CHURCHES.

The Catholic Church of New Baltimore was built under the direction of Rev. Theophilus Buyse, in 1871. The parochial house was erected in 1877, by Rev. A. J. Lambert, and to him also is due the credit of erecting the Catholic school buildings in 1881. The early history of this church is identical with that of L'anse creuse and Mt. Clemens. The congregation is large.

St. John's Lutheran Church, N. B., was organized under Rev. Mr. Engel. Rev. Andrew Birsset became pastor in 1879. This church is referred to in the general history of the county.

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church of New Baltimore was organized by Rev. Milton Ward in 1855. The congregation never had a house of worship, nor a permanent rector, but has been attended by different clergymen from time to time. The present minister is Rev. A. B. Flower, of Marine City. The membership is small, but very earnest and faithful.

The Congregational Church at New Baltimore was organized April 29, 1856.
The Congregational Church of New Haven was founded October 20, 1868.

The Free-Will Baptist Church and Methodist Episcopal Church at New Haven, and the Baptist Churches of Macomb and Chesterfield were subsequently organized.

The Congregational Church at Chesterfield was organized February 13, 1847. The first Methodist Episcopal class was organized in 1833. The first meeting held in this town, and the first sermon preached, were recorded in 1832. Rev. Mr. Coe, a missionary sent out by the Presbyterian Board, held this meeting at the house of Elisha Weller.

SCHOOLS.

The following table will be sufficient to prove the interest taken in educational affairs by the people of Chesterfield. The school building at New Baltimore is one of the proudest monuments to educational zeal in this State:

The Lake St. Clair Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 82, was organized under dispensation June 26, 1855, with S. B. Farnham, W. M.; J. P. Fuller, S. W.; R. B. King, J. W.; J. L. Thompson, S. D.; J. McChesney, J. D.; S. F. Atwood, T.; J. M. Chapman, Secretary: and John Lutz, Tiler. The present officers, as installed by Past Master William Randall, D. Hedges, W. M.; S. A. Knight, S. W.; A. H. Shafer, J. W.; M. M. Sanders, T.; William Randall, Secretary; E. F. Haight, S. D.; C. Burgess, J. D.; and Abel Davis, Tiler.

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NEW BALTIMORE.

New Baltimore, formerly called Ashley, contains 1,100 inhabitants. Its location, on the lake shore, north of Anchor Bay, is very desirable. The village is thirty miles above

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Detroit, and four and one-half southeast of New Haven, on the Grand Trunk Railway, its nearest shipping point. The village has four churches--Catholic, Congregational, Episcopal and Lutheran-and a school known as the Hatheway Institute, built at a cost of $22,000, bequeathed by Gilbert Hatheway, deceased. Among its business men James S. P. Hatheway, William Baker, Milo D. Heath, William W. Howe, William W. Parker, Horace Perkins, H. Petipren, C. Schlosser, C. Schnoor, John A. Smith, C. Tornay, E. Willain, Henry Rose, Joseph Busch and R. Teichman. The professions are represented by Joseph M. Chapman and David Hammell, physicians. The pastors of the Christian churches of the village are Rev. Messrs. A. J. Lambert and H. H. Mauffels, of the Catholic Church; A. Deroset, of the Lutheran; and M. S. Angell, of the Congregational. The post office is conducted by Milo D. Heath.

New Baltimore Lodge, No. 1963, K. of H., was organized January 1, 1880, with D. M. Heath, G. H. Benedict, John Carlson, L. S. Parker, C. A. B. Hultgren, H. Zimmerman, Charles Woodgrift, S. J. Benedict, H. T. Leonard, J. M. Chapman, E. F. Haight, J. W. Taylor, George B. Parker and H. L. Brown, charter members. The present officers are: C. A. B. Hultgren, D.; Floyd L. Milton, V. D.; J. M. Chapman, A. D.; Ford L. Milton, R.; William Colloff, F. R.; D. M. Heath, C.; H. L. Brown, T.; E. F. Haight, Guide; George H. Parker, Guard; R. L. D. German, Senior; and J. W. Taylor, John Carlson aud August Colloff, Trustees.

Chesterfield, a hamlet of fifty inhabitants, is located five miles north of Mt. Clemens. A few settlers located there in 1830, but not until the completion of the Grand Trunk Railroad through the township did the place become a little business center. In fact, until very recently, there was not a business house there. At present, Daniel McLean is the village blacksmith; James C. Patton, grocer; O. H. Patterson, cider-manufacturer; J. E. Tremain, railroad and express agent; and Samuel Weller, dealer in cattle.

