came to Michigan, and lived at Jackson, Grand Rapids, and other points. In 1861 he enlisted in the Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, Army of the Cumberland. Served nearly three years. Returned to Michigan and resided at St. Joseph's until December, 1870, when he came to Fife Lake. There were then living in the town James Hodges, Solomon Mills, John Cane, Robert Pierce, Elias Benton and James Ward. He took up a homestead on which he remained five years. He engaged in the boot and shoe business in 1880. Mr. Johnson was one of the organizers of the town of Fife Lake, was one of the judges of election at the first town meeting, and was supervisor of the town the first three terms. Now holds the office of justice of the peace. He was married in 1853 to Mary C. Johnson. They have three children living; two have died.

DR. J. H. HOAG, of Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, was born in Green County, N. Y., in 1853. During his infancy his parents moved to Jackson County, Mich. He was educated at Ann Arbor, Mich., and at Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, being graduated at the latter in the spring of 1883. He first came to Fife Lake in 1880, and practiced medicine three years. After his graduation at Chicago, he returned to his practice at this place. He was married May 10, 1882, to Anna Dancer, native of Michigan. Dr. Hoag's parents, as also Mrs. Hoag's, reside at Chelsea, Washtenaw County, Mich.

DR. LEWIS S. WALTER, of Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, was born in Pulaski, Jackson County, Mich., in 1849. His earlier education was received in Jackson and Hillsdale Counties, his professional education at Bennett's Eclectic College, of Chicago, where he was graduated in March, 1876. He practiced medicine at Litchfield, Hillsdale County, until the fall of 1882, when he came to Fife Lake, where he is now practicing. He was married December 10, He was married December 10, 1876, to Jennie L. Hubbard, native of Pulaski, Jackson County, Mich. They have three children.

I. E. BENNETT, clerk, Fife Lake, was born in Canada, in 1856; came to Michigan in 1864 with his parents; they settled in Lapeer Township, Lapeer County; he was brought up on a farm; went to work in the lumber woods at the age of thirteen, followed lumbering for nine years, and in 1872 came through from Lapeer to Fife Lake with a team, worked at farming a short time, then returned to Lapeer County, where he remained a year, then returned to Fife Lake, where he has since lived; was engaged as a clerk in E. H. Foster's hardware store two years, and has for two years past been employed as a clerk by C. C. Bailey. Married in March, 1883, to Mary Brown, a native of New York. They have one child. PETER T. PETERSON, blacksmith and wagon maker, at Fife Lake, was born in Denmark in 1845, came to America in 1868, and worked at his trade in Muskegon, one summer, and worked in northern Michigan, till September, 1878, when he commenced business at Fife Like, carries on a general blacksmithing business, also manufactures wagons and carriages. Married in 1879 to Georgie A. Harding, a native of Michigan. They have one child. NELSON FINCH was born in Chenango County, N. Y., in 1818. He has for the most of his life been engaged in farming, in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1844 he was married to Mary Briggs, a native of New York. Their three children are Adelbert and Armenus, of Fife Lake, and Mrs. Albert Helmer, of Long Lake, Wexford County, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Finch are living with their son Adelbert. The latter was born in Allegany County, N. Y., in 1846. During his boyhood, his parents moved to Steuben County, N. Y., and thence to Pennsylvania, where he was brought up. He has been engaged in various occupations, lumbering, farming, etc. Came to Fife Lake in 1875, and worked in the saw-mill of B. S. White. Bought his present farm of eighty acres in Section 1, Town 25, Range 9, in the fall of 1877. The other son, Armenus,

was born in Steuben County, in 1850, went to Pennsylvania with his parents in boyhood; came to the Traverse Region in 1875; worked in a lumber yard at Fife Lake, five years. Bought his present farm of eighty acres in Section 1, Town 25, Range 9, in November, 1876, and settled on it in 1881. Married in 1874 to Alice Labar, a native of Tioga County, N. Y.

