Biography and Illustration Index
History of Ingham and
Eaton Counties, Michigan
by Samuel W. Durant
Published 1880
by D.W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia
Name |
Page |
Occupation |
Illustration |
Ingham County Court House | Link | ||
City of Lansing | |||
D. W. BUCK | 140-141 | Cabinet maker, Alderman ,Mayor | |
Buck's Opera House | Link | ||
Hon. James TURNER | 181 | Investment Agent, State Senate, one of the founders of the first Union School and the Michigan Female College | Link |
Orlando M. BARNES Residence |
181 |
Lawyer, J. S. & L. Railway Co., land commissioner | |
George E. RANNEY, M. D. | 182 | Surgeon of Michigan Second Cavalry | Link |
Henry CORTRITE Residence & Works |
188 | Fanning Mills | Link |
Edwin BEMENT | 188 | Millwright, grist mill, manufacturer of agricultural implements | Link |
Lansing Township | |||
William A. DRYER | 202 | Carriage builder and agent for Smith, Turner & Seymour | Link |
City of Mason | |||
Ephraim B. DANFORTH | 203 | Grist mill, associate judge, State senate | |
Lewis LACEY | 203 | Saw Mill | |
Dr. Minos McROBERT | 204 | Second physician in Ingham County | Link |
William H. RAYNER Residence |
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Alaiedon | |||
Rodolphus TRYON Residence |
214-215 | Magistrate of Alaiedon for 11 years | Link |
William P. ROBBINS | 215 | Alaiedon Board of Supervisors | Link |
Orlando B. STILLMAN Residence |
217 | Assisted in organization of Alaiedon, first highway commissioner, town supervisor | Link |
Alexander DOBIE Residence |
218 | Carpenter & joiner, farmer | Link |
Aurelius | |||
Richard J. BULLEN Residence |
Son of Reuben R. Bullen | Link | |
James T. BULLEN Residence |
Son of Reuben R. Bullen | 222 | |
Reuben R. BULLEN | 224 | Aurelius board of supervisors, justice of the peace, farmer | Link |
John M. FRENCH | 224 | Town supervisor, representative of the Legislature | Link |
George B. WEBB | 225 | Sailor, butcher, purchased land in Aurelius in 1837 | Link |
Bunker Hill | |||
Garrett DuBOIS | 229 | Farmer | Link |
Abijah Lee CLARK | 230 | Farmer | Link |
Delhi | |||
H. H. NORTH | 232 | Farmer, first supervisor of Delhi | Link |
Joseph WILSON | 236 | Farmer | Link |
William COOK Residence |
243 | Farmer | Link |
John THORBURN Residence |
244 | Farmer, blacksmith, stock raiser | Link 244 |
Leroy | |||
Albert T. HORTON Residence |
256 | Farmer, supervisor of township for 6 years, clerk for 3 years, school director for 12 years | 256 |
David GORSLINE | 257 | Farmer, town supervisor for 6 years | Link |
Leslie | |||
Mahlon COVERT | 268 | Prominent citizen of Leslie Twp. | Link |
Lemuel A. ROYSTON Residence |
Son of James Royston | 268 | |
James ROYSTON | 268 | Leslie board of supervisors, justice of the peace | Link |
Ogden EDWARDS | 269 | Farmer | Link |
Meridian | |||
George B. VANATTA Residence |
287 | Leading farmer of Meridian Twp. | Link |
Alonzo PROCTOR | 288 | Farmer, tended the toll-gate fourteen years | Link |
James N. SMITH | 289 | Leading agriculturist, civil engineer & surveyor, teacher, county clerk, largest breeder of Galloway cattle, one of the organizers of the Central Michigan Agricultural Society | Link |
John SALTMARSH | 290 | Farmer | Link |
Onondaga | |||
John HARWOOD | 295 | Prominent Farmer | Link |
Stockbridge | |||
David ROGERS | 303 | Dry goods store | Link |
S. C. PROCTOR | 303 | Farmer | Link |
Abram H. FORCE Residence |
304 | Farmer | 304 |
Vevay | |||
James FULLER | 308 | Farmer | Link |
Enos NORTHRUP | 312 | Enterprising farmer, prominent citizen | Link |
Col. George W. SHAFER | 314 | Pioneer merchant of Mason, farmer | 314 |
Henry A. HAWLEY Residence |
315 | Farmer | 315 |
Almon Morris CHAPIN | 316 | Farmer, secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. | |
Joseph L. HUNTINGTON | 318 | Tannery and shoe shop, sherrif, keeper of the first jail in the county, land commissioner, Ingham Co. Pioneer Society | 318 |
John RAYNER | 319 | Dealer in tax lands | 318-19 |
Mrs. John RAYNER | 318-19 | ||
Wheatfield | |||
George BEEMAN Residence |
325 | Twin of Washington Beeman, brick maker, town supervisor, township treasurer, highway commissioner | 324 |
White Oak | |||
Abram HAYNER | 330 | Farmer, highway commisioner, town clerk, supervisor, secured mail route from Howell to Williamstown, county treasurer | 331 |
George H. PROCTOR Residence |
331 | Farmer, member of the methodist Episcopal Society, superintendent of Pleasant Street Sabbath-school, White Oak, county grange association | 331 |
Daniel DUTCHER | 332 | Farmer | 332 |
Ephraim W. WOODWARD Residence |
333 | Farmer, justice of the peace, highway commissioner, town supervisor | 332 |
Williamstown | |||
Roseell SHAW Residence |
346 | ||
W. Z. SECORD Residence |
346 |