Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Haynes, Eunice Buckingham 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

MRS. EUNICE BUCKINGHAM HAYNES, widow of the late Dr. Haynes, is one of the
prominent ladies of the city of Flint, and a woman whose intelligence is evident
in every good work that is undertaken in this place. She is a daughter of Lewis
Buckingham, who was born in New Jersey and was reared at Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N. Y., becoming a farmer. He became quite a well-known politician and
was Sheriff at one time of Livingston County. About 1834 he came to Genesee
County, and purchased some Government land.

  Mr. Buckingham located in the woods that were overawing in their grandeur and
darkness. They were not unaccustomed to the howl of the wolf at night and
gruesome call of the screech owl, Later he located in Flint and became landlord
of the Red Tavern, on the banks of the Flint River, where the Wolverine Citizen
is now located. He was the first Sheriff of Genesee County, holding the office
for three terms. He located on a farm of eighty acres in Flint Township. This he
improved and lived upon until he retired from active business, making his home
in Flint, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. He was an ardent
Republican and with his wife, whose maiden name was Anna Berry, was a devoted
member of the Methodist Church.

  Mrs. Hayne's mother was a native of Salem, Mass., and a daughter of William
Berry, who was a shoemaker by trade, and who in early days removed to New York,
and from there to Flint, dying here. Mrs. Haynes' mother died in 1881, at at the
age of eighty years. She reared eight children, of whom the two youngest were
born in Flint. The lady of whom we write was educated in the Union Schools of
this city, and in 1861 she entered Oberlin College, Ohio, and there remained two
years. At the age of eighteen she began teaching, and continued her work in both
district and city schools for a period of nine years.

  August 25, 1864, our subject was married to Dr. C. H. Haynes, a native of Ohio
and a son of Elisha Haynes, a farmer of the Buckeye State. He was a graduate of
Oberlin College, where he pursued the classical course and took the degrees of
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. In 1864, after their marriage, the young
couple went to Topeka, Kan., which at that time had one thousand inhabitants. He
there became Superintendent of the public schools. In 1874 he resigned his
position and came to Flint, in order to follow out the long-desired project of
his life.

  Dr. Haynes entered and graduated from the Chicago Medical College, taking his
degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1877. He began practice immediately after coming
to Flint, and continued here until his decease, October 3, 1884. He was a
prominent member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society and in political
matters was a pronounced Republican. Mrs. Haynes still resides in this city; she
is the mother of three children, whose names are Anna, Harry and Helen. The
eldest daughter is a teacher in the city High School; Harry is in the Bay City
Telephone office, and Helen will graduate from the Flint High School in the
Class of '93. Mrs. Haynes belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps, being united with
Crapo Lodge, No. 23, and is Senior Vice President. She is a strong believer in
woman suffrage and looks forward to the day when she whom God made to be man's
helpmate and companion in every sense of the word shall not be denied the
privileges that he enjoys.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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