History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

472 HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY
of the future Springfield plat, and it was probably in the following year
that John Husted and family located on the northern part of section 27.
The old Husted settlement grew up around them; but in 1836 Isaac
Anderson and his family came from Attica, New York, and occupied
the lands which he had purchased on sections 22 and 27. Various members of the family became so in evidence that the neighborhood was soon
known as the Anderson settlement, and the name was therefore attached
to the postoffice.
DAVISBURG
Davisburg, northwest of the center of the township, is the only
settlement which can be called a village. Cornelius Davis, of Ulster
county, New York, accompanied by his wife, five sons and two daughters, in the fall of 1836 occupied their homestead on section 20, now the
eastern part of the present site of the plat which has borne the family
name since the establishment of the postoffice in I854. The village lots
were laid out by John C., Cornelius and James H. Davis (father and
two sons), in 1857, and Michael G. Hickey, G. M. Lyon and others afterward made additions to the original plat. The completion of the Detroit
& Milwaukee railway to that point gave Davisburg its start as a permanent village; and it was John C. Davis who was mostly back of it.
He it was who opened the first store and erected the grist mill. The
Hickeys also accomplished much, William Hickey establishing a foundry
in I865 for the manufacture of agricultural implements. About the
same time Charles Weatherson erected a combination plant for the sawing of lumber and the (separate) grinding of plaster and feed.
Davisburg has now a population of perhaps two hundred people
and is a station on the Grand Trunk line and is located on the Shiawassee
river. Its feed mill and elevator, of Io,ooo bushels' capacity, is owned
and operated by Stiles Brothers, and it has a number of stores which
have a fair neighborhood trade. Its banking is done at Holly. The
Union school is under Miss Sara E. Maltby. The Methodists (Episcopal
and Protestant), have two societies, and the Masons are well represented
by members of both sexes. The local Order of the Eastern Star was
founded in June, I912.
The first school in Davisburg was established in I856 or 1857, the
first term of school being taught by Emma Mosey. In I858 a small
frame school house was built, and it is yet in use. In more recent
years,-about I89o-another room was added to the original structure,
sufficiently large to double its seating capacity. The school grounds
were purchased from John Davis, being a part of his farm. A few of
the principals who have had charge of the Davisburg schools since organization are here given: John Donovan of Bay City, one time representative; Marion Short, of Amy, Michigan; Mary Ogden, of California;
Elmer E. Hymers, of Pontiac; Anna Winn, Alma, Michigan; Sara E.
Maltby, of Davisburg, present principal, as before noted.
HIGHLAND'S PHYSICAL FEATURES
Highland is the middle western township of the county, and was thus
named at its organization in March, 1835, because its surface was then