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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

cr1885010201SummaryOfEvents1884.jpg: Round up of 1884 happenings (accidents, mill breakdowns, falls into river), births, deaths, marriages, shipping news and miscellaneous that included weather. HAPPENINGS mentions of Richard Heuer, A.C. Zwemer, Charles Andrews, Mrs. L. Grenhalgh, Mrs. Wanner, Basket Factory, F.W. Greiner, Arthur McMillan, Will Rode, Johnson Mill, Moore & Co., saw mill in Douglas, Henry Utten, H.L. Miller, Grace Bandle, Joshua Weed, Ransom Cole, Mrs. J.S. Dodge, Vernon Grant, Mrs. Kingley, W.S. Moffatt. DEATHS: Florence M. Brittain, Carl Smith, Edward Weaver, Lettie Moreland, Clara B. Perkins, Dennis Dorgan, Gertrude Brown, Andrew Miller, Grace E. Tuttle, Minnie Hudson, Mrs. Charles Labatt, John Blink, Mrs. Charles Voelker, Margaret Shashaguay, Florence A. Cook, Kittie Staring, Eva A. Bandley, Anna J. Fresche, John I. VanDis, James Gaze, James McVea, Anna B. Lewis, Lucretia Reynolds, Emma Oliver, Frank Hinman, Olive Phelps, Florence E. Nies, Milton Rueke, Joseph St. Claire, Joanna Trowbridge, Charles C. Billings, Bonnie Howard, Franklin Hutchinson, James C. Wright. MARRIAGES (local only listed): William Turnbull to Ellen Heath, Henry J. Zwemer to Emma L. Woodhull, George B. Ripley to Georgie Snyder, Raymond H. Gilman to Dora M. Schoonard, Phillip E. Nielsen to Mary Zwemer, O.F. Southwell to Minerva Stillson, John E. Reed to Hattie M. Beagle, William R. Slater to Hannah M. Swerth, John B. Brown to Ida Deming, Clarence W. Wade to Anna B. Griffin. MISCELLANEOUS snowstorm, Saugatuck school 232 pupils, Douglas 128, Schumacher Bros. strawberries, Wren's Co. in Two orphans and Uncle T., Saugatuck, Douglas and Township fiscal year financial statements and election results, special bridge election, mail service, Saugatuck Driving Association organized, church dedications, George Walz tallow house burned, G.W. Donaldson's circus, W. Dickey's house burgled, flag flown on Mount Baldhead, John Tidd, Douglas Telegraph Co. organized by T.B. Dutcher, J.L. Coates ships peaches in October, John Hirner strawberries to D.L. Barber, W. Dorning last shipment of fruit for season, Kalamazoo Lake freezes over, three bears killed by Hutchins lake, Skating rink opens
cr1885010201SummaryOfEvents1884.jpg

Round up of 1884 happenings (accidents, mill breakdowns, falls into river), births, deaths, marriages, shipping news and miscellaneous that included weather. HAPPENINGS mentions of Richard Heuer, A.C. Zwemer, Charles Andrews, Mrs. L. Grenhalgh, Mrs. Wanner, Basket Factory, F.W. Greiner, Arthur McMillan, Will Rode, Johnson Mill, Moore & Co., saw mill in Douglas, Henry Utten, H.L. Miller, Grace Bandle, Joshua Weed, Ransom Cole, Mrs. J.S. Dodge, Vernon Grant, Mrs. Kingley, W.S. Moffatt. DEATHS: Florence M. Brittain, Carl Smith, Edward Weaver, Lettie Moreland, Clara B. Perkins, Dennis Dorgan, Gertrude Brown, Andrew Miller, Grace E. Tuttle, Minnie Hudson, Mrs. Charles Labatt, John Blink, Mrs. Charles Voelker, Margaret Shashaguay, Florence A. Cook, Kittie Staring, Eva A. Bandley, Anna J. Fresche, John I. VanDis, James Gaze, James McVea, Anna B. Lewis, Lucretia Reynolds, Emma Oliver, Frank Hinman, Olive Phelps, Florence E. Nies, Milton Rueke, Joseph St. Claire, Joanna Trowbridge, Charles C. Billings, Bonnie Howard, Franklin Hutchinson, James C. Wright. MARRIAGES (local only listed): William Turnbull to Ellen Heath, Henry J. Zwemer to Emma L. Woodhull, George B. Ripley to Georgie Snyder, Raymond H. Gilman to Dora M. Schoonard, Phillip E. Nielsen to Mary Zwemer, O.F. Southwell to Minerva Stillson, John E. Reed to Hattie M. Beagle, William R. Slater to Hannah M. Swerth, John B. Brown to Ida Deming, Clarence W. Wade to Anna B. Griffin. MISCELLANEOUS snowstorm, Saugatuck school 232 pupils, Douglas 128, Schumacher Bros. strawberries, Wren's Co. in Two orphans and Uncle T., Saugatuck, Douglas and Township fiscal year financial statements and election results, special bridge election, mail service, Saugatuck Driving Association organized, church dedications, George Walz tallow house burned, G.W. Donaldson's circus, W. Dickey's house burgled, flag flown on Mount Baldhead, John Tidd, Douglas Telegraph Co. organized by T.B. Dutcher, J.L. Coates ships peaches in October, John Hirner strawberries to D.L. Barber, W. Dorning last shipment of fruit for season, Kalamazoo Lake freezes over, three bears killed by Hutchins lake, Skating rink opens

