Business history of Mayville, Mayville, Tuscola, Michigan

Copyright © 1998 by Bonnie Petee. This copy contributed for use in 
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POSTOFFICE

Taken from, "The History of Tuscola County," H. R. Page, Co., Chicago, 1883. 


The name of the postoffice is May, it having never been changed.  The "ville" was added
when the village arrived at a christening age.  Arthur Veitch has been postmaster since
March, 1876, when he succeeded his father, John Veitch.

MAY MILLS

In 1875 Cornelius Kealand build a grist and saw-mill in the village of Mayville, which, in
1876, he sold to the present proprietor, Allison L. Bryant.  In 1877 Mr. Bryant added a
shingle-mill to the establishment.  The grist-mill has three run of stones, and has a
capacity of forty barrels per day, of ten hours.  It is a custom and merchant mill.  The saw
mill has a capacity of 20,000 feet per day, and cuts a considerable amount of hardwood
lumber, such as maple, oak, cherry, birch, ash, etc.  The shingle-mill will cut 20,000 per
diem.  Run by steam power.

BRYANT & FOX'S ELEVATOR

Bryant and Fox's Elevator was built in 1882 by Bryant & Fox, and is alongside of the
track of the Saginaw branch of the Port Huron & Northwestern Railroad, in the village of
Mayville.  It has a capacity of 2,500 bushels, which can easily be increased to 7,000 or
8,000 bushels.

RELIGIOUS INCORPORATIONS

The county records show the following religious societies to have been incorporated in
the town of Fremont:

At a quarterly conference held in the Dayton and Kingston circuit October 16, 1869, the
following persons were duly elected as trustees to be called "The Trustees of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church in the village of Mayville." viz: Nelson Cody, John Keefe,
William Frend, William Choate, Harris Shepard and George Richards, of the town of
Fremont; A. D. Hardy and John McKay, of the town of Dayton, Tuscola County, and
Lewis Wilcox, of the town of Rich, Lapeer County.

Articles of association having been entered into and a constitution adopted for the
"Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paulus" in Fremont Township, "the male persons of
full age belonging to a church and society in which divine worship is celebrated
according to the rites of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States" met at St.
Paulus Church, "where the congregation of St. Paulus had statedly met before," and
elected three tustees, viz:  Conrad Weller, Frederick Blasins and Peter Brier.

January 9, 1879, articles of association and incorporation, constitution and by-laws were
adopted for the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Church and Congregation of
Fremont Township, and at an election at which the Rev. John Hass presided; Conrad
Weiler, Sr., John Muntz, Sr., and William Ellwanger were elected trustees.

At a meeting held in Randall's Hall in the village of Mayville January 19, 1878, for the
purpose of organizing a religious society to be known as the Baptist Society of Mayville,
articles of association were adopted and the following trustees elected, viz:  William
Turner, Isaiah Crandall, Aaron B. Randall, Jacob Harris, W. B. Curtis, James B. Crosby
and Eli Brooks.

SCHOOL MATTERS

>From the annual school report of the town of Fremont for the year ending September 4, 
1882, the following facts are obtained: Directors for the ensuing year, A. Veitch, John
Haas, F. H. Kitchen, Henry Knibbs, Gustavus A. Frenzel, S. B. Hovey and John Barron. 
There are five whole and two fractional districts, with six frame and one log school-
house.  Number of children of school age, 501; attending school during the year, 407.








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