JOHN M. PATTERSON was born on 25 Apr 1827 in New York, USA. He died on 04 Mar 1906. He married Martha Ann Spaulding, son of Benjamin Spaulding and Elzia Quackenbush in 1846. He was born in 1834 in New York, USA. He died on 01 Dec 1899.

 

JOHN M. PATTERSON was born on 25 Apr 1827 in New York, USA. He died on 04 Mar 1906. He married Martha Ann Spaulding, son of Benjamin Spaulding and Elzia Quackenbush in 1846. He was born in 1834 in New York, USA. He died on 01 Dec 1899.

 

ROBERT PURIFOY³ CARLTON was born on 19 Oct 1832 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 06 Feb 1905 in Michigan, USA. He married Josephine Patterson, daughter of James Patterson and Nancy Jane Davis on 11 Dec 1861 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born in Mar 1841 in Michigan, USA.

 

ROBERT PURIFOY³ CARLTON was born on 19 Oct 1832 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. H 06 Feb 1905 in Michigan, USA. He married Josephine Patterson, daughter of James Patterson and Nancy Jane Davis on 11 Dec 1861 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born in Mar 1841 in Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Orleans L. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Benjamin (w) 59, Cascade, b. Vermont, occ. Farmer, and

Lorrain Warren (Carlton) widow (w) 48, Paris, b. Ohio. 17 Sept.

1868, at Paris, by H. B. Smith, (J.P.) Orleans Spaulding, and Aurella

A. Spaulding, Paris, witnesses. 6:42

 

2530 Kalamazoo SE., Grand Rapids, 49507

Oak Grove Cemetery

 

This cemetery is nearly hidden. It, too, is located at 2350 Kalamazoo Ave. S.E. (See Woodlawn.) The only way into this cemetery is by entering the drive to the MacKay-Grand Rapids Jaycees Family Park entrance. (This entrance is across the street from the office of Woodlawn Cemetery and next to the Fire Station.) Follow this drive all the way back until you see the sign for Oak Grove to your left. From there a dirt road leads into a section closed away by trees. Well-maintained, private and still active. One building. did see one broken headstone and the ground was very soft in many areas. Dirt road leads throughout the cemetery.

 

 

 

Spalding, Orleans

d. 17 May 1889;  age 84y 9m 16d

 

Spaulding, Rilla Ann

wf of Orleans

d. 16 Feb 1879;  age 62y 1m

 

Spaulding, S. J. (Corporal)

n.d.

Co. A, 5th Mich. Inf.

 

Spaulding, DeWitt

b. 1840;  d. 1902

 

Spaulding, Dorothy E.

dau of Henry E. & Mary L.

b. 1899;  d. 1901

 

Spaulding, Lilly A.   (Wife)

o.d.  1858

 

Orleans Spaulding and Philanzo Bowen immigrated to Michigan in 1836, and selecting the district now known as Paris, made their home there. The lots of some were peculiarly distressing. Orleans Spaulding, who was before mentioned as having settled in the year 1836, informs us that, in the month of June, 1837, he was afflicted with sore eyes, and that for six years he was thereby unfitted for labor. During three years of the time he was totally blind, and that, too, while his family was dependent upon the productions of their little farm for a living. But there were trials of a general nature which had to be endured at this period, occasioned by the " hard times," or " wild cat times," as they were commonly called.

 

In 1834, five men-Abraham Laraway, Alexander Bouk, James Clark, Jacob Friant and Orleans Spaulding, started together from the east part of the State; came on foot a part of the way, and the rest in an Indian canoe. They did not take up land until 1836; then they located themselves in the east part of the town; and cut out a road to Grand Rapids.

 

The case of Orleans Spaulding is nor without its special interest. He came with but little means, and went to work, clearing his lands. In the mean time his wife died, and he was grievously afflicted with ophthalmic, so that for years he was blind. In this state he chopped and cleared two acres of land, planted corn, and struggled for a living. During the time that he was blind, he one time went to the Rapids to see if in any way he could make a raise of something to eat. In some place of business George Evans encountered him; and, in his direct way, said to him: " Spaulding, what are you here for?" Spaulding told him his situation, and what he wanted. "Here," said Evans, " take this, and go to '- s grocery, and get what you want;" at the same time handing him an order on that grocery in Evans' favor. Spaulding took the paper, went and got three or four dollars' worth of provisions, and had them indorsed. Very thankful, he returned the order to Evans, who, looking at it and seeing the small amount indorsed, said, ' Go back again, and get what you need. What you have got won't last a week. Take up the whole order." This was but the beginning. With no immediate prospect of pay, and a fair chance of losing all, he continued to force upon Spaulding his accommodations until they amounted to several hundred dollars; never hinting at payment; generously waiting until better times enabled him to cancel the legal indebtedness; and then taking, not asking, his pay. The debt of gratitude can never be canceled; and the memory of Evans, who died under a cloud, will ever be dear to Spaulding.  It may here be added, parenthetically, that this conduct of Evans toward Spaulding was no exceptional instance; for, be his faults what they may, no more generous-hearted man ever lived in the Grand River Valley than George C. Evans. And probably the history of the State cannot furnish another instance where the show of justice was so shamelessly outraged as when he, for an act which showed no moral turpitude, was sent to the State Prison, there to die. The town of Paris was organized in 1839; then including Gaines. The first meeting was at the house of Hiram Allen. Supervisor, Joel Guild; Clerk, Hiram H. Allen; Treasurer, Robert Barr; Justices, I. II. Allen, II. B. Smith, Barney Burton, Alexander Clark. On the records, as elected to other offices are, Stephen HIinsdill, Foster Kelly, Joseph IH. Blain, Jacob Pattison

 

 

282 HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OP KENT COUNTY.

Spaulding Charles S., 8 Caledonia, Alaska.

Spaulding John, 36 Plainfield, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Miner, 27 Cascade, Alaska.

Spaulding Orleans, 12 Paris, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Ransom L., 12 Paris, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Samuel, 36 Plainfield, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Timothy, 25 Sparta, Sparta Center.

 

Timothy Spaulding, grandfather of Orleans, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was probably with Gen. Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians in central New York, as he settled in Seneca county as soon as the war was over. Samuel Jackson Spaulding and Miner P. Spaulding!ding, brothers of Mrs. Patterson, served in the Civil war; brother S. J. Spaulding now resides in Plainfield, Mich. July 4, I898, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson celebrated their golden wedding, which was an occasion of great rejoicing and enjoyment. Sluman S. Bailey, who as a justice of the peace had married them and had attended the twenty-fifth anniversary party, on this occasion made a neat little speech on pioneer life, and among others were present some who had attended the wedding fifty years previously, viz: S. S. Bailey and wife; Miss Mary Starbuck, then a young lady and now Mrs. Gilbert Bailey; Chancey Patterson and wife; John Patterson and wife-the latter a cousin of Mrs. Patterson, and present at the time of the marriage; Miss Martha Spaulding; Mary Jane Spaulding, a sister, now Mrs. John Cook; DeWitt Spaulding; Ransom and Samuel J. Spaulding, brothers. This wedding anniversary was also Mrs. Sally Ann Patterson's seventy-second birthday.

 

Memorials of the Grand River Valley By Franklin Everett

 

 

 

 

 

Notes for Orleans L. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Benjamin (w) 59, Cascade, b. Vermont, occ. Farmer, and

Lorrain Warren (Carlton) widow (w) 48, Paris, b. Ohio. 17 Sept.

1868, at Paris, by H. B. Smith, (J.P.) Orleans Spaulding, and Aurella

A. Spaulding, Paris, witnesses. 6:42

 

2530 Kalamazoo SE., Grand Rapids, 49507

Oak Grove Cemetery

 

This cemetery is nearly hidden. It, too, is located at 2350 Kalamazoo Ave. S.E. (See Woodlawn.) The only way into this cemetery is by entering the drive to the MacKay-Grand Rapids Jaycees Family Park entrance. (This entrance is across the street from the office of Woodlawn Cemetery and next to the Fire Station.) Follow this drive all the way back until you see the sign for Oak Grove to your left. From there a dirt road leads into a section closed away by trees. Well-maintained, private and still active. One building. did see one broken headstone and the ground was very soft in many areas. Dirt road leads throughout the cemetery.

 

 

 

Spalding, Orleans

d. 17 May 1889;  age 84y 9m 16d

 

Spaulding, Rilla Ann

wf of Orleans

d. 16 Feb 1879;  age 62y 1m

 

Spaulding, S. J. (Corporal)

n.d.

Co. A, 5th Mich. Inf.

 

Spaulding, DeWitt

b. 1840;  d. 1902

 

Spaulding, Dorothy E.

dau of Henry E. & Mary L.

b. 1899;  d. 1901

 

Spaulding, Lilly A.   (Wife)

o.d.  1858

 

Orleans Spaulding and Philanzo Bowen immigrated to Michigan in 1836, and selecting the district now known as Paris, made their home there. The lots of some were peculiarly distressing. Orleans Spaulding, who was before mentioned as having settled in the year 1836, informs us that, in the month of June, 1837, he was afflicted with sore eyes, and that for six years he was thereby unfitted for labor. During three years of the time he was totally blind, and that, too, while his family was dependent upon the productions of their little farm for a living. But there were trials of a general nature which had to be endured at this period, occasioned by the " hard times," or " wild cat times," as they were commonly called.

 

In 1834, five men-Abraham Laraway, Alexander Bouk, James Clark, Jacob Friant and Orleans Spaulding, started together from the east part of the State; came on foot a part of the way, and the rest in an Indian canoe. They did not take up land until 1836; then they located themselves in the east part of the town; and cut out a road to Grand Rapids.

 

The case of Orleans Spaulding is nor without its special interest. He came with but little means, and went to work, clearing his lands. In the mean time his wife died, and he was grievously afflicted with ophthalmic, so that for years he was blind. In this state he chopped and cleared two acres of land, planted corn, and struggled for a living. During the time that he was blind, he one time went to the Rapids to see if in any way he could make a raise of something to eat. In some place of business George Evans encountered him; and, in his direct way, said to him: " Spaulding, what are you here for?" Spaulding told him his situation, and what he wanted. "Here," said Evans, " take this, and go to '- s grocery, and get what you want;" at the same time handing him an order on that grocery in Evans' favor. Spaulding took the paper, went and got three or four dollars' worth of provisions, and had them indorsed. Very thankful, he returned the order to Evans, who, looking at it and seeing the small amount indorsed, said, ' Go back again, and get what you need. What you have got won't last a week. Take up the whole order." This was but the beginning. With no immediate prospect of pay, and a fair chance of losing all, he continued to force upon Spaulding his accommodations until they amounted to several hundred dollars; never hinting at payment; generously waiting until better times enabled him to cancel the legal indebtedness; and then taking, not asking, his pay. The debt of gratitude can never be canceled; and the memory of Evans, who died under a cloud, will ever be dear to Spaulding.  It may here be added, parenthetically, that this conduct of Evans toward Spaulding was no exceptional instance; for, be his faults what they may, no more generous-hearted man ever lived in the Grand River Valley than George C. Evans. And probably the history of the State cannot furnish another instance where the show of justice was so shamelessly outraged as when he, for an act which showed no moral turpitude, was sent to the State Prison, there to die. The town of Paris was organized in 1839; then including Gaines. The first meeting was at the house of Hiram Allen. Supervisor, Joel Guild; Clerk, Hiram H. Allen; Treasurer, Robert Barr; Justices, I. II. Allen, II. B. Smith, Barney Burton, Alexander Clark. On the records, as elected to other offices are, Stephen HIinsdill, Foster Kelly, Joseph IH. Blain, Jacob Pattison

 

 

282 HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OP KENT COUNTY.

Spaulding Charles S., 8 Caledonia, Alaska.

Spaulding John, 36 Plainfield, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Miner, 27 Cascade, Alaska.

Spaulding Orleans, 12 Paris, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Ransom L., 12 Paris, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Samuel, 36 Plainfield, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Timothy, 25 Sparta, Sparta Center.