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Milton Village is located on the Grand Trunk Railroad, eight miles northeast of Mt. Clemens and thirty-three above Detroit. It has three churches-Baptist, Congregational and Methodist-and a district school. The postoffice is conducted by A. D. Rice. pastors of the churches are Rev. Messrs. P. A. C. Bradford, Congregational; D. W. Fuller, Adventist; F. A. Hazen, Methodist; and Rev. W. King, Baptist. The business circle comprises E. C. Denison and A. D. Rice. A. Goodsell is the physician; John McKinch and Ford J. Milton, Justices; William Hortenna, blacksmith.

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.

Hatheway's planing-mill, sash, door and blind factory was built by the Kern Brothers in 1863. Those settlers disposed of their interest in the concern to the present owners. The lumber for this concern is shipped in the Hatheway boats from Alpena. The machinery is driven by a forty-five horse-power engine, and is of the newest pattern. The building is 40x60 feet, and the whole concern under the management of M. M. anders.

J. C. Adams, proprietor of the Adams Planing-Mill, built by John A. Smith in 1877, must be numbered among the large lumber-manufacturers of Michigan. He purchased this concern in 1881, and introduced whatever machinery was necessary to render it a firstclass factory. He is also owner of the East Tawas steam saw-mill, the capacity of which is estimated at 35,000 feet per day. These industries give employment to fifty-two men. His lumber harvest averages 4,000,000 feet every winter. This average will be increased during the coming season, as it is his purpose to extend the business here, introduce more machinery, and invest $10,000 more in the concern.

The stave and heading factory erected in 1852 by William Jenny is still in operation.

BIOGRAPHY.

In the pages, devoted to personal history, are given sketches of many of those men

who made the township their home, and raised it from its primitive condition to the rank of one of the first divisions of this county.

J. C. ADAMS was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, February 2, 1836; here he received a liberal education; in 1862, he removed to Buchanan County, Iowa, where he was engaged for two years in the cattle trade; subsequently, he removed to East Tawas, Iosco Co., Mich., his present home, where he superintends the work of getting out lumber for his mills, one of which is located in that village; the other, to which is attached an extensive lumber-yard, is situated in New Baltimore, Mich., and is managed by his son. He married Miss Mary W. Adams, of Coshocton County, Ohio, to whom was born, May 2, 1860, one child, alluded to above.

ALFRED ASHLEY, deceased, was born in New Hampshire June 13, 1794; he was the son of Mr. Ashley, a well-known citizen of that State; came to Western Ohio when a boy; studied law, but was forced to resign his chosen profession on account of ill health; he returned to Batavia, N. Y., where he was elected Constable; served several years in succession; came to Mt. Clemens in 1820 and built a saw-mill on the North Branch, to which he added flour-mill machinery in 1827. He was married to Miss Euphonia Atwood in 1824; moved into Mt. Clemens Village, where he operated a store for several years; erected a hotel where Fleumer's flouring-mill now stands, which was the best hotel north of Detroit; he constructed the steamboat Lady of the Lake in 1828, which was run by Capt. S. F. Atwood. He moved to Chesterfield Township in 1845; founded the village of Ashley, now New Baltimore; built the first saw-mill in Ashley, and the plank road to Romeo; constructed the first steamboat at that place, and built the first dock there; reference to the political chapter of the general history will give the record of his election to the Legislature in 1838. His children were Alfred, born October 7, 1825, and Maria, born February 11, 1828; the son married Mrs. Ellen Stone, and the daughter married George B. Van Eps; the former died in New Baltimore in 1873; the latter died at Mt. Clemens June 28. 1847. Alfred Ashley, Sr., died a faithful member of the Congregational Church, September 7, 1857. The saw-mill which he built in New Baltimore is still in operation.

WILLIAM BAKER, merchant, of New Baltimore, was born in Ohio February 22, 1845. During the last six years, he has built up for himself a large trade in dry goods and general merchandise.

