Mary Jane Wilson was the daughter of Robert and Margaret Wilson. She married Joseph Tarr Copeland on July 19, 1835.
Copeland was born in New Castle, Maine. He studied at Harvard College and then read law under Daniel Webster. In 1844 he moved to St. Clair, Michigan and latter built a sawmill in Bay City, Michigan
Together they had three children:
* Frederick Augustus born June 6, 1836, in Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
* Florence Hortense born May 9, 1840, in New Portland, Maine
*Agnes Theresa born June 10, 1842, in New Portland, Maine
"The elite of Pontiac frequently rode out in their fine carriages to call on the Copelands. When I was about 10 years of age we were greatly surprised to hear that some Pontiac business men had entered into a partnership with General Copeland to build a summer resort hotel on his premises, using the castle as a nucleus for it. Soon after, hammers and saws were resounding and two long wooden wings were built extending sideways from either side of the castle, while a lobby was finished off in the latter. A great opening of the hotel took place the next year in June and it became crowded with the elite of Detroit. A four horse frontier stage coach with cowboy driver and covered with leather trappings in true western style plied with cracking of whips and much apparent abandon at top speed between the railroad depot at Pontiac and the hotel, meeting all passenger trains."
- From "Orchard Lake and its Island" by Willis C. Ward
Copeland was born in New Castle, Maine. He studied at Harvard College and then read law under Daniel Webster. In 1844 he moved to St. Clair, Michigan and latter built a sawmill in Bay City, Michigan
Together they had three children:
* Frederick Augustus born June 6, 1836, in Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
* Florence Hortense born May 9, 1840, in New Portland, Maine
*Agnes Theresa born June 10, 1842, in New Portland, Maine
"The elite of Pontiac frequently rode out in their fine carriages to call on the Copelands. When I was about 10 years of age we were greatly surprised to hear that some Pontiac business men had entered into a partnership with General Copeland to build a summer resort hotel on his premises, using the castle as a nucleus for it. Soon after, hammers and saws were resounding and two long wooden wings were built extending sideways from either side of the castle, while a lobby was finished off in the latter. A great opening of the hotel took place the next year in June and it became crowded with the elite of Detroit. A four horse frontier stage coach with cowboy driver and covered with leather trappings in true western style plied with cracking of whips and much apparent abandon at top speed between the railroad depot at Pontiac and the hotel, meeting all passenger trains."
- From "Orchard Lake and its Island" by Willis C. Ward
Mary Jane Wilson was the daughter of Robert and Margaret Wilson. She married Joseph Tarr Copeland on July 19, 1835.
Copeland was born in New Castle, Maine. He studied at Harvard College and then read law under Daniel Webster. In 1844 he moved to St. Clair, Michigan and latter built a sawmill in Bay City, Michigan
Together they had three children:
* Frederick Augustus born June 6, 1836, in Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
* Florence Hortense born May 9, 1840, in New Portland, Maine
*Agnes Theresa born June 10, 1842, in New Portland, Maine
"The elite of Pontiac frequently rode out in their fine carriages to call on the Copelands. When I was about 10 years of age we were greatly surprised to hear that some Pontiac business men had entered into a partnership with General Copeland to build a summer resort hotel on his premises, using the castle as a nucleus for it. Soon after, hammers and saws were resounding and two long wooden wings were built extending sideways from either side of the castle, while a lobby was finished off in the latter. A great opening of the hotel took place the next year in June and it became crowded with the elite of Detroit. A four horse frontier stage coach with cowboy driver and covered with leather trappings in true western style plied with cracking of whips and much apparent abandon at top speed between the railroad depot at Pontiac and the hotel, meeting all passenger trains."
- From "Orchard Lake and its Island" by Willis C. Ward
Copeland was born in New Castle, Maine. He studied at Harvard College and then read law under Daniel Webster. In 1844 he moved to St. Clair, Michigan and latter built a sawmill in Bay City, Michigan
Together they had three children:
* Frederick Augustus born June 6, 1836, in Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
* Florence Hortense born May 9, 1840, in New Portland, Maine
*Agnes Theresa born June 10, 1842, in New Portland, Maine
"The elite of Pontiac frequently rode out in their fine carriages to call on the Copelands. When I was about 10 years of age we were greatly surprised to hear that some Pontiac business men had entered into a partnership with General Copeland to build a summer resort hotel on his premises, using the castle as a nucleus for it. Soon after, hammers and saws were resounding and two long wooden wings were built extending sideways from either side of the castle, while a lobby was finished off in the latter. A great opening of the hotel took place the next year in June and it became crowded with the elite of Detroit. A four horse frontier stage coach with cowboy driver and covered with leather trappings in true western style plied with cracking of whips and much apparent abandon at top speed between the railroad depot at Pontiac and the hotel, meeting all passenger trains."
- From "Orchard Lake and its Island" by Willis C. Ward
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