend the span
Of Love, in age on age of men,
But this I hold-Love blesses man.
In countless ways, I see and know
The evidence of Love's rare plan-
Today, I saw the sumacs glow.
-Grace Filkins Lannen
MEMORIAL PRAYER
(Written in memory of Anna Norquist Swanson, a former
Lansing Poetry Club member)
Lord of our lives, from whom we came
And whence all must return , she heard
Your whispered call and, like a bird
With beauty answered, "Yea." Yet she
Still lives for we can hear her song
Poised on its pinions, soul aflame
As goldenly, it rings along
The sun drenched cliffs of memory .
May that sweet song, 0 God, inspire
Our earthbound flights to crags yet higher.
-Grace Filkins Lannen
FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is a hallowed blossom,
Shy and sweet.
It roots itself into our hearts
And is replete
With fragrance, grace , and beauty .
Like a soft caress,
It touches all the soul-starved world
With loveliness .
-Grace Filkins Lannen
Annabel Kellogg Van Winkle
By (Mrs. Charles K.) Betty Barth Vanwinkle
Annabel Kellogg VanWinkle lived almost her entire
married life in Howell, Michigan. The early years were
necessarily taken up with the care of a growing family of five
children. However, her interests were many and varied,
serving to bring enrichment to her home and family.
Her father , Charles C. Kellogg, was assistant postmaster
and postmaster of Detroit , Michigan for 38 years . During this
time, he collected stamps, a hobby which she continued, and
which she encouraged in her children.
Through the D.A.R. she pursued her interest in history and
geneology. She traced the geneological lives of not only her
family , but also those of the VanWinkles, assembling the
data for her children to know and share with their children.
This interest in the past led to the careful preservation of
family antiques, an additional bonus for her children and
grandchildren.
An outgoing person, she had an enduring interest in, and
love of people. She belonged to several women's clubs of her
time, and entertained frequently.
A life-long devotion to her church reflected her constant
trust in God and nature . She worked faithfully in her church,
and as long as health permitted , in her garden .
After her family was grown and gone, she joined the
Lansing Poetry Club with various other women of Livingston
County, enjoying a whole new outreach of association and
expression. Much of her faith and compassion is reflected in
her poems. Several of her poems were published in poetry
magazines , and a collection of her poems was published ,
entitled "Heritage."
A COVERED BRIDGE
A covered bridge above a rushing brook,
Re-echoes sounds which linger there once heard;
When I within its sheltered coolness look!
Of oxen lowing a soft plaintive word,
Their muzzles etched with hoarfrost, their flanks
A steaming mass , those winters of deep snow;
Of hobnailed boots resounding on the planks,
And skipping tiny shoes with copper toes.
The brook goes on and tells of days when men
With pole and peavey floated logs to build
The bridge ; of boys beneath who should have been
At school, whose voices years ago were stilled.
Gay lad and lass made it their trysting place
These faintly now I hear within its space.
by Annabel Vanwinkle
INDIAN TRAIL
A boulder stands beside a busy street
To mark that trail the Indians had worn
Across the state on moccasined soft feet
The Chippewas to hunt or went forsworn
To smoke the pipe of peace with the white men
Or trekked to join the Pottawatamies
Under a cold pale moon to dance and then
Grim call, north wind came crackling in the trees.
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A lonely pine stands by that thoroughfare
To mark the trail and whisper of the spaces
So empty of the forest trees now rare ,
A sentinel for those two dying races ,
There are no braves who journey in the fall
Or other Norway trees so straight and tall.
WAR
The War God has broken his chain
And sends men out inflicting pain ;
To prove his right and worship him
With bomb, torpedo and with shell ;
Thus make the world a living hell
For those who will not fall with awe
Saluting him who made that law.
The Peace God with resolute will
Leads men with firmness out to kill;
But not for avarice 's gain
Nor yet for crazed ambition 's lure
Does he urge men to now endure ;
And draws them into war for peace
To conquer so that strife may cease .
And when at last in chains the War God stands
The Peace God looks at blood upon his hands .
