History of Howell, Michigan - Chapters 6-8



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Chapter 6
For Early Travel

   Indian trails were the first roads in this section. They formed the
highways over which the pioneers came to their wilderness homes.
Occasionally the wagons would come up against the trees which grew so near
together that one must be cut before they could get through.

   The beginnings could hardly be detailed as such, but somehow the march
of progress turned these indian trails into roads, July 4th, 1832,
Congress passed an act directing the president to appoint three
commissioners to lay out a road for military and other purposes, from
Detroit through Shiawassee county to the mouth of the Grand river. The sum
of $2,500 was expended during the next two years, in opening and grading
the first ten miles out. in 1835, Congress apportioned $25,000 more, which
opened the road one hundred feet wide through the timber, and built
bridges as far as the Cedar river. A grant of five thousand acres of land
was also secured for the Grand river and Saginaw roads, of which our road,
received its share. While the work thus provided for was in progress
Michigan became a state. Soon after Judge Turner

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came to Howell in 1840, he became interested in the project. The road
which he found opened to Brighton, was gradually worked through Howell,
and nearly to Fowlerville, largely by his efforts for state appropriations
and other ways of securing funds for that purpose. In the spring of 1841,
$5,000 was transferred by the State Legislature from the North Wagon Road,
" to the "Grand River Turnpike," with which it was opened to Lansing. This
appropriation was increased by the addition of "non resident taxes" for
all land within two miles of the road along the line of the improvement.
The legislature of 1848, passed an act providing that 10,000 acres of
internal improvement lands be appropriated to improving the Grand River
road from Howell to what is now Lansing, then the village of Michigan, six
thousand acres in Ingham county and four thousand acres in Livingston
county. With the aid of a large number of private subscriptions which were
secured, this appropriation added to what had gone before, put the road
west of Howell in fairly good condition.

   Before this time the stage lines heretofore mentioned, were doing a
thriving business from Howell to Detroit. About 1842 or 1843, Ralph Fowler
who had become very much interested in the road west of town because of
his connection with it as commissioner, and C. B. Williams of Williamston,
put a live of lumber wagons to running between Howell and Lansing which
rapidly developed into another stage line in that direction.

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   The first Legislature of Michigan went on record for roads. Acts were
passed for state roads everywhere where any one suggested them. If a very
small percentage of those provided for had come to be roads, the pioneers
would have vied with present day tax conditions. Among those which would
have come to Howell was a road from Allegan to Hastings, to Charlotte, to
Mason, to Howell, to intersect with the Grand River road here. F. J. B.
Crane of Howell, was one of its commissioners. The next Legislature seems
to have insisted that something be done for this road for another act was
passed for the same line. Guy C. Lee was named as commissioner in this act
in place of Mr. Crane. In 1838 the same line was again provided for except
that in describing it, the line was reversed, the description commencing
at Howell, George W. Jewett was one of the commissioners named in this
act. It seems to have been a case of three times and out however, for the
road was never built.

   In 1840 an act was passed providing for a state road from Milford to
Howell but it was never opened.

   While the proposed line failed to touch Howell the canal fever which
swept through this section about 1837 should be noted in this connection.
The Legislature appropriated $20,000 for the surveys. Three were proposed
which touched the county. The one which promised most was to commence at

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Mt. Clemens on the Clinton river and ran to the mouth of the Kalamazoo
river. It crossed Crooked Lake in this county. A branch canal was promoted
from Crooked lake along the Huron river to Dexter, and a company was
chartered for its construction. As late as 1845 the agitation for these
water routes had life but they too died in the paper stages of the
enterprise.

   In 1843 a rail road project was started but farmers all along the line
strongly opposed it on the ground that it would injure their teaming trade
and make it unprofitable for them to keep so many horses, thus forcing
them back to oxen for their farm work. Partially as an outgrowth of this
rail road agitation which there grew up a sentiment for a plank road which
materialized the next year when the Legislature passed an act appointing
Charles P. Bush and Ely Barnard of Livingston county and Levi Cook, John
Blindbury and David Thompson of Wayne County as a board of commissioners
to solicit stock to build the "Detroit and Grand River Plank Road." Quite
an amount was secured but no where near the $50,000 which the charter
provided for and the project was given up.

   In 1850 another plank road enterprise was started. George W. Lee,
Josiah Turner, B. W. Dennis, F. S. Prevost and Noah Ramsdell were
appointed commissioners by act of the Legislature, to solicit stock for
the building of a plank road from Howell to

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Byron, The next year the act was amended by making Nathaniel Turner and
Harvey T. Lee commissioners in place of B. W. Dennis and F. J. Prevost.
The $30,000 required by their charter was never secured but enough was
raised to make the promoters sure that it would pull through and their
company was organized by electing George W. Lee, president, Josiah Turner
secretary and treasurer.

   April 3, 1848, a company was incorporated with a capital stock of one-
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to build a plank road from
Detroit to Howell also from a point on this road to Waterford, also from
some other point on the line, to Milford. The Company was empowered to
increase its stock twenty-five thousand dollars at some future time, and
then to extend its main line from Howell to "the village of Michigan," now
Lansing . A commission was selected to solicit stock, as follows: Henry
Ledyard and A. S. Bagg of Detroit, Joseph M. Mead of Plymouth, Augustus C.
Baldwin of Milford, and Josiah Turner of Howell. By its charter this
company was empowered "to enter upon and take possession" of the Detroit
and Grand River road.

   Hon. C. C. Trowbridge of Detroit, became president of the company and
Henry Ledyard, also of Detroit, secretary and treasurer. The commission
made a vigorous canvass and soon had enough money to warrant commencing
work. During the year 1850 the plank was laid to Howell and the great
enterprise

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became a fact. The financial success of the Detroit and Howell road was
assured long before the planks were all laid. This caused the organization
of another company which secured its incorporation in the spring of 1850.
James Seymour, Hiram R. Smith, Ephraim B. Danforth, George W. Lee and
Frederick C. Whipple were the commission to solicit sixty thousand dollars
of stock. Their company was given the Grand River road from Lansing to
Howell. They had raised enough to commence work by that fall and two years
later, had the road completed.

   In these days it is hard to grasp the value of such a road to the
development of all this part of Michigan. It opened the way for the
hundreds of teams which daily passed over it. The old stages which were
little more than lumber wagons, gave place to four horse vehicles which
carried from twelve to twenty persons each.

   When the planks wore out and rotted away the company filled the gaps
with gravel which became more and more substantial until the early '70s
when public sentiment against the tollgates became so great that everyone
could see that they were not to stand much longer. The companies took off
their repair forces and allowed the road to run down gradually, until the
people would stand it no longer, and in, 1881 they ceased to collect toll
here. They hung on in other parts of the line until some years later. The
old tollgate houses were moved back and sold

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for residences. Charters of the companies provided for gates every five
miles. As Howell was the end of both roads, each company maintained a gate
here the one just in the eastern part of town and the other at the brow of
the hill just west of the village.

   This arrangement made it impossible for anyone to get in or, out of
town without paying the cent per mile they traveled on that road, for each
horse they drove. It seems a nominal amount but it was a big
enterprise in the early day and paid a large income on the investment
before the railroad came here.

   In this connection it may be well to review the railroad projects and
development here. A few miles beyond Brighton is a little settlement of
very old houses and a one-story brick building. This old town is
Kensington. In the very early days it had a few aggressive men who sought
to build a city there. The brick building was their "Wild Cat" bank. It's
failure with the consequent loss to people all through this section; was
their death blow. In whatever enterprise their names appeared after that,
the people turned against it. In 1837 a railroad was projected from
Detroit to Farmington, to Kensington, to Howell, to Byron, to Shiawassee
village. It is noticeable that the charter provided that the company
should not only have the right to propel cars by steam power, but by
animals or a combination of any power they should decide upon. The
commission to solicit stock for this enterprise had two

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members from Kensington who were prominent in the work, and the people
refused to take hold with them. Even the names of such thoroughly reliable
men as Ely Barnard of Howell, and others along the line who were members
of the commission, did not suffice to give the people confidence and they
would not take hold.

   In 1847, there was another railroad project here. George W. Lee, L. K.
Hewett and E. F. Burt were the Howell portion of the committee which
worked it up. They created quite a sentiment and raised considerable money
here. Other parts of the line failed to bring up their portion however and
the company never went far enough to even organize.

   June 17, 1864 a meeting was held at New Hudson in response to a
sentiment which had long been growing, and the Detroit and Howell Railroad
Company was organized. The board of directors elected at that time
contained the names of John H. Galloway, E. F. Burt, R. C. Rumsey, Joseph
H. Wilcox, Ely Barnard, William McPherson and Marcus B. Wilcox of Howell.
The directors organized by electing, Theodatus T. Lyon, president; E. F.
Burt, secretary; William McPherson, treasurer and Marcus B. Wilcox,
attorney. The capital stock was placed at $400,000 in shares of fifty
dollars each. Hiram Newman, Isaac W. Bush, P. B. Holdridge, Giles Tucker
and J. M. Swife were appointed a commission to secure the stock.

   There was a unity of purpose in Howell at that day

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which surmounts every obstacle. Led by William McPherson who was more
active in the work and more ready to sacrifice his time and labor than
probably any other, the people went after the great project they had
undertaken. A year later $250,000 had been subscribed, and in September,
1866, President Lyon announced that $300,000 had been secured. This was
the sum agreed upon when work should begin.

   It required another year to secure the surveys and preliminary
engineering and then grading commenced. Many will remember that day when
the crowd gathered near a low place of ground not far from where the water
tank at the Howell station now stands, to see the first dirt move for the
new railroad. William McPherson wheeled the first load; James Donelly the
second and George Greenaway the third. A number of Howell people followed,
one after another. It was a standing subject for talk that Mr. McPherson
wheeled his load easier than any other of the older men who tried it.

