house, and many greeted the army with shouts of, "We like the Americans!" A vacant, unfinished, two-story brick house, belonging to Colonel Baby, with extensive grounds, became the headquarters and intrenched camp of the northwestern army in

AMMI WILLARD WRIGHT, of Saginaw City, was born at Grafton, Vermont, July 5, 1822.

He emigrated to Michigan in 1850, remaining in Detroit for over a year. From here he removed to Portsmouth, now a part of Bay City, where he settled in November, 1851, making that his home until 1852.

During the winter of 1852, he commenced his lumbering operations, and has continued to deal heavily in this commodity ever since. In 1859, he entered the lumber manufacturing firm of Miller, Paine & Wright,

Canada. The roof of the house was shingled, the floors laid, and the windows in; otherwise, it was entirely unfinished. A partition of rough boards was put up on each side of the hall, which ran entirely through the building. General Hull, with his aids, occupied the north half of the house; General James Taylor, Quartermaster-General of the army, with his two assistants, occupied the south side. The councils of war were held in the second story, over the room occupied by the Commanding General, access to which was had by a rough stairway. General Hull, and his son, Captain Hull, lodged, most of the time, at headquarters; General Taylor, being unwell, lodged in Detroit.

While at these headquarters, General Hull issued a lengthy proclamation to the people of Canada. In this document he promised protection to life and property, if the inhabitants maintained a strict neutrality; but that, if the barbarous policy of Great Britain, in letting loose the Indians to murder American citizens, was pursued, the war would become a war of extermina

and after doing business for a number of years, this firm was dissolved. Mr. Wright went into a co-partnership with J. H. Pearson, Esq., of Chicago, in the spring of 1865, under the firm name of A. W. Wright & Co. In June following the formation of this firm, their mill burned down, and they immediately rebuilt it on the old site on a much larger scale, and with many improvements. Afterwards, they erected another large mill, farther down the river, and carried on a very extensive lumber manufacturing business until they sold out their mill property. This firm still exists, but they are no longer engaged in the manufacture of lumber.

Mr. Wright stands in the front rank of the sterling business men of the Saginaw valley, and though shrinking from notoriety, has been a leading spirit in many public enterprises. He was president of the Saginaw & St. Louis Plank Road Company; is treasurer, director and a heavy stockholder in the Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Railroad Company; is a director in the Saginaw & St. Clair Railroad; is vice-president and director of the First National Bank; president and superintendent of the Tittabawassee Boom Company, and holds many other important business positions.

In manner, Mr. Wright is pleasant and social, of a kind disposition, and possessed of a generous nature. He is benevolent to his employés and ever enjoys their hearty good will.

tion. He warned them that no white man caught fighting by the side of an Indian would be taken prisoner,.but would instantly be put to death; and closed with the hope that the Divine Ruler would guide them in their choice to a result most compatible with their rights, interests and happiness. This address is said to have been written by Governor (then Colonel) Cass.

CHAPTER XXIV.

MICHILIMACKINAC

REMOVAL OF THE FORT TO MACKINAW ISLAND— CONDITION OF THE FORT AND SETTLEMENT IN 1812-CAPTAIN ROBERTS' EXPEDITION CAPTURES THE FORT-THE GARRISON SENT TO DETROIT-THE ENGLISH ONCE MORE IN POSSESSION OF MACKI

NAW.

LEAVING Hull and his army at Sandwich, in Canada, we will now return to long-forgotten Michilimackinac. We have seen how, about one year after the massacre, the British again sent troops, under Captain Howard, to garrison the fort. After this, the next event that attracts our notice was the removal of the fort. In 1779, a party of British officers from the post of Michilimackinac visited the Island of Mackinaw, which lies in the straits separating the two peninsulas of Michigan, for the purpose of selecting a suitable site for the fort. This done, they gained permission from the Indians to occupy it, and the fort was removed to the Island in the summer of 1780, the troops taking possession July fifteenth. The removal of the inhabitants from the mainland was gradual, and the fort, which was built on the site of the present one, was not completed until 1783.

In 1795, when the British gave up Fort Mackinaw to the Americans, they repaired to the Island of St. Joseph, which is situated in the St. Mary's river, about twenty miles above Detour, and there constructed a fort. At the commencement of the war of 1812, the fort was garrisoned by a small detachment of British regulars, under command of Captain Roberts. At this time, the garrison of Fort Mackinaw consisted of only fifty-seven effective men, under the command of Lieutenant Hanks. The walls, which had been built by the English in 1780, and which are still standing, were surmounted by a palisade of cedar pickets, about ten feet high, intended as a defense against the Indians. To make it impossible to scale this palisade, each

picket was protected at the top by sharp iron prongs. Through it were numerous port-holes, through which a leaden shower of death might be poured upon any foe that should come near. Two or three guns, of small calibre, were planted at convenient

L. B. PARKER, a prominent citizen and a leading physician of St. Clair county, was born at Moores, Clinton county, N. Y., July 19, 1818. His father was a man of limited means, and unable to give his children such assistance as was essential to secure them a liberal education, but the subject of this sketch being well supplied with the "never give up" principle, found means to give himself the instruction requisite in the important positions he was destined to fill.

In 1824, his father moved to Fairfax, Vermont, and here he attended the common school for some time and until a high school was opened at