THE CHRIST MASS
The scent of balsam fills all the Church
While lighted candles shed their soft glow.
The Midnight Mass soon will be intoned.
The Sanctus bell is heard very clear .
The Priest repeats the words as of old.
This is My body broken for you,
And this My blood which is shed for you.
The snow is falling fast footsteps hushed
As worshippers walk silently home,
A part of the Christ Child in their souls.
OCTOBER
A purple haze engulfs the hills
October's early morns
And dew is deep upon the grass
While wood smoke fills the air .
The harvest time is nearly past
October rest awhile
At noon the sun hangs high; its glow
Of gold enfolds the earth
And lures the birds on southward wing
To tarry in their flight
Your loveliness is everywhere
October wait awhile
At dusk a chill wraps everything
And winter 's icy breath
Is felt in all the out-of-doors
And men seek hearth and cheer .
Oh! fairest month of all the year
October stay awhile.
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MY OLD CLOCK
Alone, when all is peaceful and quite still,
From where it sits upon the mantel shelf
I hear my old clock musing to itself
Of great grandfather 's house built on a hill
Where it belonged in Boston town when new.
"I told my friends when to arise, be fed,
And when at ten each one should be in bed ;
I sent the children off to school I knew.
Your family do not heed my alarm.
Instead , electric clocks tell them to rise.
Now I am old; a slight I can excuse,
For I have learned that age brings its own charm,
And with each year grows quietly more wise,
I see you, tranquil , too, content to muse .
Clara L. Sharpe
One of the Howell poets of the 1940's was Clara L. Sharpe ,
wife of Earl , who resided at 111 Byron Road from 1915 until
her death in 1960. She was an active member of the
community , her particular interest being the choir of the old
Walnut Street Methodist Church.
Although some of her poems were published in the Detroit
News and church publications, most of them were simply
shared with her friends . Her topics reflected her great love
for her family, for her friends and for her God. Many of them,
such as , " Our Brother Man," (included in this collection)
dealt with ideas that were destined to become major issues in
the post-war era.
Maurine Sharpe Crandall
MY MAN-EARL SHARPE
I'd like to tell you 'bout my man.
He's one the world should know.
He's kind and good to everyone
Upon this earth below.
The folks all feel they know him well,
And every boy and girl
Says " Hi there!" as they pass him by.
They always call him Earl.
We live within a little town
Where everyone's his friend
And all feel free to ask of him
For he's so free to lend.
He'd take the shirt right off his back
If one were thus in need.
He loves to work around his yard
And sow God's flower seed .
There's not another yard in town
Looks quite as nice as ours
For my good man takes pride in it
And works on it for hours .
He says it makes our little place
Look nice as folks pass by,
And so it helps our little town.
It takes the tourist's eye.
Now my man's not so much for style.
He'll wear a suit of blue
And then he may put green socks on
And his hat may not be new.
But, just the same, folks like him.
Tho' the world is in a whirl,
They always pat him on the back
And say , "How are you, Earl? "
Now, I say he's worth a million,
A man the world should know.
If every man could be like him,
There 'd be peace on earth below.
MOVING AWAY
They're moving away ,
My neighbors next door,
Scott, the boy, Joe, the dog;
Pat, the girl I adore,
And Helen and Howard .
I hardly can bear
To think of that house
Without those folks there.
The children have seemed
Clara L. Sharpe
February 5, 1943
Almost like my own.
Joe came to my back door
Each day for a bone.
They're mighty good folks,
And I know I shall cry
When the moving van goes
And I wave them good-bye.
Clara L. Sharpe
August 23, 1943
Published, Detroit News, June 3, 1944
OUR BROTHER MAN
I sat listening to a sermon
Preached by a man of fame .
'Twas on a lovely summer's eve .
The sunset was a flame.
His pulpit was beside the shore,
Beyond there stretched a pier .
The people sat and listened.
They came from far and near.
My eyes gazed out beyond the crowd
And out upon the pier
A colored boy stood all alone.