 

Timothy Spaulding, grandfather of Orleans, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was probably with Gen. Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians in central New York, as he settled in Seneca county as soon as the war was over. Samuel Jackson Spaulding and Miner P. Spaulding!ding, brothers of Mrs. Patterson, served in the Civil war; brother S. J. Spaulding now resides in Plainfield, Mich. July 4, I898, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson celebrated their golden wedding, which was an occasion of great rejoicing and enjoyment. Sluman S. Bailey, who as a justice of the peace had married them and had attended the twenty-fifth anniversary party, on this occasion made a neat little speech on pioneer life, and among others were present some who had attended the wedding fifty years previously, viz: S. S. Bailey and wife; Miss Mary Starbuck, then a young lady and now Mrs. Gilbert Bailey; Chancey Patterson and wife; John Patterson and wife-the latter a cousin of Mrs. Patterson, and present at the time of the marriage; Miss Martha Spaulding; Mary Jane Spaulding, a sister, now Mrs. John Cook; DeWitt Spaulding; Ransom and Samuel J. Spaulding, brothers. This wedding anniversary was also Mrs. Sally Ann Patterson's seventy-second birthday.

 

Memorials of the Grand River Valley By Franklin Everett

 

 

 

 

 

Notes for Orleans L. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Benjamin (w) 59, Cascade, b. Vermont, occ. Farmer, and

Lorrain Warren (Carlton) widow (w) 48, Paris, b. Ohio. 17 Sept.

1868, at Paris, by H. B. Smith, (J.P.) Orleans Spaulding, and Aurella

A. Spaulding, Paris, witnesses. 6:42

 

2530 Kalamazoo SE., Grand Rapids, 49507

Oak Grove Cemetery

 

This cemetery is nearly hidden. It, too, is located at 2350 Kalamazoo Ave. S.E. (See Woodlawn.) The only way into this cemetery is by entering the drive to the MacKay-Grand Rapids Jaycees Family Park entrance. (This entrance is across the street from the office of Woodlawn Cemetery and next to the Fire Station.) Follow this drive all the way back until you see the sign for Oak Grove to your left. From there a dirt road leads into a section closed away by trees. Well-maintained, private and still active. One building. did see one broken headstone and the ground was very soft in many areas. Dirt road leads throughout the cemetery.

 

 

 

Spalding, Orleans

d. 17 May 1889;  age 84y 9m 16d

 

Spaulding, Rilla Ann

wf of Orleans

d. 16 Feb 1879;  age 62y 1m

 

Spaulding, S. J. (Corporal)

n.d.

Co. A, 5th Mich. Inf.

 

Spaulding, DeWitt

b. 1840;  d. 1902

 

Spaulding, Dorothy E.

dau of Henry E. & Mary L.

b. 1899;  d. 1901

 

Spaulding, Lilly A.   (Wife)

o.d.  1858

 

Orleans Spaulding and Philanzo Bowen immigrated to Michigan in 1836, and selecting the district now known as Paris, made their home there. The lots of some were peculiarly distressing. Orleans Spaulding, who was before mentioned as having settled in the year 1836, informs us that, in the month of June, 1837, he was afflicted with sore eyes, and that for six years he was thereby unfitted for labor. During three years of the time he was totally blind, and that, too, while his family was dependent upon the productions of their little farm for a living. But there were trials of a general nature which had to be endured at this period, occasioned by the " hard times," or " wild cat times," as they were commonly called.

 

In 1834, five men-Abraham Laraway, Alexander Bouk, James Clark, Jacob Friant and Orleans Spaulding, started together from the east part of the State; came on foot a part of the way, and the rest in an Indian canoe. They did not take up land until 1836; then they located themselves in the east part of the town; and cut out a road to Grand Rapids.

 

The case of Orleans Spaulding is nor without its special interest. He came with but little means, and went to work, clearing his lands. In the mean time his wife died, and he was grievously afflicted with ophthalmic, so that for years he was blind. In this state he chopped and cleared two acres of land, planted corn, and struggled for a living. During the time that he was blind, he one time went to the Rapids to see if in any way he could make a raise of something to eat. In some place of business George Evans encountered him; and, in his direct way, said to him: " Spaulding, what are you here for?" Spaulding told him his situation, and what he wanted. "Here," said Evans, " take this, and go to '- s grocery, and get what you want;" at the same time handing him an order on that grocery in Evans' favor. Spaulding took the paper, went and got three or four dollars' worth of provisions, and had them indorsed. Very thankful, he returned the order to Evans, who, looking at it and seeing the small amount indorsed, said, ' Go back again, and get what you need. What you have got won't last a week. Take up the whole order." This was but the beginning. With no immediate prospect of pay, and a fair chance of losing all, he continued to force upon Spaulding his accommodations until they amounted to several hundred dollars; never hinting at payment; generously waiting until better times enabled him to cancel the legal indebtedness; and then taking, not asking, his pay. The debt of gratitude can never be canceled; and the memory of Evans, who died under a cloud, will ever be dear to Spaulding.  It may here be added, parenthetically, that this conduct of Evans toward Spaulding was no exceptional instance; for, be his faults what they may, no more generous-hearted man ever lived in the Grand River Valley than George C. Evans. And probably the history of the State cannot furnish another instance where the show of justice was so shamelessly outraged as when he, for an act which showed no moral turpitude, was sent to the State Prison, there to die. The town of Paris was organized in 1839; then including Gaines. The first meeting was at the house of Hiram Allen. Supervisor, Joel Guild; Clerk, Hiram H. Allen; Treasurer, Robert Barr; Justices, I. II. Allen, II. B. Smith, Barney Burton, Alexander Clark. On the records, as elected to other offices are, Stephen HIinsdill, Foster Kelly, Joseph IH. Blain, Jacob Pattison

 

 

282 HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OP KENT COUNTY.

Spaulding Charles S., 8 Caledonia, Alaska.

Spaulding John, 36 Plainfield, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Miner, 27 Cascade, Alaska.

Spaulding Orleans, 12 Paris, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Ransom L., 12 Paris, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Samuel, 36 Plainfield, Grand Rapids.

Spaulding Timothy, 25 Sparta, Sparta Center.

 

Timothy Spaulding, grandfather of Orleans, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was probably with Gen. Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians in central New York, as he settled in Seneca county as soon as the war was over. Samuel Jackson Spaulding and Miner P. Spaulding!ding, brothers of Mrs. Patterson, served in the Civil war; brother S. J. Spaulding now resides in Plainfield, Mich. July 4, I898, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson celebrated their golden wedding, which was an occasion of great rejoicing and enjoyment. Sluman S. Bailey, who as a justice of the peace had married them and had attended the twenty-fifth anniversary party, on this occasion made a neat little speech on pioneer life, and among others were present some who had attended the wedding fifty years previously, viz: S. S. Bailey and wife; Miss Mary Starbuck, then a young lady and now Mrs. Gilbert Bailey; Chancey Patterson and wife; John Patterson and wife-the latter a cousin of Mrs. Patterson, and present at the time of the marriage; Miss Martha Spaulding; Mary Jane Spaulding, a sister, now Mrs. John Cook; DeWitt Spaulding; Ransom and Samuel J. Spaulding, brothers. This wedding anniversary was also Mrs. Sally Ann Patterson's seventy-second birthday.

 

Memorials of the Grand River Valley By Franklin Everett

 

 

 

 

 

LEWIS C. SPAULDING was born on 04 Mar 1850 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 17 Sep 1908. He married CAROLINE TYLER. She was born in 1850 in Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Lewis C. Spaulding:

Lewis Spaulding, saloonist in Caledonia, was born in Paris, Kent Co., March 4, 1850. His parents, Orleans and Rilla A. Spaulding, were natives of New York, and early pioneers of this county. Mr. Spaulding was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was married Sept. 18, 1876, to Caroline, daughter of Edward Tyler, and a native of Paris. Mr. Spaulding managed a hotel in Cascade one year, and then kept the Half-Way House at Grand Rapids a year; gave his attention to farming one year, and again engaged in keeping hotel two years at Caledonia, since which he has been engaged in the saloon business. He is a Democrat and a member of the I. 0. O. F.

 

 

LEWIS C. SPAULDING was born on 04 Mar 1850 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 17 Sep 1908. He married CAROLINE TYLER. She was born in 1850 in Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Lewis C. Spaulding:

Lewis Spaulding, saloonist in Caledonia, was born in Paris, Kent Co., March 4, 1850. His parents, Orleans and Rilla A. Spaulding, were natives of New York, and early pioneers of this county. Mr. Spaulding was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was married Sept. 18, 1876, to Caroline, daughter of Edward Tyler, and a native of Paris. Mr. Spaulding managed a hotel in Cascade one year, and then kept the Half-Way House at Grand Rapids a year; gave his attention to farming one year, and again engaged in keeping hotel two years at Caledonia, since which he has been engaged in the saloon business. He is a Democrat and a member of the I. 0. O. F.

 

 

MINER² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 09 Jun 1819 in Wayne, Steuben, New York, USA. He died on 25 Mar 1902 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Sally Ann Spaulding, daughter of Orleans L. Spaulding and Sally VanDyke on 04 Jul 1848. She was born on 04 Jul 1826 in Seneca, New York, USA. She died on 01 Mar 1910 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Miner Patterson:

Miner Patterson was born June 9, 1819 in Wayne, Steuben Co., N.Y. He is son of Robert and Rachel Patterson, who came to Washtenaw County in 1828, where his father died in 1831. His mother, with five boys to bring up and educate, and fit for the responsibilities of the future, proved equal to the emergency, and continued the management of the homestead six years, when she came with her family to Kent County and bought 40 acres of land on sec. 13, this township., where she spent her life. The first two years after her removal to this county she herself self-labored for wages. Her energy was wonderful, and her perseverance indomitable, and with the aid of her sons she paid for her land and spread its borders until the tract in possession of the family included 350 acres. Her sons all settled near her, and she was to the end of her life, March 1, 1864, their wise counselor and most judicious friend. At her death, Mr. Patterson, of this sketch, came in possession of the homestead, to which he has added until he owns 320 acres of first-class land. When he first began his struggle with the world he owned two dollars, an ax and a gun, and three months' provisions. They cleared five acres the first winter, and look back to that time as one of promise and not difficulty. Mr. Patterson was married July 4, 1848, to Sally A., daughter of Orleans and Sally Spaulding, of Paris, born in New York in 1826. they have five children, three sons and two daughters, all residing in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of the Congregational Church.

 

MINER PATTERSON, of Paris Township, was born in Steuben County, New York, in 1819, and removed with his parents to Washtenaw County,'Michigan, in 1828, and to Kent County, Michigan, with his mother and brothers, Jacob and James Patterson, in the Spring of 1837. He was married July 4, 1848, to Miss Sally. A. Spaulding, who had come with her parents from Seneca County, New York, in 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have three sons and two daughters. Mr. Patterson's mother, Mrs. Rachel Patterson, lived with him for twenty-five years, or until she died, in 1864, aged seventy-seven years, but remarkably vigorous. She was much esteemed as a nurse, and was widely known among the pioneers as a most useful woman. -.