   Some stock subscriptions failed to materialize but the company pushed
on with all the money it could secure. When about $240,000 had been
expended their funds gave out and they were obliged to quit.  They had
accomplished enough however to insure the building of the road and that
was what they wanted.

   In 1868 another company was organized to build a railroad from Howell
to Lansing. Howell people were bending all their energies for the Detroit
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and only a few became financially interested in the new line. Joseph H.
Wilcox was one of its board of directors however. They secured most of the
franchises and right of way and had accomplished considerable of the
preliminary work when the other company was obliged to suspend its
operations.

   The work accomplished on the Detroit and Howell line had already
attracted considerable attention in financial circles. When the company
was obliged to quit, James F. Joy and other Detroit capitalists interested
themselves. Learning that all the old company wanted was the construction
of the road, they proposed to enter into bonds to do this if the old
company would give them what they had, and they could also acquire the
holdings of the Lansing and Howell company. These terms were accepted. Mr.
Joy and his associates at once organized what they called the Detroit,
Lansing, and Lake Michigan R. R. Company, and took up the work under their
contract. A newly opened road from Lansing to Ionia was also acquired by
the company shortly after they commenced operations.

   True to their agreements the new company went vigorously to work at
both ends of the line. In May, 1871 the eastern end was opened to
Brighton, and three months later this whole county turned out to a great
celebration at Fowlerville, addressed by Dennis Shields of Howell, which
celebrated the advent of the iron horse in that village. August 22, 1871
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line was formally opened with an excursion train from Detroit to Keywood
five miles beyond Greenville.

   The Detroit Post in reporting the trip said:
   "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
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 arrival of the iron horse in their town and though
the assemblage was impromptu, 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 two thousand, is one of the handsomest in the state and
next to Lansing, probably the most important on the line of the road."

   The road like most business projects, has seen its ups and downs, but
has nearly always been a paying property. Its name was changed to the
Detroit, Lansing and Northern, not long after it commenced running. It was
acquired by the Pere Marquette system a few years ago, and is now
operating under that name.

   As far back as 1869, Ex-Governor Ashley of Toledo, proposed the
construction of a railroad through Howell from that city, to the north.
His company

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was organized in Ann Arbor, Oct. 28 of that year and about $20,000 of
capital stock was secured in this county. Right of way was secured from
Toledo to Ann Arbor, but as only about five per-cent of the amount
subscribed north of that place, was paid in, the road left its original
line and ran to South Lyon which was its northern terminal for a number of
years. Gov. Ashley was one of those men who never give up however, and
with his sons, Harry and James M. Ashley, kept at the project of extending
northward. In 1888 their work was crowned with success and the Toledo, Ann
Arbor and North Michigan R. R. was completed through Howell to Frankfort
on Lake Michigan. A few years later a system of large transfer steamers
was established across Lake Michigan to Menominee, and the road became a
leading trunk line to the northwest, adopting as its trademark the claim
that It was the "Key to Michigan." Its name has been changed a number of
times as its owners have changed but for several years past it has been
known as "The Ann Arbor Line."

   When this road sought to cross the old road just south of Howell, they
were refused the right of way. The tracks were laid up to the old road's
right of way on both sides and one stormy Saturday night, a large gang of
men were brought in from the south. By daylight Sunday morning a hole bad
been dug under the old road and their tracks were united. The next day an
armed guard was posted there and a bridge which

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had been prepared for the place, was put in. Officials of the two roads
held a conference Sunday evening and seemed to get together. The new
company was thrown off its guard and withdrew its forces. Early Monday
morning the work train of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern appeared on
the scene with a load of necessary material, and filled the cut under the
bridge. Then ensued a series of digging out and filling up lasting for
some time. A compromise was finally affected whereby the new road was
moved to the west several rods and a grade crossing with a station which
for years was known as Howell Junction, secured. It is now known as Ann-
Pere.

   A very spirited indignation meeting of Howell citizens was held at the
court house during the quarrel.

   The first train north from here carried a party of Howell businessmen
who paid two dollars apiece and spent the afternoon in Owosso.



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Chapter 7
Before The War

   The Independent Order of Odd Fellows antedate all other secret orders
in Howell, as their old lodge was instituted by N. B. Nye, D. D. G. M. of
Ann Arbor, on September 5th, 1849. Its first officers installed were: N.
G., Josiah Turner; V. G., L. K. Hewett; Secretary J. B. Dillingham;
Treasurer, Lemuel Spooner. The lodge had quite a prosperous existence for
a number of years, but finally ceased to exist.

   That same year, a dispensation was granted from the grand lodge, by the
power of which the Howell Masonic lodge began working. It was not
chartered until January 10, 1850. Its number is 38. The lodge home has
been successively in the Einman block where the Hubbell block now stands,
Lee block where Topping block now stands, old Greenaway block, Weimeister
block, old Winans block and the present Masonic temple. The early
Worshipful Masters were consecutively, Amos Adams, Gardner Wheeler, Henry
H. Harmon, Frederick C. Whipple,Sardias F. Hubbell, Frank Wells, Sardias
F. Hubble, Milo L. Gay, Joseph T. Titus, William C. Rumsey, Joseph T.
Titus, Albert Riddle, Sardias F. Hubbell, Albert Hathaway, Sardias F.
Hubbell, Walter D. Whalen, John W. Wright, and Rollin H. Person.

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During Mr. Hathaway's term he moved away and William L. Knapp Senior
Warden, filled out the term.

   The Howell foundry long managed by John M. and George L. Clark, was
built in 1849, by Stephen Clark, for the manufacture of stoves and
agricultural castings. In 1859, it was purchased by George U. Taylor and
George L. Clark. Taylor sold his interest to Geo. L. Clark, who sold a
half to John H. Galloway, in1864. F. S. Wvkoff and H. B. Blackman were
taken into the firm in 1867, and William Williamson soon after bought Mr.
Galloway's interest, the firm become known as Wykoff, Clark & Co., which
it continued, until 1874, when it was changed to Wykoff, Clark & lmmen. In
December, 1876, the whole plant, which had become at that time the most
important manufacturing enterprise of the town, was purchased by Josiah M.
Clark, who afterwards died and it was then owned by J. M. Clark & Co., who
did a general iron and wood manufacturing business. Their trade in the
Howell hand car became world wide, a large number having been shipped to
other countries. Their manufacture of the Howell tubular axel wagon was
also quite extensive. They gradually ran out however, and finally quit for
want of finances. The buildings were torn down to clear the square for the
Carnegie Library.

   The Howell grist mill at the foot of Thompson's lake was commenced by
George W. and Fredrick J. Lee in 1849 and completed during the following
year.

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A few Years later George W. Lee became sole owner. He sold to William
Williamson and it has since been  owned by Zebulon M. Drew, Thomas
Birkett, William Y. Munson and Calvin Wilcox. Thomas Hoyland,  Thomas
Hoyland & Son, and George Hoyland. The present proprietor is A. O.
Hutchins. The mill has always done a good business and is now shipping a
large amount of flour in addition to its custom trade.

   In 1850 Shubael B. Slifer commenced the erection of a Steam saw mill on
the site of the present City Mills. He soon sold part of the business to
D. D. Chandler and George W. Kneeland who afterwards became sole owners.
The will was burned in 1851.

   The mill sawed quite an amount of the plank for the two plank roads
when they were built. After the fire Judge Kneeland became sole proprietor
and rebuilt it. The engine put in after the fire, was built by B. C. and
H. B. Curtis, and was the first one built in Howell. Aiken Holloway, John
Hoyt, J. R. Axtell, J. I. VanDusen, Taylor & VanDusen and VanDusen &
Whipple, were successive proprietors. Under the management of the last
firm the mill was remodeled into a grist mill, and soon after that change
became the of  property of Latson & Wright. It was afterwards purchased by
E. C. Wright & Sons who made an assignment, in July, 1888. The mill was
bought by John Birkhart, who rebuilt it and put in a full outfit of new
machinery making it one of the best in this section. It has been owned by
C. A. Parshall

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for some years past find and is doing a large business. Mr. Parshall has
continued the spirit of improvement since he became the owner, and has put
in a large amount of new machinery.

   The Phoenix Foundry and Machine Shop, at the south-west corner of
Division and Sibley streets, built by A. W. Smith & Co. after the burning
of the old Galloway foundry in 1857. The foundry was burned February 22,
1860, at a loss of $7,200. B. C. and H. B. Curtis built new shops on the
same site after the fire. The Curtises sold to Floyd S. Wykoff and the
works were afterwards owned by John H. Galloway, Henry B. Curtis and
Curtis & Son. The business stopped while the last named firm had it. The
first Howell school building was purchased by A. Curtis and moved to the
south-west corner of his plant where its still stands. The buildings are
now occupied by W. N. Snedicor &_Son's poultry and egg business.

   In 1845, an M. E. class was formed at West Howell, with ten members. It
was mainly supplied by pastors from Howell.  It continued with more or
less prosperity, until 1865, when it became crippled by the moving away of
several of its members, and soon ceased to exist. Another M. E. class was
organized during the pastorate of Jessie Kilpatrick at Howell, but only
ran a few years.

   About this time the four corners as they they were called, began to
assume to be a town. Solemon Sly built

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what has long been called the Four Mile House, on the grade, west of town,
and opened it in 1851. He was afterwards succeeded by Mortimer Townsend
who was followed by Thomas Gilchrist who was landlord for a number of
years. The old building still stands but long since ceased to be a hotel.
The cemeteries on sections seventeen and twenty-two belong to this period,
the first having been established in 1850 and the other in 1858.

   As previously noted in this history, the district found itself in the
winter of 1848-49, without a school house, and a long and tedious fight
ensued before final location of the site now occupied by our fine central
school building, which was done at a school meeting held on December 15,
1848. It was then resolved to instruct the board to build a school house
38x48 feet in size, two story, at a cost of $1,000. This proposition met
so much opposition by citizens who called the proposed building a "castle,
" that another meeting was called and the size of the building cut down to
26x36 feet. The building was erected during the coming summer and fall,
and was occupied in the winter, William Wills being the first teacher
there. In less than a year it was found that the building was too small
and rooms were rented for school purposes, outside. This continued until
1856, when by vote of the district, additions were made to the building,
larger than its original size.