From there he tried to hear
The words the pastor had to say
For he was not allowed
To join the white folks on the shore
Or mingle with the crowd.
My thoughts were taken from the words
The pastor had to say,
For I was thinking of the boy
Who stood so far away.
In him I saw the sermon
That men must brothers be,
Before we can have peace on earth
To last eternally.
Our color may not be the same
But when we see the soul,
And not the surface of the man ,
Our lives will be made whole.
So we must give them equal rights,
The blacks, all race of man,
To walk upon this earth the same
As all the white folks can.
For God made the world for all of us
And not for just a few.
So let's hasten the day for equal rights
And make this world anew.
Then our battles will be over ;
All alike we'll be ; and then
We'll know exactly what God meant
By, "Love your brother men."
Clara L. Sharpe,
March 12, 1943
Published in the Michigan Christian Advocate
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ODE TO THE SHIAWASSEE
There is a woodland place I know,
Through whose depths a stream doth flow.
Swirling, eddying through all time ,
For all creation indeed sublime.
Art thou named for warriors past,
Who in thee didst their line once cast?
Or traveled abroad thy rippling waters,
With skins of beaver, mink and otters.
Thou hast known the winter cold,
When freezing winds doth blow so bold.
Then locking fast thy channels do,
Thou appearest to sleep til spring renew .
Oh friend of beaver and deer alike,
And neath thy waters rippling bright .
Thou carest for crayfish and the clam,
Under protection of his dam .
Grasses and willows adorn thy banks,
For which indeed we give Thee thanks.
When catkins in the spring appear ,
To fill our hearts with delight and cheer .
Thy sun l it pools of watercress,
Thou dost bestow on us and bless.
Where minnows do wander to and fro,
Though never quite sure where to go .
Often I have sought thee when,
I chanced to wander thy wooded glen.
How peace and tranquility thou didst give,
And caused my spirit again to live .
But alas, Man ' s foolish plunder,
For his ways have cast thee asunder.
And often I' ve wished it were possible to restore ,
Thy woodland beauty for evermore .
GEORGE G . CELESTIN
Emil Ernst Bode
Merely Explanatory
By One of Them
We stood in the barn at midnight
While the clock was striking the hour,
Waiting for the lights to vanish
Around the schoolhouse tower.
This was the night selected ,
And a better one never was seen
For fulfilling the unpleasant duty
Postponed from Hallow-E'en.
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Two hours we had busily labored
In moulding our master-piece ,
But at night's most ghostly hour
We three from our labors did cease .
And now the town slept in darkness ,
And we were free to come forth
After taking from the window our blanket ,
And blowing out the lantern, of course.
To avoid inquisitive watchmen ,
We took a rather wide route;
On the sharp lookout for danger ,
And if necessary , ready to scoot.
But we reached the schoolhouse in safety
And after securing a limb ,
Slid thro' the door of the woodhouse,
Accompanied, of course, by him.
We passed thro ' the halls in silence;
Ascending the well-worn flights
And climbing the rickety ladders,
Could see here and there the lights.
Every window we tried was fastened,
(We were not prepared for such fun)
And ere we could get the nails loosened,
The court house clock struck one.
But they yielded at last to our efforts
And we now proceeded with ease;
Our limb we shoved thro ' the window
And " Old Grizzly' swung to the breeze .
We now tho't of duty completed,
And hoped that the morrow's sun
Would show to all beholders
What, perhaps , we might have done.
But what should we do with the ladder ,
To leave it would ruin the hope.
We pulled it up into the belfry ,
And slid down the scuttle rope .
So this is the simple story
Of the work of one dark night,
When we three risked our lives in the belfry,
Without even a match for a light.
And for fear that suspicion has fastened
On those who deserve not the same,
This is written to clearly establish
That we three are but to blame.
The Wicked Stand in Slippery Places
By E . E . Bode, S.S.D.
One day, the snow begins to fall
On cities large and hamlets small .