In

JOSEPH M. MYERS, farmer, Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, was born in Ohio in 1838. Was brought up to farming. Remained there until 1871, except during his military service. In April 1861, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry under the first call of the president for 75,000 men. His regiment served in Virginia and afterward in the Army of the Cumberland. He was mustered out in the fall of 1861. In 1871 he came to what is now the town of Boardman, Kalkaska County, and took a homestead on Section 28, Town 26, Range 8. This land he still retains. the spring of 1883 he came to the town of Fife Lake and bought his present farin of eighty acres in Section 24, Town 26, Range 8. Mr. Myers was one of the organizers of the town of Boardman, and its first supervisor, holding the office two years. When he came to the town it was destitute of the facilities of transportation and travel which the advent of a railroad has brought. Big Rapids was the nearest railroad station. Traverse City, the market town and postoffice, was distant thirty miles by trail. Much of their supplies were packed in. Mr. Myers was married in March, 1864, to Sophia L. Snow, a native of New York. They have one daughter.

J. O. HUTCHINS, of Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, was born in Ohio in 1843. Was brought up to farming. He came to Traverse City in 1869, and the same year located a homestead in Town 25, Range 9. Was employed several years in Hannah, Lay & Co's saw-mill. In 1878 he engaged in the saloon business at Fife Lake, for O. H. Ellis, of Traverse City, and purchased the business in 1882. Has in connection with his saloon a pool hall, and a hall for public purposes above. In 1873 he married Sarah Smith, and has two children.

JAMES M. CAMPBELL, farmer and mason, Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, was born in Willett, Cortland County, N. Y., in 1847. Was brought up to farming, and also learned there the trade of mason, at which he has been employed since he began working for himself. He came to Fife Lake in 1878, and bought his present farm in Section 35, Town 25, Range 9. Married in 1879 to Annie Dowen, a native of Ottawa County, N. Y. They have two children.

WILLIAM REID, farmer, Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, was born in Canada, November 19, 1835. He came to Michigan, to Van Buren County, in June, 1870, and to Traverse County in 1871, reaching Fife Lake February 18. Here he homesteaded his present farm of eighty acres in Section 36, Town 26, Range 9. With him came his brother-in-law, Wilbur Dewey, they being the first settlers in the township, Mr. Reid building the first house. He was one of the organizers of the town of Fife Lake. Feb. 26, 1864, he married Catherine Dewey. They have two children living, William T. and Roswell H. William T. and Roswell H. A daughter, Agnes Isa, died Sept. 30, 1870.

I. M. ANDERSON, farmer, Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, resides on Section 2, Town 25, Range 9 west, where he has a farm of eighty acres. Born in Westmoreland County, Penn., July 16, 1842. Brought up to farming. Came to Cass County, Mich., with his parents, in the fall of 1855. Came to Fife Lake Dec. 12, 1872, and was for six years engaged in photographing. Since then hás been employed in farming. Located on his present farm in the spring of 1881. Was married in 1863 to Melvina Bowerman, a native of Ohio, and has three children.

WILLIAM M. HICKEY, fara.er, Fife Lake Township, was born in New Brunswick in 1847. Came to Canada with his parents when a chil t. Was brought up on a farm, and remained at home until 1865. He then came to Lapeer, Mich., and engaged in farming and lumbering till 1871, when he moved to Traverse City, worked there a few months, and in the fall of the same year came to Fife Lake Township and bought a farm of eighty acres on Section 8. He works at lumbering in winter, and carries on his farm. Has been highway commissioner five years. Has been justice of the peace for the past eight years. Married in 1869 to Lydia McIntyre, a native of Canada. They have five children.

Acme is a small rural settlement situated in the town of East Bay, and surrounded by a rich and delightful farming country. It has some important manufacturing interests and the usual business interests of a country village. In the following sketch of Mr. Hoxsie are some facts connected with this point:

L. S. HOXSIE, farmer, East Bay Township, was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., in 1813. Moved with his parents to Cayuga County, same state, in 1817, and came to Lenawee County, Micb., in 1833. Owned and carried on a farm in that county till 1864. He then came to Whitewater, now East Bay, and bought a farm where Acme postoffice now stands. The first town meeting in East Bay was held on his farm. He has laid out a village at Acme, and sold several lots. A number of good houses have already been built. There was a saw mill on his farm when he bought the place, which was built in 1858. About the year 1874 he rebuilt the mill, which he sold to his son John in the spring of 1884, who is building a woolen-mill near the saw-mill. Has been justice of the peace and highway commissioner several years. Underwood, a native of New York His son Albertus T. is postmaster at stock of dry goods, groceries, etc.

