Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= 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 Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1884 [page 432] BINGHAM TOWNSHIP THIS is one of the old-settled townships, dating back to 1856, when JAMES R. FRANK made a location here. It was organized in 1863, ROBERT SCOTT being selected as the first Supervisor. The land in this township is rolling, and the soil is rich and pro- ductive, yielding as high as 62 bushels of wheat to the acre, with an average of 20 bushels. The Cass and Pinnebog Rivers run through this township, the former running southwest and the latter north. The township had an abundance of very fine timber before the fires, but its forests now look like skeletons. Both the fires of 1871 and 1881 swept over the entire township. About six months prior to the last fire, Mr. LAYMAN and family came in and settled near Mr. RANDALL'S place. When the confla- gration came rushing over the township, devouring everything be- fore it, Mr. LAYMAN was sick with typhoid fever. His wife had a babe three months old. A daughter was absent at a neighbor's. A son, ALBERT, and a boy three years of age, were in the house. The mother rushed with babe and youngest son to the swamp and stayed there all night, and though badly burned were saved. In the morning she got to Mr. RANDALL'S just as they were starting for Port Hope, and were taken along. A short distance from where their house had stood she found the burned body of her husband, and about 20 yards further on was that of her son, ALBERT! The have four schools in the township, located on sections 17, 27, 11 and 29. There are four Church societies in the township, two of which are located at Ubly, a little town on the western branch of the Port Huron & Northwestern Railroad. The Presby- terian Church building was dedicated in 1884. It is a very neat edifice and cost $2,000. It was built after the fire by the Presbyterian Relief Commission. Rev. PETER A. McMARTIN is the present Pastor. Rev. JOHN C. ANDERSON, of Bad Axe, holds missionary services here every two weeks for the Episcopal Society. [page 433] BINGHAM TOWNSHIP At the hamlet of Ubly, ALEX. PIKE, ALFRED PAGETT and DAVID H. PIERCE carry on a general merchandise business. JOSHUA B. MADILL has a flouring mill. There is hotel here, and a post- office. The people of the township generally go to Ubly to do their trading. This township is pretty well cultivated; all over can be seen fine farms, with good dwelling houses and farm buildings. It ranks the seventh in population, and notwithstanding the great calamities the people are advancing and are prosperous. The boundaries of this township are: north, Verona; east, Paris; south, Sanilac County, and on the west, Sheridan Town- ship. It is numbered 15 north, of range 13 east. SUPERVISORS Bingham has been represented by the following named Super- visors. ROBERT SCOTT------------1863-6 A. McKINZIE-------------1867 ROBERT SCOTT------------1868 ALEX. McKINZIE----------1869-70 NEIL McKAY--------------1871 JAMES McALLISTER--------1872 ROBERT SCOTT------------1873-4 ALEX. McKINZIE----------1875 HENRY FRANK-------------1876-8 ROBERT SCOTT------------1879 CHARLES A. WILLIAMS-----1880-1 STERLING NUGENT---------1882-4 =========================================================================== 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/ ===========================================================================