History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions

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Author's Preface

♦0"N PREPARING the biography of any prominent person something of the scenes II and incidents contemporaneous with the Hfe of the individual are deemed essential to fully bring out motives and incentives that may have prompted the doings or sayings of the man or woman. It is often the case that lives of the parents and even earlier ancestors are alluded to to show the environments surrounding the birth and early life of the person and how they may have helped or hindered in the early formation of character.

The same is true in writing the history of a city or community. There are always reasons why people congregate in one place rather than another, in starting a village that may grow into a great city, and these reasons are always of interest to the reader and give him a far better conception of the subject matter that is to follow.

What is true of an individual or a city is equally true of a county. There is always an interest in contemplating the reasons which lead people to leave an old settled country, where every facility for comfort and enjoyment are within reach, and emigrate to a wilderness country, remote from civilization, and destitute of even the most necessary conveniences that minister to the comfort of the individual.

The "Forty-niners" journeyed across a continent in ten-o.x wagons for gold; and within the past few years we have seen a steady stream of adventurous people migrating to the frozen north-land, drawn thither by the glitter of the same shining object. The home-seekers in a new country are lured by no such glittering bauble. While it is no doubt true that every pioneer to a new country e.xpects to better his financial condition by the change, he knows that this betterment must come slowly, and must be accompanied with unceasing toil and untold privations.

Bearing in mind these great privations and this continuous toil which is the lot of all pioneers, I have considered it important to devote the first part of this work to a review of some of the causes which led up to the early settlement, rapid growth and wonderful development of this section of the State, including Wexford County, after which the work will be confined entirely to the county.

The Author.

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COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