Married in 1887 to Mary They have eight children. Acme, and keeps a general

We find the following mention of the mill of Hoxsie & Scripture, in May, 1884:

The new woolen mill of Hoxsie & Scripture, at Acme, has been completed and will be ready for work by June 1st. The building is 30x50 feet, three stories high. The machinery is of the best. make, and Mr. Scripture's large experience in this work is a guarantee that satisfaction will be given in all cases. The new firm are prepared to card rolls, spin single yarn, make stocking yarn, and to manufacture cassimeres, tweeds, full cloth, and plain and checked flannels, etc., etc."

H. A. LANGWORTHY, merchant, Acme, was born in Erie County, Penn., in 1840. Came to Old Mission, Grand Traverse County, Mich., in 1851, with his parents; remained there until 1854, when his father moved to Williamsburg, Whitewater Township, and built a saw-mill, which he run till 1857. The subject of this sketch opened a grocery in Traverse City in 1876, which he carried on till April, 1882. Then moved to Acme, where he is selling dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, etc. Married in 1866 to Anna E. Williams, a native of England. They have three living

children.

Williamsburgh is a rural scuuement in the town of Whitewater. Like Acme, it is in the midst of a prosperous farming cominunity. Several societies are well sustained, and the milling and mercantile interests at this point are of considerable importance.

Paradise Village is located on the line of the Traverse City Railroad, in the township of Paradise, and is a point of considerable promise. It is of recent origin, having been platted in 1892 by Dr. Myron S. Brownson.

DR. BROWNSON was born in Steuben County, N. Y., in 1844. Was educated at the Literary College of South Dansville, Steuben County, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Bennett

Eclectic College, Chicago; also attending two courses at Rush Medical College, Chicago. During a portion of the war he was employed in Armory Square Hospital, under Dr. Bliss. He founded the Dansville Medical Institute, and was in charge of the same. Also edited the Home Medical Adviser and Medical Journal. He practiced one season at Valparaiso, Ind. For the past eleven years has been practicing in Grand Traverse and adjoining counties, making his home at Walton and Paradise, residing now at the latter place. He has been very active in efforts to advance the business interests of the village and the county, having started and carried out at this point and elsewhere in the county a number of business enterprises, blacksmithing, mercantile trade, livery, saw-mill, etc. He built the first saw-mill at this point. In July, 1882, he platted the village of Paradise, which has grown to be a place of about 400 inhabitants. He has the largest cleared farm in the county, having one clearing of 200 acres in the vicinity of the village. Dr. Brownson was married in 1871 to Sarahı A. Rowe, and has one son. In November, 1883, the following mention was made of the village, which substantially covers its history:

"Perhaps no town along the line of the G. R. & I. Road has grown more rapidly than the village founded by Dr. Brownson. The plat of this village was made in July, 1882. Since then its growth has been steady; from the few buildings that then sheltered some dozens, we now have nearly four hundred inlrabitants. The small pioneer shanty has given way to fine brick and frame buildings. Stores and mills have been erected.

On the

"At the corner of Main Street and Brownson Avenue is the mammoth block, erected by Dr. Brownson, which is now being roofed. By taking a tape line and passing it around the ends of this building, and then measuring in a straight line, you will find that the distance around the building is twenty-six rods. The highest point of the roof is over sixty feet above the ground. On entering the building we find in the basement rooms for storage, heater, cellar, and a large kitchen and commissary room. main floor will be a store 24x79, salesroom, an office and bar-room, halls, a large dining-room, coffee-room, a fine parlor, three bedrooms, two closets, a wash-room and water closet, a pantry with a dumb waiter which ascends to the attic story at the pleasure of the cook. This building contains over an acre of floor room, and when completed according to design will be one of the finest hotels in the state. The Combination Gas Co., of Detroit, has the contract of putting in hundred-jet gas works to light the house. A firm in Grand Rapids will put in a steam heater to supply the house with both hot and cold water, and also to heat the house. The hotel is situated on a rise of ground, and the drainage is perfect. When completed, the hotel will accommodate three hundred guests.

