. Old settlers; a historical and chronological record, together with personal experiences and reminiscences of members of the Old settlers of the Grand Traverse region ... st road along thehead of East Bay from Traverse City to Five Mile Corners. He visited theGrand Traverse region several times, but came here permanently in 1856. In the early 60s he sailed the Sunny Side, owned by Hannah, Lay &Company, on Grand Traverse Hay, used in the passenger and freight he sailed the Queen of the Lakes for Dexter &: Noble, of Elk Rapids,having command of this boat for 18 years. He then reti
. Old settlers; a historical and chronological record, together with personal experiences and reminiscences of members of the Old settlers of the Grand Traverse region ... st road along thehead of East Bay from Traverse City to Five Mile Corners. He visited theGrand Traverse region several times, but came here permanently in 1856. In the early 60s he sailed the Sunny Side, owned by Hannah, Lay &Company, on Grand Traverse Hay, used in the passenger and freight he sailed the Queen of the Lakes for Dexter &: Noble, of Elk Rapids,having command of this boat for 18 years. He then retired from marineservice. A strange coincidence in the lives of Captain and Mrs. Johnson, was thatthe Warship Constitution, on which he sailed after leaving Mexico, was thesame ship converted into a merchant ship on which his wife sailed when sheleft her home in Ireland to come to America. Neither of them visited theirhomes after coming to America. Captain Johnson was of Spanish parentage and his wife was of Irish died on April 2, 1905. Mrs. Johnson is still living at the age of 82, in the comfortable homewhich was built more than half a century FRANK HAMILTON Frank Hamilton came to Michigan in 1868. He was born Nov. 24th, 1848,in the town of Waterboro, York County, Maine. His boyhood days were spentupon a farm in this (luiet New England borough. At the age of sixteen he leftschool to enter the dry!goods store of his uncle at Saco, Maine. In the month ofMay,11868, he, in company with J. W. Milliken, left home for Traverse City afterengaging with Mr. Smith Barnes of the Hannah, Lay & Co. as salesman in the oldstore fronting the Bay, arriving here on the steamer Alleghany the last day ofMay, 1868. In the fall of 1873 a co-partnership was formed under the firm name 60 OLD SETTLERS O F THE of Hamilton, Millilien & Co., Hannah, Lay & Co. being the company. In theyear 1880 Hamilton and Milliken purchased the Hannah, Lay & Co. interest inthe business and in 1889 the block
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