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

HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN.

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Laton Hoxsie, Mary Holmes, W. Holmes, Anson Jackson.
Section 3.-R. M. Lewis, Thomas Farmer, Stephen Vail,
J. A. Moore, H. Graham, S. R. Giddings, L. Bilby.
Section 4.-John Jackson, J. H. Jackson, B. Gregory,
A. Van Alstine, Willis Kelley, L. Pease, D. Strong, M.
Holmes, C. Van Alstine, S. Thompson.
Section 5.-Burton Lamphere, J. Talmadge, James Westcott, Lyman Pease, Charles Osgood, F. H. Richardson.
Section 6. —Edward B. Brown, Abraham Veile, F. Van
Patten, Charles Osgood, George D. Bradford.
Section 7.-Myron McGee, Simon Jacobus, Anthony
Beekman, H. Walker, A. Ten Eyck, A. West, Isaac P.
Christiancy.
Section 8.-Z. Williams, John Cronkhite, Levi W. Harrington, L. Pease, Griffin Sweet, J. R. Brisco, A. Allen, L.
W. Battelle.
Section 9.-Jesse Hill, Eli Eastman, E. Trumbull, Jr.,
Z. Williams, J. Ferguson, W. Kelley, H. Ferguson, L.
Pease, A. Allen, D. Alverson.
Section 10.-A. Eastman, Francis Hill, H. Frost, E.
Noyes, C. Carmichael, Jesse Patterson, L. Strong.
Section 11. —R. M. Lewis, M. Holmes, G. W. Brearly,
J. Pcrrington, 0. Latourette, John Bryant, Clarinda Cook,
Charles Mitchell.
Section 12.-M. Brown, Jacob Brown, John Howell, H.
H. G. Lossing, Jesse Jackson, E. Wood, E. Cole, R. Colony.
Section 13.-Ama Brown, J. Perrington, 0. Latourette,
W. Bigalow, Mary Ann Brown, D. Baker, E. M. Worthington, J. R. Willis.
Section 14.-E. W. Brown, M. Brown, J. Brown, Clarinda Cook, Samuel Brown, D. Steer, Calvin Carr, J. R.
Grosvenor.
Section 15.-M. Alvord, J. Alvord, John O'Brien, R.
August, Jr., Z. Williams, Samuel Brown, G. Nokes, H.
Ferguson.
Section 17.-Amos Hare, Robert Cox, George Nokes,
John Penoyer, L. P. Gillett, Edward Lumley, J. A. Bissell.
Section 18.-James McGee, L. P. Gillett, D. Currier, C.
H. Tucker, N. Fratts, I. P. Christiancy.
Section 19.-A. N. Martin, John Humrphrey, Martin
Crator, N. Fratts, Harriet Fisk, Philo C. Fuller.
Section 20.-John Perrington, H. McGee, Isaac Lamb,
E. Witherill, Isaiah Straw, H. Carmichael, A. D. Smith,
Jared Comstock, Aaron Clement, Isaac French.
Section 21.-John Perrington, James Halleck, H. McGee, Zebulon Williams, John Bailey.
Section 22.-L. Church, Z. Williams, D. Douglass,
John Bailey, Joseph Paddelford. B. Carmichael, S. Carmichael, S.S. Douglass, W. H. Boyd, S. Staunton, Seba
Murphy.
Section 23.-J. McKnight, Calvin Carr, J. W. and A.
Haynes, Stiles Staunton, J. R. Willis.
Section 24.-N. P. Colwell, Nathan Whitney, A. Lull,
G. T. Burbank, G. Shew, D. Baker, J. R. Willis.
Section 25.-J. W. Ashley, Lydia Jennif, Thomas Servin, Stephen Russell, N. B. Kidder, Nelson R. Rowley.

Section 26.-Lyman Pease, A. Gustin, G. Dailey, T. N.
Bailey, Almon Goff, J. W. Ashley, A. S. Bailey, George
Miller, George Whitney.

Section 27.-Lorenzo Church, G. Dailey, I. Barr, S.
Culver, D. Douglass, Z. Paddelford, E. Gillett, Jr., S. S.
Douglass.
Section 28.-James Halleck, W. A. Codding, J. Arnold,
J. Bradish, S. Van Fleet, G. T. Burbank.
Section 29.-Stephen Hoag, John Bradish, J. Robins,
E. Witherill, Isaiah Starr, S. Clement, G. T. Burbank,
Aaron Clement.
Section 30.-J. Robins, V. Conover, E. W. J. and
Seth Hastings, P. Kinney, E. L. Way, R. McClelland, J.
Humphrey.
Section 31.-J. L. Edmonds, Jr., J. Robbins, Lucy
Durfee, E. W. J. and Seth Hastings, E. L. Way, Calvin
Carr.
Section 32.-W. Culver, J. L. Edmonds, Jr., Stephen
S. Gage, J. Robins, L. Crothers, S. Clement, J. L. Edmonds, Seba Murphy.
Section 33.-W. Culver, J. C. Burdick, S. L. Gage,
H. S. McQuig, E. Gillett, Jr., A. Vreedenburgh, S. Comstock.
Section 34.-George Crane, Anson Fowler, John Barr,
Jesse Vose, Aaron Clement.
Section 35.-B. S. Northrop, John Gustin, Stephen
Wilcox, G. G. Tabor, Samuel Van Gorden, T. N. Bailey,
B. Bump, B. Johnson.
Section 36.-B. S. Northrop, Thomas Dood, D. Rogers,
J. L. Taylor, 0. Crittenden, J. L. Johnson, J. W. Ashley,
A. S. White, T. Teare.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
The first white settler in what is now the township of
Wheatland is supposed to have been Burris Brown, who
located early in 1834 on land now owned by Auretas
Beecher, on the southeast quarter of section 11. He only
lived in the township a year He and Richard M. Lewis
entered considerable land in town, the latter owning, beside
other tracts, the farm on the southeast quarter of section 3,
now the property of George McGee and George Trumble.
Eli Eastman, formerly from Vermont, and afterwards a
resident of Wayne and Chautauqua Cos., N. Y., came from
the latter to Michigan late in the year 1834, and on the
8th day of January, 1835, settled in Wheatland, on the
farm now occupied by his family. Here he died in November, 1878, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Mr. Eastman was a prominent citizen of the township from the time
of his arrival in it. While yet the forest was comparatively
unbroken, and before the fhmilies of settlers were numerous in the township, Mr. Eastman's house was the resort of
those looking for land, and many stayed with him several
days or. even weeks while preparing buildings for themselves, and he may, therefore, be said to have kept the
first public-house in town,-although for accommodation
only, and not for the financial benefit he might have derived from it. The only regular tavern in this township
was kept at one time on the north road, by Bartlett Farmer. It has long been out of existence, and the town
cannot boast of such an institution at present. A very re

markable fact is that a license for the sale of liquor has
never been granted in Wheatland. One of Eli Eastman's
daughters is now the wife of William Timms, residing a