"Attached to the hotel the doctor has completed a fine livery barn with stable room for fifty horses.

'At the foot of Brownson Avenue the Munshaw Bros. are erect

ing one of the largest stave, hoop, barrel and heading factories in the state, and also a lumber mill. They have a switch from the railroad track to their mill. Their mill will be 40x90, with an ell 30x50, and wing 30x100. They have also a row of sheds on both sides of the track for lumber and staves. They will erect several large cottages. They expect to do a business of about $250,000 and expect per year. This firm will employ a large number of men, to be in running order early in the spring.

“Dr. Brownson expects to put on the market all the land lying between the hotel and Munshaw Bros.' factory. This will open, some of the finest building lots in the village.

"The G. R. & I. Company is placing a siding across Main Street beside their main track for the accommodation of Case

“The M. E. Church is again under way and will soon have the roof on.

"Messrs. Cole & Camp, of Bronson, Mich., have purchased a lot at the corner of Main Street and Brown on Avenue, and are erect ing a large store which will soon be filled with goods.

"The mill site which I. I. Smith sold to Burkitt & Co. has been improved by the company, and a larger and better mill set in operation.

This firm has one of the best mills in the place. They expect to build several new houses in the early spring."

Mention was also made of a large number of dwelling-houses in process of erection.

Mayfield is a small village on the Traverse City Railroad, about thirteen miles south of Traverse City.

In 1868 Messrs. Neal, Gibbs and Knight, under the firm name of Neal, Gibbs & Co., commenced operations on Section 28, in Town 26 north, of Range 10 west. Their location was about thirteen miles from Traverse City and in the midst of the forest. The site was selected on account of the fine creek which afforded excellent facilities for milling purposes. A saw-mill was built and lumbering operations on a small scale begun, which were successfully continued. Subsequently they built a grist-mill. A store was started by C. A. Denniston. In 1872 the Traverse City Railroad was built, and the place became a railway station. Israel Dawdy built a hotel called the Dawdy House. The name of Beulah was first given to the place. The postoffice was called Mayfield, and Charles Denniston was postmaster.

In 1873 Messrs. Neal and Knight sold their interests to L. K. and J. L. Gibbs, and since that time the firm has been Gibbs Bros. They have carried on a general lumbering and mercantile business. There is a Methodist Church at this point, and a districtschool. Mr. J. L. Gibbs is the present postmaster. The principal shipments are hardwood lumber and veneer. The name of the village has been changed from Beulah to Mayfield.

L. K. GIBBS was born in Wisconsin in 1845, came to Mayfield postoffice in 1868, and since that time has been senior partner in their business. Married in the spring of 1867 to Mary A. Humphrey; they have four children.

J. L. GIBBS was born in Wisconsin in 1848. Came to Mayfield in 1872, and since that time has been a member of the firm of Gibbs Bros.; was elected as a representative to the legislature in 1876 from the district composed of Grand Traverse and Wexford Counties; has been postmaster one and one half years; has been township clerk several years, also superintendent of schools, and is at present supervisor of the township of Paradise, and is notary public. Married in 1883 to Addie A. Sargent, a native of Wisconsin.

D. E. CRANDALL, mill-owner, Mayfield postoffice, was born in Belfast, Allegany County, N. Y., in 1851; went to Wisconsin in 1861, remained there till 1875, when he came to Mayfield postoffice, Paradise Township, and worked in a mill till 1882, when he in company with his brother bought the shingle-mill now run by them; they have one hand machine and cut about 35,000 shingles per day. Is at present justice of the peace. Married in 1878 to Anna Haney, a native of Wisconsin; they have three children.

Kingsley is a postoffice and station on the Traverse City Railroad. The village was brought into existence by the building of that road, and has now become a small center of trade. It derives its name from Judson W. Kingsley, an early settler of Paradise Township, in which the village is, and the pioneer of the village.