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Abbott, Lyman 144

Adams, Charles Kendall 143

Adams, John 25

Adams. John Quincy 61

Agassiz, Louis J. R 137

Alger, Russell A 173

Allison, William B 131

Allston, Washington 190

Altgeld, John Peter 140

Andrews, Elisha B 184

Anthony, Susan B 62

Armour, Philip D 62

Arnold. Benedict 84

Arthur, Chester Allen 168

Astor, John Jacob 139

Audubon, John James 166

Bailey, James Montgomery... 177

Bancroft. George 74

Barnard, Frederick A. P 179

Barnum, Phineas T 41

Barrett, Lawrence 156

Barton, Clara 209

Bayard, Thomas Francis 200

Beard, William H 196

Beauregard. Pierre G. T 203

Beecher, Henry Ward 26

Bell, Alexander Graham 96

Bennett, James Gordon 206

Benton, Thomas Hart 53

Bergh, Henry 160

Bierstadt, Albert 197

Billings, Josh 166

Blaine, James Gillespie 22

Bland, Richard Parks 106

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Boone, Daniel 36

Booth, Edwin 51

Booth, Junius Brutus 177

Brice, Calvin S 181

Brooks, Phillips 130

Brown, John 51

Brown, Charles Farrar 91

Brush, Charles Francis 153

Bryan, Williain Jennings 158

Bryant, William Cullcn 44

Buchanan, Franklin 105

Buchanan, James 128

Buckner, Simon Boliver 188

Burdette. Robert J 103

Burr. Aaron 1 1 1

Butler, Benjamin Franklin... 24

Calhoun, John Caldwell 23

Cameron, James Donald 141

Cameron, Simon 141

Cammack, Addison 197

Campbell, Alexander 180

Carlisle, John G 133

Carnegie, Andrew 7i

Carpenter. Matthew Hale.... 178

Carson. Christopher (Kit)... 86

Cass. Lewis no

Chase, Salmon Portland 65

Childs, George W 83

Choafe. Rufus 207

Chaflin. Horace Brigham 107

Clay, Henry 21

Clemens. Samuel Langhorne. 86

Cleveland. Grovcr 174

Clews, Henry 153

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Clinton, DeWitt no

Colfax, Schuyler 139

Conkling, Alfred 32

Conkling. Roscoe 32

Cooley, Thomas Mclntyre. . . . 140

Cooper, James Fenimore 58

Cooper, Peter 37

Copeley, John Singleton 191

Corbin, Austin 205

Corcoran. W. W 196

Cornell. Ezra 161

Cramp, William 189

Crockett. David 76

CuUom, Shelby Moore 116

Curtis, George William 144

Cushman. Charlotte 107

Custer, George A 95

Dana. Charles A 88

"Danbury News Man"' 177

Davenport. Fanny 106

Davis, Jefferson 24

Debs, Eugene V 132

Decatur, Stephen loi

Deering, William 198

Depew, Chauncey Mitchell... 209

Dickinson, Anna 103

Dickinson. Don M 139

Dingley, Nelson. Jr 215

Donnelly, Ignatius 161

Douglas, Stephen Arnold.... 53

Douglass, Frederick 43

Dow, Neal 108

Draper, John William 184

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Drexel, Anthony Joseph 124

Dupont, Henry 198

Edison, Thomas Alva 55

Edmunds, George F 201

Ellsworth, Oliver 168

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 57

Ericsson. John 127

Evarts, William Maxwell 89

Farragut, David Glascoe.... 80

Field, Cyrus West 173

Field. David Dudley 126

Field. Marshall 59

Field, Stephen Johnson 216

Fillmore, Millard 113

Foote, Andrew Hull 176

Foraker, Joseph B 143

Forrest. Edwin 92

Franklin, Benjamin 18

Fremont. John Charles 29

Fuller, Melville Weston 168

Fulton, Robert 62

Gage, Lyman J 71

Gallatin, Albert 112

Garfield, James A 163

Barrett, John Work 200

Garrison, William Lloyd 50

Gates, Horatio 70

Catling, Richard Jordan 116

George. Henry 203

Gibbons, Cardinal James 209

Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield.... 77

Girard, Stephen 137

Cough, John B 131

Gould, Jay 52

Cordon. John B 215

Grant, Ulysses S 155

Cray, Asa 88

Gray. Elisha 149

Greeley, Adolphus W 142

Greeley, Horace 20

Greene, Nathaniel 69

Gresham, Walter Quintin . . . 183

Hale, Edward Everett 79

Hall. Charles Francis 167

Hamilton, Alexander 31

Hamlin. Hannibal 214

Hampton, Wade 192

Hancock, Winfield Scott 146

Hanna, Marcus Alonzo 169

Harris, Isham C 214

Harrison, William Henry.... 87

Harrison, Benjamin 182

Harvard, John 129

Havemeyer, John Craig 182

Hawthorne. Nathaniel 135

Hayes. Rutherford Birchard.. 157

Hendricks, Thomas Andrew. . 212

Henry. Joseph 105

Henry. Patrick 83

Hill, David Bennett 90

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Hohart. Garrett A 213

Holmes, Oliver W^endell 206

Hooker, Joseph 52

Howe. Elias 130

Ho wells, William Dean 104

Houston, Sam 120

Hughes, Archbishop John.... 157

Hughitt, Marvin 159

Hull, Isaac 169

Huntington, Collis Potter.... 94

Ingalls, John James 114

Ingersoll. Robert G 85

Irving, Washington ^2

Jackson. Andrew 71

Jackson, "Stonewall" 67

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan.. 67

jay, John 39

Jefferson, Joseph 47

Jefferson. Thomas 34

Johnson, Andrew 145

Johnson, Eastman 202

Johnston. Joseph Eccleston. . 85

Jones, James K 171

Jones, John Paul 97

Jones, Samuel Porter '15

Kane, Elisha Kent 125

Kearney, Philip 210

Kenton. Simon 188

Knox, John Jay 134

Lamar, Lucius Q. C 201

Landon, Melville D 109

Lee, Robert Edward 38

Lewis. Charles B 193

Lincoln. Abraham 135

Livermore, Mary Ashton 131

Locke. David Ross 172

Logan, John A 26

Longfellow. Henry Wadsworth 37

Longstreet, James 56

Lowell, James Russell 104

Mackay, John William 148

Madison. James 42

Marshall, John 156

Mather, Cotton 164

Mather, Increase 163

Maxim. Hiram S 194

McClellan. George Brinton.. 47

McCormick. Cyrus Hall 172

McDonough'. Com. Thomas. . 167

McKinley. William 217

Meade, George Gordon 75

Medill, Joseph 159

Miles, Nelson A 176

Miller. Cincinnatus Heine. . . 218

Miller, Joaquin 218

Mills, Roger Quarles 211

Monroe, James 54

Moody, Dwight L 207

Moran, Thomas 98

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Morgan, John Pierpont 208

Morgan, John T 216

Morris, Robert 165

-Morton, Levi P 142

Morton, Oliver Perry 215

Motley, John Lathrop 130

"Nye, Bill" 59

Nye. Edgar Wilson 59

O'Conor. Charles 187

Olney, Richard 133

Paine. Thomas 147

Palmer. John M 195

Parkhurst. Charles Henry.... 160

"Partington, Mrs." 202

Peabody, George 170

Peck. George W 187

Peffer. William A 164

Perkins, Eli 109

Perry, Oliver Hazard 97

Phillips, Wendell 30

Pierce, Franklin 122

Pingree. Hazen S 212

Plant. Henry B 192

Poe, Edgar Allen. .. 69

Polk. James Knox 102

Porter, David Dixon 68

Porter, Noah 93

Prentice. George Denison.... 119 Prescott, William Hickling. . 96 Pullman, George Mortimer. . 121

