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 The Traverse Region, historical and descriptive,
 with illustrations of scenery and
 portraits and biographical sketches of some
 of its prominent men and pioneers.
 pub. H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1884


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         HAZEN INGALLS was the first settler who came to Bear Creek
       for the purpose of making a home, and to apply his industry
       to local development. He came from Jefferson County, N. Y.,
       to Lee'anaw County in 1859, and from that time until 1866
       lived about four miles from Northport. In the spring of 1866
       he bought the water power and saw-mill, then standing, of
       Messrs. Fox & Rose. The saw-mill, a small affair, had been
       built by HARVEY PORTER, a brother of ANDREW PORTER, about 
       the year 1862. MR. INGALLS moved into a house that had been
       built by an Indian, and engaged in farming and operating the
       mill. Afterward the mill was changed into a grist-mill. He
       also kept a small store for their own convenience and to
       furnish Indians with supplies. At the time the village of
       Petoskey was started in 1873, Messrs. INGALLS and PORTER
       were the only white people in the vicinity. MR. PORTER used
       to run a small grist-mill on the present site of W. L.
       McMANUS' saw-mill. MR. INGALLS was born in the state of
       Vermont in the year 1802, and is still living on the high
       bank of the creek, where he first located in 1866. He is
       engaged in the milling business with one of his sons.
       
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