Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930
EZEKIEL GILMAN
For nearly a century the Gilman family, the parents of whom were Ezekiel and Nancy Gilman, have lived at Singapore, The Flats, Newark, or Saugatuck and in the early clays of lumbering did their share in clearing the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilman with three sons and four daughters and some household goods came from London, Canada in the early forties with two yoke of oxen and covered wagons. They first stopped at Gull Prairie, then to Otsego where Hiram stayed a few years but in 1850 Eri came to Newark and lived on the Butler place at the Red Banks; later came to be keeper of the lighthouse and while there acted as sheriff and justice of the peace for the whole section, later they kept the old Butcher boarding house, then moved to Singapore; then Dingleville. There were eight children, Alice, Charles and Matilda, deceased, and living are Ezra, Edger, William, Minerva and Eugene and for seventy-seven years the family circle remained unbroken.
Hiram Gilman came in 1850 from Otsego and purchased a farm just north of town where now lives his son, George, and which has been occupied by some of the family for eighty years. He was united in marriage with Olive Welch to whom were born six children, Raymond, George, Edna. Edwin, Alfred, and Theodore, the latter deceased.
Three of the Gilman sisters married prominent settlers. Matilda, the wife of Jonathan Wade. Miranda, wife of John Mead, and Sarah, the wife of John P. Wade.
Hiram and Eri took contracts for getting out cordwood which they shipped to Chicago, later taking their mill to Laketown on what is now the Felt Farm. An honorable family were the Gilmans.
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930
EZEKIEL GILMAN
For nearly a century the Gilman family, the parents of whom were Ezekiel and Nancy Gilman, have lived at Singapore, The Flats, Newark, or Saugatuck and in the early clays of lumbering did their share in clearing the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilman with three sons and four daughters and some household goods came from London, Canada in the early forties with two yoke of oxen and covered wagons. They first stopped at Gull Prairie, then to Otsego where Hiram stayed a few years but in 1850 Eri came to Newark and lived on the Butler place at the Red Banks; later came to be keeper of the lighthouse and while there acted as sheriff and justice of the peace for the whole section, later they kept the old Butcher boarding house, then moved to Singapore; then Dingleville. There were eight children, Alice, Charles and Matilda, deceased, and living are Ezra, Edger, William, Minerva and Eugene and for seventy-seven years the family circle remained unbroken.
Hiram Gilman came in 1850 from Otsego and purchased a farm just north of town where now lives his son, George, and which has been occupied by some of the family for eighty years. He was united in marriage with Olive Welch to whom were born six children, Raymond, George, Edna. Edwin, Alfred, and Theodore, the latter deceased.
Three of the Gilman sisters married prominent settlers. Matilda, the wife of Jonathan Wade. Miranda, wife of John Mead, and Sarah, the wife of John P. Wade.
Hiram and Eri took contracts for getting out cordwood which they shipped to Chicago, later taking their mill to Laketown on what is now the Felt Farm. An honorable family were the Gilmans.
Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930
EZEKIEL GILMAN
For nearly a century the Gilman family, the parents of whom were Ezekiel and Nancy Gilman, have lived at Singapore, The Flats, Newark, or Saugatuck and in the early clays of lumbering did their share in clearing the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilman with three sons and four daughters and some household goods came from London, Canada in the early forties with two yoke of oxen and covered wagons. They first stopped at Gull Prairie, then to Otsego where Hiram stayed a few years but in 1850 Eri came to Newark and lived on the Butler place at the Red Banks; later came to be keeper of the lighthouse and while there acted as sheriff and justice of the peace for the whole section, later they kept the old Butcher boarding house, then moved to Singapore; then Dingleville. There were eight children, Alice, Charles and Matilda, deceased, and living are Ezra, Edger, William, Minerva and Eugene and for seventy-seven years the family circle remained unbroken.
Hiram Gilman came in 1850 from Otsego and purchased a farm just north of town where now lives his son, George, and which has been occupied by some of the family for eighty years. He was united in marriage with Olive Welch to whom were born six children, Raymond, George, Edna. Edwin, Alfred, and Theodore, the latter deceased.
Three of the Gilman sisters married prominent settlers. Matilda, the wife of Jonathan Wade. Miranda, wife of John Mead, and Sarah, the wife of John P. Wade.
Hiram and Eri took contracts for getting out cordwood which they shipped to Chicago, later taking their mill to Laketown on what is now the Felt Farm. An honorable family were the Gilmans.
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930
EZEKIEL GILMAN
For nearly a century the Gilman family, the parents of whom were Ezekiel and Nancy Gilman, have lived at Singapore, The Flats, Newark, or Saugatuck and in the early clays of lumbering did their share in clearing the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilman with three sons and four daughters and some household goods came from London, Canada in the early forties with two yoke of oxen and covered wagons. They first stopped at Gull Prairie, then to Otsego where Hiram stayed a few years but in 1850 Eri came to Newark and lived on the Butler place at the Red Banks; later came to be keeper of the lighthouse and while there acted as sheriff and justice of the peace for the whole section, later they kept the old Butcher boarding house, then moved to Singapore; then Dingleville. There were eight children, Alice, Charles and Matilda, deceased, and living are Ezra, Edger, William, Minerva and Eugene and for seventy-seven years the family circle remained unbroken.
Hiram Gilman came in 1850 from Otsego and purchased a farm just north of town where now lives his son, George, and which has been occupied by some of the family for eighty years. He was united in marriage with Olive Welch to whom were born six children, Raymond, George, Edna. Edwin, Alfred, and Theodore, the latter deceased.
Three of the Gilman sisters married prominent settlers. Matilda, the wife of Jonathan Wade. Miranda, wife of John Mead, and Sarah, the wife of John P. Wade.
Hiram and Eri took contracts for getting out cordwood which they shipped to Chicago, later taking their mill to Laketown on what is now the Felt Farm. An honorable family were the Gilmans.
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