 

As long ago as the year 1833, Barney Burton, Edward Guild, Joel Guild, Daniel Guild, and James Vanderpool located within its present limits. Benjamin Clark and Abram Laraway, settled in the year 1835; Jacob Patterson, Miner Patterson, James Patterson, Orleans Spaulding and Philanzo Bowen, in the year 1836; Nicholas Carlton in the year

 

MINER PATTERSON, a retired farmer of Paris township, Kent county, Mich., was born in Wayne, Steuben county, N. Y., June 9, 1, and is a son of Robert and Rachel (DeLong) Patterson, also natives of the state of New York, and who for some time resided in Seneca county, where the subject of this sketch was reared until nine years of age. In 1, the family came to Michigan and located in Washtenaw county, eight miles north of Ypsilanti, where they resided until 1837, when they came to Kent county. The father, however, who had been a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at Buffalo, N. Y., at the time of its burning, died in Washtenaw county, at the comparatively early age of forty-four years. The family comprised ten children, nine of whom came to Kent county with the mother. Four only of these remained with the mother, of whom Miner was the eldest, and James and Jacob, who were married, settled near her in Paris township, but now both are deceased. Mrs. Patterson, who was among the earliest to settle in her part of Paris township, had forty acres of wild land, but both she and Miner, then eighteen years of age, lived out two years, she keeping house for a gentleman in the neighborhood and he working at clearing up land. At the close of the two years, Mrs. Patterson and her son, Miner, built a small log house on the farm, four acres of which Miner had cleared of timber, and this cabin stood very close to the spot on which the present modern house was later erected. Miner then worked out another year, and when he settled down to work on the home place had a good yoke of oxen, which were two-year-old steers the family brought with them When they first came; but one of these died, and Miner had again to work out to earn enough money to buy another. Mrs. Patterson was also very industrious and likewise frequently worked out for others. She did her own spinning, and wove all the cloth used in the family. When Miner Patterson came to Paris township he had $2 in cash, a good ax, a gun and the two steers. He cleared off his land himself, worked for his brothers and two brothers-in law, constantly added to his possessions until he owned at one time 350 acres in one body, and personally cleared off the trees from it all. He was an expert with the ax, chopped a great deal for others, and at the age of twenty years had no equal. Mr. Patterson has lived on his present farm sixty years, built his present house in 1, and here his mother died in 1864, aged seventy-seven years. She was a wonderful woman, and was always sought for by her neighbors in cases of childbirth, in which she acted as doctor, midwife and nurse. Mr. Patterson has grown grain mainly, has kept about 200 sheep, and also a number of cows, his mother having been a famous butter maker, in which art his wife also excels. Mr. Patterson was married July 4, 1, to Miss Sally Ann Spaulding, daughter of Orleans and Sally (VanDyke) Spaulding, who came from Seneca county, N. Y., in 1831, settled in Wayne county, Mich; came to Kent county, Mich., in 1, and settled in Paris township in 1837. Mrs. Patterson was born in Seneca county, N. Y., July 4, 1826; her mother died in Wayne county, Mich., and her father in Paris, Mich., at the age of eighty four years.

 

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were named Warren A., a farmer in Cascade township; John J., who lives on a farm adjoining the homestead; Sarah Ellen, wife of 0. Vanderbilt, also on an adjoining farm; Delia May, who was married to George N. June, died at the age of twenty-eight years, and left two children, one of whom died a few weeks later; Miner L., who manages the home I I farm, is married to Sarah E. McKersey and has one child, Ruby, aged three years. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge at Ada. Mr. Patterson has been a deacon in the East Paris Congregational church for thirty years. In politics he is a stanch republican, but cast his first presidential vote with the Whig party, in 1840, for William H. Harrison, and has never missed voting at a national election since that date,but he takes no special interest in local politics. In his walk through life he has always been strictly honorable and upright and has never had. a law suit carried to an issue, and no name in the county of Kent is more respected than that of Miner Patterson.

ROBERT B. PATTERSON. To him who, in the love of nature, as exhibited in the myriad-mind of the youth of a community, sees the need of suitable directing hands, and fitting himself; takes up the work for the love of it, all students of social and economic subjects bow with respect. Such a man is he to whom attention is now briefly directed. With only meager advantages himself for education, but with the same indomitable will that has characterized numerous members of the family, he early determined upon securing the best training obtainable under his restrictions. At seventeen he passed examination and secured a certificate to teach. However, he remained at home, assisting his father upon the farm for two years longer, when he began to teach. He followed this most honorable vocation nearly sixteen years, becoming one of the most popular educators, whose services were in constant demand. He was very successful in this profession, and many of his pupils are now filling responsible positions, for which

 

Jacob Patterson, Miner Patterson, James Patterson, Orleans Spaulding, and Philanzo Bowen, in the year 1837; Nicholas Carlton in the year 1837, and Hiram H. Allen in the year 1838. Alexander H. Clark was born in Trenton, N. J., May 21, 1804. He came to Michigan, in 1828, and settled in Wayne county, purchasing forty acres of land, but a year later he sold it and went to Plymouth, purchased forty acres, and again sold out, and this time went to Superior, Washtenaw county. Three years later he settled in Paris, and in 1836 purchased 160 acres in Section 14. A year later he sold his claim and purchased 160 acres in Sections 8 and 9. He was one of the earliest if not the first white settler in the present limits of the township. He afterward lived in Gaines about thirty years, but returned to Paris and purchased 106 acres on Section 30. Mr. Clark adhered to Greenback doctrines, politically. He served as justice of the peace fourteen years, township clerk three years, and supervisor three years. The Pattersons came from Steuben county, New York, and in 1828 settled in Washtenaw county, Michigan, where the father died, in 1831. The mother, with five boys to rear, educate, and fit for the responsibilities of the future, proved equal to the emergency and continued the management of the homestead six years, when she came with her family to Paris township and purchased forty acres of land in Section 13, where she spent the remainder of her life. The first two years after her removal to this county she herself labored for wages. Her energy was wonderful and her perseverance indomitable, and with the aid of her sons she paid for her land and spread its borders until the tract in the possession of the family included 350 acres. Her sons all settled near her and she was to the end of her life, March 1, 1864, their wise counselor and most judicious friend. Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan : historical account of their progress from first settlement to the present time / Ernest B. Fisher, editor.

 

 

MINER² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 09 Jun 1819 in Wayne, Steuben, New York, USA. He died on 25 Mar 1902 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Sally Ann Spaulding, daughter of Orleans L. Spaulding and Sally VanDyke on 04 Jul 1848. She was born on 04 Jul 1826 in Seneca, New York, USA. She died on 01 Mar 1910 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Miner Patterson:

Miner Patterson was born June 9, 1819 in Wayne, Steuben Co., N.Y. He is son of Robert and Rachel Patterson, who came to Washtenaw County in 1828, where his father died in 1831. His mother, with five boys to bring up and educate, and fit for the responsibilities of the future, proved equal to the emergency, and continued the management of the homestead six years, when she came with her family to Kent County and bought 40 acres of land on sec. 13, this township., where she spent her life. The first two years after her removal to this county she herself self-labored for wages. Her energy was wonderful, and her perseverance indomitable, and with the aid of her sons she paid for her land and spread its borders until the tract in possession of the family included 350 acres. Her sons all settled near her, and she was to the end of her life, March 1, 1864, their wise counselor and most judicious friend. At her death, Mr. Patterson, of this sketch, came in possession of the homestead, to which he has added until he owns 320 acres of first-class land. When he first began his struggle with the world he owned two dollars, an ax and a gun, and three months' provisions. They cleared five acres the first winter, and look back to that time as one of promise and not difficulty. Mr. Patterson was married July 4, 1848, to Sally A., daughter of Orleans and Sally Spaulding, of Paris, born in New York in 1826. they have five children, three sons and two daughters, all residing in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of the Congregational Church.

 

MINER PATTERSON, of Paris Township, was born in Steuben County, New York, in 1819, and removed with his parents to Washtenaw County,'Michigan, in 1828, and to Kent County, Michigan, with his mother and brothers, Jacob and James Patterson, in the Spring of 1837. He was married July 4, 1848, to Miss Sally. A. Spaulding, who had come with her parents from Seneca County, New York, in 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have three sons and two daughters. Mr. Patterson's mother, Mrs. Rachel Patterson, lived with him for twenty-five years, or until she died, in 1864, aged seventy-seven years, but remarkably vigorous. She was much esteemed as a nurse, and was widely known among the pioneers as a most useful woman. -.

 

As long ago as the year 1833, Barney Burton, Edward Guild, Joel Guild, Daniel Guild, and James Vanderpool located within its present limits. Benjamin Clark and Abram Laraway, settled in the year 1835; Jacob Patterson, Miner Patterson, James Patterson, Orleans Spaulding and Philanzo Bowen, in the year 1836; Nicholas Carlton in the year

 

MINER PATTERSON, a retired farmer of Paris township, Kent county, Mich., was born in Wayne, Steuben county, N. Y., June 9, 1, and is a son of Robert and Rachel (DeLong) Patterson, also natives of the state of New York, and who for some time resided in Seneca county, where the subject of this sketch was reared until nine years of age. In 1, the family came to Michigan and located in Washtenaw county, eight miles north of Ypsilanti, where they resided until 1837, when they came to Kent county. The father, however, who had been a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at Buffalo, N. Y., at the time of its burning, died in Washtenaw county, at the comparatively early age of forty-four years. The family comprised ten children, nine of whom came to Kent county with the mother. Four only of these remained with the mother, of whom Miner was the eldest, and James and Jacob, who were married, settled near her in Paris township, but now both are deceased. Mrs. Patterson, who was among the earliest to settle in her part of Paris township, had forty acres of wild land, but both she and Miner, then eighteen years of age, lived out two years, she keeping house for a gentleman in the neighborhood and he working at clearing up land. At the close of the two years, Mrs. Patterson and her son, Miner, built a small log house on the farm, four acres of which Miner had cleared of timber, and this cabin stood very close to the spot on which the present modern house was later erected. Miner then worked out another year, and when he settled down to work on the home place had a good yoke of oxen, which were two-year-old steers the family brought with them When they first came; but one of these died, and Miner had again to work out to earn enough money to buy another. Mrs. Patterson was also very industrious and likewise frequently worked out for others. She did her own spinning, and wove all the cloth used in the family. When Miner Patterson came to Paris township he had $2 in cash, a good ax, a gun and the two steers. He cleared off his land himself, worked for his brothers and two brothers-in law, constantly added to his possessions until he owned at one time 350 acres in one body, and personally cleared off the trees from it all. He was an expert with the ax, chopped a great deal for others, and at the age of twenty years had no equal. Mr. Patterson has lived on his present farm sixty years, built his present house in 1, and here his mother died in 1864, aged seventy-seven years. She was a wonderful woman, and was always sought for by her neighbors in cases of childbirth, in which she acted as doctor, midwife and nurse. Mr. Patterson has grown grain mainly, has kept about 200 sheep, and also a number of cows, his mother having been a famous butter maker, in which art his wife also excels. Mr. Patterson was married July 4, 1, to Miss Sally Ann Spaulding, daughter of Orleans and Sally (VanDyke) Spaulding, who came from Seneca county, N. Y., in 1831, settled in Wayne county, Mich; came to Kent county, Mich., in 1, and settled in Paris township in 1837. Mrs. Patterson was born in Seneca county, N. Y., July 4, 1826; her mother died in Wayne county, Mich., and her father in Paris, Mich., at the age of eighty four years.

 

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were named Warren A., a farmer in Cascade township; John J., who lives on a farm adjoining the homestead; Sarah Ellen, wife of 0. Vanderbilt, also on an adjoining farm; Delia May, who was married to George N. June, died at the age of twenty-eight years, and left two children, one of whom died a few weeks later; Miner L., who manages the home I I farm, is married to Sarah E. McKersey and has one child, Ruby, aged three years. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge at Ada. Mr. Patterson has been a deacon in the East Paris Congregational church for thirty years. In politics he is a stanch republican, but cast his first presidential vote with the Whig party, in 1840, for William H. Harrison, and has never missed voting at a national election since that date,but he takes no special interest in local politics. In his walk through life he has always been strictly honorable and upright and has never had. a law suit carried to an issue, and no name in the county of Kent is more respected than that of Miner Patterson.