Next, comes a thaw or winter rain :
A freeze turns slush to ice again
Then, icy sidewalks lie in wait
For him who sees, a step too late,
The slip'ry place, that glary strand,
Where e'en the wicked cannot stand
A man falls slith 'ring on the ice
With comments fervent, but not nice:
A schoolboy, trailing just behind,
Snickered , of course, you know the kind
Then he, too, slipt and down he went,
Saying things he must have meant
For the shockproof ears of hardened kids
Or the guy, ahead, who'd hit the skids
Such spills occur throughout the town
Where old and young keep slipping down,
Breaking a leg, spraining a wrist ,
Or giving backs a crippling twist
(But Not In This Town)
With ne'er a slip, by day or night,
Loaded down or trav 'ling light
But there are spots , on every street,
That those who walk are sure to meet.
Some day the owners may forget
To watch their steps-they 'll get theirs yet
In many towns, they slap a fine
On folks who fail by eight or nine,
To shovel off new-fallen snow:
Why not in mine-I'd like to know?
I think, b'gosh, I'll go away
Where snow that falls remains to stay
Until warm weather comes again
And folks that need it, pray for rain
Life must be grand in Tucumcari
Where the skies are blue and nights are starry,
Or down in sunny Mexicali :
No snow to shovel there, by golly
I may move out to Tucson, spicy-
The sidewalks there are never icy-
Luxuriate in Honolulu
Or stick it out here-what would you do?
All hail the man who leaves no snow Doctor of Snow Shoveling
Upon his walk where one may go
Phantom Guests at the Twilight Hour
By Emil Ernst Bode
To reach the age"Three Score and Ten"
Is all that's promised to most men,
And the weight of four score , year on year,
Is a heavy load for some, I fear .
But, looking down the Vale of Years
From old age back to childhood's tears ,
Are days and scenes dear to recall ,
Fond Mem'ry 's gift to old-timers, all,
And companions of a vanished day,
Boy pals of mine, long gone their way,
Oft appear at the twilight hour ,
Phantom guests at an old man's bower.
We sit and review the fun we had ;
All of it free for every lad-
Just a can of bait and an old fishpole,
The magic lure of the swimming hole,
Roaming the woods when autumn came,
Hunting for squirrel, elusive game ;
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Winter sports on lake and hills,
Pastimes beloved-each had its thrills.
Those happy, carefree, boyhood days :
We view them through a golden haze .
Time marches by on hurrying feet
Yet halts, for that hour, when old boy friends meet.
October 26, 1952
An Old Timer's Reveries
By Emil Ernst Bode
I oft recall long-vanished days:
My old home by the mill,
Big bluegills 'round the water wheel,
The " crick" beneath the hill,
The winding path to the country school
I tramped with dinner pail,
Young wintergreens back in the woods,
Johnny-jump-ups in the vale.
Those joyous hours at the swimming hole,
October's golden days,
The lure of winter's icebound lake,
Sport, catching on bobsleighs.
Could I reclaim one, priceless day
From boyhood's squandered store,
I'd save it up for Christmas Time,
To live its thrills one more;
To share it with that pal of mine
And the boys I used to know:
Scarce one owned a dime; but fun was free--
In those days of long ago.
Soon, scattered afar, boy sailors, all,
Embarking on Life's sea,
Now, few are left of those Argonauts
Who put to sea with me.
The Chrisbnas Fire
By Emil Ernst Bode
In the embers' Gold of Ophir,
Once, a gnarled, hillside tree,
Appear familiar scenes and faces
Through Mem'ry's magic alchemy.
We fare, again, on youthful ventures,
By trails we followed long ago,
Across the lake to beckoning hilltop;
To wintry woods and fields of snow.
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Mary Park Vogel
Mrs. Mary Park Vogel who resides on Spring Street,
Howell was born May 13, 1884i n Berrien County, Mich. She is
the author of the book "And the Stage Coach Tipped Over,"
which she wrote when she was in her eighties . A former
school teacher, she had previously written articles and
stories for magazines when she had lived in Montana and
Wyoming.
Her grandfather was a stage coach driver and her
historical novel features some of the incidents from his life.
