Deziah and Henry Bird Jr

Photograph

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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

bf034.jpg 928KB: Digital file on Jack Sheridan Drive 2021.72.02 / Deam-Bird family collection
bf034.jpg 928KB

Digital file on Jack Sheridan Drive 2021.72.02 / Deam-Bird family collection

Name/Title

Deziah and Henry Bird Jr

Entry/Object ID

2023.10.109

Description

Studio portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bird Jr.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital scan

Subject Person or Organization

Bird, Henry Sr. 1817-1915, Bird, Deziah (Van Hoesan) 1824-1910

Context

THEY WERE MARRIED SEVENTY YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bird. (Special to The Evening Press.) Saugatuck, March 11. - With a gathering of four generations of their descendants Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bird, who for more than forty years have been residents of this village, have celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Bird was born at Lancaster, N.Y., in 1817 and came to Michigan in 1835. Mrs. Bird was born near the same place in 1824 and also came to Michigan at an early age. Both located near Clinton, Mich., where they became acquainted and were married March 7, 1839. In 1845 they removed to Wheaton, Ill., and six years later to Croton, Mich., then an important lumbering point, where Mr. Bird became prominently identified with the pioneer lumbering business of Michigan. In 1853 they returned to Wheaton, III., and a few years later Mr. Bird became a charter member of the Masonic lodge at that place and became worshipful master of the same lodge in the third year of its existence. He is now believed to be the oldest living Masonic past master in the United States. The couple came to Saugatuck in 1868, where for several years Mr. Bird was engaged in the manufacture of shingles. He also became a charter member of the Masonic lodge of this place. This venerable couple number their descendants to the fifth generation. They have living three children, twenty-one grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. page 3 top left

Collection

Commercial businesses, Family History, 1835 Logging and Lumbering

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2023.10

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Location

* Untyped Location

Digital data in CatalogIt

General Notes

Note

These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023. The location of an original or printed version of these photos was unknown at the time of cataloging.

Create Date

October 5, 2023

Update Date

October 5, 2023