JUDSON W. KINGSLEY, of the firm of J. W. Kingsley & Son, dealers in general merchandise at Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, was born in Cincinnatus, Ontario County, New York,

C. W. KINGSLEY, junior partner of the firm of J. W. Kingsley & Son, was born in Wisconsin, March 4, 1854. During his boyhood his parents moved to Illinois, where he remained until he was eleven years of age when he came with his parents to Grand Traverse County. In May, 1883, he went into partnership with his father in general merchandising; was appointed postmaster at Kingsley in June, 1883, succeeding his father. He was married November 13, 1880, to Mary Sweeney, a native of Ireland. They have one daughter.

REV. HORACE BLAIR, of Paradise Township, Grand Traverse County, was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1818. In his infancy his parents moved to Elmira, N. Y., remaining there until he was eight years old, when they moved to Potter County, Pennsylvania; there he learned the trades of blacksmith and wagon waker. In the fall of 1836 he came to Michigan, worked a short time at his trade, and in the following June removed to St. Louis, Missouri. There he became a preacher of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was engaged in preaching in that state until the fall of 1879, when he came to Grand Traverse County and located at Kingsley Station, on the G. R. & I. R. R. He was instrumental in organizing a Presbyterian Church of which he was for two years the pastor. For the past two years he has been engaged in his trade of blacksmith and wagon maker and in various other employments, and as a local preacher; holds also the office of justice of the peace. He was married February 14, 1839, to Flora Hawkins, of Kentucky, by whom he had twelve children, of whom five survive her, and are now residents of Missouri. His second wife, to whom he was married April 5, 1860, was Mary A. Thornton, a native of England.

N. BURKITT, senior member of the firm of N. Burkitt & Co., lumber manufacturers, of Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, is a native of Ohio, born in 1819. When he was five years of age his parents moved to Indiana where he was brought up on a farm. He was for about thirty years engaged in the saw-mill business, in St. Joseph County, Indiana; was married in 1849 to Mary Ann Leonard, native of North Carolina. They have four sons and one daughter. One of the sons, Loren F., is the junior member of the firm; he was born in St. Joseph County in 1858; his family consists of a wife and two children. The firm started their present business in the fall of 1883, purchasing the mill building, and putting in machinery brought with them from Indiana.

THOMAS WYNKOOP, farmer, of the town of Paradise, Grand Traverse County, was born in Pennsylvania in 1820. During his infancy his parents moved to Niagara County, N. Y., where he was brought up on a farm. He lived in Illinois about ten years, and in the fall of 1864 came to Grand Traverse County and homesteaded his present farm in Section 4, Town 25, Range 10, this being the first homestead in the town; at that time there were no settlers in the town. He moved upon his land in December, 1865, being preceded as a settler in the town by J. W. Kingsley and William Robison. Mr. Wynkoop was first supervisor of the town, and has held that office eleven terms. He was married in 1849 to Betsy Kingsley; they have two sons and one daughter.

THE MCCULLY HOUSE, Kingsley, town of Paradise, Grand Traverse County, is conveniently located near the railroad station. James McCully is proprietor.

HENRY IDE, engineer, of Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, was born in Niagara County, New York, in 1854; lived there until fourteen years of age, when his parents moved to Mattawan, Van Buren County, Michigan, where he was brought up on a farm. In 1872 he went to Bronson, where he engaged in engineering, and was employed in the mills of Reynolds & Williams, and Crawford & McClellan; came to Kingsley in April, 1884, where he is employed in engineering. He was married July 15, 1881, to Alice Catton. His father, W. S. Ide, resides at Petoskey, Michigan, where he owns farming lands and village property; also owns property at Kingsley.