   Cowdry's second addition to the village embraced

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the east half of the north-west quarter of section thirty-five. It
contained forty-nine acres near the Byron road. The plat was filled by the
administration of the P. A. Cowdry estate, October 26, 1853.

   In the very early days there was an agricultural society in this
county, the Livingston County Agricultural Society, but none of the early
pioneers whom we have interviewed, know anything about such an
organization. A meeting was held at the court house, Thursday February 24,
1853, which proceeded to organize a Livingston Comity Agricultural Society
with Ira Jennings, of Green Oak, as president, and a vice president from
each township, the one from Howell being Odell J. Smith. Wm. A. Buckland
wag treasurer and Elijah F. Burt, secretary. The first fair was held at
such town is would raise the most money to defray expenses, and by those
terms went to Brighton. The next meeting was held on the old public square
in Howell, this township having pledged $200 toward expenses. For a few
years it rotated back and forth from Brighton to Howell, but in 1860 the
society purchased grounds east of the old toll gate, in Howell, and, the
first fair held upon the society's own grounds was in September, 1860.

   When the Ann Arbor railroad was completed in 1888, it ran between the
buildings and race track, thus spoiling the old fair grounds for fair
purposes. The association was awarded quite heavy damages from the
railroad company and Charles Fishbeck bought

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the grounds. New grounds were purchased on the Byron road just outside the
village limits and new buildings were erected there. The fair continued
annually there for six or eight years and ran out. Some years later,
McPherson Brothers took the grounds on a mortgage. William and M. J.
McPherson sold their interests to Alexander, and he sold the grounds to W.
W. Crittenden.


   In 1898, Howell businessmen organized and held a street fair, a leading
feature of which was a ladies floral parade. Miss Nellie Brooks was
elected queen. Two years later, Miss Julia Benedict was queen. A third was
two years later. The latter was much of the carnival order, and has been
followed by a carnival by Wixom Bros.

   The Livingston Republic was started by H. and L. M. Smith, April 27th,
1855. Their success was somewhat of the up and down order for about four
years at the end of which it was considerably on the down grade.  George
W. Lee was then induced to take hold of it and with his brother Fred Lee
and several others, fixed up a sort of stock company arrangement that gave
the publication a good financial backing. George L. Sage became the editor
at that time. George W. Lee gradually bought out the interest of the
others and by 1862, had the paper well established. It was then sold to
James Bowers, who edited it until he died in 1866. After Mr. Bowers'
death, the paper was sold to A. D. Waddell and

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J. D. Smith. Mr. Smith bought his partner's interest in 1868. He
afterwards took Frank H. Marsh as a partner, and later successively George
W. Axtell, Solomon T. Lyon and E. B. Vanderhoef. In 1877, Smith &
Vanderhoef sold the paper to L. C. Miller.

   After some years he sold to E. D. and Orrin Stair, in 1889, Stair
Brothers sold the Republican to George Barnes who has lately associated
his son Albert with him in the publication. In all its list of editors and
publishers, Republicans of this county have been fortunate in having at
the head of their county organ, men of fearless character, true to their
party principles, and good writers.

   It was while he was editing the Republican that E. D. Stair wrote
"Trixie," which he soon after staged, and which at once became a popular
hit, laying the foundation for the handsome fortune which he has acquired
by a long run of success in the theatrical world.

   The evolution which has developed some of our present business houses
forms interesting parts of Howell's history, Take Monroe Brothers for
example. In 1845, George W. and Fred J. Lee started a general store in the
old Whipple block, on the site of Monroe Brothers' present store. Two
years later, George W. Lee built the first brick store in Howell, a two
story building which stood on the ground where Johnson's drug store is
now, arid their store was moved into it. In 1852, Fred J. Lee sold out to
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brother and built a new store the next door west. The brothers united  for
a third story over both stores, which was rented to the Masons for a lodge
room.

   As soon as his new store was completed, Fred J. Lee formed a
partnership with Lemuel Spooner and they opened a new store there. After a
few years, they sold their business to E. B. Taylor, who, later sold an
interest to Fobes Crossman. William B. Jewett also acquired an interest
there for a time. George W. Lee finally bought this firm out, when Mr.
Taylor went to California. He cut an archway between the two stores and
ran them together for some time. When Mr. Lee became quartermaster in the
army, he left his business in charge of Alexander McPherson, who had been
a clerk there for some time Mr. McPherson bought an interest in the store
about that time.

   Henry H. Mills formed an acquaintance with Miss Isabelle McPherson, in
college. They were married in 1854, and lived near Kalamazoo for about
three years. They came to Howell in 1857 and Mr. Mills began clerking for
William McPherson. Soon after Alexander McPherson bought an interest in
the business Mr. Mills bought the rest of Mr. Lee's interests. Their stock
was moved into the west store. Leander C. Smith rented the corner store
and used the west side for the post office, the east side, being rented to
other parties.

   About a year later, Mr. Mills bought his partner's

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interests and conducted the business alone for some years when he
associated his son with him. The firm of H. H. Mills & Son was a leading
one here for many years. William Mills went to Topeka, Kansas in the late
'70s, and laid the foundation for what has developed into the largest
general store in that city. His father followed him a few years later.

   In 1882, Mr. Mills sold the business to two enterprising young men, who
were clerking for him at that time, Dwight D. Monroe and Will J. Carl. A
new firm was organized under the name of Monroe Carl & Co., Mr. Mills
remaining in the business as a limited partner to the amount of his
interest, which was purchased by the young men after the big fire of 1888,
which destroyed the two old store buildings. For a few months after the
fire the firm did business in the Opera House block. They made a lease for
the new Greenaway block as soon as completed, and have been on that site
since.

   About the time of the second big fire in 1892, Geo. L. Monroe bought
Mr. Carl's interest in the firm, and that gentleman went into business at
Muskegon Heights.

   In 1901, the general stock was closed out, and the firm have since
dealt solely in shoes and wall paper.

   Politics were very warm in Howell in the '50s. When Prof. F. W. Munson
was employed to superintend the schools here in 1856, there was quite a
question whether the board would employ anyone but a

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democrat. Prof. Munson had not yet graduated when he came here, and went
back to Ypsilanti for that purpose in June. The subject of his oration was
"Locks and Keys." After discussing various locks and keys in other
countries, Mr. Munson said. "But we need not go to foreign countries. In
our own south land there are nearly four million human beings, who send
forth the cry, 'Unlock, unlock."' A Detroit Free Press reporter
complimented Mr. Munson on his oration, but criticized that sentence. The
papers reached Howell, before Mr. Munson returned, and were the cause of
quite a warm welcome when he stepped from the stage here. He was charged
with making a black abolition speech, and some people wanted him turned
out of school for doing so.

   A good story is told by several men who were little boys in the latter
part of Prof. Munson's school work here. Frank Whipple had been guilty of
something which promised him a whipping, and was shut up in Mr. Munson's
office. Several little boys from one of the lower rooms, were out to play.
Henry Wilbur ran near enough for the prisoner to call to him and ask him
to get him out, before Mr. Munson got back. A hasty consultation was held.
One little boy knew where there was a ladder, four or five blocks away,
and they went after it. So careful were they that that carried the ladder
way around another block, so as not to pass the windows of their own room,
or to let their teacher see its shadow, as they raised it.

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Frank Whipple got out  all right and the ladder was put back. So well did
the boys work it, that no teacher could learn how the escape was made and
they never knew until long years after, when the little boys were men and
old school days were talked over.

   One day in 1854,  a young colored man alighted from the stage at the
Old Union Hotel. His barber's chair was on top of the stage and he said he
was going through to Lansing, to start a barber shop. Sentiment a good
ways from the colored race, and in the presence of an escaped slave was
two different things. George Wilbur coaxed the young man to unload his
chair and go to work in his bar room. He did so, and by genial ways,
courtesy and strict honesty, made a host of friends here. This first
colored man, Abraham Losoford, paved the way for that cordial sentiment
toward his race, which has always made them welcome in Howell. He lived
here to a good old age.

   Another colored man was here for a few months before Mr. Losoford came
but remained for so short a time that to Mr. Losoford belong belongs the
title of Howell's first colored man.

   As previously, noted in this history the Livingston Courier suspended
publication in 1857. The office was in a demoralized condition, much of
the type pied, and generally run down. During the summer the material was
purchased by Joseph T. Titus, then a

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young man recently moved here from Jackson where he had been running the
Jackson Patriot. On the fifth of August, 1857, he issued the first number
of the Livingston Democrat, then a six-columned folio, but afterward
enlarged. His first office was in the second story of the building now
occupied by the Livingston Tidings, which had also been the office of the
Livingston Courier. Mr. Titus was a man of ability as a writer and his
paper soon became one of the leading advocates of his party in this
section. He associated his son John P. Titus, with him in the publication,
some years afterward, and they continued as owners until February 7, 1890,
when they failed in business. Leading Democrats of the county at once
formed a stock company and purchased the office. John Ryan who was just
retiring from the county clerk's office, was placed in charge and Mr.
Titus was given employment on the paper. A few years later he went to
Toledo to live with his daughter Mrs. James Wing with whom he went to
California a few years ago.

   Shortly after assuming the management of the Democrat Mr. Ryan
purchased the stock held by other members of the company and has been the
sole owner for several years past. Under his management the Democrat has
maintained its high standard as a county newspaper and an ardent advocate
of the party.

