Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Haynes, L A 1829 - 
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Author: H.R. Page & Co., 1884 - Chicago


"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of 
Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men 
and Pioneers"
Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1884
Page 316

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 years 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 on Section 8, in 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 house was being built. William Hough, also of Rome, Mich., 
settled with his 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 thirty-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. </p>
<p>The first school in Wilson was taught by Miss Ada Haynes, at Mr. Haynes' 
house, in the winter of 1868-'69. 


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