History of Hillsdale county. Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.

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HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN.

Miss Helen Kimble, 1858; history unknown.
Miss Barker, 1858; history unknown.
Miss Frances Calkins, 1858; history unknown.
Miss Ida Taylor, 1859; history unknown.
Miss Stoddard, 1861; history unknown.
Miss Antoinette Baxter, 1861; now Mrs. W. H. Brockway, of Albion, Mich.
Miss Amanda M. Rowley, 1861; history unknown.
Miss Rachel Murch, 1862; now Mrs. Buell, Jonesville.
Miss Nora Sinclair, 1862; now Mrs. Perry, Lowell,
Mich.
Miss Caroline Delavan, 1864; now of Alma, Mich.
Miss Ellen Olds, 1864; now Mrs. Charles Stowell, Hudson.
Mrs. Sutton, 1864; history unknown.
Miss E. S. Race, 1864; history unknown.
Miss L. C. Graham, 1864; now of Jonesville.
C. W. Glasgow, 1865; now lawyer at La Grange, Ind.
Miss Mary Ann Prowdly, 1865; Jonesville.
Miss S. R. Taylor, 1866; now Mrs. Wm. H. Niles,
Ottawa Co., Mich.
Miss Anna J. Cliff, 1867; history unknown.
Miss Emma Mitchell, 1867; now Mrs. Silas W. Glasgow, Jonesville.
Miss Lillie Beaumont, 1868; now Mrs. F. B. Graham.
Miss Ella Wade, 1868.
Miss Mary C. Delavan, 1869; now of Alma, Mich.
Miss F. J. Holt, 1869; teaching here in 1876.
Miss lone St. John, 1869.
Miss Minerva Krapp, 1869; now Mrs. Tubbs, Jonesville.
Miss Lizzie Sinclair, 1870; Jonesville.
Miss Sturgis, 1871; now of Scipio township.
Miss Nancy C. Tuller, 1871; history unknown.
Miss Celeste Barrett, 1871.
Miss Emma Meddick, 1871; teaching in 1876 -Miss Clara Munroe, 1871; since at Syracuse, N. Y.
Miss L. O. Woodruff, 1872; history unknown.
Miss Mary Reinohl, 1872; teaching in 1876.
Miss Ella Teed, 1872; Jonesville.
Miss Belle Kempton, 1872.
Miss Frances Dickinson, 1872; died in 1873.
Miss Elizabeth Gaige, 1872; died in 1874.
Miss Agnes La Kore, 1872; Jonesville.
Miss Ella A. Farnsworth, 1873; afterwards of Holly,
Oakland Co.
Miss Hattie Hopkins, 1873; now Mrs. Ida Bentz, Jonesville.
Miss Olive H. Bentley, 1873; history unknown.
Miss Jennie Alvord, 1873; Jonesville.
Miss Mary M. Purdy, 1873; Jonesville.
The present corps of teachers (1878) is as follows: Principal, Professor Gass; First Assistant, Miss Kittie Smith;
Grammar Department, W. F. Hoag; First Intermediate,
Miss Jennie Tuller; First Primary, Miss Dunham; Second
Primary, Miss North.

The School Board consists of the following persons, viz.:
E O. Grosvenor, Moderator; W. J. Baxter, Director;
James H. Wade, Assessor; D. A. Wisner, G. W. Chaddock, J. S. Lewis.

The present union school building is one of the finest in
the State, for a village of the size of Jonesville, and the
school itself continues to reflect credit upon its founders and
teachers, and is a worthy monument to the educators of the
early days, whose liberal ideas laid the foundation of the
present admirable system, and whose memory is justly
cherished in its connection.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.*
"The first sermon preached in the place by a Methodist
minister was in 1834, by the Rev. Mr. Colclazer, presiding
elder, in a log and slab school-house located on a spot of
ground between the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches.
"The first class was organized in the year 1838 by the
Rev. Mr. Manier, the first preacher located in the place.
There were then some 13 members of the class. The following ministers were over the church in order: 1839,
Elijah Sabin and John Statford; 1840, John Statford and
Peter Sabin; 1841, Peter Sabin and John Jones; 1842,
J. H. Pitzell and Peter Sabin; 1843, J. H. Pitzell and Ira
Lapham; 1844, Isaac Bennett and Levi Warnier; 1845,
Isaac Bennett and - —; 1846, S. Steele and John
C. Noble; 1847, S. Steele and J. Abbott; 1848, H. Penfield and John Arnold; 1849, H. Penfield and T. C. Jacokes;
1850, J. Boynton; 1851, - Buchanan and Marsh;
1852, Elijah Crane; 1853, Isaac Taylor; 1854, - Hollstock; 1855, — Finch; 1856, Tombs; 1858-59,
Noah Fassett; 1860, Elijah Crane; 1861, Isaac Taylor;
1862-63, N. M. Steele; 1864, F. G. Owen; 1865-66,
- Thomas; 1867, M. J. Smith; 1868-69, John Hoyt;
1870-71, R. C. Welch; 1872-73, H. P. Henderson; 1874
-75, J. M. Robinson; 1876, George L. Cole;" 1877, J. H.
Potts; 1878 (until September), W. M. Ball; present pastor,
in charge since September, 1878, Rev. C. G. Thomas.
The present membership of this society is about 120, and
that of the Sabbath-school 100. The latter is superintended
by E. Lawrence; has 12 classes and teachers, and a library
of 208 volumes. The frame church now in use, standing
on Maumee Street next north of the town hall, was built
in 1844, during Rev. Isaac Bennett's pastorate, at a cost of
$1200, exclusive of seats, which were placed in it several
years later. The building was largely repaired in 1872-73
at an expense of $2000. The first board of trustees consisted of F. M. Holloway, HI. J. Olds, James Sturgis,
Philip Harding, and Robert Gregory. The society is the
oldest in the town.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHt OF JONESVILLE
was organized by Rev. Calvin Clark in the summer of 1835.
The first members were Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Champlin, Mr.
and Mrs. Sebastian Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Stevens,
and Mr. Carpenter. They had no settled clergyman until
September, 1837, when the wood building known as " The
Session-House," on the lot south of the present church, was
completed, and Rev. Elijah Buck was employed at a salary
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* Items recorded in church book by Rev. George L. Cole, pastor in
1876.
t Sketch by Hon. W. J. Baxter, of Jonesville.