   A meeting was held in the Congregational church, on the twelfth of
December, 1857, to organize an Episcopal church. Among those present were

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Rev. Henry Banwell, Abel F. Butterfield, Joseph T. Titus, H. C. Briggs,
George Greenaway, George R. Hoyt, William A. Clark and M. Labouter. The
church took the name of "All Saints Church of the town of Howell." Rev.
Henry Banwell was its first rector. He was followed by Rev. George O.
Blackman who resigned April 17, 1865. Rev. Albert C. Lewis became rector
in in 1866 and continued as long as the church existed, which was until
1868, when the organization was changed. Part of the time this church was
in existence its services were held in the Congregational church and part
of the time in the court house.

   The changing of the organization referred to was the formation of St.
John's Episcopal church which was effected on Tuesday, April 14, 1868. The
articles were signed by Milo L. Gay, Joseph T. Titus, Mark J. Staley, L.
D. Smith, Silas Beardsley and Albert C. Lewis, pastor, and were filed in
the county clerk's office the following day. This church practically
ceased to exist after a short time, largely because some of its most
active members moved away.

   In 1878, the church having been strengthened by two or three active
men, principally by Walter B. Brown who had moved to Howell and engaged in
the drug and book business, the Board of Missions of the Eastern Diocese
of Michigan, sent Rev. R. H. Dennis here as pastor, and St. John's church
was revived. Services were held in the court house until their church was
erected. The plan was for quite an imposing

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structure to front on Sibley street, with a chapel which should unite in
an L and front on Walnut street. The chapel was erected first and no more
has ever been done about the building. The removal of Mr. Brown again
crippled the church and it has never been as prosperous as could be
desired. It is now connected with Brighton and Hamburg as one parish, of
which Rev. Harvey Kerstetter of Brighton, is rector.

   The first building burned in Howell township, was the house of Michael
Brenner, situated on Section 25. This fire occurred in 1840.

   The first fire which inflicted severe loss upon the village, occurred
in the evening of Monday, Sept. 28, 1857, and swept the Eagle Hotel, the
first building erected on the original plat of the village in 1835, and
nearly the entire line of buildings on the South side of Grand River
Street, between Walnut and East streets. The account of this fire, given
by the Democrat in its next issue, was as as follows:

   "A destructive fire broke out in this village at about seven o'clock
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

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could not hove 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 were happily extinguished. Nearly all the business men on
the south side of Grand River Street, as far as Vanderhoef's Hotel,
removed their property down 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 lost his all. His loss is estimated at $5 000.
Balcom's saloon was worth about $300, Judge Kneeland's building 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 the men."

   The winter of 1853-54 was a very hard one here. At one time the snow
went above the record of just ten years before that date, which, too, was
an extremely hard winter. It was a trifle over twenty-seven inches deep
upon the level, probably the deepest ever known here. All the hay which
had been cut, was used up long before spring, and the settlers

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were obliged to maintain their stock by browsing, that is, by chopping
trees, and allowing the stock to be fed upon their tops. The writer
remembers hearing his father often tell of chopping a tree every day, all
through the latter part of the winter, and of how hungry the poor stock
became in spite of the best he could do for them. When they heard a tree
begin to fall they would rush for it and several farmers had stock killed
in that way. The last day he cut browse my father's best cow ran under the
falling tree and was killed. One day along in the spring, he was some
distance from home when be found a good sized lock of hay which someone
had lost from a load. He gathered it up carefully and carried it over
three miles to give his stock a taste of hay.

   Nor did people fare much better than their stock. The general need for
provisions became so strong before the harvest of 1854 that a citizens'
committee was organized with Henry Smith, father of the present Howell
postmaster, as chairman. This committee made a vigorous canvas of the
whole township, as then organized, including Cohoctah. Samuel Bush' wheat,
on what is now the Peavy farm, was decided to be the ripest, and he was
told to harvest it or the committee would. Mr, Bush readily consented, and
his wheat was soon in the Bogue mill, from where flour was dealt out on a
ration basis to the hungry people.

   Whenever the liquor element gets to running

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things all its own way, a reaction sets in and something is sure to
follow. Such a condition was experienced in Howell in 1855. In March of
that year, about thirty leading ladies of the town. became so excited over
the unrestricted sale of liquor, that they took the matter into their own
hands. Marching to the saloon of Samuel Balcom, they proceeded to smash
bottles and casks, until no liquor remained. Long drawn out litigation
followed, and Mr. Balcom finally secured a verdict for $540 against
several of the leading women. Only a part of it was ever collected. The
moral effect was to stiffen the backbone of those in authority, and
resulted in a much better enforcement of law.

   One of Benjamine Spring's retorts about this time is still told by our
oldest residents. A man died who had long been one of his special friends.
As the funeral procession was passing his bar room, Mr. Spring and others
stood watching it, when one of them noticed that he was crying. Upon
rallying him about it, Spring replied: "I tell you boys, this is a pretty
solemn occasion. It's the first time in a long while when he has gone by
without stopping to take a drink."

   The first fight in this township, which resulted seriously, occurred in
October, 1856, when Henry Hollis is alleged to have struck George Obert
with a neck-yoke. Obert lived but a few days and Hollis was arrested,
charged with murder. The jury

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disagreed and Hollis was released on bonds. He was never brought to trial
again.

   On July 20, 1857, John Lagrange, while intoxicated, picked a fuss with
Sanford S. Moore, and was killed during the quarrel. Moore, plead self-
defense and the coroner's jury so found.

   Howell was represented at Lansing, quite early in its history. In 1850
George W. Kneeland was representative from this district. Charles A.
Wilber was elected to that position in 1855.

   Of the physicians who settled here in this decade, Dr. Henry J. Rumsey
began practice in 1853. He had been in mercantile business here for a
short time previous. He died here in 1858.

   Dr. Robert C. Hutton commenced practice here in 1857. In his latter
years he moved to Detroit.

   Dr. Henry N. Spencer who came to Fowlerville in 1853, gradually
extended his practice to Howell, and moved here in 1869, he having been
elected judge of probate in 1868. After his term of office he continued to
practice in Howell.

   Henry H. Harmon studied law in the office of Hewett Brothers while
teaching in the Howell schools, and was admitted to practice in 1849. He
held the offices of circuit court commissioner, prosecuting attorney and
probate judge. He became one of Howell's leading lawyers and continued so
until his death. Of high moral ideas, he did much toward the establishment
of that sentiment which so long prevailed here,

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the trial of eases upon their merits rather than by tricks and subterfuges.

   Mylo L. Gay was a student with F. C. Whipple and was admitted in 1858.
He maintained an office in the rooms now occupied by The Livingston
Tidings for a number of years, but transacted a general loaning and real
estate business more than a law business. He engaged in banking at
Fowlerville, for a number of years.

   In the early '50s, Marcus B. Wilcox moved here from Pinckney. He served
as prosecuting attorney for two terms.

   Sardias F. Hubbell was the first law student in this county, in the
office of Wellington A. Glover, in 1840 and 1841. He practiced in Oakland
county about fourteen years, and returned here in 1854. He served as
circuit court commissioner and three terms as prosecuting attorney. He had
a large legal practice here until his death.

   Andrew D. Waddell, who lived here with his parents, in a very early
day, returned with his family to New York, after the death of his father
in 1855. After a year in the office of John B. Dillingham, he was admitted
to practice, He served two terms as circuit court commissioner and, two
terms as prosecuting attorney. A leader in his profession and as a citizen
of this community, his death was mourned as a public calamity.

   Another early lawyer was Jerome Turner, son of

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Judge Turner, who was admitted to practice in 1857. He only practiced here
a few years when he moved to Corunna.



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Chapter 8
Howell in the War

   The arrival of the stage on the evening of April 14, 1861, will never
be forgotten by many in Howell, The dark cloud, which had hung so heavily
upon our national horizon, had burst, and Sumpter had fallen. The news
came like a thunderbolt to this vicinity. Old men burst into tears, and
many were the homes where sleep failed to enter that night. Among the
earliest to go to his place of business the next morning, was Joseph T.
Titus, who was soon, joined by Frank Marsh, then a typo, on the Livingston
Democrat. At Marsh's suggestion, a flag was borrowed and the first to
fling the stars and stripes to the breeze in Howell, after the fall of Ft.
Sumpter, was Mr. Titus, who raised it over his office, then in the wooden
building, now occupied by the Livingston Tidings and Hopper's insurance
office, on Grand River St., opposite the Court House. The flag was soon
joined by many more, and when President Lincoln's call for seventy-five
thousand men arrived in Howell on the 15 of April, it created the wildest
excitement. A very large and enthusiastic "Union Mass Meeting" was held at
the court house, April 30. The court house, proving too small, the meeting
was adjourned to the public square, where two bands

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played national airs, and speeches were made by several citizens. A set of
resolutions were adopted, of which the following was the last:

   "Resolved: That we devote as an oblation and willing sacrifice upon the
alter of our common country, all political party prejudices and
animosities, and by obliterating all party distinctions, to unite as
patriotic American citizens in defense of the perpetuity and prosperity of
the American Union; and to such a line of conduct we dedicate ourselves,
and pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to the cause of
our country, and to the maintenance of the Constitution and Union
bequeathed to us as a precious heritage of freedom, by our heroic
ancestors."

   The state had no money with which to equip soldiers and a popular loan
was inaugurated. George W. Lee furnished $500 toward this fund and
accepted a position in the quartermaster's department.

   Two companies were soon in the field. One raised by Capt. John Gilluly,
became Company 1 of the Fifth Michigan Infantry, and its history will be
noted with that regiment. The other was raised by Lieut. Jas. Mulloy, and
became part of Company K of the Fourth Infantry, and were the first in the
field of Howell soldiers. The names of Howell men in this company were;
Second Lieut, Jas. Mulloy, Sergt, Jonathan S. Sharp, Sergt. Edgar Noble,
Henry Boothby, B. O. Demming, Julius D. Smith,

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William Bennett, D. A. Wilson, Calvin Wilcox, Stephen G. Fishbeck, John
Dorn, Americus Totten, Ira Holt and Giles Donely.