CORNELIUS E. BALDWIN, P. O. New Haven, was born in Yates County, N. Y., April 9, 1824; came with his father to Mt. Clemens in 1833, and thence pushed into the wilderness now known as Chesterfield; he received his education in his native county, and, up to the present time, takes that interest in the education of the people so characteristic of the pioneers of Michigan; he has continued to reside on the old homestead up to the present time. Mr. Baldwin married Miss Margaret A. Leonard, of Lenox, to whom were born two children-Fred C. and Arthur J. He married Miss Laura Cruttonden, of Macomb, born November 16, 1833, to whom was born Mary A. Baldwin, April 25, 1872.

ELI H. BATES is the son of Ezra Bates, of Vermont, a native of West Haven, Portland. Conn., born in 1796, a settler in New York of 1808, and a soldier of the war of 1812. Ezra was married to Margaret Green January 26, 1822, to whom twelve children were born, five of whom are living; he died in 1870, while the mother is living with Eli H.. aged seventy-eight years. Eli H. Bates was born in Clarkson Township, Monroe Co., N. Y., May 28, 1832; came with parents to Macomb County in 1835, and settled on the homestead, Section 5, Chesterfield, where he owns a well-improved farm of eighty acres. He was married, in 1858, to Miss Cerinda Hazelton, who was the mother of Arthur J. and Berton T. Mrs. Bates died in 1872. In the fall of 1874, he married Miss Anna, daughter of Samuel Wood, of Mt. Clemens. James E. Bates was a soldier in the late war,

serving in Company A, Ninth Infantry; he died May 3, 1864, of disease contracted in the service.

JOHN BATES, deceased, son of Russel Bates, of Vermont, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., October 7, 1819; came with parents to Michigan in 1836, and settled on Section 5, Chesterfield, in the midst of the wilderness. He was married, October 1, 1845, to Miss Roxanna Green, daughter of Maj. Roswell W. Green, who settled in Macomb in 1830; they were the parents of three children, of whom Ellen M. and Warren L. are liv ing; Ellen married the late Charles R. Lusk. Mr. Bates died November 9, 1881; he served as Justice of the Peace for many years, and was a much-esteemed citizen.

H. L. BROWN, a native of Sandusky, Ohio, settled at New Baltimore with his parents in 1858; he was born in 1856; in July, 1881, he inaugurated a printing office at New Baltimore.

ALFRED BUECHLER, born at Detroit December 14, 1856; he is the son of Paul Buechler, of Switzerland, who settled in Detroit in 1848; in 1873, he returned to Switzerland, and is now living there; his son makes New Baltimore his home. He is an active politician, and takes an especial pride in being a firm supporter of the Republican platform. JOHN CHAPMAN was born in Exeter, N. H., January 30, 1783; moved with his father to Maine in 1790; there he was educated at the Green Hill Academy; in 1804, he settled in Ontario County, N. Y., and there married Miss Jane Drake May 20, 1815; his three children, Mary Jane, John C. and Amy Ann, were born in Ontario County, and came to Michigan with their parents in 1824. Mr. Chapman located lands on the Shelby and Washington town line. Joseph M. Chapman, M. D., and Henry Clay, were born here on the old homestead. The pioneer died at his home January 18, 1865, aged eightytwo years; he was one of the clearest mathematicians of the United States, the original writer and compiler of the book known as Ostrander's Arithmetic. After locating his family, he returned to Detroit and engaged in building the First Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Rivard and Jefferson avenues, for which work he never received any pay; he was accustomed to work at his trade during the summer months, and teach school during the winter. In 1845, he retired from his trade and became one of the most esteemed Justices of the Peace and Notaries known in the county; the duties of this office he fulfilled up to a short period before his death. It is stated positively that to him much of the credit due to the invention known as the solar compass belongs; he assisted William A. Burt by the solution of all the difficult problems connected with such an instrument. Mrs. Chapman, who learned the weaver's trade in New York, was the only weaver, in 1824 and 1825, between Tremble Mountain and Mt. Clemens; she was consequently well qualified to aid her husband in the care of a large family, for the reason that her own earnings summed up a very respectable amount annually. It is related of this pioneer lady that, while returning from a visit to a neighbor's, Mrs. Hiram Miller, who was ill, she was confronted by a large, hungry-looking wolf; the mother had the present Dr. Chapman, then a child, in her arms, but yet she lost none of her presence of mind; halting, she allowed the wolf to pass, and then ran homeward with all her speed. She lives with Dr. Chapman, past ninety years, in good health