Her mother was born in Pinckney at the time her
grandfather drove the stage to Detroit on the Plank Road .
Mrs. Vogel attended Central State Teacher's College at Mt.
Pleasant, a widow, she has two grown daughters and is a
grandmother . Her hobbies are gardening , flower-growing,
family history and antiques.
McPherson Dairy and Butter Farm
1863-1963, McPherson Float with George Dunn , Skip, Sherry and
Jack .
The Peckens home on the Rutter farm , 1949.
The loads of hard work to be put up in the hay mow.
Paul Peckens driv i ng the 1963 McPherson float.
Dunn Brothers Dairy trucks , 1953.
McPherson Farms-Dunn Brothers Dairy, 1952.
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Joe Brady is toastmaster at a banquet in Bob Menzie's implement
salesroom.
Picking raspberries on the farm.
Washing down the pigs-a thankless job . Spring plowing.
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Howell Co-op 1954
Howell co-operative company , a 1917 company and second oldest
farm co-operative in Michigan, instigated by Ernest Lawson and Jim
Hays, had a roster of 2300 farm patrons when this picture was taken
about 1954.
A full board was on hand when Marshall Warren of Farm Bureau
Services presented a large patronage check to Burr Clark, president .
Other board members from the left, are Chester Clark, manager ,
Robert Smith, Andrew Jackson, Mervil Moore , Joe Harris, Raymond
Cook, secretary, and Lloyd Miller.
Junior Farm Bureau, 1941
Livingston County was always represented at state junior Farm
Bureau train i ng camps at Waldenwoods near Hartland . In 1941 these
eight Howell and three Fowlerville young folks were there . Front row,
I. to r ., Marjorie Nash (Mrs . Clayton Klein), Willis Duncan, Harold
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Robb , Ardis Richards (mrs. Arza Clark) , Arza Clark, and Chester
Clark . Back row, Glendon Hoisington, Charles Latson , Mary Love
(Mrs. Henry M i ller), Frances Clark (Mrs. William Cronkrite), and
William Cronkrite.
Building a silo in 1909.
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That has to be a real string of Bluegills!
The lore and lure of Howell Lake
By Francis Raymond Line
Copyright 1976
Howell Lake of the 1910's- and all those tangled woods and
fields which turned its five-mile circumference into a world
of wonder-probably belonged to someone, although no signs
and few fences suggested such a possibility . We Howell kids
were the real owners.
How man y American towns have an enormous sprawling
surface of clear blue water lapping right up to the end of
some of the streets-almost to the edge of the school
playground?
After school or on Saturdays : " Hey, Mom, we're going
down to the lake"- and we were off to one of the swimming
holes, or a rendezvous with a hidden scow, an icy adventure
in winter , or sometimes the five-mile trip of exploration clear
around it. There was always adventure ; the lake was
different every time we went there-filled with new
mysteries and excitements to tantalize a small boy's taste
buds.
Saturdays were the most likely times that we would head
over to the deserted log cabin , almost half way round , on the
far side . As I recall, it was the only structure of any kind that
we encountered on the whole trip around the lake, from the
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time we left Wenk's Mill not far from the foot of Lake Street ,
until we reached Hutching 's Mill by the dam clear at the
other end.
The log cabin was just a one-room shell-with a loft-but
we always liked to explore it. That area had the fewest
touches of civilization and was good for all kinds of
discoveries .
A small boy is blest with a double set of exploratory
powers. He tackles every exploration , both physically and
imaginatively . The physical searching didn't last long-after
we had dug between a few logs for secret treasure , and found
that the loft was so rickety it couldn't conceal a thing. But our
imaginings peopled that cabin and its surrounding field and
woods with every kind of hardy and romantic pioneer of some
dim past. Who knows but what we were right?
Kids Love Snakes
Surrounding the cabin , there really were things to explore .
