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- L. A. Haynes, the present treasurer of Kalkaska County, was the second settler to remain permanently in the county, and the first in what is now the town of Wilson. He was born in Livingston County, N. Y., in the year 1829. When he was about two eyars of age his parents removed to Ohio, and settled in the township of York, Sandusky County. February 24, 1851, he married the daughter of a Mr. Root, one of the early settlers in that township, and in 1855 they removed to Michigan and settled in Lenawee County. September, 1864, he enlisted and was in service until May, 1866. After the close of the war his company was sent to Texas. After returning home he made up his mind to go into a new country where he could settle upon a homestead, and in August of that year, 1866, visited the Traverse Region. A friend who had located in Traverse County gave him information about the country, and after looking about, he located eighty acres in Section 8, what is now the town of Wilson. In September, 1866, he brought his family. They went to Elk Rapids and were taken by team to Smith Lake, where they lived in a lumber shanty about a month, while their log cabin was being built. William Hough, also of Rome, Mich., settled with this family at the same time, and located on a homestead adjoining Mr. Haynes. Mr. Hough afterward went into lumbering and removed from the county. The first clearing in Wilson was done by Mr. Haynes. Mr. Hough had some money but poor health, while Mr. Haynes had no money and with pork at thrity-six dollars and flour at fourteen dollars per barrel, it was necessary to labor. During that winter he chopped five acres for Mr. Hough and five acres for himself. He was the first justice of the peace and first supervisor in the town, and as a member of the board of supervisors, took an active part in the first affairs of the county. In the fall of 1869 he went to Rome with his family, and remained there until February, 1871, when they returned and located on Section 7, where they lived until the winter of 1883, when, having been elected treasurer of the county, Mr. Haynes removed with his family to the village of Kalkaska. They have had four children, and buried one son. The first school in Wilson was taught by Miss Ada Haynes, at Mr. Haynes' house, in the winter of 1868-'69. The first death in Wilson was that of a son of Mr. Hough, which occurred about 1869. Thomas Johnson owned the first team, a yoke of oxen. The next settlers in Wilson after Messrs. Haynes and Hough were William Gibson and Thomas Johnson. - The Traverse Region, 1884
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