JOSEPH M. CHAPMAN, M. D., son of John Chapman, a pioneer of Macomb County, began his studies under Prof. Nutting, at Romeo, in 1844; continued under Mey. ers, of Rochester, Oakland County, where he studied and taught mathematics for three years; in 1847, he was assistant teacher at Oberlin College, Ohio, where he remained until 1851, when he entered the medical college at Cleveland, Ohio; after one year's term there, he returned to Shelby, and resumed his favorite subject of mathematics as teacher in the schools of Disco; subsequently, he entered the medical college at Ann Arbor; studied under Drs. Pitcher and Brodie, of Detroit, who had charge of St. Mary's House of In

valids; he graduated in the spring of 1854; he began practice with the late Dr. Cooley, at Washington Corners; he established his office, September 22, 1854, at New Baltimore, where he still resides, and he has won the confidence of a wide circle. He entered the army in 1864 as Assistant Surgeon; served ten months in the hospitals in Jeffersonville, Ind., and subsequently on the field before Nashville, where he had to labor day and night among the thousands of suffering soldiers; again, at Tullahoma, Tenn., he did good service, and remained until the close of the war in that service which saved to the country many of the men who fell upon the field. Dr. Chapman was married to Miss Caroline Fellows, of Disco, by whom he had four children--John H., born in 1856; Ella was born in 1858; Harvey S., born in 1861; Leo M. Chapman was born March 22, 1877. Henry Clay Chapman, brother of J. M. Chapman, was born in 1832; he is favorably known as a public speaker, politician and a member of the Masonic order.

WILLIAM COLLOFF, born at Berlin, Prussia, December 30, 1848, came to Buffalo, N. Y., with his parents in 1851; next to Casco, St. Clair Co., Mich.; thence to Joliet in 1865, and to New Baltimore in 1867, where he was engaged in mercantile business. He married Miss Rossalee Lalond, of this village, May 12, 1872; they are the parents of two children-Urra, born September 9, 1875; and Dora, born September 13, 1880. Mr. Col loff is a member of the Knights of Honor, in which society he has held the position of F. R. since January, 1881.

JOHN CRITTENDEN, born January 3, 1796, in the town of Conway, Franklin Co., Mass., came to Michigan in the fall of 1831, where he commenced to carve out his fortune in the woods, as there was no clearing or even neighbors. This State was then a Territory. Mr. Crittenden was a militiaman in the State of New York in 1814, and stood his draft for the war. He was married, in Albion, Orleans County, in 1818, to Miss Phœbe Goodrich, of Manlius Square, Onondaga Co., N. Y.; has three sons living. Mr. Crittenden is still a hale old man, and has the use of all his mental faculties. He rode on the

first steamboat ever built.

ALFORD M. DENISON. son of Eber C. Denison, was born at Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y., July 20, 1835, and in 1839 moved with parents to Broome County; in 1846, came to this State with parents; in 1860, went to California and Nevada. He was married to Anna B. Milton, of Chesterfield, September 24, 1874; they have three children.

EBER C. DENISON, born in Greene County, N. Y., October 30, 1809; in 1816, moved to Chenango County, N. Y., where he remained until after his father's death, which occurred in 1836, after living to the age of sixty-nine; in 1838, his mother died, and left him comparatively free; he moved to Broome County, same State, in 1839, and lived there until 1846, when he moved to this State and bought a farm in Macomb County, where he still lives, and intends to spend the remainder of his days; he has always taken an active part in the affairs of the township where he lives, having served the township as Supervisor and in other offices; he was elected Justice of the Peace, but did not qualify; was married to Miss Charlotte Mills October 23, 1834, of Chenango County, N. Y.; they are the parents of three children.

GEORGE W. DOUGLASS, born in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, settled in Ohio with his parents, and, after one year's stay there, came to Michigan and located in Chesterfield Township; he was one among the number drafted for the war in this county, but, on reaching the rendezvous at Pontiac, received an honorable discharge. He came to Macomb County while it was still a wilderness, and shared in many of the dangers and troubles of pioneer life; to-day his industry is rewarded, and his battle with the world conceded to be successful. Mr. Douglass married Lucinda Denison, of Chesterfield, in 1860; this lady was a native of Chenango County, N. Y.; for a long time a settler of Chesterfield; she died in 1876. He married Amelia Jacobs, of Lenox, in 1877. Mr.