ROBERT B. PATTERSON. To him who, in the love of nature, as exhibited in the myriad-mind of the youth of a community, sees the need of suitable directing hands, and fitting himself; takes up the work for the love of it, all students of social and economic subjects bow with respect. Such a man is he to whom attention is now briefly directed. With only meager advantages himself for education, but with the same indomitable will that has characterized numerous members of the family, he early determined upon securing the best training obtainable under his restrictions. At seventeen he passed examination and secured a certificate to teach. However, he remained at home, assisting his father upon the farm for two years longer, when he began to teach. He followed this most honorable vocation nearly sixteen years, becoming one of the most popular educators, whose services were in constant demand. He was very successful in this profession, and many of his pupils are now filling responsible positions, for which

 

Jacob Patterson, Miner Patterson, James Patterson, Orleans Spaulding, and Philanzo Bowen, in the year 1837; Nicholas Carlton in the year 1837, and Hiram H. Allen in the year 1838. Alexander H. Clark was born in Trenton, N. J., May 21, 1804. He came to Michigan, in 1828, and settled in Wayne county, purchasing forty acres of land, but a year later he sold it and went to Plymouth, purchased forty acres, and again sold out, and this time went to Superior, Washtenaw county. Three years later he settled in Paris, and in 1836 purchased 160 acres in Section 14. A year later he sold his claim and purchased 160 acres in Sections 8 and 9. He was one of the earliest if not the first white settler in the present limits of the township. He afterward lived in Gaines about thirty years, but returned to Paris and purchased 106 acres on Section 30. Mr. Clark adhered to Greenback doctrines, politically. He served as justice of the peace fourteen years, township clerk three years, and supervisor three years. The Pattersons came from Steuben county, New York, and in 1828 settled in Washtenaw county, Michigan, where the father died, in 1831. The mother, with five boys to rear, educate, and fit for the responsibilities of the future, proved equal to the emergency and continued the management of the homestead six years, when she came with her family to Paris township and purchased forty acres of land in Section 13, where she spent the remainder of her life. The first two years after her removal to this county she herself labored for wages. Her energy was wonderful and her perseverance indomitable, and with the aid of her sons she paid for her land and spread its borders until the tract in the possession of the family included 350 acres. Her sons all settled near her and she was to the end of her life, March 1, 1864, their wise counselor and most judicious friend. Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan : historical account of their progress from first settlement to the present time / Ernest B. Fisher, editor.

 

 

MINER² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 09 Jun 1819 in Wayne, Steuben, New York, USA. He died on 25 Mar 1902 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Sally Ann Spaulding, daughter of Orleans L. Spaulding and Sally VanDyke on 04 Jul 1848. She was born on 04 Jul 1826 in Seneca, New York, USA. She died on 01 Mar 1910 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Miner Patterson:

Miner Patterson was born June 9, 1819 in Wayne, Steuben Co., N.Y. He is son of Robert and Rachel Patterson, who came to Washtenaw County in 1828, where his father died in 1831. His mother, with five boys to bring up and educate, and fit for the responsibilities of the future, proved equal to the emergency, and continued the management of the homestead six years, when she came with her family to Kent County and bought 40 acres of land on sec. 13, this township., where she spent her life. The first two years after her removal to this county she herself self-labored for wages. Her energy was wonderful, and her perseverance indomitable, and with the aid of her sons she paid for her land and spread its borders until the tract in possession of the family included 350 acres. Her sons all settled near her, and she was to the end of her life, March 1, 1864, their wise counselor and most judicious friend. At her death, Mr. Patterson, of this sketch, came in possession of the homestead, to which he has added until he owns 320 acres of first-class land. When he first began his struggle with the world he owned two dollars, an ax and a gun, and three months' provisions. They cleared five acres the first winter, and look back to that time as one of promise and not difficulty. Mr. Patterson was married July 4, 1848, to Sally A., daughter of Orleans and Sally Spaulding, of Paris, born in New York in 1826. they have five children, three sons and two daughters, all residing in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of the Congregational Church.

 

MINER PATTERSON, of Paris Township, was born in Steuben County, New York, in 1819, and removed with his parents to Washtenaw County,'Michigan, in 1828, and to Kent County, Michigan, with his mother and brothers, Jacob and James Patterson, in the Spring of 1837. He was married July 4, 1848, to Miss Sally. A. Spaulding, who had come with her parents from Seneca County, New York, in 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have three sons and two daughters. Mr. Patterson's mother, Mrs. Rachel Patterson, lived with him for twenty-five years, or until she died, in 1864, aged seventy-seven years, but remarkably vigorous. She was much esteemed as a nurse, and was widely known among the pioneers as a most useful woman. -.

 

As long ago as the year 1833, Barney Burton, Edward Guild, Joel Guild, Daniel Guild, and James Vanderpool located within its present limits. Benjamin Clark and Abram Laraway, settled in the year 1835; Jacob Patterson, Miner Patterson, James Patterson, Orleans Spaulding and Philanzo Bowen, in the year 1836; Nicholas Carlton in the year

 

MINER PATTERSON, a retired farmer of Paris township, Kent county, Mich., was born in Wayne, Steuben county, N. Y., June 9, 1, and is a son of Robert and Rachel (DeLong) Patterson, also natives of the state of New York, and who for some time resided in Seneca county, where the subject of this sketch was reared until nine years of age. In 1, the family came to Michigan and located in Washtenaw county, eight miles north of Ypsilanti, where they resided until 1837, when they came to Kent county. The father, however, who had been a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at Buffalo, N. Y., at the time of its burning, died in Washtenaw county, at the comparatively early age of forty-four years. The family comprised ten children, nine of whom came to Kent county with the mother. Four only of these remained with the mother, of whom Miner was the eldest, and James and Jacob, who were married, settled near her in Paris township, but now both are deceased. Mrs. Patterson, who was among the earliest to settle in her part of Paris township, had forty acres of wild land, but both she and Miner, then eighteen years of age, lived out two years, she keeping house for a gentleman in the neighborhood and he working at clearing up land. At the close of the two years, Mrs. Patterson and her son, Miner, built a small log house on the farm, four acres of which Miner had cleared of timber, and this cabin stood very close to the spot on which the present modern house was later erected. Miner then worked out another year, and when he settled down to work on the home place had a good yoke of oxen, which were two-year-old steers the family brought with them When they first came; but one of these died, and Miner had again to work out to earn enough money to buy another. Mrs. Patterson was also very industrious and likewise frequently worked out for others. She did her own spinning, and wove all the cloth used in the family. When Miner Patterson came to Paris township he had $2 in cash, a good ax, a gun and the two steers. He cleared off his land himself, worked for his brothers and two brothers-in law, constantly added to his possessions until he owned at one time 350 acres in one body, and personally cleared off the trees from it all. He was an expert with the ax, chopped a great deal for others, and at the age of twenty years had no equal. Mr. Patterson has lived on his present farm sixty years, built his present house in 1, and here his mother died in 1864, aged seventy-seven years. She was a wonderful woman, and was always sought for by her neighbors in cases of childbirth, in which she acted as doctor, midwife and nurse. Mr. Patterson has grown grain mainly, has kept about 200 sheep, and also a number of cows, his mother having been a famous butter maker, in which art his wife also excels. Mr. Patterson was married July 4, 1, to Miss Sally Ann Spaulding, daughter of Orleans and Sally (VanDyke) Spaulding, who came from Seneca county, N. Y., in 1831, settled in Wayne county, Mich; came to Kent county, Mich., in 1, and settled in Paris township in 1837. Mrs. Patterson was born in Seneca county, N. Y., July 4, 1826; her mother died in Wayne county, Mich., and her father in Paris, Mich., at the age of eighty four years.

 

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were named Warren A., a farmer in Cascade township; John J., who lives on a farm adjoining the homestead; Sarah Ellen, wife of 0. Vanderbilt, also on an adjoining farm; Delia May, who was married to George N. June, died at the age of twenty-eight years, and left two children, one of whom died a few weeks later; Miner L., who manages the home I I farm, is married to Sarah E. McKersey and has one child, Ruby, aged three years. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge at Ada. Mr. Patterson has been a deacon in the East Paris Congregational church for thirty years. In politics he is a stanch republican, but cast his first presidential vote with the Whig party, in 1840, for William H. Harrison, and has never missed voting at a national election since that date,but he takes no special interest in local politics. In his walk through life he has always been strictly honorable and upright and has never had. a law suit carried to an issue, and no name in the county of Kent is more respected than that of Miner Patterson.

ROBERT B. PATTERSON. To him who, in the love of nature, as exhibited in the myriad-mind of the youth of a community, sees the need of suitable directing hands, and fitting himself; takes up the work for the love of it, all students of social and economic subjects bow with respect. Such a man is he to whom attention is now briefly directed. With only meager advantages himself for education, but with the same indomitable will that has characterized numerous members of the family, he early determined upon securing the best training obtainable under his restrictions. At seventeen he passed examination and secured a certificate to teach. However, he remained at home, assisting his father upon the farm for two years longer, when he began to teach. He followed this most honorable vocation nearly sixteen years, becoming one of the most popular educators, whose services were in constant demand. He was very successful in this profession, and many of his pupils are now filling responsible positions, for which

 

Jacob Patterson, Miner Patterson, James Patterson, Orleans Spaulding, and Philanzo Bowen, in the year 1837; Nicholas Carlton in the year 1837, and Hiram H. Allen in the year 1838. Alexander H. Clark was born in Trenton, N. J., May 21, 1804. He came to Michigan, in 1828, and settled in Wayne county, purchasing forty acres of land, but a year later he sold it and went to Plymouth, purchased forty acres, and again sold out, and this time went to Superior, Washtenaw county. Three years later he settled in Paris, and in 1836 purchased 160 acres in Section 14. A year later he sold his claim and purchased 160 acres in Sections 8 and 9. He was one of the earliest if not the first white settler in the present limits of the township. He afterward lived in Gaines about thirty years, but returned to Paris and purchased 106 acres on Section 30. Mr. Clark adhered to Greenback doctrines, politically. He served as justice of the peace fourteen years, township clerk three years, and supervisor three years. The Pattersons came from Steuben county, New York, and in 1828 settled in Washtenaw county, Michigan, where the father died, in 1831. The mother, with five boys to rear, educate, and fit for the responsibilities of the future, proved equal to the emergency and continued the management of the homestead six years, when she came with her family to Paris township and purchased forty acres of land in Section 13, where she spent the remainder of her life. The first two years after her removal to this county she herself labored for wages. Her energy was wonderful and her perseverance indomitable, and with the aid of her sons she paid for her land and spread its borders until the tract in the possession of the family included 350 acres. Her sons all settled near her and she was to the end of her life, March 1, 1864, their wise counselor and most judicious friend. Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan : historical account of their progress from first settlement to the present time / Ernest B. Fisher, editor.

 

 

MINER LINCOLN PATTERSON was born in 1865. He died in 1931. He married SARAH ETTA MCKERSIE. She was born in 1868. She died in 1949.

 

MINER LINCOLN PATTERSON was born in 1865. He died in 1931. He married SARAH ETTA MCKERSIE. She was born in 1868. She died in 1949.

 

CHAUNCEY² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 21 Apr 1823 in Seneca, New York, USA. He died on 26 Feb 1903 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Sarah Dickson, daughter of Daniel Dickson and Nancy Unknown on 25 Dec 1845. She was born on 25 Nov 1829 in Canada. She died in 1923.

 

Notes for Chauncey Patterson:

Chancey Patterson � 1903

 

Chancey Patterson of Cascade was born in Seneca Co., NYY, 2 April 1823 and died at his residence in Cascade February, 1903, aged 80 years. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1828 and located in Washtenaw County. His father�s name was Robert. He died there in 1831. In 1836 Chancy, with his brother, Jacob, came to Cascade. Jacob having purchased his land on preunplowed in 1835, where the East Paris School House now stands. The subject of this sketch, when he was 18, purchased 40 acres of land in Cascade Township on the same section where his present large farm is situated. He was married on Christmas day, 25 December 1845 to Miss Sarah Dixon, a daughter of Daniel and Nancy Dixon, who came from Canada to Kent County when she was 11 years of age in 1840. Children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson: John M. of Grand Rapids; Nathan H. of Cascade Township; Nancy Irving living near the old homestead; George Martin of Cascade Township, Ida May, wife of Fred Shear; and Millie M., wife of William Eardly, who operates a farm in Cascade Township.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago,: C. C. Chapman & co., 1881.  History of Kent County, Michigan ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships ... biographies of representative citizens. History of Michigan ...

