October 3, 1861, as first lieutenant, Thirteenth Michigan Infantry; captain November 12, 1862; discharged February 2, 1863, on account of physical disability from sick ness. James R. Slayton, Leoni, entered service as sergeant Company C, Ninth Infantry September 6, 1861; promoted to second lieutenant Thirteenth Infantry October 3, 1861; first lieutenant November 12, 1862; captain February 3, 1863; wounded at Chickamauga, Tennessee, September 19, 1863; mustered out August 26, 1864, and honorably discharged. Cyrus Smith, Jackson, entered service First (three months) Infantry May 1, 1861; mustered out August 7, 1861; re-entered as assistant surgeon, Ninth Infantry, October 12, 1861; appointed surgeon of the Ninth Infantry October 10, 1862; mustered out and honorably discharged October 18, 1864. DeWitt G. Smith, Jackson, entered the service as first lieutenant Company B, Third Cavalry, September 7, 1861; captain in Ninth Cavalry November 3, 1863; honorably discharged for physical disability October 17, 1864. Alvin G. Smith, Leoni, entered service March 17, 1864, as private in Company B, Seventeenth Michigan Infantry; promoted for special gallantry at Spottsylvania, Virginia, to first lieutenant July 10, 1864; honorably discharged February 27, 1865, on account of wounds received in action before Petersburg, Virginia. Willard B. Smith, Jackson, appointed assistant surgeon to Michigan Mechanics. and Engineers December 1, 1862; resigned May 29, 1863, and honorably discharged. Frank Standish, Blackman, entered service as first lieutenant Twenty-sixth Mich igan Infantry September 1, 1862; resigned July 31, 1863, and honorably discharged. Henry A. Stettson, Jackson, entered service at first lieutenant in Fourth Regiment Michigan Cavalry, August 13, 1862; resigned January 13, 1863, and honorably discharged. Byron Stoddard, Concord, entered the service August 20, 1861, as sergeant Company I, Sixth Michigan Infantry; second lieutenant July 1, 1863; died of disease at Port Hudson, Louisiana, July 17, 1863. Rowan Summers, Jackson, entered service as first lieutenant Seventeenth Infantry, June 17, 1862; wounded in action at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862; resigned March 14, 1863, and honorably discharged. Joseph Tunnicliff, Jr., Jackson, entered the service as surgeon of the Fourth Infantry May 26, 1861; was transferred to the First Infantry August 17, 1861; resigned December 10, 1862, and was appointed special agent to look after Michigan troops in Washington hospitals. William W. Van Antwerp, Jackson, entered the service as second lieutenant of the Fourth Cavalry, August 13, 1862; made first lieutenant December 18, 1862; captain June 27, 1863; was made brevet major United States volunteers for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, including the capture of Jefferson Davis; mustered out July 2, 1865, and honorably discharged. Myron C. Wade, Jefferson, entered service as a private in Company C, Ninth Michigan Infantry, September 6, 1861; sergeant, March 29, 1863; second lieutenant January 8, 1864; resigned August 10, 1865, and honorably discharged. Silas P. Warner, Grass Lake, entered the service as a captain in the Twentieth Michigan Infantry, July 29, 1862; resigned on account of disability, December 31, 1863, and was honorably discharged. Dewitt Clinton Welling, Jackson, entered service May 1, 1861, as corporal Company B, First (three months) Infantry; mustered out August 7, 1861; re-entered November 4, 1861, as sergeant Company G, Tenth Infantry; second lieutenant November 10, 1862; first lieutenant May 13, 1863; wounded in action at Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864; honorably discharged for disability February 22, 1865. Charles P. Wemple, Grass Lake, entered service August 17, 1862, as sergeant in Company F, Seventeenth Infantry; made second lieutenant May 26, 1865; mustered out June 23, 1865, and honorably discharged. John Williams, Jackson, entered the service December 19, 1863, as quartermaster sergeant of Eighth Infantry: second lieutenant June 6, 1865; mustered out July 30, 1865, and honorably discharged. William Winnegar, Grass Lake, entered the service as second lieutenant of Company F, Seventeenth Michigan Infantry, August 17, 1862; first lieutenant De cember 28, 1862; captain September 14, 1863; resigned December 24, 1863, on account of sickness and was honorably discharged. William H. Withington, Jackson, entered the service May 1, 1861, as captain of Company B, First (three months) Infantry; taken prisoner at Bull Run July 21, 1861; released January 20, 1862; made colonel Seventeenth Michigan Infantry August 11, 1862; resigned March 21, 1863, and was honorably discharged; brevetted brigadier general United States Volunteers March 25, 1865, for conspicuous gallantry at the action at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862. Charles B. Wood, Jackson, entered service as first lieutenant and quartermaster, new Fourth Infantry, March 6, 1865; mustered out May 26, 1866, and honorably discharged. Charles B. Wood, Jackson, entered service August 11, 1862, as sergeant of Company K, Seventeenth Infantry; made second lieutenant May 26, 1865; mustered out and honorably discharged June 3, 1865. John E. Woodruff, Jackson, entered the service October 3, 1861, as second lieutenant Thirteenth Infantry; resigned December 8, 1862, and honorably discharged. 