Name/Title
Bird Valuable PapersEntry/Object ID
2022.03.41Scope and Content
10.5x5" portfolio provided by the Hazeline & Perkins Drug Company of Grand Rapids for storing important documents like receipts, life and fire insurance policies, contracts, mortgages, deeds and wills.
The portfolio is packed with just those kinds of papers including:
1. Receipt from Chas. E. Bird drug store
2. Canceled check from Fruit Growers State Bank
3. Discharge of mortgage to Chas. E. Bird
4. Discharge of executor of guardianship for Charles E. Bird in the estate of Moffat Putnam Bird and Don Charles Bird
5. Paper "Relics recovered from the wreck of the Royal Savage sunk by the English on Lake Champlain in 1776."
6. Charles E. and Hattie L. Bird savings account book 1936-1938
7. Minox Chemical Corporation stock, 1926 and Utilities Power and Light Corporation stock, 1931 and 1933
8. Receipt for Mary Street Sewer Fund payment, 1924, from Donald Rankin
9. Rogers and Bird articles of agreement, 1892, for an engine, signed by Wilson Hendris (cursive)
10. Contract with Montague Iron Works, 1893 for a boiler
11a. Contract for ship engine, 1890
11b. Contract for ship engine, 1890
12. Bill of sale of drug store, 1919
13. Sale of drug store to John M. Bird, 1930
14. Property tax receipt 1895 signed A.B. Taylor
15. Envelope of receipts in including for donation to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund, and loans to M. Powers in 1925, to Carl Bird in 1923, to J.E. Durham in 1909, to H.M. Brankenruge in 1925, to Adhr Nielson in 1925, to John M. Bird in 1923, to Charles E. Bird Jr. in 1928, to Geo Hames in 1915, to Stella Bird and Harry Bird in 1914. A Bird's drug store receipt for Ev Durham. A merchandise receipt to H.M. Bird.
16. Articles of agreement for sale of Drug Store and furnishings to Moffat Bird in 1936
17. State, township and village property tax receipts 1874 from 1902
18. Deed from Philipp E. Neilson to Henry Bird Sr. for lot 48-49 Judson in 1891
19. Mortgage from C.E. Bird to A.B. Taylor for lot 48-49 Judson in 1899
20. Mortgage from Stanley Harvey and Esther O. Weir to Charles E. Bird for lot 86 Kalamazoo Plat in 1923
21. Mortgage Charles E. Bird and wife Hattie to Fruit Growers State Bank or lot 86 Kalamazoo Plat in 1933
22. Discharge of Mortgage from Fruit Growers to Harry M. and Stella Bird, 1914
23. Quit-Claim Deed from Reuben Rogers and Charles E. Bird to Duncan McVea in 1889
24. Mortgage from Charles E. Bird to A.B. Taylor in 1900
25. Discharge of Mortgage to Charles and Hattie Bird in 1936
26. Warranty Deed from Deziah Bird to Charles E. Bird in 1909
27. Circuit Court of Allegan complaint Charles E. Bird vs. Stockbridge, Sheldon, Densmore, Johnson, Abbot, Duntley, Houghtelling and Canfield estates, property dispute, 1911Context
Charles E. Bird was an important early Saugatuck businessperson with interests in Bird's Drug Store and Rogers and Bird shipbuilders. These documents give a sense of his complicated world including loans to other businesspersons and transactions with family members.Cataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2022.03Notes
Item "from Bird family" some time prior to 2005Dimensions
Height
11 inWidth
5 inDepth
2 inRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Bird, Charles Edmund Sr. 1855-1941, Bird, Moffat Putnam 1911-1993, Bird, Don Charles, Bird, Harriet “Hattie” Louise (Moffat) (Wright) 1855-1944, Rogers & Bird Shipyard/Line, Bird, Deziah (Van Hoesan) 1824-1910, Bird, John Moffat 1899-1973, 306 Butler/Landsharks/Tripp's/Kruger's/C.E. Bird's/Ensign Drug Store/Wilcox Building, Mize Rose Garden north side/Fruit Growers State Bank/Clapp's Grocery/Flint's Shoes/Walz Meat Market/Griffin/Tanner, Durham, John Everett 1858-1943, Taylor, Alfred Blake Sr. 1846-1920, Stockbridge, Francis Brown 1826-1894, Rogers, Reuben Turner 1840-1926, Rankin, Donald 1858-1928Create Date
April 1, 2022Update Date
May 19, 2025