 

CHAUNCY PATTERSON, an old pioneer of Cascade township, Kent county, Mich., was born in Seneca county, N. Y., April 21, 1823, and of his parentage an account will be found in the sketch of Miner Patterson, of Paris township, printed on another page of this volume. Chauncy Patterson came to Michigan in 1828 with his parents, who first located in Washtenaw county, where his father, Robert, brother, Jacob, to Kent county, the latter having purchased land in 1835, where the East Paris school-house now stands. Chauncy soon went to Grand Rapids, where he met A. H. Wansey, of South Division street, with whom he lived two years, being permitted to attend school during parts of two winters. He then, at sixteen years of age, returned to his brother's and assisted his brother Miner to erect the latter's house. He then hired out, at $14 per month, to a man named Vanderpool, who lived near the present fair grounds. He proved to be about the meanest man in Kent county, for when Chauncy had faithfully worked six months his pay was withheld, and was recovered only by a lawsuit. At the age of eighteen years he purchased forty acres of land in Cascade township, in the same section in which his present farm is situated. While he lived with Mr. Wansey that gentleman gave him a calf, and Chauncy bought another to replace one given him by his mother, which calf had died. When these had become two-year-old steers he traded them, adding $o1 in cash, for the forty acres alluded to. The next year he added another forty-acre tract, of which eight had been cleared. He made his home with his mother and brother Miner, but continued to work out, and, as he could, worked on his own place. His work for others was the only kind to be had-that of clearing off land-and at this he and Miner worked almost constantly. He became expert with the ax, and at one time cut six acres in twenty-one and a half days, which was considered to be quite a feat. He built a log house, 20 x 26 feet, of hewn timber, and it was then considered to be about the best in the neighborhood. Chauncy Patterson was married, on Christmas day, 1845, to Miss Sarah Dickson, daughter of Daniel and Nancy Dickson, who came died in 1831. In 1836 he accompanied his I from Canada to Kent county, Mich., when she was eleven years of age, and settled where I. Dickson Davis recently lived, at Bowne Station. This was the event of the season, and everybody was invited, there being no one left out in the cold to charivari the young couple. Mr. Patterson, with his bride, in April moved into his own house. He continued to add to his own possessions; for the equity in the fortyacre tract he now lives upon he traded a horse and a cutter, chopping twenty-one acres of timber to pay off the mortgage. He added another forty-acre tract adjoining, for which he traded his ox-team and ten bushels of wheat, agreeing to pay, in addition, $60 in cash, when he would raise that amount. The team was unhitched from the plow, although it was the first day's plowing for corn, and with the wheat was turned over to the seller. For the $60 he gave his simple word; and when his crop of wheat was sold that word was redeemed. Another yoke of oxen was now necessary; and as he had $25 left in halfdollar pieces, he sought a man who had two teams, of which he bought one, paying fifty coins, and exchanging a cow. It took the better part of a day to find the oxen, which were running loose in the, woods. With this team and a horse he continued his farming. From the forest he eventually developed one of the best farms in the township. In I86I he paid $1,500 for eighty acres, sixty of which were improved with good barns, etc. He once owned about 400 acres; but some of this was given to his children as they became of age. When not sharing with them his own land he bought for them farms elsewhere; one, however, receiving a good portion of the home farm as his share. Mr. Patterson has been a hard-working man, but he has worked intelligently. He was successful in raising cattle, making single sales to the value. of $800 or $900. He also grew large quantities of wheat, for which he has re I ceived as high as $3 per bushel. He sold one load of wool for $1,135-the largest income from one load of produce ever taken from the village of Cascade. Mr. Patterson is a republican in politics, but cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, the whig candidate, in 1844. As a republican, he has attended the conventions of his party and worked for its success; but still has had little time to attend to public affairs, though he has served for many years as a school director. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are six in number, and named, in order of birth, as follows: John M., of Grand Rapids; William H., of Cascade township; Chauncy Irving, farming near his father's home; George Martin, also of Cascade township; Ida May, wife of Fred R. Shear, and Nellie M., wife of William Eardly, who operates the home farm. In his early days, Mr. Patterson had a neighbor named William DeGolia, and with him Mr. Patterson became associated for four years in handling stock. DeGolia was a great trader, and instilled much of this science of trading into Mr., Patterson, and this tuition served the latter a good purpose for many a time later in life. A warm place still exists in Mr. Patterson's heart in memory of Mr. DeGolia, who was, indeed, a man of many sterling qualities. t The first dollar earned by Mr. Patterson was when, as a boy of thirteen years, he rode a horse for a neighbor in plowing corn among the stumps. His pay was a dollar bill, which he held so tightly in his hand that it was wet through with perspiration when he arrived home. "The boy was father to the man," as the poet Wordsworth expresses it, as not a, dollar has since passed through his hands that has been uselessly expended. A little, wiry man, but possessing indomitable will and perseverance, few men have done more to promote the civilization and to improve the town than Chauncy Patterson. Of late years he and his wife have lived more at ease and have traveled somewhat, visiting the Pacific coast and other sections. Their present residence was recently built and is fitted with many conveniences not dreamed of when he first settled on the farm. After giving each child a farm, he and wife have ample left to carry them to the end, which will be mourned by all, it is true, but their memory will live, cherished and beloved, as long as Cascade township shall endure.  

 

CHAUNCEY² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 21 Apr 1823 in Seneca, New York, USA. He died on 26 Feb 1903 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Sarah Dickson, daughter of Daniel Dickson and Nancy Unknown on 25 Dec 1845. She was born on 25 Nov 1829 in Canada. She died in 1923.

 

Notes for Chauncey Patterson:

Chancey Patterson � 1903

 

Chancey Patterson of Cascade was born in Seneca Co., NYY, 2 April 1823 and died at his residence in Cascade February, 1903, aged 80 years. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1828 and located in Washtenaw County. His father�s name was Robert. He died there in 1831. In 1836 Chancy, with his brother, Jacob, came to Cascade. Jacob having purchased his land on preunplowed in 1835, where the East Paris School House now stands. The subject of this sketch, when he was 18, purchased 40 acres of land in Cascade Township on the same section where his present large farm is situated. He was married on Christmas day, 25 December 1845 to Miss Sarah Dixon, a daughter of Daniel and Nancy Dixon, who came from Canada to Kent County when she was 11 years of age in 1840. Children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson: John M. of Grand Rapids; Nathan H. of Cascade Township; Nancy Irving living near the old homestead; George Martin of Cascade Township, Ida May, wife of Fred Shear; and Millie M., wife of William Eardly, who operates a farm in Cascade Township.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago,: C. C. Chapman & co., 1881.  History of Kent County, Michigan ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships ... biographies of representative citizens. History of Michigan ...

 

CHAUNCY PATTERSON, an old pioneer of Cascade township, Kent county, Mich., was born in Seneca county, N. Y., April 21, 1823, and of his parentage an account will be found in the sketch of Miner Patterson, of Paris township, printed on another page of this volume. Chauncy Patterson came to Michigan in 1828 with his parents, who first located in Washtenaw county, where his father, Robert, brother, Jacob, to Kent county, the latter having purchased land in 1835, where the East Paris school-house now stands. Chauncy soon went to Grand Rapids, where he met A. H. Wansey, of South Division street, with whom he lived two years, being permitted to attend school during parts of two winters. He then, at sixteen years of age, returned to his brother's and assisted his brother Miner to erect the latter's house. He then hired out, at $14 per month, to a man named Vanderpool, who lived near the present fair grounds. He proved to be about the meanest man in Kent county, for when Chauncy had faithfully worked six months his pay was withheld, and was recovered only by a lawsuit. At the age of eighteen years he purchased forty acres of land in Cascade township, in the same section in which his present farm is situated. While he lived with Mr. Wansey that gentleman gave him a calf, and Chauncy bought another to replace one given him by his mother, which calf had died. When these had become two-year-old steers he traded them, adding $o1 in cash, for the forty acres alluded to. The next year he added another forty-acre tract, of which eight had been cleared. He made his home with his mother and brother Miner, but continued to work out, and, as he could, worked on his own place. His work for others was the only kind to be had-that of clearing off land-and at this he and Miner worked almost constantly. He became expert with the ax, and at one time cut six acres in twenty-one and a half days, which was considered to be quite a feat. He built a log house, 20 x 26 feet, of hewn timber, and it was then considered to be about the best in the neighborhood. Chauncy Patterson was married, on Christmas day, 1845, to Miss Sarah Dickson, daughter of Daniel and Nancy Dickson, who came died in 1831. In 1836 he accompanied his I from Canada to Kent county, Mich., when she was eleven years of age, and settled where I. Dickson Davis recently lived, at Bowne Station. This was the event of the season, and everybody was invited, there being no one left out in the cold to charivari the young couple. Mr. Patterson, with his bride, in April moved into his own house. He continued to add to his own possessions; for the equity in the fortyacre tract he now lives upon he traded a horse and a cutter, chopping twenty-one acres of timber to pay off the mortgage. He added another forty-acre tract adjoining, for which he traded his ox-team and ten bushels of wheat, agreeing to pay, in addition, $60 in cash, when he would raise that amount. The team was unhitched from the plow, although it was the first day's plowing for corn, and with the wheat was turned over to the seller. For the $60 he gave his simple word; and when his crop of wheat was sold that word was redeemed. Another yoke of oxen was now necessary; and as he had $25 left in halfdollar pieces, he sought a man who had two teams, of which he bought one, paying fifty coins, and exchanging a cow. It took the better part of a day to find the oxen, which were running loose in the, woods. With this team and a horse he continued his farming. From the forest he eventually developed one of the best farms in the township. In I86I he paid $1,500 for eighty acres, sixty of which were improved with good barns, etc. He once owned about 400 acres; but some of this was given to his children as they became of age. When not sharing with them his own land he bought for them farms elsewhere; one, however, receiving a good portion of the home farm as his share. Mr. Patterson has been a hard-working man, but he has worked intelligently. He was successful in raising cattle, making single sales to the value. of $800 or $900. He also grew large quantities of wheat, for which he has re I ceived as high as $3 per bushel. He sold one load of wool for $1,135-the largest income from one load of produce ever taken from the village of Cascade. Mr. Patterson is a republican in politics, but cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, the whig candidate, in 1844. As a republican, he has attended the conventions of his party and worked for its success; but still has had little time to attend to public affairs, though he has served for many years as a school director. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are six in number, and named, in order of birth, as follows: John M., of Grand Rapids; William H., of Cascade township; Chauncy Irving, farming near his father's home; George Martin, also of Cascade township; Ida May, wife of Fred R. Shear, and Nellie M., wife of William Eardly, who operates the home farm. In his early days, Mr. Patterson had a neighbor named William DeGolia, and with him Mr. Patterson became associated for four years in handling stock. DeGolia was a great trader, and instilled much of this science of trading into Mr., Patterson, and this tuition served the latter a good purpose for many a time later in life. A warm place still exists in Mr. Patterson's heart in memory of Mr. DeGolia, who was, indeed, a man of many sterling qualities. t The first dollar earned by Mr. Patterson was when, as a boy of thirteen years, he rode a horse for a neighbor in plowing corn among the stumps. His pay was a dollar bill, which he held so tightly in his hand that it was wet through with perspiration when he arrived home. "The boy was father to the man," as the poet Wordsworth expresses it, as not a, dollar has since passed through his hands that has been uselessly expended. A little, wiry man, but possessing indomitable will and perseverance, few men have done more to promote the civilization and to improve the town than Chauncy Patterson. Of late years he and his wife have lived more at ease and have traveled somewhat, visiting the Pacific coast and other sections. Their present residence was recently built and is fitted with many conveniences not dreamed of when he first settled on the farm. After giving each child a farm, he and wife have ample left to carry them to the end, which will be mourned by all, it is true, but their memory will live, cherished and beloved, as long as Cascade township shall endure.  

 

JOHN M.² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 25 Apr 1827 in New York, USA. He died on 04 Mar 1906. He married Martha Ann Spaulding, son of Benjamin Spaulding and Elzia Quackenbush in 1846. He was born in 1834 in New York, USA. He died on 01 Dec 1899.