Name/Title

Historical Accounts

Entry/Object ID

2024.01.42

Scope and Content

Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings of historical accounts including many general histories of the Saugatuck that has since become the official story.

Collection

Newspapers, Weather, extreme, Family History, 1870 Fruit growing, farming, agriculture, 1840 Shipbuilding, Commercial businesses, 1830 Settlement, pioneer era, Churches and religion, 1875 Basket factories, 0001 Anishinabek/Ojibwe/Odawa/Bodéwadmi, Transportation: highway and road infrastructure, 1835 Logging and Lumbering, Nature, ecology, the landscape, 1836 Singapore, Tanneries, 1845 Fishing, commercial, 1910 Ox-Bow

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2024.01

Source or Donor

Yoder, Chris

Acquisition Method

Donation, unconditional

Notes

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

Location

* Untyped Location

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Person or Organization

Butler, William Gay 1799-1857, Crosby, R. Rensselaer, Plummer, Daniel Ames 1809-1888, Griffin & Henry Lumber Yard/Griffin & Henry Sawmill/Griffin & Williams/Stockbridge & Johnson/Wells & Johnson/M.B. Spencer Mill, Elliott, James 1830-1911, Martel, John Baptiste c1894-1909, Wade, Jonathan 1808-1868, Zwemer, Adrian Cornelius 1835-1909, Moore & Dutcher Flouring Mill/Douglas Flour Mill/McDonald Flouring Mill, Weed, Joshua 1817-1899, Moffat, William Shaw 1819-1895, Walz, George William 1845-1924, Dickey, William, Dutcher, Thomas "Bent" Benton 1836-1903, Hirner, John Lewis [Sr.] 1861-1957, Lone Pine Hill/Dune, Dudleysville, Basket Factories in Douglas circa 1851-1927, New Richmond/Richmond, Fenn, Elam Atwater 1821-1898, Nichols, Stephen D. 1806-1887, Hutchins, Henry Hudson 1854-1933, Morrison, Stephen A. Jr. 1815-1905, Morrison Tannery/Johannett & Crosby/ 1833?-1890, Billings, John Henry 1811-1874, Helen Mar (ship), O.R. Johnson (ship), Coates, Lintsford B. Capt. 1834-1906, Lamb, Lawrence William 1895-1974, Dressel, Anton William 1833-1911, Dingleville/Wallinville, Wallin, Van Arthur 1866-1942, Wade, Byron M. 1848-1929, Taylor, William A., Root, George Frederick 1820-1895, Harbor Court Condos/Terrace Park View Resort/Eyeful Tower ?-1964, Johonnett, Edward, Pioneer (boat), McLaughlin, James, Lynds, Clarence 1875-1967, Shriver, Charles Sr. (d.1905), A.B. Taylor (ship) 1884 / Ottawa 1902-1910, Fishtown, Ox-Bow Inn/Riverside Hotel/Shriver family home, Oval Beach 1936-present, Campau, Louis 1791-1871

Create Date

June 17, 2024

Update Date

January 15, 2025