It think it's probable that my sense of wonder , which has
been one of the greatest assets of my life, must have been
born-or at least received some marvelous fertilizationaround
those fields and swails , and along the tiny creek , over
there on the far side of Howell Lake and on the whole trip
around it. There was a fine woods just beyond the cabin. They
say the grass on the other side is always greenest. I don't
recall the grass over there being green, but it was tall and
wind-blown-fun to run in. There were lots of snakes ; once,
with much hunting, we found 22 in a single visit. Kids love
snakes .
Once Church Platt and I found a partly-rotting rowboat
sunk in a marshy strip near shore below the cemetery . We
pulled it out, and every few days after school we went down to
nurse that old hulk back to life. It was a sunken pirate's
treasure right in our own back pond. The launching came on
a Saturday. Using a board for an oar we got about a quarter
of the way across the lake-one of us bailing breathlesslybefore
the hulk finally sank . We swam back to shore .
In winter , when the lake had frozen a foot or so thick, men
would mark off a section as big as the high school football
field and saw the ice into great oblong crystal blocks. Big
draft horses pulled the blocks into the straw-packed wooden
ice house on shore-our town's ice supply for all summer .
There was a lot of wonderful noise around there; the
enormous saws biting into the ice ; men yelling at the
stubborn horses ; occasional explosions as the ice sheet would
crack ; the horses puffing and straining like steam engines,
accompanied by neighing and snorting .
What mattered to us was that the open water-after the
cutting-would freeze back over and make the smoothest ,
glassiest skating of the winter , as slick and shiny as the
marble soda-fountain counter down at Barron & Wines
drugstore . We always had to be careful , though, to wait until
it was thoroughly frozen again . I think that one or two people
fell through by using the new ice too soon. I know a lot of dogs
did. There were signs: "Thin Ice" but how many dogs can
read signs?
Approach of spring was when the lake was most
dangerous . Once my brother and I, coming across, fell
The first V .C. kids' fishing contest on Howell Lake.
through when the ice had become thin near the edges , below
Wenk's Mill. It was Sunday and no one was around . We didn't
go clear under and somehow helped each other to get to
shore. By the time we reached home-running most of the
way-our clothes felt as though they were frozen stiff. We felt
that way, too.
As spring advanced , the shore ice would melt more and
more , until a strip of tempting open water a quarter of a mile
wide would lie between shore and the big ice sheet out in the
lake . That's when my brother and I would go over to the west
swimming hole, strip, and swim out till we touched the ice.
We would shake with the cold, but I guess it was fun. At least
we were there to do the same thing again the next spring.
There were two swimming holes. The one east of
Hutching's Mill, on the far side beyond the island , was where
we swam out to the ice, and that was the one we used as we
grew bigger . The first swimming hole that I remember was
on the opposite shore across from Wenk's Mill. It was a little
muddy-just a 15 or 20 foot mud-bottomed clearing in the
reeds that some unknown philanthropist had made in the
past.
I don't suppose any kid in Howell used a bathing suit when
swimming in Howell Lake . We'd hike around to the
swimming hole, peel off our clothes , and plunge in. No one
was ever around .
Except once. As a bunch of us boys-I think it was Chuck,
Hank, and Sam Platt , Rod and Gerd Hubbell, and maybe
"Dad" Tupper-were approaching the swimming hole, we
heard voices. Then, just as we got near , cries of dismay .
Some girls rushed out of the water , grabbed their lacy clothes
which were on some of the bushes, and ran away wildly.
Women's Lib was a long ways off in 1910's. Girls weren 't
supposed to use Howell Lake for swimming-not in those
days, at least when boys wanted the swimming hole.
Frisbee 's Woods was close to the lake-down near the
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The original Pettysville Mill, north of Hamburg.
cemetery . There we kids could hike from each other , then
have a world of fun trying to find one another . The young
hickory trees were so limber that we could climb to the top of
one, start swaying , and almost reach the ground as we
swayed back and forth.
Edgar Rich Burrough 's Tarzan of the Apes had just come
out. I remember Dusty Purdy and Chuck Platt running up
breathlessly to our house to ask if we'd read it yet. That book,
for a time , turned Frisbee 's Woods into an African jungle,
and the hickory trees became giant teak forests-or
whatever Tarzan swung on.