 

Notes for John M. Patterson:

John M., was in the war of the Rebellion. and was in the engagenents at Nashville and Murfreesboro

Robert E. Patterson was born in Paris township, Kent county, Mich., August I 5, 1863, and is a son of John and Martha Ann (Spaulding) Patterson, of whom full mention will be made later on. February 18, 1886, Mr. Patterson married Miss Nettie Wilbur, a daughter of Hiram H. and Mary (Heintzelman) Wilbur, who was born on Thornapple river, in Cascade town ship, January IO, i864. She likewise was a teacher for some time prior to her marriage. This union has been blessed with one son, Robert Wilbur, who is now nine years of age. Mr. Patterson owns two tracts of land, of forty acres each, and also operates forty acres of his father's farm. He breeds Percheron horses and Jersey cows, and has made several very satisfactory exhibitions of his stock at state fairs. As a republican, he has been quite active in the affairs of Cascade, acceptably filling several township offices. He has frequently been a delegate to republican county, district and state conventions. Widely read on all matters pertaining to the history of political parties, and public polity, and possessed of a vigorous command of the language, he is no mean antagonist in the debate of those questions affecting the general prosperity of the nation. John Patterson, father of Robert B., and a resident of Paris township, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., April 25, 1827, and is a son of Robert and Rachel (DeLong) Patterson, who came with their family to Michigan in 1828, and of whom further details may be read in the biography of Miner Patterson, on another page. John Patterson remained with his mother and brother Miner until his marriage, at the age of twenty-six, to Martha Ann Spaulding, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Quackenbush) Spaulding, who came to Kent county, Mich., in i844, and settled in Paris township, on the town line of Cascade, which land is now a part of the farm of J. J. Patterson. Some years later the parents removed to Cascade township, where the mother passed the remainder of her days, and later the father returned to the home of his son John, where his death took place at the age of sixty-two years. March 2, i854, Mr. Patterson settled on his present farm, which comprised eighty  

On Independence Day 1848, Miner married Sally Ann Spaudling.  Sluman Bailey, another early township reside, performed the ceremony.  The couple's children became owner of adjacent property in Section 13.

 

John and Martha purchased 80 acres in 1854 for $2.50 pr acre and built a log home of the beech and maple timbers which stood in its dense forests.  The couple started farm life with only a single yoke of oxen, but these were said to be the best in the county.  Soon their farm was being hailed as the finest in the township.

 

John and Martha had four children Charles E. (who became the County Coroner and proprietor of the Patterson Sanatorium in Grand Rapids) Albert J., M.D. of Grand rapids, Roger B (A farmer and breeder of livestock, and Alice (who married Austin Pressey. M. D.).

 

 

 

His family consists of four children, viz: Charles E.,M. D., proprietor of the Patterson Sanitarium in Grand Rapids; Albert J., M. D., of the same city; Robert B., mentioned in full above; Alice, the wife of Dr. Austin Pressey, who conducts the Fairmount Home, also a retreat for invalids at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Patterson is a member of the Christian church at Cascade, as was also his wife; in politics he has ever been an ardent republican. Misfortune, however, in its course had not overlooked this amiable couple; but mingling with the comforts and pleasures of a well spent life had laid a heavy hand upon them. For a year or more Mr. Patterson was afflicted with total blindness, caused by cataracts, but an operation has partially restored the sight of one eye; he was not, however, confined to his room or bed through his affliction, and was carefully carried over the worst part of his trouble by his amiable wife, who was in all respects a remarkably brilliant lady. Late in the fall of I899 Mrs. Martha A. Patterson, the mother of this family, passed to the unseen world, hers being the first death to break the happiness of the family circle. A Grand Rapids paper, in noting the passing of this Kent county pioneer, wrote as follows: Mrs. Martha A. Patterson, of Paris township, the mother of Coroner Patterson, died this morning at her home, at the age of sixty five years. She was one of the most generally known and most respected residents of that township, and had resided there fifty-six years. 49 Mrs. Patterson's maiden name was Martha A. Spaulding. She came to Kent county from New York in 1844, and ten years later married John Patterson, of Paris township, who survives her. She leaves four children, all living: Dr. C. E. Patterson and Dr. A. J. Patterson, of this city; Alice Pressey, of Cleveland, and Robert B. Patterson, of Paris. In fact, Mrs. Patterson's is the first death in the family, although her children are all married and have children of their own. Mrs. Patterson leaves also three brothers, of whom Elliot Spaulding, of this city, is one, and a sister, Mrs. Kilner, who resides in Tennessee.

 

JOHN M.² PATTERSON (Robert¹) was born on 25 Apr 1827 in New York, USA. He died on 04 Mar 1906. He married Martha Ann Spaulding, son of Benjamin Spaulding and Elzia Quackenbush in 1846. He was born in 1834 in New York, USA. He died on 01 Dec 1899.

 

Notes for John M. Patterson:

John M., was in the war of the Rebellion. and was in the engagenents at Nashville and Murfreesboro

Robert E. Patterson was born in Paris township, Kent county, Mich., August I 5, 1863, and is a son of John and Martha Ann (Spaulding) Patterson, of whom full mention will be made later on. February 18, 1886, Mr. Patterson married Miss Nettie Wilbur, a daughter of Hiram H. and Mary (Heintzelman) Wilbur, who was born on Thornapple river, in Cascade town ship, January IO, i864. She likewise was a teacher for some time prior to her marriage. This union has been blessed with one son, Robert Wilbur, who is now nine years of age. Mr. Patterson owns two tracts of land, of forty acres each, and also operates forty acres of his father's farm. He breeds Percheron horses and Jersey cows, and has made several very satisfactory exhibitions of his stock at state fairs. As a republican, he has been quite active in the affairs of Cascade, acceptably filling several township offices. He has frequently been a delegate to republican county, district and state conventions. Widely read on all matters pertaining to the history of political parties, and public polity, and possessed of a vigorous command of the language, he is no mean antagonist in the debate of those questions affecting the general prosperity of the nation. John Patterson, father of Robert B., and a resident of Paris township, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., April 25, 1827, and is a son of Robert and Rachel (DeLong) Patterson, who came with their family to Michigan in 1828, and of whom further details may be read in the biography of Miner Patterson, on another page. John Patterson remained with his mother and brother Miner until his marriage, at the age of twenty-six, to Martha Ann Spaulding, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Quackenbush) Spaulding, who came to Kent county, Mich., in i844, and settled in Paris township, on the town line of Cascade, which land is now a part of the farm of J. J. Patterson. Some years later the parents removed to Cascade township, where the mother passed the remainder of her days, and later the father returned to the home of his son John, where his death took place at the age of sixty-two years. March 2, i854, Mr. Patterson settled on his present farm, which comprised eighty  

On Independence Day 1848, Miner married Sally Ann Spaudling.  Sluman Bailey, another early township reside, performed the ceremony.  The couple's children became owner of adjacent property in Section 13.

 

John and Martha purchased 80 acres in 1854 for $2.50 pr acre and built a log home of the beech and maple timbers which stood in its dense forests.  The couple started farm life with only a single yoke of oxen, but these were said to be the best in the county.  Soon their farm was being hailed as the finest in the township.

 

John and Martha had four children Charles E. (who became the County Coroner and proprietor of the Patterson Sanatorium in Grand Rapids) Albert J., M.D. of Grand rapids, Roger B (A farmer and breeder of livestock, and Alice (who married Austin Pressey. M. D.).

 

 

 

His family consists of four children, viz: Charles E.,M. D., proprietor of the Patterson Sanitarium in Grand Rapids; Albert J., M. D., of the same city; Robert B., mentioned in full above; Alice, the wife of Dr. Austin Pressey, who conducts the Fairmount Home, also a retreat for invalids at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Patterson is a member of the Christian church at Cascade, as was also his wife; in politics he has ever been an ardent republican. Misfortune, however, in its course had not overlooked this amiable couple; but mingling with the comforts and pleasures of a well spent life had laid a heavy hand upon them. For a year or more Mr. Patterson was afflicted with total blindness, caused by cataracts, but an operation has partially restored the sight of one eye; he was not, however, confined to his room or bed through his affliction, and was carefully carried over the worst part of his trouble by his amiable wife, who was in all respects a remarkably brilliant lady. Late in the fall of I899 Mrs. Martha A. Patterson, the mother of this family, passed to the unseen world, hers being the first death to break the happiness of the family circle. A Grand Rapids paper, in noting the passing of this Kent county pioneer, wrote as follows: Mrs. Martha A. Patterson, of Paris township, the mother of Coroner Patterson, died this morning at her home, at the age of sixty five years. She was one of the most generally known and most respected residents of that township, and had resided there fifty-six years. 49 Mrs. Patterson's maiden name was Martha A. Spaulding. She came to Kent county from New York in 1844, and ten years later married John Patterson, of Paris township, who survives her. She leaves four children, all living: Dr. C. E. Patterson and Dr. A. J. Patterson, of this city; Alice Pressey, of Cleveland, and Robert B. Patterson, of Paris. In fact, Mrs. Patterson's is the first death in the family, although her children are all married and have children of their own. Mrs. Patterson leaves also three brothers, of whom Elliot Spaulding, of this city, is one, and a sister, Mrs. Kilner, who resides in Tennessee.

 

Notes for James R Laraway:

 

JAMES R. LARAWAY, deceased, once one of the most prominent of the residents of Cascade township, Kent county, was born in Salem, Washtenaw county, Mich., June 23, 1837, a son of Hiram and Mary (Teeple) Laraway, and died in Cascade township March i6, 1896. James R. Laraway was an infant when brought to Kent county by his parents, who settled on the farm on which he was reared and on which he passed almost his entire life. Lewis Cook, the first settler in Cascade township, came in 1836, and Hiram Laraway, his brother-in-law, having also married a Miss Teeple, immediately followed, but did not remain long, as he was dismayed by the prospects occasioned by the panic of 1837, and returned to eastern Michigan, but in 1839 or 1840 started back to Cascade, but lost his way in the woods of Ada township and was frozen to death. He left a widow with three sons and one daughter, viz: Lydia, who was married to Peter Lawyer, lived in Grand Rapids, and died in middle age; William, a stone-cutter, died in Grand Rapids at the age of fifty; John H., a mason by trade and who has remained a bachelor, resides in Cascade, and James R. is the deceased subject of this sketch. The mother of these children was fatally injured by a fall from a cherry-tree on the homestead, her death occurring in 1869. The three deceased children died of paralysis. James R. Laraway early assumed the care of his mother and the homestead, as his elder brother early left his home in order to learn a trade, James filially caring for his mother until her sad end. His first suit of clothes, and his first pair of boots, were bought with money earned by working out, but after that his time was devoted to the care of the home place. This at first, comprised forty acres, but he handled it so successfully that it was increased to I80. He cleared off most of the place with his own hands, set out a large peach orchard, which proved to be very profitable, and was an active member of the grange, of which his wife, son and daughter also are members. He was also an ardent supporter of the church of Christ at Cascade. Mr. Laraway married, October 8, I863, Miss Sallie A. Patterson, daughter of. James and Nancy (Davis) Patterson. Her old home was opposite that of her uncle, Miner Patterson, in Paris township, where her parents lived until her mother's death. Her father died in Cascade with his eldest son, Robert, at the age of eighty-five years, one month and one day prior to the death of her husband. A brother of Mrs. Laraway, Robert Patterson, was the old landlord of the Cascade hotel and recently died at her home, she having cared for him nearly two years. The other relatives of Mrs. Laraway are two sisters, viz: Rachel Jane, wife of Hiram Starkweather, of Lenawee county, and Josephine, married to Robert Carleton, of Grand Rapids. To Mr. and Mrs. Laraway were born two children- Odessie, wife of Everell Austin, of Lenawee county, and J. Clyde, a lad of sixteen years, at home. Mrs, Laraway has conducted the farm since her husband's death, mainly by hired help. The place is a handsome one, with a fine natural fish pond on it', and the dwelling, erected by Mr. Laraway, is neat and substantial. Here Mrs. Larawav is respected by all who know her. Mr. Laraway was a republican, but never sought office. He was strictly temperate and had the faculty of making warm friends, who, with the family, sincerely mourn his loss.

