. Old settlers; a historical and chronological record, together with personal experiences and reminiscences of members of the Old settlers of the Grand Traverse region ... r of Michigan 1885-6, when heretired from politics. Was married in 1864 in Charlevoix, Mich., to Celia E. Moses who died in1875 leaving one daughter, now Mrs. Ed. F. Parmelee, of San Diego. has two sons and one daughter. One son is a senior lieutenant in theNavy and the other a first lieutenant in Coast Artillery. The daughter marrieda lieutenant in the Navy. He married again in 1895 Emma C. Blinn of Shel-burne, Verm
. Old settlers; a historical and chronological record, together with personal experiences and reminiscences of members of the Old settlers of the Grand Traverse region ... r of Michigan 1885-6, when heretired from politics. Was married in 1864 in Charlevoix, Mich., to Celia E. Moses who died in1875 leaving one daughter, now Mrs. Ed. F. Parmelee, of San Diego. has two sons and one daughter. One son is a senior lieutenant in theNavy and the other a first lieutenant in Coast Artillery. The daughter marrieda lieutenant in the Navy. He married again in 1895 Emma C. Blinn of Shel-burne, Vermont. Mr. Buttars claims to be the first owner of Marion Island. In the early50s he and George Benton, another old pioneer of this region, presented theclaims from the government when Morgan Bates was in the land office, taking the east half and Mr. Benton the west. Mr. Buttars says thatMorgan Bates was somewhat surprised when Mr. Butters walked in the landoffice and told Mr. Bates that he wanted to purchase the island. Island No. 10is the name it went by at that time. Mr. Buttars plainly sold his claims toAlbert Bacon, who owned it for a number of CAPTAIN FREDERICK L. JOHNSON Was in Matamoras, Mexico August 15th, 1829. When 17 years ofage he joined the Mexican Navy, but was soon afterwards transferred to theland forces under General Zachary Taylor, for whom he acted as interpreter,being well fitted for the position because of his knowledge of the Mexicanlanguage. He served in the army until September 7th, 1848. a little more than threeyears. He was mustered out of service at Fort Jackson, Miss., and came to GRAND TRAVERSE REGION 59 Detroit with Major Robert Forsyth. From there he went to New York, andmade three trips to San Francisco and return, taking eighteen months for thesevoyages, going through the Straits of Magelhin on the Warship after this time he began sailing ufi the Great Lakes. His first trip to the Grand Traverse regio
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