Quad, M 193

Quay, Matthew S 171

Randolph, Edmund 136

Read. Thomas Buchanan.... 132

Reed, Thomas Brackett 208

Reid. Whitelaw 149

Roacli. John 190

Rockefeller, John Ravison... igs

Root, George Frederick 218

Rothermel, Peter F 113

Rutledge, John 57

Sage. Russell 211

Schurz. Carl ■ 201

Scott, Thomas Alexander.... 204

Scott, Winfield 79

Seward, William Henry 44

Sharon, William 165

Shaw. Henry W 166

Sheridan, Phillip Henry 40

Sherman. Charles R 87

Sherman. John 86

Sherman. William Tecumseh. 30 Shillaber. Benjamin Penhallow 202

Smith, Edmund Kirby 114

Sousa. John Philip.. 60

Spreckles, Claus 159

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Stanford, Leiand loi

Stanton, Edwin McMasters. . 179

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 126

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton 32

Stephenson, Adlai Ewing. ... 141

Stewart. Alexander T 58

Stewart, William Morris.... 213 Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth

Beecher 66

Stuart, James E. B 122

Sumner, Charles 34

Talmage, Thomas DeWitt... 60

Taney, Roger Brooks 129

Taylor, Zachary 108

Teller, Henry M 127

Tesla. Nikola 193

Thomas, George H "/t,

Thomas, Theodore 172

Thurman, Allen G 90

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Thurs-ton, John^M 166

Tilden, Samuel J 48

Tillman, Benjamin Ryan.... 119

Toombs, Robert 205

"/Twain. Mark" 86

Tyler, John 93

Van Buren, Martin 78

Vanderbilt, Cornelius 35

Vail, Alfred 154

Vest, George Graham 214

Vilas, William Freeman 140

Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey.... 95

Waite, Morrison Remich 125

Wallace, Lewis 199

Wallack, Lester 121

Wallack, John Lester 121

Wanamaker, John 89

Ward, "Artemus" 91

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Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. . 189

Washington, George 17

Watson, Thomas E 178

Watterson, Henry 76

Weaver, James B 123

Webster, Daniel 19

Webster. Noah 49

Weed, Thurlow 91

West, Benjamin 113

Whipple. Henry Benjamin... 161

White, Stephen V 162

Whitefield, George 150

Whitman, Walt 197

Whitney, Eli 120

Whitney, William Collins.... 92

Whittier, John Greenleaf 67

Willard, Frances E 133

Wilson, William L 180

Winchell, Alexander 175

Windom, William 138

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Alger, Russell A 16

Allison, William B 99

Anthony, Susan B 63

Armour, Philip D 151

Arthur, Chester A 81

Barnum, Phineas T 117

Beecher, Henry Ward 27

Blaine, James G 151

Booth, Edwin 63

Bryan, Wm. J 63

Bryant, William Cullen 185

Buchanan, James 81

Buckner, Simon B 16

Butler, Benjamin F 151

Carlisle. John G 151

Chase. Salmon P 16

Childs. George W 99

Clay, Henry 81

Cleveland, Grover 45

Cooper. Peter 99

Dana, Charles A 151

Depew, Chauncey M 117

Douglass, Fred 63

Emerson. Ralph Waldo 27

Evarts, William M 99

Farragut, Com. D. G 185

Field, Cyrus W 63

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Field. Marshall 117

Franklin, Benjamin 63

Fremont, Gen. John C 16

Gage, Lyman J 151

Garfield. James A 45

Garrison. William Lloyd.... 63

George, Henry 117

Gould, Jay 99

Grant, Gen. U. S 185

Greeley. Horace 81

Hampton, Wade 16

Hancock, Gen. Winfield S.... 185

Hanna. Mark A 117

Harrison, Benjamin 81

Hayes, R. B 45

Hendricks. Thomas A 81

Holmes. Oliver W 151

Hooker. Gen. Joseph 16

Ingersoll. Robert G 117

Irving, Washington 27

Jackson. Andrew 45

Jefferson. Thomas 4S

Johnston, Gen. J. E 16

Lee, Gen. Robert E 185

Lincoln, Abraham 81

Logan, Gen. John A 16

Longfellow. Henry W 185

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Longstreet, Gen. James 16

Lowell. James Russell 27

McKinley, William 45

Phillips, Wendell 27

Porter, Com. D. D i8s

Pullman. George M 117

Quay, M. S 99

Reed, Thomas B 151

Sage, Russell 117

Scott, Gen. Winiield 185

Seward, William H 45

Sherman, John 99

Sherman, Gen. W. T 151

Stanton. Elizabeth Cady 27

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 27

Sumner, Charles 45

Talmage. T. DeWitt 6^

Teller, Henry M 99

Thurman, Allen G 81

Tilden. Samuel J 117

Van Buren, Martin 81

Vanderbilt. Commodore 99

Webster, Daniel 27

Whittier, John G 27

Washington, George 45

Watterson, Henry 63

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