 

Notes for James R Laraway:

 

JAMES R. LARAWAY, deceased, once one of the most prominent of the residents of Cascade township, Kent county, was born in Salem, Washtenaw county, Mich., June 23, 1837, a son of Hiram and Mary (Teeple) Laraway, and died in Cascade township March i6, 1896. James R. Laraway was an infant when brought to Kent county by his parents, who settled on the farm on which he was reared and on which he passed almost his entire life. Lewis Cook, the first settler in Cascade township, came in 1836, and Hiram Laraway, his brother-in-law, having also married a Miss Teeple, immediately followed, but did not remain long, as he was dismayed by the prospects occasioned by the panic of 1837, and returned to eastern Michigan, but in 1839 or 1840 started back to Cascade, but lost his way in the woods of Ada township and was frozen to death. He left a widow with three sons and one daughter, viz: Lydia, who was married to Peter Lawyer, lived in Grand Rapids, and died in middle age; William, a stone-cutter, died in Grand Rapids at the age of fifty; John H., a mason by trade and who has remained a bachelor, resides in Cascade, and James R. is the deceased subject of this sketch. The mother of these children was fatally injured by a fall from a cherry-tree on the homestead, her death occurring in 1869. The three deceased children died of paralysis. James R. Laraway early assumed the care of his mother and the homestead, as his elder brother early left his home in order to learn a trade, James filially caring for his mother until her sad end. His first suit of clothes, and his first pair of boots, were bought with money earned by working out, but after that his time was devoted to the care of the home place. This at first, comprised forty acres, but he handled it so successfully that it was increased to I80. He cleared off most of the place with his own hands, set out a large peach orchard, which proved to be very profitable, and was an active member of the grange, of which his wife, son and daughter also are members. He was also an ardent supporter of the church of Christ at Cascade. Mr. Laraway married, October 8, I863, Miss Sallie A. Patterson, daughter of. James and Nancy (Davis) Patterson. Her old home was opposite that of her uncle, Miner Patterson, in Paris township, where her parents lived until her mother's death. Her father died in Cascade with his eldest son, Robert, at the age of eighty-five years, one month and one day prior to the death of her husband. A brother of Mrs. Laraway, Robert Patterson, was the old landlord of the Cascade hotel and recently died at her home, she having cared for him nearly two years. The other relatives of Mrs. Laraway are two sisters, viz: Rachel Jane, wife of Hiram Starkweather, of Lenawee county, and Josephine, married to Robert Carleton, of Grand Rapids. To Mr. and Mrs. Laraway were born two children- Odessie, wife of Everell Austin, of Lenawee county, and J. Clyde, a lad of sixteen years, at home. Mrs, Laraway has conducted the farm since her husband's death, mainly by hired help. The place is a handsome one, with a fine natural fish pond on it', and the dwelling, erected by Mr. Laraway, is neat and substantial. Here Mrs. Larawav is respected by all who know her. Mr. Laraway was a republican, but never sought office. He was strictly temperate and had the faculty of making warm friends, who, with the family, sincerely mourn his loss.

 

ROBERT PURIFOY³ CARLTON (Parmelie² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 19 Oct 1832 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 06 Feb 1905 in Michigan, USA. He married Josephine Patterson, daughter of James Patterson and Nancy Jane Davis on 11 Dec 1861 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born in Mar 1841 in Michigan, USA.

 

ROBERT PURIFOY³ CARLTON (Parmelie² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 19 Oct 1832 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 06 Feb 1905 in Michigan, USA. He married Josephine Patterson, daughter of James Patterson and Nancy Jane Davis on 11 Dec 1861 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born in Mar 1841 in Michigan, USA.

 

DEWITT C.³ SPAULDING (Aurilla Ann² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 06 Jul 1840 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 31 Dec 1902. He married (1) AMELIA L. HODGES on 22 Dec 1861. She was born on 30 May 1845 in Vergennes, Kent, Michigan, USA. She died in 1927. He married LILLIE ROBINSON.

 

Notes for Dewitt C. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Dewitt C. (w) 21, 6th day of last July, Paris, and Amelia

L. Hodges (w) 16, 30th day of last May, Cascade. 22 Dec. 1861, at

Cascade, by Horace Henshaw, (J.P.) Samuel Kelsey, and Jackson

Spaulding, witnesses. 3:390

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan City Directories, 1889-90 Record

about DeWitt C Spaulding

Name: DeWitt C Spaulding

Location 2: 150 Jefferson avenue  

Year: 1889  

City: Grand Rapids  

State: MI  

 

 

 

 

DEWITT C.³ SPAULDING (Aurilla Ann² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 06 Jul 1840 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 31 Dec 1902. He married (1) AMELIA L. HODGES on 22 Dec 1861. She was born on 30 May 1845 in Vergennes, Kent, Michigan, USA. She died in 1927. He married LILLIE ROBINSON.

 

Notes for Dewitt C. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Dewitt C. (w) 21, 6th day of last July, Paris, and Amelia

L. Hodges (w) 16, 30th day of last May, Cascade. 22 Dec. 1861, at

Cascade, by Horace Henshaw, (J.P.) Samuel Kelsey, and Jackson

Spaulding, witnesses. 3:390

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan City Directories, 1889-90 Record

about DeWitt C Spaulding

Name: DeWitt C Spaulding

Location 2: 150 Jefferson avenue  

Year: 1889  

City: Grand Rapids  

State: MI  

 

 

 

 

MINOR P.³ SPAULDING (Aurilla Ann² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 05 Feb 1843 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 23 May 1892 in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Loraine Harriet Cook, daughter of Lewis Cook and Elizabeth A. Teeple on 12 May 1868 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born on 12 Feb 1848 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. She died on 22 Oct 1902 in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Minor P. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Miner P. (w) 25, Paris, b. Paris, occ. Farmer, and Lorane

H. Cook (w) 20, Cascade, b. Cascade. 12 May 1868, at Cascade, by

H.N. Lowry, (J.P.) Charles S. Spaulding, and R.D. Spaulding, and

others, Cascade, witnesses. 6:19

 

American Civil War Soldiers Record

about Minor P Spaulding

Name: Minor P Spaulding ,   

Residence: Michigan  

Enlistment Date: 07 September 1863  

Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE  

Side Served: Union  

State Served: Michigan  

Unit Numbers: 1067 1067  

Service Record: Enlisted as a Sergeant on 07 September 1863 at the age of 20

Enlisted in Company E, 10th Cavalry Regiment Michigan on 12 September 1863.

Promoted to Full Quartermaster Sergeant on 02 October 1865

Promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class on 02 November 1865

Mustered out Company E, 10th Cavalry Regiment Michigan on 11 November 1865 in Memphis, TN

 

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Record

about Miner P. Spaulding

Name: Miner P. Spaulding

State Filed: Michigan

Widow: Loraine Spaulding  

1890 Veterans Schedules Record

about Miner Spaulding

Veteran's name: Miner Spaulding

Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Caledonia, Kent, Michigan

Year enlisted: 1862  

Year discharged: 1865

Rank: Sergeant

Company: View Image

Regiment or vessel: View Image

Length of service: View  

 

SPAULDING, Minor P.  - also known as �Spalding� - born January 5, 1843, in Paris, Kent county, Michigan.

By 1860 Miner was working as a farm laborer for and/or living with a wealthy farmer named James Patterson in Paris, Kent county; just two farms away lived Orleans Spaulding and his family (see Samuel Spaulding�s biographical sketch below).

Minor stood 5�8� with blue eyes, light hair and a light complexion and was a 19-year-old farmer probably living in Kent county when he enlisted in Company A, along with Samuel Spaulding (to whom he may have been related), on March 3, 1862, at Grand Rapids, and was mustered the same day. Minor was reported absent sick in the hospital in September and was discharged for chronic diarrhea on October 18, 1862, at Fort McHenry, Maryland.

Minor returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company E, Tenth cavalry on September 7, 1863, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, crediting Paris, Kent county, and was mustered on September 12 at Grand Rapids where  the regiment was organized between September 18 and November 18, 1863, when it was mustered into service. It left Michigan for Lexington, Kentucky on December 1, 1863, and participated in numerous operations, mostly in Kentucky and Tennessee throughout the winter of 1863-64. Most of its primary area of operations would eventually be in the vicinity of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.   

In March of 1865 he was at the dismounted camp in Knoxville, Tennessee where he remained through May, and on furlough in June and July. By September he was reported to be �in charge� of the military prison at Jackson, Tennessee,  was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant on October 2, 1865, to First Sergeant on November 2, and mustered out on November 11, 1865, at Memphis, Tennessee.

After the war, Minor returned to Kent county, and was working as a farmer and living in Paris township when he married Michigan native Loraine H. Cook (1848-1902) on May 12, 1868, at Cascade, and they had at least three children: Carrie (b. 1869), John (b. 1871) and Helen (b. 1875).

By 1870 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and daughter Carrie in Cascade, Kent county. According to one source, due to ill health he moved to Sherman, Texas where he lived for some years and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post in Sherman.   By 1880 he was reported as married but working as a farmer and living with the James Anglin family in Eureka Springs, Carroll county, Arkansas. Curiously, in 1880 Lorraine and their three children were living with her parents in Cascade, Kent county. Minor eventually returned to Michigan and was living in Caledonia, Kent county in 1886 and 1890.

He was a member of the Old Third Michigan Infantry Association. In 1878 he applied for and received a pension (no. 162570).

Minor was confined to his bed for nearly a year and a half before he died on May 23, 1892, and was buried in Lakeside cemetery in Caledonia; see photo G-13.

At the annual reunion of the association held in December of 1892, the following resolution was read and entered into the records: �Whereas - Minor Spaulding, after having served with honor in Co. A in the old Third Mich Infantry� and after being discharged by reason of a disability from which he never recovered, yet was so filled with patriotism, that he could not remain quiet, but re-enlisted in the Tenth Mich Cavalry, and served as long as his strength should permit, And Whereas - said comrade, after long and almost continuous illness, since the close of the war, was, by the Great Commander, ordered to the realms above to join the great Grand Army there, Resolved that we tender to his wife, children, and relatives, our sincere sympathy. That we know their great loss of husband, father and protector, is irreparable, but feel that they must know their loss is his gain; that his brave endurance [sic] during life and his noble efforts to provide for his family, must be rewarded in the hereafter; that we fell ourselves identified with the family and join with them in pride at having been connected with so good a man, true, noble, and generous, in every particular. That we cordially invite the wife of Minor P. Spaulding to become an honorary member of our association.�    

She didn't�t.

In June of 1892 Loraine was still living in Michigan when she applied for and received a pension (no. 359257).

 

HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF KENT COUNTY Dillenback & Leavitt

CASCADE TO-DAY. Cascade has been an organized township for twenty-two years, and, according to the census for 1870, Has 1175 inhabitants. Children, between the ages of five and twenty, by report of public schools, 1869 �416. Votes cast at the last April election-227. Property assessed, real estate, $204,107; personal, $32,317. rile following is the present B3oardl of township officers: Supervisor, Edgar R. Jollson; Clerk, Henry C. Denison; Treasurer, Geo. W. Gorham; Justices of the Peace, Geo. S. Richardson, John F. Proctor, Lawrence Meach, Hugh B. Brown; School Inspectors, E. R. Johnson, Chas... Holt; Highway Commissioners, Jonathan W. Sexton, Clinton A. Wood, Chas. M. Dennison: Constables, S. G. Fish, T. J. Hulbert, Minor Spaulding, Warren Streeter.

