Identifier: historyofshiawas01elli (find matches)
Title: History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
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Publisher: Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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demanded. The earliest school in Hazel-ton was taught in the year 1851, by Mrs. Daniel L. Pat-terson, in a log cabin standing upon the farm of her hu.sband,on section 22, which was built by John Willis. It wasembraced within the boundaries of district No. 1, and thesucceeding teacher was Miss Mary Gillet, now Mrs. NathanColby. The earliest school in the Judd neighborhood wastaught by Miss Jane Judd, now Mrs. John Bowman, in1854, in a log school-house built the same year on sec-tion 34. The present territory of Hazelton is divided into sevenwhole, and two fractional, districts. The board of directorsis composed of the following gentlemen : John A. Fitch,L. H. Barrett, G. Garner, Enoch Wing, Batus Snyder, F.J. Richardson, I. S. Jones, D. Beatty, J. C. Bronson. The number of children receiving instruction is fourhundred and forty-eight, of whom twenty-eight are non-residents. They are under the direction of eight male andnine female teachers. The value of school property in tno ObO N 5:
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HAZELTON TOWNSHIP. 233 Hazelton is four thousand eight hundred dollars, which in-cludes one log and eight frame school-houses. CHUROH HISTORY.METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The first class of this deuouiinatiou was organized Feb.21, 1858, under the direction of Kev. S. W. Wooster, ithaving been at that time a part of the Owos.so district.Its members were John Judd, Loren Bensley, MatildaJudd, Jane Bensley, Mary Kellogg, Julius Kellogg, JohnBowman, Klisha Coons, Hep.sah Coons, Jane Bowman,Moses A. Pixley, John Judd, Jr., Edward Judd, LorenzoBrigham, John Meeker, Betsey Meeker. The Rev. S. W.Wooster, after having organized tlie class, left it in chargeof Rev. Jesse Bradford, now of Grand Rapids, who wasthe active pastor for a period of five years, Loren Bensleyhaving been the first class-leader. In 1859 it was reorgan-ized and became a part of the Corunna Circuit. Rev. L.H. York succeeded to the pastorate in 1859, and D. W.Hammond acted as supply. Since that time the clergymenin succession

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