OTTO LODGE, NO. 324, I. O. O. F., was instituted at Kingsley Station, town of Paradise, April 3, 1879. The charter members were Chas. A. Denniston, S. Cronkhite, J. A. Hodges, W. F. Gillett, Elon Kingsley and L. Y. Congdon. Ten new members were initiated and two admitted as ancients. Officers elected as follows: N. G., C. A. Denniston; V. G., S. Cronkhite; Sec., O. P. Carver; Treas., James Hodges; warden, W. F. Denniston; chaplain, M. W. Jackson. The gathering of Odd Fellows at this time is said to have been the largest held in this region, upon a similar occasion,

Westminister is a station on the Traverse City Railroad, and of recent origin. Its business is mainly the manufacture of hard wood by the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Company, a sketch of which is as follows:

The mill of the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Company is located at Westminster Station, Traverse City branch of the G. R. & I. R. R. It was completed in February, 1883, by Henry H. and Levi J. Hadley, and operated by them about a year. In February, 1884, a stock company was formed under the above name. Its officers are Joseph H. Martin, of Grand Rapids, president, and S. E. Curdy, secretary and treasurer. The mill has a capacity of twenty-five thousand feet of hard wood lumber per day, and employs about sixty men. Shipments are largely to Grand Rapids, also to other points. There is at this time, the spring of 1884, about two million feet of lumber in the yard of the mill.

S. E. CURDY, secretary and treasurer of the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Co., of Westminster, Grand Traverse County, is a native of Oakland County, Michigan, born in 1846; was brought up a farmer, and engaged in that occupation on the home farm until 1873, when he went to Grand Rapids and into the employ of the Grand Rapids Chair Co., with whom he remained eight years; the latter portion of that time being in charge of shipments. He then aided in the organization of the Valley City Manufacturing Co., of which he was for three years secretary and treasurer; took his present position upon the organization of the company in February, 1884. His family consists of a wife and two children.

HENRY H. HADLEY, of the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Company Westminster, Grand Traverse County, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., March 18, 1838. In 1854 he came with his parents to Eaton County, Mich. His father's occupation being stock dealing, he was employed in that business until he was twenty-four years of age, when he engaged in farming. For the past twenty years he has been manufacturing and handling hard wood lumber, principally in Grand Rapids. Was purchaser for I. L. Quimby, of Grand Rapids, five or six years, and six and a half years with the Phoenix Manufacturing Company. In 1863 he enlisted in the First Michigan Engineers. Was on detached duty as topographical engineer under Col. E. M. Poe, chief of staff to Gen. Sherman. Received a wound from a sabre bayonet at Rocky Face Creek, N. C. Was mustered out in October, 1865. Was married March

13, 1861, to Emeline Cure, a native of Albany County, N. Y. They have two daughters, aged fourteen and seventeen years. Mr. Hadley came to Grand Traverse County in August, 1882, with his brother, Levi J., and bought the land on which the mill of the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Company stands, and other lands to the amount of 1,040 acres in the vicinity. They constructed the mill and operated it under the firm name of Hadley Bros. until February, 1884, when the present stock company was formed.

Walton village is a small village at the junction of the G. R. & I. and the Traverse City Railroads. The first of anything at this point was in 1873, when the G. R. & I. Road was being built, as appears in the following sketch:

A. F. PHILLIPS, hotel proprietor, Walton, was born in Randolph County, Ohio, in 1833. Came to Bronson, Branch County, Mich., in 1859, and worked for the railroad company eight years. Carried on the livery business four years. Was again in the employ of the railroad company till 1873, when he came to Walton Junction and had charge of a gang of men in the construction of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, and after the road was completed was section foreman three years. He built the first house at Walton and kept boarders for a while and since that time has kept hotel. Is now proprietor of the Grand Rapids and Indiana House. Has been deputy sheriff for two years past. Married in 1863 to Jane Taylor, a native of Ohio. They had one daughter. His wife died in 1869. Second marriage in 1873 to Celia G. Orr, a native of Michigan.

The Stronach Lumber Company had a depot of supplies for their lumbering business at this point. In 1878 the firm of Hannah, Lay & Co., desiring to make this a distributing point, bought out the Stronach Company and established a general mercantile business, which they still continue.