   These men, with quite a number of others from this county, making in
all about half a company, marched away from Howell, May 21,1861, amid the
wildest excitement. At Dexter they were united with men from that section,
to make, a company, and proceeded to rendezvous at Adrian, and June 2,
1861, were mustered in, the regiment numbering 1025 officers and men. Five
days later, they left Adrian, and moved by the way of Toledo and
Cleveland, to Harrisburg, Pa., where they remained until July 1, when they
moved to Washington, where they were armed with Springfield muskets. They
helped to build the defenses around Washington, for a short time but were
soon transferred into Virginia, and some of them took part in the first
battle of Bull Run, the Fourth being among the few regiments who succeeded
in retiring in good order from that field. The portion of the company, not
in Bull Run fight, were stationed at Fairfax Court House, under command of
Lieut. Mulloy, who resigned his commission immediately thereafter, and his
company never saw him again. It will be remembered that this company had
enlisted under the first call for three months, but when they were
mustered, the term of service was for three years, but no medical
examination was made until after the first battle of Bull Run. The result
of

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this examination was the discharge of B. O. Demming and Americus Totten,
for disability, and they were soon followed by Henry Boothby and D. A.
Wilson, for the same cause,

   Calvin Wilcox, who was in the Fairfax Court House division of the
company, was taken sick soon after the battle, and with Julius Smith and
John Dorn were soon after taken with typhoid fever and after terms in the
hospital, were discharged, Smith weighing less than 100 pounds, on his
arrival home. Dorn died in a New York hospital. This left J. S. Sharpe,
Wm. Bennett, Edgar Noble, Ira Holt, Giles Donelly and Stephen G. Fishbeck
as the only Howell members of the company. They spent the winter of 61-62
in camp at Miners Hill, Va., and during the next year, went with McClellan
to Yorktown and thence up the peninsula. On this campaign Sharpe was
captured and the tale of his suffering is told amid the horrors of life
and death in Millersville prison. Giles Donelly was transferred to the
invalid corps. When Capt. DePuy of Ann Arbor, was killed in the battle of
Gaines Mill, Stephen Fishbeck saw him fall, and secured his sword and
other things and had them sent home to his wife, who has them now. From
the peninsula, the regiment went north with the army of the Potomac, and
took part in the second battle of Bull Run and Antietam. After that
battle, Stephen Fishbeck was transferred to the U. S. gun boat Gladiulus,
and Wm. Bennett to the

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fourth R. I. Battery, leaving Edgar Noble and Ira Holt, the only Howell
soldiers with the Fourth Michigan Infantry. Their next experience, was a
march through the mud and snow of Virginia, in December,1862, and taking
part in the Battle of Fredericksburg, where Holt, was wounded and soon
after discharged. Then came a long and tiresome march to Gettysburg. The
Fourth took part in the pursuit of the enemy, and spent the following
winter in camp at Belton. Camp was broken, April 30, 1864, and May 5, 6
and 7 saw Mr. Noble with his regiment, in the Battle of the Wilderness,
and through the days that followed in that long drawn out conflict. Our
Howell soldier received a wound in the leg, which laid him up for a time.
The regiment's time expired June 19, 1864. Of the regiment who enlisted,
only 223 were then mustered out, and 129 of these re-enlisted as veterans,
Mr. Noble being among them. Nearly 200 of the original regiment had been
killed or died of wounds. The new regiment opened its career by taking
part in the battle of Decatur, Ala. The rest of its service was
principally guard and picket duty, but in the hot sun was very hard on the
men.

   Mr. Noble has the distinction of being the only Howell soldier, and
with Mr. Carpenter of Pettysville, the only ones from this county, who
enlisted on the first call, served all through the war and returned home.

   The second body of men to go out from Howell as

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above stated, became a part of Company 1 of the. Fifth Michigan Volunteer
Infantry. It was credited to Brighton but was known as Livingston Company.
Its Captain was John Gilluly of Brighton; First Lieutentant, Hudson B.
Blackman, of Howell and Second Lieutenant Charles H. Dennison. Lieut.
Dennison who was in command of an advance picket line near Alexandria, was
the first member of the company to be hit by the enemy. He was wounded
through his head. The regiment was in camp at Ft. Wayne, near Detroit, for
several months, perfecting its organization and drill. A great many people
believed that it would never go to the front but the disasters at Bull Run
changed that idea and on Sept. 11, 1861, it left for Cleveland on the
steamer "Ocean." From there they went by rail to Washington.

   In the regimental organization Lieut. Blackman became quartermaster in
which position he served during the war and was brevetted Major on his
discharge, Nov. 3, 1866.

   During its stay at Ft. Wayne the regiment made many changes in its
membership, several leaving to join other organizations or to come home,
and a good many enlisting there. When it left for the front it had the
following Howell soldiers in Company 1: Sgt. J. Ashley Pond, Corp. John V.
Gilbert, Corp. William Pullen, Privates Alexander C. Wilcox, Lyman A.
Wilson, George W. Wells, Emerson Soule, Alva W. Scofield, Milton
Hitchcock, Henry C. Goodrich,

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Merritt F. Pullen and Albert Peckens besides many from various towns of
this county, among whom were George Dudley and E. C. Wright, who were
residents of Howell for many years.

   When the regiment was mustered into service Lewis C. Tupper was in the
hospital at Detroit, from where he was not able to be released until
February, 1862. He left at once for the front and was mustered as soon as
he arrived, February 24. He was taken prisoner October 27, 1864, but was
returned to the regiment April 19, 1865.

   Although participating in a number of slight skirmishes the Fifth did
not get into battle until it reached Williamsburg, on May 5, 1862, when it
was in Gen. Berry's third brigade of Gen. Kearney's division which reached
the battle ground about the middle of the afternoon, and was in the
hottest of the fight from that time until dark, closing the day with a
heroic charge which showed the splendid fighting qualities for which it
was afterwards noted. The regiment went into this fight about 500 strong
of whom it lost 153 in killed and wounded. Among the killed were Sgt.
Ashley Pond, Albert Peckens and Merritt F. Pullen of Howell.

   John Gilbert was wounded. He was the first wounded soldier to arrive
home in Howell. After about two years of recruiting health he enlisted in
in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry with which he served to the end of the war.

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   To follow the history of the Fifth would be to go with the army of the
Potomac in all its trials and and final triumphs. On Dec. 13, 1862, Lt.
Col. Gilluly who left this county as captain of company 1, yielded up his
life, while cheering the regiment on. Maj. Blackman secured his body and
brought it home for burial.

   Lyman A. Wilson was wounded in July,1862, and was lost to the records
from that time forward.

   Alexander C. Wilcox found the soldier's life too strenuous. He was
discharged for disability at Alexandria, in December, 1862.

   George Wells was sick August 7, 1861, and there is no record of what
became of him.

   Emerson Sowle was discharged for disability at Fortress Monroe, Va. May
1, 1862, after a term in the hospital.

   Milton Hitchcock was taken sick early in 1862 and died at Alexandria,
Va., Feb. 2 of that year.

   Henry C. Goodrich came home sick in the spring of 1862.

   When the spring of 1863 opened with its new commander. Gen. Hooker, the
Fifth moved up the Rappahannock. During that year the regiment made a
number of forced marches the most wonderful record being on July 2 when it
moved ten miles in three hours, reaching the Gettysburg battle ground at 4
p. m. An hour later it had lost 105 men. By the following winter the
regiment was so reduced in

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numbers that it was returned to Michigan, arriving in Detroit on January
4. The men were given a veteran furlough with their friends at home.

   When it was determined that the regiment was coming home Andrew D.
Waddell, Solemon T. Lyon and Fred E. Angell went to work for recruits. To
enlist then meant more than at any other time during the war. The reality
of all that awful strife was upon them, but new men were secured. Messrs.
Waddell and Angel were commissioned lieutenants of Company 1. Lieut.
Waddell's health would not stand the strain upon it and he was obliged to
resign and come home after four months service. Lieut. Angell only stood
up under the strain a few months longer than his comrade in office. Mr.
Lyon became second lieutenant of Company E, and was soon after promoted to
first lieutenant of Company B, of which he became captain September 15,
1864, where he served until the close of the war.

   Because of the shattered condition all along the lines it was thought
best that the new men should be divided among the various companies
instead of forming one new company as several had expected when they
enlisted.

   Of the Howell men who enlisted at that time:

   Wm. N. Saunders was discharged Dec, 10, 1863.

   Wm. H. Scriver died of disease at Brady Station, Va., March, 24, 1864.

   Edwin H. Smith was wounded at Hatchers Run, Va.,

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Oct. 27, 1864. He was taken prisoner at Petersburg, Va., Feb, 26, 1865,
and is supposed to have died at Richmond.

   Joseph Pruden Jr. was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6,
1864.

   David Robinson was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,
1864, and was taken prisoner Oct. 27, of that year. He was returned to the
regiment May 17, 1865.

   George Newton died of disease at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 21, 1864, and is
buried in the government cemetery there.

   Geo. Pennell died of disease at York, Pa., Aug. 9, 1864.

   Silas M. Perry was wounded in May, 1864.

   Jerome G. Phillips was wounded May 6, 1864.

   Thomas G. Marr was wounded and taken prisoner in May, 1864, and died at
Andersonville, where his remains lie in grave No. 2976 in the government
cemetery.

   Abraham Neely was killed at Petersburg, Va., in July, 1864.

   Charles L. Neely was wounded Oct. 27, 1864, and died of disease in
Washington in July of the following year.

   John Hilderbrant was wounded May 6, 1864, and died of disease at
Alexandria, Va., Jan. 5, 1865.

   Howard E. Glover was wounded at Hatcher's Run, Va., March 27, 1865. He
was sent to Harper Hospital

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where he was discharged two months later.

   Christopher Haynes was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,
1864.