4 CHAPTER XXV. A FEW HISTORICAL EVENTS. tory of the abducted boy. Many people, including the writer, flocked to see him, but nobody was fully convinced of his identity. The connection of his father and his uncle, Capt. A. F. Fitch, with the great railroad company trial, in 1851, gave added interest to this strange case. The discovery and opening of the coal mine in 1857 was an event of marked importance of Jackson. For several years subsequently, the coal industry was a very prominent one, and attracted a large amount of capital and labor, but the mines began to fail about 1880, and though a few are still worked, the coal mining industry has been gradually declining, as the best and most productive properties have been exhausted. One of the historic events that excited | published a pamphlet purporting to be a hisunusual interest at the time and for some subsequent years was the mysterious disappearance of the five-year-old son of Ami Filley. Mr. Filley and his family came to Jackson from Connecticut in June, 1833, and located a farm about six miles south of the village. In August, 1827, his son William, then five years old, was allowed to go to a large huckleberry swamp about a mile from the home, with two girls named Mary and Jane Mount, to gather berries. After picking berries for a time the boy grew tired and wanted to go home. The girls The girls conducted him to the edge of the swamp and put him on the trail and showed him the way to the home, which was in sight, not doubting he would go there. But the But the boy was never seen afterwards. It was supposed he had been abducted by Indians, who were quite plentiful around the swamps. An alarm was sounded and the settlers turned out and searched the country for weeks, but no trace of the lost boy was ever foun·l. The loss was advertised in the newspapers all over the county, and large rewards offered by Mr. Filly and his relatives in Connecticut, but without avail. The sensation was revived in 1867, when a half savage straggler was discovered who claimed his name was William Willey, and J. Z. Ballard, whose wife was a sister of William Filley, The establishment of manufacturing industries at the state prison in 1844 to 1850, gave a great impetus to Jackson, and for many years the manufacture of cloth, boots and shoes, wagons, furniture, and farm tools was a great and successful feature of the business of the place. But agitation against "prison-made goods" and other conditions have operated to bring convict labor into ill-repute, and these industries have largely died out. In fact the state prison is today rather a detriment instead of a benefit to the city. ا The great railroad strike of 1877 was an event of considerable importance to Jackson. It was not of long duration, but it was at the time fraught with serious consequences. The prompt action of the citizens and the city and state authorities prevented bloodshed and destruction of property, but the danger was a lesson to all that such disturbances had best be avoided, and it is to the credit of all that no such attempt at coercion has since been attempted at this point. Jackson county has had its full quota of criminal excitements and it may seem singular that so few have received the punishment usual in such cases. The first suicide in the county was that of a man named Mason, in Tompkins, in June, 1846. Mason was arrested for abusing his wife and family. He was taken before Justice David Adams and the examination being adjourned, he returned home, loaded his gun and shot himself through the body, causing almost instant death. In 1847 John Barker, of Leoni township, was killed by his son, William Barker, with a blow from an axe, while chopping together in the woods. The son fled the country and was never apprehended and punished. In 1878 Marion Dodge parted with his wife, and, meeting her in the road one day, demanded she should return home with him. On her refusal he shot her several times with a pistol. He then turned the weapon upon himself and inflicted a fatal wound. The wife was found and taken to her home, where she was placed under the care of Dr. Chittock and ultimately recovered. In June, 1870, Pulaski Harrington got into an altercation with William