Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [207-208] CLARK HAYWOOD, one of the prominent and leading lumber producers of Huron County, resident at Port Hope, has been identified with the development of the business interests of this section of Michi- gan since 1857. He is engaged in the production of lumber and shingles at Haywood Vale, in the township of Sand Beach. He owns and manages a saw-mill at Sand Beach, is a member of a firm at Cleveland, Ohio, which was established in 1881, and includes, besides himself, his sons E. C. and C. D. HAYWOOD, and a nephew, N. J. HAYWOOD. He is one of the representative farmers of Huron County, and is the owner of several thousand acres of pine lands at different points therein. His residence at Cleveland is 594 East Madison Avenue. MR. HAYWOOD was bred to the vocation of farming. In July, 1845, he went to Bath, in Grafton Co., N. H., where he embarked in a mercantile enterprise, continuing its successful management about 10 years. He enlarged his business connection later, by engaging in the manufacture and sale of lumber, and still later became interested in a local enterprise for the manufacture of potato starch. In 1854 he formed a partnership with W. R. STAFFORD and opened an extensive mercantile establishment at Lexington, Sanilac Co., Mich., in connection with heavy lumbering operations. DEMALINE LEUTY, now a banker at Cleveland, Ohio, became a clerk with them, and in 1857 was admitted to a partnership. The Hon. B. W. JENNESS, U. S. Senator from New Hampshire (now deceased), was also a factor in the firm. SENATOR JENNESS closed his connection with the busi- ness in 1875. In October of the same year, MR. HAYWOOD removed to Lexington and the firm built a saw-mill at Port Hope, where they produced lumber, shingles and lath. The Lexington enterprise was closed in 1877 by a division of the property, and the partnership was wholly severed in 1878, having been continued after the adjust- ment referred to through the connection with the lumber yard at Sand Beach, of which enterprise MR. HAYWOOD became the owner by purchase in the year named. He is a fourth owner in the Bay City & Cleveland Transportation Company, whose facilities for conveying lumber (in which it is chiefly engaged) include two barges and a steam tug. The agricultural interests of MR. HAYWOOD are of a type which make them important. His farm of 360 acres, situated half a mile south of Sand Beach Harbor, is under fine cultivation, and is justly rated as one of the most valuable in Huron County. It is under the management of JAMES KEARNES. MR. HAYWOOD also owns a farm of 200 acres located near the village of Port Hope, which includes 150 acres under a high order of cultivation. He is the proprietor of a tract of 1,200 acres in the western part of Sand Beach Township, of which 100 acres is improved and cultivated, and is a piece of real estate in no sense less valuable than those before mentioned. He employs a working force of ten men throughout the year, a number which is materially increased during the agri- cultural season. MR. HAYWOOD has been for many years connected with the Masonic fraternity. While in business at Lexington, he served several years as Postmaster during the administration of JAMES BUCHANAN. MR. HAYWOOD was born Nov. 20, 1815, in Springfield, Vt. He is the son of NATHANIEL and MARY (DURANT) HAYWOOD, and in 1822 removed with his parents to Haverhill Township, Grafton Co., N. H., where his father bought a farm. MR. HAYWOOD'S marriage to ELLEN M. CLARK occurred in February, 1845, at Landaff, N. H. She was born Sept. 20, 1820, at Landaff, and is the daughter of DANIEL and MARY (MERRILL) CLARK. Following is the record of seven children, of whom Mr. and Mrs. HAYWOOD became the parents. Their names are ARTHUR H., deceased; MARY C., deceased; ALICE M., widow of F. J. HAINES, an attorney of Cleveland, Ohio, and she resides with her father; EBEN C., MATTIE, ELLA M. and CHARLES D. The last named was born in Michigan, and all the others in Bath, N. H. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================