   Charles Culver was wounded in the battle of the
Wilderness, May 5, 1864, from the effects of which he was discharged at
York, Pa., June 27, 1865.

   Philo Curtis was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864.

   Wm. H. Curtis died of disease at Washington, D. C., April 22, 1864.

   Isaac Felter was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 7, 1864.

   George W. Cooper was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,
1864.

   Wm. Cooper Sr. was wounded and taken prisoner at Petersburg, Va., Oct.
27, 1864. He was returned to the regiment May 17, 1865.

   Wm. Cooper Jr. was wounded Oct. 27, 1864.

   Cyrus L. Carpenter was wounded May 6, 1864 and discharged at Pt.
Lookout, Md., June 5, 1865.

   Sidney O. H. Carpenter was wounded May 6, 1864 and again on Oct. 27 of
that year when he was taken
prisoner. He was returned to the regiment April 22, 1865 and sent to a
hospital at Columbus. O., where he was discharged on May 27.

   Wm. G. Clayton was discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., June 9, 1865.

   James Canfield was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness May 6, 1864,
and died at Alexandria, where

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he is buried in the government cemetery.

   Andrew J. Carl died in a hospital in New York, Aug. 24, 1864, from
wounds at Petersburg, Va. He was buried in grave No. 1435 of the National
Cemetery at Brooklyn, N.Y.

   Henry Carl was discharged at Washington, D. C. Nov. 9, 1864, because of
wounds received in the battle of the Wilderness.

   Noah Boothby was wounded May 5, 1864 and transferred to the Veteran
Relief Corps eight months later. He was discharged at Washington, July 20,
1865.

   Elias R. Brockway was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,
1864, and taken prisoner at Hatcher's Run, Va., Oct. 27, 1864. He escaped
March 16, 1865 but was so badly broken down when he reached the regiment
that he was sent to Washington where he was discharged in June following.

   George Bronner was wounded May 12, 1864.

   George W. Axtell was wounded through his mouth and neck at Hatcher's
Run, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 and discharged May 13, 1865.

   George Barnard was wounded and missing May 13, 1864.

   Wm. J. Barrett was wounded May 5, 1864.

   Frederick Zeitz was wounded May 13, 1864.

   Andrew J. Whitaker was wounded May 13, 1864.

   Wm. L. Whitehed was taken prisoner May 12, 1862 and lost to the records
at that time.

   Ezra Whitaker was wounded May 5, 1864.

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   Edwin Ware was taken prisoner June 22, 1864 and returned to the
regiment in January following.

   John Wehner was wounded May 5, 1864.

   Orin J. Wells was discharged Jan, 26, 1864.

   Henry Pate, Charles Hilderbrant, Samuel P. Lord, Marion Hart, Wm.
Brooks, Asa Wilson, and Andrew J. Allen were the only ones who escaped
without being wounded or taken prisoners.

   February 10, 1864 the reorganized Fifth regiment left Detroit, to
return to the Army of the Potomac. By the fifth of the following June the
Fifth was so badly cut to pieces with the hard fighting it had undergone,
that the Third Michigan which was also reduced to a mere skeleton, was
merged with it. The next years record shows 546 killed, wounded and
missing. It was in the hottest of the last days of never-to-be-forgotten
fighting and took its place in that grand review in Washington.

   June 10, 1865 the Fifth left the vicinity of Washington moving toward
home. By July 4, it had reached Jeffersonville, Ind. Where it was mustered
out. On July 17th it arrived in Detroit where the m en were paid off and
discharged.

    The Ninth Michigan Infantry was raised in the latter part of the
summer and early autumn of 1861. It also rendezvoused at Ft. Wayne,
Detroit. William W. Duffield was its Colonel but was to have been promoted
to Brigadier General about the middle of the following summer. A severe
wound prevented this

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and soon after compelled him to resign. John G. Parkhurst its Lieutenant
Colonel, was promoted to the command.

   The regiment moved from Ft. Wayne, Oct. 25, 1861 and was the first
Michigan regiment to join the Western Division. An epidemic of measles
broke out that fall and sent a large per cent of the regiment to the
hospital. On July 13, 1862 five companies of this regiment which were
encamped in a grove near Murfreesboro, Tenn., were suddenly attacked by
Forest's rebel cavalry in force fully ten to one of the strength of the
Ninth. Col. Parkhurst and his brave men, although surprised in the
onslaught, withheld the enemy in such a way that Gen. Forest withdrew and
went over about two miles where he easily captured the Third Minnesota
regiment and a battery of artillery which were sent to the rear.

   A single company of the Ninth which had been stationed at the court
house in Murfreesboro, held Gen. Forest for two hours before they
surrendered.

   Returning in the afternoon Gen. Forest succeeded, after another hard
fight, in capturing the five companies which had driven him off in the
morning. The rebel commander recognized the valor of his prisoners by
issuing an order that all members of the Ninth should be mounted. This was
easily done on the horses they had emptied of their riders during the
fight. On the other hand the Minnesota troops, including the Colonel and
staff, were compelled to

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march when the column started for the rear.

    During the confusion after the surrender, several members of the Ninth
succeeded in escaping. No report could be made of them by their officers
and their names found their way to the deserters' columns. Believing that
the Ninth would never be reorganized some of them at once joined other
regiments and did good service. They have had the trouble of securing the,
proofs to clear official records nevertheless.

   Many of the enlisted men were soon after paroled and in time the
officers were exchanged. When, Col. Parkhurst was exchanged in December,
1862, he set about reorganizing his regiment. Gen. Thomas issued an order
especially commending the regiment for its heroism in the fight at
Murfreesboro, and appointing Col. Parkhurst as his provo officer. The
Ninth then became the provo guard of Gen. Thomas' division and continued
so until the close of the war.

   There are many duties which devolve upon the provo. Among others it
takes a position in the rear during battle, and drives those who would run
back into the fight. In the discharge of this duty there is often call for
cool bravery. Its men must hold their heads when the whole army are panic
stricken. If the provo breaks in a crisis, all is lost. The history of
Gen. Thomas' division shows that he made no mistake in selecting the Ninth
for this important place. In more than one occasion they held the army to
business and turned a panic into a charge.

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   Individual history of Howell men with the Ninth is as follows:

   Charles P. Lake, enlisted Oct. 16, 1861, re-enlisted Dec. 7, 1863 at
Chattanooga, Tenn. Appointed corporal Dec. 7, 1863, sergeant, Oct. 29,
1864. Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 15, 1865.

   Henry LaRowe, enlisted Feb. 12, 1864. joined regiment at Chattanooga,
Tenn., Feb. 29, 1864. Discharged for disability at Nashville, Tenn., Aug,
10, 1865.

   James P. LaRowe, enlisted Feb. 27, 1864. Mustered out at Nashville,
Tenn., Sept. 15, 1865.

   Jerome G. Buckland enlisted as corporal, Sept. 25, 1861. Died of
disease at Tullahoma, Tenn., Aug. 25, 1862.

   Lyman Carl enlisted Oct. 1, 1861. Died of disease at Murfreesboro,
Tenn., Jan, 16, 1863.

   Henry L. Lake enlisted Oct. 16, 1861, re-enlisted Dec. 7, 1863.
Parolled and sent to Camp Chase, O., July 13, 1862, corporal. Discharged
at Jackson, Mich,, Sept. 28, 1865.

   Andrew J. Allen enlisted Oct. 24, 1861. Sick in hospital at West Point,
Ky., in January, 1862.

   Wm. E. Bennett enlisted Oct. 1, 1861. Re-enlisted Dec, 7, 1863.
Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 15, 1865.

Winton B. Brooks enlisted Oct. 9, 1861, re-enlisted Dec. 7, 1863. Mustered
out at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 15, 1865.

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   John H. Mills enlisted Oct. 5, 1861. On duty with Eleventh Infantry
from Dec. 28, 1863, to March 24, 1864. Discharged at Atlanta, Ga., Oct.
14, 1864.

   Henry Musson enlisted Sept. 26, 1861. Paroled July 13, 1862. Sent to
Camp Chase, O., Jan. 1863. On duty with Eleventh Infantry from Dec, 28,
1863 to March 24, 1864. Discharged at Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 14, 1864.

   James Reed enlisted Feb. 1, 1864. Joined regiment March 4, 1864.
Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 15, 1865.

   Everett Sargent, enlisted Oct. 7, 1861. Wounded in action July 13,
1862. Regimental color bearer from July, 1863, to Dec. 1863. Appointed
sergeant Oct. 15, 1864; first sergeant Oct. 15, 1864. Discharged to accept
promotion, Dec. 31, 1864. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Nov. 24, 1864.
Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 15, 1865.

   Chauncey Shearer enlisted Oct. 3, 1861. Mustered Oct. 15, 1861. No
further record.

   Barnard B. Smith enlisted Oct. 24, 1861. Paroled and sent to Camp
Chase, Ohio, July 13, 1862. Discharged by order of War Department.

   Gardner E. Smith enlisted Oct. 5, 1861. Died of disease at
Murfreesboro, Tenn., June, 1862. Buried in grave No. 2495 in National
Cemetery at Murfreesboro.

   Reuben C. Smith enlisted Oct. 7, 1861. Died of disease at West Point,
Ky,, Nov, 30, 1861.

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   Vernon C. Smith enlisted Oct. 5, 1861. Discharged for disability at
Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 27, 1862. After the battle of Murfreesboro joined the
Fourth Michigan Cavalry.

   George Stafford enlisted as corporal Sept. 27, 1861. Re-enlisted Dec.
7, 1863. Appointed sergeant Dec. 7, 1863. Mustered out at Nashville,
Tenn., Sept. 15, 1865.

   Ezra Whitaker enlisted Sept. 25, 1861.

   Joseph Duffy enlisted Sept. 30, 1861. Died of disease at West Point,
Ky., Oct. 28, 1861.