Mallory in the town of Blackman, and struck him a blow that caused his death. Harrington was arrested and tried twice, the jury finally acquitting him. In August, 1870, Lucas Westbrook was arrested for the murder of one Kennedy, in Grass Lake, but upon trial he was acquitted. In 1872 Howard Gridly and John Williams got into an altercation over politics in Jackson. Williams called Gridly a liar, when the latter struck Williams a blow with his fist that caused the latter's death. He was tried and found guilty of manslaughter. Judge Higby fined Gridly two hundred dollars, which was paid. In 1871, Warren Northrop was killed by his sister with a shot gun. The verdict was that it was done in self defense. In 1877 Daniel Lincoln and his son-inlaw. Martin Eckert, got into a fight while on a drunk, and Eckert was killed. The case was tried twice and the jury disagreed and Lincoln was discharged. In January 1888, an aged widow by the name of Deborah Greene was found murdered in her home near Liberty. Subsequently the crime was laid to E. B. Walworth, a neighbor. He was arrested and tried three times, the jury each time disagreeing. The case was then dismissed. In 1879, William Rumsey was shot by Charles Dornell, in Tompkins. The outcome of the trial was that it was done in selfdefense. The most tragic incident in the history of Jackson county, was the murder of the Crouch family, November 22, 1883. Four members of the family, Jacob Crouch, his daughter Eunice, and her husband, Henry White, and a visitor named William Polly being the victims. They were all shot to death in their beds. Suspicion fell upon a son-in-law named Holcomb and two sons as the instigators. A short time afterwards. Mrs. Holcomb, who was Jacob Crouch's daughter, committed suicide, a detective named Brown was fired at on the road in the night and a man named Foy, who worked for Holcomb, was killed at the Crouch home. The outcome of the tragedy was six deaths and several attempts at murder. D. H. Holcomb, a son-in-law, and Judd D. Crouch, a son, were finally arrested and Holcomb was brought to trial. trial lasted several weeks and caused unparalleled excitement. Holcomb was finally acquitted and the other other case dropped. Twenty years have nearly passed and the Crouch tragedy is as far from solution as when first perpetrated. The The celebrated Lattimer murder is so recent and the facts so well known they need not be repeated. In this case the culprit was convicted and is still in state prison. Since 1890 there have been several cases for murder trial in our courts and but one conviction. It seems the consciences of Jackson county farmers are quite too tender to punish the crime of murder. The murderers' tendency to plead insanity in criminal cases, and the ease with which "expert" testimony can be produced, has almost made murderers immune from punishment. In fact it has become almost the only crime. that can be committed with impunity. twenty-seven terribly mutilated. Although only two of the victims were Jackson citizens, the terrible accident cast a gloom over the city for several weeks, as the deaths followed one after another. The second collision took place at the union depot in September, 1893, and was caused by an excursion train for the World's Fair dashing into the rear of a passenger train in waiting at the depot. By this accident thirteen men were killed and thirty wounded. The engineer of the extra train supposed the track was clear and did not have his train under control, and this neglect was the cause of the terrible disaster. Outside these two horrors, the people of Jackson have not been called to witness any serious railroad accidents. In the line of fire calamities the city has been singularly free from large conflagrations. The only fires of much importance have been the burning of the old Bascomb tavern, in 1858, the Marion House, in 1870, and the destruction of the Union block, in 1881. Several manufacturing plants have been burned at different times, but there have been no disastrous fires in the history of the city. One reason of this is in the fact that Jackson has and has always main| tained an excellent fire department, second in efficiency and equipment to no other city of its size in the country. SOME FIRST EVENTS IN JACKSON CITY. First white visitors, Horace Blackman and Alexander Laverty, July 3, 1829. Two terrible railroad accidents are among the historical events of the city. The first occurred on October 10, 1879, at the Junction, when a west bound express collided with a freight train that was just pulling out on the main track. The result of this collision was fifteen killed outright and | 1830. First building, Blackman's log cabin. First celebration, Fourth of July, 1829. First road, surveyed by J. F. Stratton. First plat made, Blackman's, March, |