 

MINOR P.³ SPAULDING (Aurilla Ann² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 05 Feb 1843 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 23 May 1892 in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Loraine Harriet Cook, daughter of Lewis Cook and Elizabeth A. Teeple on 12 May 1868 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born on 12 Feb 1848 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. She died on 22 Oct 1902 in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Minor P. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Miner P. (w) 25, Paris, b. Paris, occ. Farmer, and Lorane

H. Cook (w) 20, Cascade, b. Cascade. 12 May 1868, at Cascade, by

H.N. Lowry, (J.P.) Charles S. Spaulding, and R.D. Spaulding, and

others, Cascade, witnesses. 6:19

 

American Civil War Soldiers Record

about Minor P Spaulding

Name: Minor P Spaulding ,   

Residence: Michigan  

Enlistment Date: 07 September 1863  

Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE  

Side Served: Union  

State Served: Michigan  

Unit Numbers: 1067 1067  

Service Record: Enlisted as a Sergeant on 07 September 1863 at the age of 20

Enlisted in Company E, 10th Cavalry Regiment Michigan on 12 September 1863.

Promoted to Full Quartermaster Sergeant on 02 October 1865

Promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class on 02 November 1865

Mustered out Company E, 10th Cavalry Regiment Michigan on 11 November 1865 in Memphis, TN

 

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Record

about Miner P. Spaulding

Name: Miner P. Spaulding

State Filed: Michigan

Widow: Loraine Spaulding  

1890 Veterans Schedules Record

about Miner Spaulding

Veteran's name: Miner Spaulding

Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Caledonia, Kent, Michigan

Year enlisted: 1862  

Year discharged: 1865

Rank: Sergeant

Company: View Image

Regiment or vessel: View Image

Length of service: View  

 

SPAULDING, Minor P.  - also known as �Spalding� - born January 5, 1843, in Paris, Kent county, Michigan.

By 1860 Miner was working as a farm laborer for and/or living with a wealthy farmer named James Patterson in Paris, Kent county; just two farms away lived Orleans Spaulding and his family (see Samuel Spaulding�s biographical sketch below).

Minor stood 5�8� with blue eyes, light hair and a light complexion and was a 19-year-old farmer probably living in Kent county when he enlisted in Company A, along with Samuel Spaulding (to whom he may have been related), on March 3, 1862, at Grand Rapids, and was mustered the same day. Minor was reported absent sick in the hospital in September and was discharged for chronic diarrhea on October 18, 1862, at Fort McHenry, Maryland.

Minor returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company E, Tenth cavalry on September 7, 1863, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, crediting Paris, Kent county, and was mustered on September 12 at Grand Rapids where  the regiment was organized between September 18 and November 18, 1863, when it was mustered into service. It left Michigan for Lexington, Kentucky on December 1, 1863, and participated in numerous operations, mostly in Kentucky and Tennessee throughout the winter of 1863-64. Most of its primary area of operations would eventually be in the vicinity of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.   

In March of 1865 he was at the dismounted camp in Knoxville, Tennessee where he remained through May, and on furlough in June and July. By September he was reported to be �in charge� of the military prison at Jackson, Tennessee,  was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant on October 2, 1865, to First Sergeant on November 2, and mustered out on November 11, 1865, at Memphis, Tennessee.

After the war, Minor returned to Kent county, and was working as a farmer and living in Paris township when he married Michigan native Loraine H. Cook (1848-1902) on May 12, 1868, at Cascade, and they had at least three children: Carrie (b. 1869), John (b. 1871) and Helen (b. 1875).

By 1870 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and daughter Carrie in Cascade, Kent county. According to one source, due to ill health he moved to Sherman, Texas where he lived for some years and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post in Sherman.   By 1880 he was reported as married but working as a farmer and living with the James Anglin family in Eureka Springs, Carroll county, Arkansas. Curiously, in 1880 Lorraine and their three children were living with her parents in Cascade, Kent county. Minor eventually returned to Michigan and was living in Caledonia, Kent county in 1886 and 1890.

He was a member of the Old Third Michigan Infantry Association. In 1878 he applied for and received a pension (no. 162570).

Minor was confined to his bed for nearly a year and a half before he died on May 23, 1892, and was buried in Lakeside cemetery in Caledonia; see photo G-13.

At the annual reunion of the association held in December of 1892, the following resolution was read and entered into the records: �Whereas - Minor Spaulding, after having served with honor in Co. A in the old Third Mich Infantry� and after being discharged by reason of a disability from which he never recovered, yet was so filled with patriotism, that he could not remain quiet, but re-enlisted in the Tenth Mich Cavalry, and served as long as his strength should permit, And Whereas - said comrade, after long and almost continuous illness, since the close of the war, was, by the Great Commander, ordered to the realms above to join the great Grand Army there, Resolved that we tender to his wife, children, and relatives, our sincere sympathy. That we know their great loss of husband, father and protector, is irreparable, but feel that they must know their loss is his gain; that his brave endurance [sic] during life and his noble efforts to provide for his family, must be rewarded in the hereafter; that we fell ourselves identified with the family and join with them in pride at having been connected with so good a man, true, noble, and generous, in every particular. That we cordially invite the wife of Minor P. Spaulding to become an honorary member of our association.�    

She didn't�t.

In June of 1892 Loraine was still living in Michigan when she applied for and received a pension (no. 359257).

 

HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF KENT COUNTY Dillenback & Leavitt

CASCADE TO-DAY. Cascade has been an organized township for twenty-two years, and, according to the census for 1870, Has 1175 inhabitants. Children, between the ages of five and twenty, by report of public schools, 1869 �416. Votes cast at the last April election-227. Property assessed, real estate, $204,107; personal, $32,317. rile following is the present B3oardl of township officers: Supervisor, Edgar R. Jollson; Clerk, Henry C. Denison; Treasurer, Geo. W. Gorham; Justices of the Peace, Geo. S. Richardson, John F. Proctor, Lawrence Meach, Hugh B. Brown; School Inspectors, E. R. Johnson, Chas... Holt; Highway Commissioners, Jonathan W. Sexton, Clinton A. Wood, Chas. M. Dennison: Constables, S. G. Fish, T. J. Hulbert, Minor Spaulding, Warren Streeter.

 

MINOR P.³ SPAULDING (Aurilla Ann² Patterson, Robert¹ Patterson) was born on 05 Feb 1843 in Paris, Kent, Michigan, USA. He died on 23 May 1892 in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA. He married Loraine Harriet Cook, daughter of Lewis Cook and Elizabeth A. Teeple on 12 May 1868 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. She was born on 12 Feb 1848 in Cascade, Kent, Michigan, USA. She died on 22 Oct 1902 in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA.

 

Notes for Minor P. Spaulding:

Spaulding, Miner P. (w) 25, Paris, b. Paris, occ. Farmer, and Lorane

H. Cook (w) 20, Cascade, b. Cascade. 12 May 1868, at Cascade, by

H.N. Lowry, (J.P.) Charles S. Spaulding, and R.D. Spaulding, and

others, Cascade, witnesses. 6:19

 

American Civil War Soldiers Record

about Minor P Spaulding

Name: Minor P Spaulding ,   

Residence: Michigan  

Enlistment Date: 07 September 1863  

Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE  

Side Served: Union  

State Served: Michigan  

Unit Numbers: 1067 1067  

Service Record: Enlisted as a Sergeant on 07 September 1863 at the age of 20

Enlisted in Company E, 10th Cavalry Regiment Michigan on 12 September 1863.

Promoted to Full Quartermaster Sergeant on 02 October 1865

Promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class on 02 November 1865

Mustered out Company E, 10th Cavalry Regiment Michigan on 11 November 1865 in Memphis, TN

 

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Record

about Miner P. Spaulding

Name: Miner P. Spaulding

State Filed: Michigan

Widow: Loraine Spaulding  

1890 Veterans Schedules Record

about Miner Spaulding

Veteran's name: Miner Spaulding

Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Caledonia, Kent, Michigan

Year enlisted: 1862  

Year discharged: 1865

Rank: Sergeant

Company: View Image

Regiment or vessel: View Image

Length of service: View  

 

SPAULDING, Minor P.  - also known as �Spalding� - born January 5, 1843, in Paris, Kent county, Michigan.

By 1860 Miner was working as a farm laborer for and/or living with a wealthy farmer named James Patterson in Paris, Kent county; just two farms away lived Orleans Spaulding and his family (see Samuel Spaulding�s biographical sketch below).

Minor stood 5�8� with blue eyes, light hair and a light complexion and was a 19-year-old farmer probably living in Kent county when he enlisted in Company A, along with Samuel Spaulding (to whom he may have been related), on March 3, 1862, at Grand Rapids, and was mustered the same day. Minor was reported absent sick in the hospital in September and was discharged for chronic diarrhea on October 18, 1862, at Fort McHenry, Maryland.

Minor returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company E, Tenth cavalry on September 7, 1863, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, crediting Paris, Kent county, and was mustered on September 12 at Grand Rapids where  the regiment was organized between September 18 and November 18, 1863, when it was mustered into service. It left Michigan for Lexington, Kentucky on December 1, 1863, and participated in numerous operations, mostly in Kentucky and Tennessee throughout the winter of 1863-64. Most of its primary area of operations would eventually be in the vicinity of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.   

In March of 1865 he was at the dismounted camp in Knoxville, Tennessee where he remained through May, and on furlough in June and July. By September he was reported to be �in charge� of the military prison at Jackson, Tennessee,  was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant on October 2, 1865, to First Sergeant on November 2, and mustered out on November 11, 1865, at Memphis, Tennessee.

After the war, Minor returned to Kent county, and was working as a farmer and living in Paris township when he married Michigan native Loraine H. Cook (1848-1902) on May 12, 1868, at Cascade, and they had at least three children: Carrie (b. 1869), John (b. 1871) and Helen (b. 1875).

By 1870 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and daughter Carrie in Cascade, Kent county. According to one source, due to ill health he moved to Sherman, Texas where he lived for some years and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post in Sherman.   By 1880 he was reported as married but working as a farmer and living with the James Anglin family in Eureka Springs, Carroll county, Arkansas. Curiously, in 1880 Lorraine and their three children were living with her parents in Cascade, Kent county. Minor eventually returned to Michigan and was living in Caledonia, Kent county in 1886 and 1890.

He was a member of the Old Third Michigan Infantry Association. In 1878 he applied for and received a pension (no. 162570).

Minor was confined to his bed for nearly a year and a half before he died on May 23, 1892, and was buried in Lakeside cemetery in Caledonia; see photo G-13.

At the annual reunion of the association held in December of 1892, the following resolution was read and entered into the records: �Whereas - Minor Spaulding, after having served with honor in Co. A in the old Third Mich Infantry� and after being discharged by reason of a disability from which he never recovered, yet was so filled with patriotism, that he could not remain quiet, but re-enlisted in the Tenth Mich Cavalry, and served as long as his strength should permit, And Whereas - said comrade, after long and almost continuous illness, since the close of the war, was, by the Great Commander, ordered to the realms above to join the great Grand Army there, Resolved that we tender to his wife, children, and relatives, our sincere sympathy. That we know their great loss of husband, father and protector, is irreparable, but feel that they must know their loss is his gain; that his brave endurance [sic] during life and his noble efforts to provide for his family, must be rewarded in the hereafter; that we fell ourselves identified with the family and join with them in pride at having been connected with so good a man, true, noble, and generous, in every particular. That we cordially invite the wife of Minor P. Spaulding to become an honorary member of our association.�    

She didn't�t.

In June of 1892 Loraine was still living in Michigan when she applied for and received a pension (no. 359257).

 

HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF KENT COUNTY Dillenback & Leavitt

CASCADE TO-DAY. Cascade has been an organized township for twenty-two years, and, according to the census for 1870, Has 1175 inhabitants. Children, between the ages of five and twenty, by report of public schools, 1869 �416. Votes cast at the last April election-227. Property assessed, real estate, $204,107; personal, $32,317. rile following is the present B3oardl of township officers: Supervisor, Edgar R. Jollson; Clerk, Henry C. Denison; Treasurer, Geo. W. Gorham; Justices of the Peace, Geo. S. Richardson, John F. Proctor, Lawrence Meach, Hugh B. Brown; School Inspectors, E. R. Johnson, Chas... Holt; Highway Commissioners, Jonathan W. Sexton, Clinton A. Wood, Chas. M. Dennison: Constables, S. G. Fish, T. J. Hulbert, Minor Spaulding, Warren Streeter.