   The Fifteenth Michigan was raised and organized in the fall of 1861, by
Col. J. M. Oliver. Its rendezvous was at Monroe. On March 27, 1862, it
left for the front and went right into action at Pittsburgh Landing where
its initiation saw thirty three officers and men killed, sixty-four
wounded and seven missing.

   Most of the work of this regiment was in Mississippi and Alabama until
February, 1864, when it was sent home on a veteran furlough. The greater
portion of the men re-enlisted and went with Gen. Sherman marching through
Georgia and to the sea.

   It was the fate of this regiment at least four times to hold the
position of greatest danger and importance in battles and each time it
proved true to the selections made by its commanding officers, for these
positions of trust and honor. It was returned to Detroit in August, 1865
and mustered out, Sept. 1 of that year.

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   Howell men with the Fifteenth were as follows:

   Edward Allen enlisted March 17, 1862. Re-enlisted Feb. 2, 1864 at
Scottsboro, Ala. Wounded in action at Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864.
Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 12, 1862.

   Elisha F. Allen drafted April 4, 1865. Deserted at Louisville, Ky.,
June 3, 1865.

   Samuel Axtell enlisted Dec. 30, 1861. Died April 24, 1862. Buried at
Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

   Horace E. Barbour enlisted Dec. 6, 1861. Sergeant. Wounded in action at
Corinth, Miss., Dec. 1862. Discharged on surgeon's certificate of
disability at St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 19, 1863.

   Nelson Beardsley enlisted Dec. 19, 1861. Killed in action at Corinth,
Miss., Oct. 3, 1862.

   Andrew J. Bishop enlisted, as Second Lieutenant Company B, at
organization, Dec. 5, 1861. Commissioned First Lieutenant Oct, 1862,
Acting Adjutant, Oct 1864. Acting Regimental Quartermaster, Nov. and Dec.
1864. Commissioned Captain, Jan. 12, 1864. Discharged at expiration of
term of enlistment, Jan. 28,1865.

   Spencer Bowen enlisted Jan. 4, 1862. Deserted at Pittsburgh Landing,
Tenn., April, 1865.

   William P. Briggs enlisted Dec. 9, 1861. Died of disease in Howell,
July 18, 1862.

   Charles Brockway enlisted as corporal, Dec. 9, 1861. Died of disease at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., May 15, 1862.

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Buried in National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks.

   Elias E. Brockway enlisted as drummer, Dec. 9, 1861. Re-enlisted Feb.
15, 1864, Mustered-out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   George F. Brockway enlisted Dec. 9, 1861. Re-enlisted Feb. 15, 1864.
Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   Isaac Countryman enlisted Nov. 6, 1861. Wounded in action at Shiloh,
Tenn., April 6, 1862. Discharged for disability, Aug. 19, 1862.

   John Daniels enlisted Nov. 17, 1861. Re-enlisted Feb. 2, 1864.
Corporal. Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug 13, 1865.

   Marcellus Dickinson enlisted, from Handy, Dec. 7, 1861 discharged on
surgeon's certificate of disability at Corinth, Miss., June, 12, 1862.
After regaining his health he re-enlisted in the Ninth and served there
until the close of the war. He has since lived in Howell.

   Albert G. Dorrance drafted April 4, 1865. Mustered out at Little Rock,
Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   William Dorrance drafted April 4, 1865. Mustered out at Little Rock,
Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   Daniel A. Ellingwood substitute for Wm. McPherson drafted May 21, 1865.
Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   George W. Fox substitute for Charles B. Damon drafted Feb, 13, 1863.
Sergeant March 16, 1865. Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

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   Cornelius C. Helms enlisted Dec. 9, 1861. Discharged on surgeon's
certificate of disability at Chewalla, Tenn., Aug. 9, 1862.

   Henry C. Helms substitute for William Stewart drafted Feb. 10, 1865.
Corporal Aug. 30, 1865. Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   Jerome D. Helms substitute for John Hubbard drafted Feb. 10, 1863.
Mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.,

   Nicholas J. Holt drafted April 4, 1865. Mustered out at Little Rock,
Ark., Aug. 13, 1865.

   Leonard Hook drafted April 4, 1865.

   Charles H. Lonsbery enlisted Jan. 25, 1862. Discharged on surgeon's
certificate for disability at Chewalla, Tenn., Aug. 3, 1862.

   Clark Lounsbery enlisted Jan. 25, 1862. Missing in action at Petersburg
Landing, Tenn., April 6, 1862.

   William E. Pixley enlisted Jan. 12, 1862. Discharged on surgeon's
certificate for disability at Chewalla, Tenn., Aug. 9, 1862.

   George W. Place drafted April 4, 1865. Deserted at Louisville, Ky.,
June 21, 1865.

   Silas S. Richmond drafted April 4, 1865. Deserted at Louisville, Ky.,
June 21, 1865.

   Theodore R. Staley drafted April 4, 1865. Discharged at Alexandria,
Va., July 3, 1865.

   Theodore Washburn enlisted March 31, 1864. Killed in action at Atlanta,
Ga., July 28, 1864.

Jacob Zely enlisted Dec, 5, 1861. Died of disease at Monterey, Miss., May
8, 1862.

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   Recruiting for the Twenty-second Infantry commenced July 15, 1862. Two
months later it was mustered into service, the men coming from Livingston,
Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair, Lapeer and Sanilac counties which then
composed the fifth congressional district, Ex-Gov. Moses Wisner became its
first Colonel and served faithfully in that position until his death from
typhoid fever, Jan. 4, 1863, at Lexington, Ky.

   Col. Ezra C. Hatton for many years recognized leader in soldier circles
in Howell, was captain of Company A, enlisting from Farmington.

    Col. Henry S. Dean who was in command during some of its hardest
service, enlisted from Green Oak, as captain of Company H.

   On leaving Michigan the Twenty-second was sent to Kentucky. As soon as
it reached fighting ground Col. Wisner ordered it out to the front some
distance in the lead of other regiments already there, and proposed to
move right on to Richmond if the rest would only follow. An orderly soon
presented the compliments of the commanding general and Col. Wisner
narrowly escaped a court martial for a start in his soldier career.

   Its brave commander did not live to see much of the hard fighting
before the boys in blue marched on to Richmond, but the Twenty-second had
its full share. Its loss on the second day at Chickamauga was 372 out of
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that fight. It was the work of the Twenty-second in this fight which made
the foundation for that beautiful poem "The Rock of Chickamauga." With
cartridges all gone the Twenty-second kept on fighting. They made two
charges with fixed bayonets but empty guns, which will go down in history.
All their acting field officers went down and the little remnant remaining
that night, was commanded by a captain.

    The Twenty-second was detailed to the work of engineers and mechanics
for some time, and for months served with the Ninth as reserve brigade to
the army of the Cumberland, doing provo duty considerable of the time. It
participated in the advance on Atlanta. It was serving at Nashville, Tenn.
when the orders came to muster out on June 26, 1865. The next day it left
for home.

   Howell men with the Twenty-second were as follows:

   Lewis Brown, enlisted as second lieutenant, July 31, 1862. Promoted to
first lieutenant Jan. 5, 1863, and to captain, April 1, 1965. Mustered out
June 26, 1865.

   David Hiscott enlisted Aug. 14, 1862. Died Oct. 11, 1863, at
Chattanooga, Tenn., from wounds received at battle of Chickamauga.
Corporal, Jan. 5, 1863. Buried in National Cemetery at Chattanooga, grave
No. 1,107.

   Peter A. Rorabacher enlisted from Cohoctah. Aug. 20,1862. Mustered out
Jan. 26, 1865. Has lived in Howell for several years past.

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   Mark S. Smock enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, Corporal. Mustered out June 26,
1865.

   George Bush enlisted Aug. 14, 1862. Mustered out June 26, 1875.

   John G. Ferguson enlisted as corporal, Aug. 5, 1862, from Unadilla.
Discharged for disability at Louisville, Ky., May 8, 1863. Lived in Howell
until his death, in 1902.

   Norton M. Monroe enlisted Aug. 14, 1862. Discharged at Nashville,
Tenn., Dec. 8 1863, on account of wounds received at battle of Chickamauga.

   Lemuel D. Polly enlisted as waggoner, Aug. 12, 1862. Deserted at Snow's
Pond, Ky., Sept. 16, 1862.

   Freeman Rorabacher enlisted as corporal, Aug. 15, 1862, from Lyons.
Discharged at Detroit, June, 26, 1865. Has resided in Howell for a number
of years.

   Nearly every township in this county had men in the Twenty-second, many
of them enlisting at Howell but as far as we can learn, the above were the
only Howell men in that organization.

   In the latter part of July 1862 John C. Culver of Hamburg, afterwards
Captain, with one or two others, commenced the work of recruiting a
company to join the Twenty-second. When they reached Pontiac they found
that regiment all filled and after some deliberation, proceeded to Jackson
where they became Company E of the Twenty-sixth. Another company of this
regiment was recruited in the south part of this county. The regiment 900
strong, left Jackson

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on December 13, 1862. Its first real duty was about four months service as
provo guard in the vicinity of Washington.

    May 26 of the following year the regiment saw its first fighting at
Suffolk, Va., but it stood its ground like veterans and repelled a strong
charge. Capt. Culver received a wound in this his first fight, from which
he died a few days later.

   Shortly after this the Twenty-sixth was again in luck in being assigned
to the duty of quelling the draft riots in New York. When they arrived
there however they were made a reserve force and the fact of their
presence did the work while the men enjoyed life in camp.

   October 13, this life of comparative ease was broken up and the Twenty-
sixth became part of the Army of the Potomac, arriving in Virginia in time
for Mine Run. It was often in the front skirmish line and won many
enconiums as the best skirmishers in the Army of the Potomac. Probably its
heaviest fighting was at Spotsylvania although it participated in the
heavy work of the Army of the Potomac during all those memorable days from
Mine Run to the surrender of Gen. Lee. On that eventful day, the Twenty-
sixth was in the skirmish line and the flag of truce passed through its
lines.

