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.

CHAPTER XXXIX

SOUTHFIELD, GROVELAND AND WHITE LAKE
SOUTHFIELD TOWNSHIP'S FIRST SETTLERS-FRANKLIN AND SOUTHFIELD-GROVELAND TOWNSHIP-GROVELAND AND AUSTIN-ALMOST
A RAILROAD-WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP-OXBOW AND WHITE LAKE.
Southfield is in the southeastern part of the county, in the southern
tier of townships west of Royal Oak, and was originally attached to
Bloomfield for civil and judicial purposes. On the I2th of July, I830,
the legislature set it off as a separate township under the name of Ossewa; but this name was so distasteful to the majority of citizens that
only a weel passed before it was changed to Southfield. The township
is watered by the forks of the Rouge-East and West, and Lee's creek
-which with the main stream, drain virtually its western sections, and
Dry Run, which rises in the northeastern part of the town and takes a
generally southwesterly course, leaving at section 33, about the middle
of the south base line.
SOUTHFIELD TOWNSHIP'S FIRST SETTLERS
A few entries of land in the present township were made in I82I, but
John Daniels, who settled in the southwestern portion of section 4, was
its first permanent resident and householder. His family returned with
him from the east in the following spring. Also came Martin and
William Lee, who located on section I8; Edmund Cook on section 7,
and George White, near the lees on section 18. Mr. Daniels worked,
prospered and was long respected and honored, filling many public
offices in the locality previous to his death in I875. Dullucena Stoughton, Eli Curtis, Elisha Hunter, Moses Rodgers, Elijah Bullock and
others succeeded this first colony within the following two years.
FRANKLIN AND SOUTHFIELD
Mr. Bullock, with his sons purchased two hundred and forty acres
which included a large part of the present village, or postoffice, of
Franklin. Mr. Stoughton owned the balance of the original site. One
of the most noted residents of Franklin was Dr. Ebenezer Raynale, who
came in 1828, was the first physician in the township, the first village
postmaster (postoffice established in 1828), and a physician of high
standing. In the summer of I829 Mr. Stoughton built a brick house,
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