In the fall we sometimes gathered hickory nuts in Frisbee 's
Woods but there were better places-with the shaggy-bark
kind-farther out from Howell. In spring , these woods were
the best place of all to get violets and May Flowers for
making May Baskets , which we'd hang on our favorite girl 's
door the night of May 1, give a loud knock, then run away .
Rowing, Skating Hazardous
One arm of the lake-toward the southeast-used to have a
lot of stumps . These were bad , since they made rowing dangerous
in summer , and skating hazardous in winter . That 's
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what the grown-ups thought. We kids rather enjoyed snaking
our boat in and around the stumps; or sometimes in winter
trying to dodge them as we skated . One winter , when the lake
level was unusually low, the stumps stuck up a long ways
above the ice. A. Riley Crittenden organized a volunteer
work team . Men went out and cut off the stumps at ice-level. I
can't remember now, but I suppose that when the lake level
rose in the spring , the stumps were no longer a problem .
The only "inhabited" part of the whole lake except for the
areas near Wenks and Hutchin's Mills was the cemetery .
Once a speaker at our weekly high school assembly (I think it
was the same A. Riley Crittenden) said : "Howell's cemetery
possibilities are better than any other town in the state ."
C.W. Courter , the school superintendent who was in charge of
the assembl y, didn't know whether Mr. Crittenden was
speaking seriously , or giving us all a dig. I think he was
serious .
The cemetery was beautiful-the place we'd nearly always
take visitors for a drive . On three sides it was surrounded by
water . The road around it was narrow. When driving around
it the left-hand way, the narrow road went down a steep
incline, then veered sharply to the right just at the water's
edge. An elderly woman , in an old car , once didn't make the
turn and drove right into the lake . That was a favorite story
which we always told to the visitors .
We kids used to spend a lot of time reading the grave stone
markers . We were genuinely interested in seeing the
dates-way way back-when some of the persons had been
born, how long some of them lived, and things like that. We
liked to read the "sayings" on the markers, too. Sometimes
the printing would be partially blurred or worn away with
time. We made wild excited guesses at the illegible dates on
some of the oldest markers . We were rubbing elbows with
history . When one of us found a really old date , we'd yell for
the other kids to come look. Chuck Platt 's father , Mayor S.S.
Platt , had carved and ground a lot of those markers in his
little downtown monument shop. Chuck was my closest
friend in early school days.
Most of the time , our view of the cemetery was from the
lake itself. In summer , we'd row from near Wenk's Mill,
going clear around toward the dam at Hutching's Mill,
sometimes stopping to reconnoitre on the island . That
journey always took us around two sides of the cemetery .
And in winter we'd make that same route on skates . When the
ice was smooth and the wind just right, two of us would
sometimes hold a double bed sheet between us. It was better
than a sail and if we could keep from falling, the wind would
whirl us around the cemetery point and the length of that lake
faster than we could go in Mr. Hamilton's Maxwell. Traveling
that fast was cold. But it was more exciting than a ride on
the whip at the Fowlerville Fair .
Sometimes we'd visit the lake at night-when some of the
older fellows were fishing through the ice. That was a
different world. The far dim boundaries of the lake made it
seem like a frozen ocean and the woods over by the
swimming hole looked like a million miles away. Everything
was big, and quiet , and sort of mysterious. Sometimes, if
there was a moon, it would be beautiful , especially in winter
after a snow storm when the lake was covered white.
I can't very well imagine how a boy can grow up without a
lake in his town.
Stepping Off with the Line Brothers
The Line Brothers-Winfield and Francis, former Howell
residents-virtually started their lifelong careers in this scene before
the Livingston County Court House. This was the day, in the summer
of 1922, that they began a 13-month hiking and adventure trip to every
state in the Union, working their way and sleeping out every night.
The other scene shows them , between their sophomore and junior
years at the University of Michigan, in 1925, starting a similar trip on
which they traveled around the world, by foot , bicycle, cattle boat,
immigrant ship , and freighters.