   For some days after the surrender the Twenty-sixth was detailed to
guard the captured artillery and other arms. It participated in the grand
review at

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Washington and arrived home on June 7. It was a week later however before
it was paid off and disbanded.

   Howell men with the Twenty- sixth were as follows:

   Fred N. Galloway enlisted Aug. 15, 1862. Discharged to accept
promotion, November, 1862.

   Harris A. Hickok enlisted Aug. 8, 1862. Corporal, Sept. 10, 1862. First
lieutenant and adjutant, July 29, 1864. Captain June 9, 1865. Mustered out
at Alexandria, Va., June 4, 1865.

   George W. Lake enlisted Aug. 8, 1862. Died Sept. 8, 1864, at City
Point, Va., of wounds received in action at Ream's Station, Va., Aug. 25,
1864.

   Newton T. Kirk, for three terms county clerk and a resident of Howell
for many years, enlisted from Hartland, as Corporal, Aug. 11, 1862.
Sergeant July 3, 1863. Wounded in action and taken prisoner at
Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864. Returned to regiment Dec. 15, 1864.
Discharged to accept promotion, Sept. 5, 1864. Mustered as captain of
colored troops, Sept. 6, 1864. Discharged Jan 30, 1865.

   Andrew J. McKean enlisted Aug. 15, 1862. Discharged at Philadelphia,
Pa., June 10, 1865.

   Robert S. Mountain enlisted Aug. 17, 1862. Sick at Alexandria, Va.,
Aug. 25, 1864.

   Herman Preston enlisted as corporal, Aug. 14, 1862. Reported Sergeant
Major, Dec. 12, 1862. Second lieutenant, March, 30, 1863. Discharged on
account of disability, Dec. 3, 1863.

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   Eli Rambo enlisted Aug. 14,1862. Killed in action at Spottsylvania,
Va., May 12, 1864.

   John W. Thompkins enlisted Aug. 22, 1864. Discharged for disability at
Rochester, N.Y., May 15,1865.

   Martin Wall enlisted Aug. 8, 1862. Transferred to invalid corps Sept.
30, 1863. Discharged at Elmira, N.Y., July 2, 1865.

   Philo B. Wines enlisted as corporal, Aug. 8, 1862. Discharged at
Detroit, June 30, 1865.

   Harvey P. Wing enlisted Aug. 8. 1862. Wounded in action May 24, 1864.
Discharged at Baltimore, Md., May 26, 1865.

   George E. Wright enlisted Aug. 8 1862. Wounded in action at
Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864. Discharged for disability at Portsmouth
Grove, R.I., Jan. 2, 1865,

   In addition to those already named there were a good many Howell
soldiers scattered through other organizations as follows:

   Bracket J. Allen enlisted from Mundy, in the Twenty-third infantry,
Aug. 11, 1862, at Flint. Discharged at Alexandria, Va., June 28, 1865. Has
lived in Howell for a number of years.

   George Barnes, substitute for his father John Barnes who was drafted at
North Shade. Oct. 5, 1864. Discharged at Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 17, 1865. Ex-
Superintendent of Schools and publisher Livingston Republican at Howell.

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   Azel Carpenter enlisted in Company K, First Engineers and Mechanics,
Nov. 21, 1861, as artificer. Discharged for disability at Nashville,
Tenn., June 3, 1862.

   Harvey Devereaux enlisted in Company K, First Engineers and Mechanics,
Nov. 23, 1861. Died of disease at Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 20, 1863. Buried
in National Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.

   Jared L. Cook enlisted as sergeant in Company D, Sixth Cavalry, Sept.
5, 1862. Transferred to invalid corps, March 31, 1864. Discharged by
order, July 18, 1865.

   Franklin Goodrich enlisted in Company K, First Engineers and Mechanics,
Nov. 27, 1861. Discharged at Nashville, Tenn., May 28, 1862. Re-entered
service in Company K, Second Infantry, March 26, 1864. First Sergeant.
Discharged at St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit, April 26, 1865, by reason of
wounds received in action.

   Benjamin B. Head, enlisted as teamster in sixth Cavalry Oct. 2, 1862.
Discharged for disability, March 24, 1863.

   Asa McFall enlisted in Battery C. First Light Artillery, Oct. 11, 1861.
Discharged for disability, Feb. 9, 1862.

   Reuben McFall enlisted in Battery C, First Light Artillery, Dec. 1,
1861. Died of disease at Luka, Miss., Sept. 3, 1862.

   George H. Miles enlisted in Battery C, First Light

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Artillery, Dec. 8, 1861. Discharged for disability, Nov. 6, 1862.

   Allen C. Stearns enlisted in Battery C, First Artillery, Dec. 12, 1861.
Veteran Dec. 28, 1863 Sergeant. Mustered out July 22, 1865.

   Stepher D. Steadman enlisted in Battery H, First Light Artillery, Dec,
2, 1861. Discharged for disability, February, 1863.

   Peter Cameron enlisted in Company F, Second Infantry, March 28, 1864.
Mustered out July 20, 1865.

   Franklin Goodrich enlisted in Company K, Second Infantry, March 26,
1864. Discharged for disease.

   James Barnhart enlisted in Company G, Seventh Infantry, March 3, 1863.
Transferred to Invalid Corps, Feb. 15, 1864.

   Oliver Lampman enlisted in Company K, First Engineers and Mechanics,
Nov. 21, 1861. Taken prisoner between Huntsville, Ala., and War Force
Tenn., May 20,1862. Artificer. Discharged at Columbus, O., Feb. 4, 1863.

   David Wright enlisted in Company B, First Engineers and Mechanics, Dec.
5, 1861, Died Oct. 2, 1862. Buried in National Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.

   Simon Dolph enlisted in Company B. Eighth Infantry, Feb. 29, 1864. Died
in Andersonville prison, Aug. 14, 1864.

   Edward A. Hart enlisted in Company A, Tenth

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Infantry, Oct 21, 1861. Discharged July 2, 1862.

   Sherwood Hart enlisted in Company A, Tenth Infantry, Oct. 27, 1861.
Died of disease at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1862.

   Hugh McKeever enlisted in Company A, Tenth Infantry, Oct. 27, 1861.
Discharged for disability, June 21, 1862.

   Edward Haney enlisted in Company B, Fourteenth Infantry, April 19,
1864. Mustered out July 18, 1865.

   Peter Malosh enlisted in Company B, Sixteenth Infantry, March 23, 1865.
Mustered out July 8, 1865.

   James Barney enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Infantry, March 29, 1865.
Mustered out July 8, 1865.

   Charles Moore enlisted in Company G, Sixteenth Infantry March 28, 1865.
Mustered out July 8, 1865.

   John Carney enlisted in Company I, Sixteenth Infantry January 2, 1862.
Discharged for disability Aug. 24, 1864.

   William Robinson enlisted in Company G, Sixteenth Infantry, March 18,
1865. Mustered out July 8, 1865.

   George Reed enlisted in Company 1, Sixteenth Infantry, Dec. 10, 1861.
Discharged Feb. 18, 1863.

   Stephen D. Harrington enlisted in Company H, Twenty-third Infantry,
Sept. 9, 1862. Mustered out June 28, 1865.

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   Henry Hagadorn enlisted in Company G, Twenty-seventh Infantry, Feb. 10,
1863. Died of disease, June 9, 1864.

   William Campbell enlisted in Company K, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Sept,
22, 1864. Mustered out Sept. 13, 1865.

   George W. Lincoln enlisted in Company K, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Sept.
22, 1864. Died of disease at Nashville, Tenn., July 10, 1865.

   William Mershon enlisted in Company E, Twenty eighth Infantry, Sept.
20, 1864. Mustered out June, 13, 1865.

   Aaron Selleck enlisted in Company A, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Sept. 12,
1864. Mustered out June 5, 1865.

   Myron Simpson enlisted in Company K, Twenty-eighth Infantry, as
corporal, Sept, 22, 1864. Mustered out June 6, 1865,

   Palmer G. Tripp enlisted in Company F, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Sept.
24, 1864. Mustered out May 80, 1865.

   Alfred Wright enlisted in Company F, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Sept. 26,
1864. Mustered out June 5, 1865.

   John Walker enlisted in Company K, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Sept. 26,
1864. Mustered out June 5, 1865.

   Leverett J. Wood enlisted in Company H, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Aug.
30, 1864. Mustered out

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June 5, 1865.

   Edwin A. Burch enlisted in Company B, Second Cavalry, Nov. 19, 1863.
Killed in action at Oxford, Ala., April 28, 1865.

   Joseph Krozier enlisted in Company E, Second Cavalry, Nov. 20, 1863.
Mustered out April 22 1865.

   Francis Crandall enlisted in Company E, Second Cavalry, Nov. 20, 1863.
Mustered out Aug. 17, 1865.

   Levi Bush enlisted as buglar in Company K, Tenth Cavalry, Sept. 5,
1863. Died of disease at Knoxville, Tenn,, Jan. 7, 1865. Buried in
Government Cemetery at Knoxville.

   Herbert H. Glass enlisted in Company K, Tenth Cavalry, Aug. 29, 1863.
Mustered out Nov. 11, 1865.

   John Swanger enlisted in Company K, Tenth Cavalry, April 26, 1864. Died
of disease in North Carolina, Jan. 17, 1865.

   Reuben H. Warren enlisted in Company K, Tenth Cavalary, Sept, 9, 1863.
Mustered out Nov, 11, 1865.

   Samuel Warring enlisted in Company K, Tenth Cavalry, Oct. 16, 1863.
Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, May 1, 1865.

   Luther H. Frink enlisted in Company 1, U. S. Sharp Shooters, Dec. 14,
1864.

   Adelbert F. Peavy enlisted from Hamburg, Sept. 3, 1863, in Company K,
Tenth Cavalry. Mustered out Nov. 11, 1865. Has lived in Howell nearly all
the time since the war.