H. A. FERRIS, saloon keeper, Walton, was born in Yates County, N. Y., in 1844. Was brought up on a farm. Went in 1865 to the oil regions in Pennsylvania, where he spent five years. Came to Traverse City in 1870 and was engaged in looking land. Opened the first road from Traverse City to Manistee River by way of Walton before the railroad was built. Commenced his present business in 1880. Married in 1877 to Rosilla V. Mills, a native of Ohio. They have two children.

Robert Knaggs, hotel proprietor, Walton, was born in Monroe City, Mich., in 1822, and in 1841 went to Bath, Steuben County, N. Y., and attended school through the winter, and in the spring of 1842 returned to Monroe County, Mich., and carried on farming one season, then engaged in butchering, which he followed in Monroe City twenty years. He moved to Traverse City in 1867. The night before leaving Detroit he was robbed in the hotel of all his money except some small change. When he arrived in Traverse City he only had eighteen cents to start with in a new place. He soon obtained work of Hannah, Lay & Co. and was employed by them eight years, doing carpenter work most of the time. He moved to Walton Junction in 1875 and opened a hotel and has been in the same business ever since. Married in 1842 to Eliza Ann Buck, a native of Steuben County, N. Y. She died in 1847. Second marriage in 1848 to Lasira Howe, who died in 1853. They had two children. He was married the third time in 1854 to Harriet Benson. They have five children.

Summit is a manufacturing point and a station on the Traverse City Railroad.

The Michigan Flooring and Handle Manufacturing Company's mill at Summit, Grand Traverse County, was commenced in September, 1883, and was started to work in February, 1884. It has a capacity of ten to fifteen thousand broom handles, and the sawmill a capacity of ten to fifteen thousand feet of lumber per

day. Twenty-five to thirty men are employed. The officers of the company are H. L. Stewart, of Tecumseh, president and treasurer; A. W. Slayton, of the same place, secretary, and Moses Bowerman, Jr., of Summit, superintendent.

MOSES BOWERMAN, JR., superintendent of the Michigan Flooring and Handle Manufacturing Company, of Summit, Grand Traverse County, was born in Lenawee County, Mich., in 1838. Was brought up to farming and engaged in that employment and somewhat in manufacture until he was thirty-eight years of age. He then engaged in milling and the manufacture of staves and and hoops, in Lenawee County. Came to Grand Traverse County in the fall of 1883 and selected the location for the mill of which he has been in charge since its construction. He was married May He was married May 3, 1860, to Roxcina Haviland. They have three children living; one has died.

Old Mission was platted in 1879 and '89 by L. N. Beers, as Old Mission Harbor. It is quite a summer resort and chiefly noted on account of the historic interest attached to the place. It has already been fully described.

The Long Lake and Monroe settlements are also settlements in rich farming communities and are centers for social and religious activities. At Long Lake the lumbering operations of Hannah, Lay & Co. constitute an important industry. In 1866 they located 10,000 acres of pine land and in 1871 built a mill now in operation, cutting about 8,000,000 a year.

Scattered through the county are a number of small settlements, which furnish their neighborhoods with mail facilities and facilities for trade.

There are the following temperance societies in the county, in addition to the work of the W. C. T. U.: No. 424 of Traverse City meets in the Odd Fellows' hall Saturday evening. No. 468 of Long Lake meets in Lake View hall Saturday evening. No. 480 of Kingsley meets Friday evening in Kingsley's hall. No. 482 of Monroe Center meets in the school-house Wednesday evening. No. 498 of Walton meets on Saturday evening in the Good Templars' hall. No. 507 of Williamsburg meets in the school-house on Wednesday evening. No. 522 of Green Lake meets alternate Saturday evenings in school-house for District No. 1.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

J. I. Follett, farmer and lumber manufacturer, of Whitewater, Grand Traverse County, was born in the town of Dalton, Berkshire County, Mass., in 1818. During his boyhood his parents moved to the Western Reserve, Ohio. In 1842 he went to Indiana where he was occupied in farming and also in mercantile and mill business for an Ohio company. Came to Michigan in 1852 and settled at Kalamazoo, where he was employed in the carpenter's and joiner's trade and various other employments, milling, brick making, etc. Dec. 4, 1861, he enlisted in the Twelfth Michigan Infantry. Served through all grades from private to captain. Was wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Mustered out March 6, 1866. He is now an invalid from the effects of disease contracted in the service and receives a small pension. He came to Grand Traverse Region in 1871 and bought a mill and several hundred acres of land at the south end of a lake. Mr. Follett was married in 1842 to Calista Saxton, a native of Malone, Franklin County, N. Y. They have had three children, two of whom have died.