Francis Line went on to make travel and adventure his career ,
producing documentary motion pictures in Lapland , Finland,
Western Europe, Asia, and the United States , with which he lectured
throughout America . Today, in association with his wife Helen, whom
he married in Howell in 1928, he makes educational films for schools,
universities, and libraries.
Winfield Line, after expanding the original Line store in Howell into
a chain and selling it to the D and C, also became an extensive
traveler . With his Korean wife , Dr . Grace Song Line, whom he
married in Howell in 1928, he became an authority on Korea. The
Song-Line Foundation promotes Korean charities and causes .
The Line Brothers, at the end of their 48-state hike, in 1923, gave
their very first travel lecture in Howell's First Methodist Church, as a
charity event to raise money for building a new wing to the church.
That event was arranged by A. Riley Crittenden.
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Old Main
Old Main Administration Building of MSS after completion . This is
how the building looked after it was completed. This picture is dated
1912. The building was torn down several years ago .
Phyllis Euler Rancour
The Michigan State Sanatoriunt
By Mrs. Nellie Glenn
The Michigan State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, the first
institution for the treatment of the disease in Michigan, was
established by an act of the legislature in 1905. Dr. Robert L.
Kennedy of Detroit was appointed Superintendent and under
his direction the building and development was accomplished.
The institution opened for the treatment of patients on
September 10th 1907. The Staff at that date was : Dr. R.L.
Kennedy, Supt. and Physician ; Charles Hoff, Farmer ; Orla
Smith, Fireman ; Ella Smith, Cook; Ethel McIntire, Maid.
The Superintendent and his family lived then in the old
farm house at the south edge of the Sanatorium property.
Later , when the Main Building with accomodations for the
staff and employees was completed in the summer of 1908,
the Superintendent and his family lived in that building. The
farmer and his family lived first in the small house at the
East entrance to the grounds.
On September 11th, 1907, Nellie Lansing of Howell began
work as the secretary and bookkeeper. These notes are
compiled from her records during the period of September
11, 1907 to August 20th, 1910.
The first two patients were admitted the evening of Sept.
10th, 1907. .. Louis Rambo and Walter Ulrick, both of Detroit
and both patients of Dr . Henry J . Hartz who was the
Secretary of the State Sanatorium Board. (At that time each
institution in the State had an appointed Board of Directors
who governed the administration of its own institution. Board
meetings were held monthly at the Sanatorium. At these
meetings the bills and accounts were audited, the policy of
government discussed and all business transacted .)
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The accomodations for patients were an open shack no. 1
built on the brow of the hill overlooking the East entrance
about two hundred feet from the rear of the administration
building. This accomodated ten or twelve men, two open
wings with half doors on the south side, and a heated lobby
and dressing room. Treatment consisted of rest twenty-four
hours a day, much of it in bed. The winter of 1907-0Sw as
a particularly severe one and horse blankets , felt boots,
heavy coats and clothing were required equipment for each
patient . Each patient was required to walk to the main dining
room in the Administration Building for his meals . This was
usually the only exercise allowed. Most of the early patients
were far advanced cases . Six months was allowed for
treatment for each patient.
Cases were in two classes : those able to pay their own
expenses and State aid or County cases . The charge of an
individual was $7.00 per week, and no exceptions were made
in the care and accomodations of either class. The nursing ,
food, laundry and housing were all included in the cost. The
monthly allowance by the State for maintenance was $666.66
and was strictly observed in expenditures . Each employee
received a stated salary , his rent , food and laundry. At this
time the scale of wages was high for the community and
many local persons sought employment here.
At the time of opening, the Main building was only the rear
part consisting of the kitchen, dining room, a small room
used as the office, a laundry in the basement; upstairs over
these rooms were the sleeping rooms for the help, nurse ,
secretary . Total of six rooms. The building was continued
during the severe winter of 1907-08a nd was completed for use
with offices, reception room, laboratory and linen rooms
below and sleeping rooms for staff above in July 1908. An
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