HAMLIN.-Mary A. Gallery was born in Monroe county. N. Y., in 1822, coming to Adrian in 1836, and to Eaton Rapids in 1837. She taught the first school in Eaton Rapids, and helped to make the first tax roll for Tyler township. now comprising Eaton Rapids and Hamlin. Helped to organize first Sunday school and church, 1854. She married David B. Hamlin and lived in the same place till May 9, 1902, when she died, leaving her aged husband. 76 Settled in Charlotte in 1854. 66 Lived in Kalamo 50 years. GOLD.-Geo. Ruggles Gold was born October 9, 1830, at Cornwall, Connecticut. He graduated from the law courses in Yale in 1853. In 1857 he was married to Miss Murdock, of Massachusetts, and came to Birch Run, Mich., in 1858, and moved to Flint in 1860. He had an extensive law practice and was regarded very highly by the people. The many tributes from the bank in which for 27 years he was a director, from the bar, and from friends both near and far, bespeaks the worth of the man and the loss sustained by Genessee valley in his death. LONG.-Charles Dean Long died at Detroit June 27, 1902. He was born at Grand Blanc, June 14, 1841, and was preparing for the university when the civil war broke out. He enlisted in Company A, 8th Michigan Infantry, in August, 1861; was wounded in battle of Wilmington, Ga., 1862, losing his left arm and receiving a wound in groin which never healed. After his discharge from the service he took up the profession of law. He served his county in many official capacities, and was elected justice of the supreme court in 1887, and was re-elected in 1897. He was president of Detroit Law college, and was chosen as state commander of the G. A. R. Rarely are such talents, brave as a soldier and eminent as a jurist, combined with such sweetness of character and sunny, genial manners; always just and kind he made and kept friends who will ever revere the memory and mourn the loss of one of nature's noblemen. BY MELVIN D. OSBAND. OSBAND.—William Henry Osband died in Flint, Mich., November 13, 1901, aged 81 years. Mr. Osband was son of William and Martha (Reeves) Osband, and was born in Palmyra, N. Y., December 12, 1820. When he was five years old his parents removed to the Territory of Michigan and settled at Nankin, 20 miles west of Detroit. Nankin was then a vast wilderness of heavily timbered land, and they were three miles from neighbors. In 1846 he engaged in the lumber business, under the firm name of Straight, Osband & Co. In 1848 he married Sarah Malissa Glass, to whom were born two sons and two daughters, of whom Edgar James and Rosetta Estella (Mrs. Zachariah L. Stringer), both of Otisville, Genesee county, Mich., who, with their mother, survive his death. In company with numerous friends they, on March 29th, 1898, celebrated their golden wedding at Otisville. In early life Mr. Osband united with the Methodist church. His personal habits were strictly temperate. He never used alcohol or tobacco in any form. In his old age he removed to Flint to be near his children and church. EMMET COUNTY. BY ISAAC D. TOLL. BURBANK.-Samuel Burbank, a prominent farmer of Emmet county, was found dead near Petoskey October 29, 1901, having shot himself. Mr. Burbank was wounded in the head during his services in the civil war, and had shown signs of insanity, by wandering away three years ago, reaching California in this manner. He was 65 years old and had lived on a farm near Petoskey for 20 years. He was highly respected, and very generous, contributing largely for Lockwood hospital in Toll Park. In appearance he was said to resemble President Lincoln. |