Their son, James S., was born in Steuben County, Ind., Oct. 5, 1843. He has always made his home with his parents, and has been generally associated with his father in business, and now that his father is incapacitated by sickness, is carrying on the mill and farm. On first coming to this section they were for six years engaged in brick making at Elk Rapids, and at the same time rebuilt

the mill which they had bought. He enlisted at the same time with his father and in the same regiment and company and was mustered out at the same time. He constantly refused promotion and served through the war as a private. He was wounded at Shiloh in the left arm and shoulder and still carries the ball in his back. Was captured in April, 1864, and was a prisoner about ten months at Tyler, Texas. Christmas day, 1867, he married Julia Vayou. They have two sons and two daughters.

DAVID VINTON, JR., merchant, Williamsburg, Whitewater Township, Grand Traverse County, was born in Hampshire County, Mass., Sept. 16, 1828. At the age of ten he was placed at work on a farm and remained there until fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the tanner's trade, at Newark, Ohio. He removed to Steuben County, Ind., and was engaged in the tanning business. In 1870 removed to Williamsburg and engaged in mercantile business. He was married in 1855 to Ruth Carpenter, native of Steuben County, Ind., and has two sons, Frank H. and Will M. The former is his father's partner in business, the firm name being D. Vinton & Son. They carry a large and very complete stock of groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes and all general merchandise. Mr. Vinton represented his district in the legislature of the state, session of 1883.

A. V. HILL, farmer, East Bay Township, was born in Canada in 1835; remained there engaged in farming till 1872; he then came to Northport, Mich., and stayed through one summer, then came to East Bay Township and bought a farm of 150 acres on Section 23, Township 28, Range 10, where he now lives. Married in 1857 to Amanda Brown, a native of New York. They have three children.

WILLIAM H. JACKSON, farmer, East Bay Township, was born in Canada in 1843; was brought up on a farm; remained in Canada till 1871, when he came to East Bay and bought a farm of eighty acres on Section 29, Township 28, Range 9, where he now lives. In addition to his farming, he is putting down wells and erecting the Manville, Bird or turbine wind-mills, as farmers may choose. Married in 1864 to Eliza Wright, a native of Canada. They have four children.

WILLIAM THACKER, farmer, East Bay Township, was born in Essex County, New York, in 1797. About the year 1815 went with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio. After becoming of age he was engaged in buying and butchering cattle for several years, and for some time was a farmer. He cleared up a farm in southern Ohio in 1848; moved to northern Ohio, where he bought a new farm, which he cleared up and lived on till 1862, when he came to Traverse, now East Bay Township, and bought 240 acres of land on Sections 19 and 20, Township 28, Range 9, where he remained till his death, Aug. 22, 1878. Married Dec. 13, 1818, to Hester Beatty, a native of Ohio, who died in 1844. They had a family of seven children. Second marriage in September, 1844, to Mary W. Lackey, a native of Ohio. They had six children.

QUINCEY THACKER, farmer, East Bay Townshlp, was born June 9, 1849, in Defiance County, Ohio; came with his parents to East Bay in 1862, and for the past sixteen years has had the management of the farm; has been township treasurer six years, superintendent of schools for four years. Married May 1, 1879, to Mae L. Arnold, a native of Michigan. They have two children.

J. W. ARNOLD, farmer, East Bay Township, was born in Rhode Island in 1832; moved with his parents to Cayuga County, New York, in 1837. They remained in that county till 1845, when they inoved to Washtenaw County, Mich., where he lived till 1854, when he came to Elk Rapids and worked for Dexter & Noble in a sawmill till 1868. He then bought a farm of eighty acres on Section 31, Township 28, Range 9, where he now lives. Has been a high