The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-04-21
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WIS good and Samuel Hill and John Mcneil pres
emily erected store building of logs. They sold
tea coffee, sugar, salt and whisky in the grocery
line and blue calico, brown muslin, cotton chain
and straw hats. with few ladies' hats and other
ornamental feminine apparel in their dry goods
department.
John McNels right name was John McNamer.
He quickly made fortune of about Sl2,Ooo ana
wooed and won Ann Rutledge Then he left to
bring his mother and sisters from New YORK.
long delay broke off the engagement and Lincoln
then won Ann. McNamer returned TO find Ann
dead of fever.
Town Gets a Postofiee.
ION Christmas day in 1922" the historian goes
on say, "a post Office was established IN new
Salem and Samuel Hill was made postmaster.
George Warburton then built a store building ana
put in II stock of goods but soon sold out 10 .he
ChrsInan Brothers. one of whom. isaac r. oe-
came postmaster on November "a. 1881. Whham
Clary, the brother of John, who gave his name W
the grove where he settled in 1919. erected an"
became proprietor of Carys grocery. Then came
Doctor Allen who erected a dwelling across the
street south from the Hill Mcneil store
In addition to his professional duties Doctor
Allen conducted a Sunday school. lie was an
ardent temperance man and formed the hrst tenn
perance society in the community. The place or
meeting in his residence or In the log school
house erected shortly before this time on the hill
side south of New Salem. Doctor Allen was both
cred as 10 whether il right or wrong to en-
gage III the practice of his profession on Sundays
and compromised the matter by relieving the sick
hut giving his earnings on that day wholly to the
work OF the Lord.
Then, during the summer OF 1890, Henry on
stott moved from Sugar Grove. erected n dwelling
and established cooper's shop, supplying the
kegs and barrels for the flour and meal made ut
the mill, and the containers for the cured pork
shipped by fatboat to the markets of the South,
laI,
hauled in wagons.
Denton ofut Arrives.
During the summer of 1891, Denton offut on
his return from a fatboat excursion TO New Or.
leans contracted for lot II north of Main street
and erected a store building the deed thereto be.
ing dated September of that year. Then came
a rush of other settlers-Philemon Morris tan.
ner. erected a dwelling and established tan
yard; Joshua Miller a blacksmith and wagon
maker, built residence and established a shop:
Alexander Furgeson and Peter Lukins, the shoe.
makers; Robert johnson, the wheelwright who
made looms, spinning wheels and furniture; Mar
tin Wadde, the halter, who made hats out OF
rabbit fur wool and the fur OF other animals the
Bale family, headed by Jacob Bale. who bought
and operated Hills carding machine and store.
house for wool the Herndon Brothers, shopkeep-
ers, who established store west Of the James
Rutledge residence and inn, and In a part Of the
house of Joshua Miller, which double lived
his brother-ln-laW, JACK helso, whose wife Kept
boarders occasionally and who himself was the
champion hunter and fisherman Of the village.
Henry since came in the fall Of 1881 and sold out
AT the end of a year TO Doctor Regner Also
came Doctor Duncan David Wherry, Isaac Bur
ner Edmond Greer, Isaac Goilamer, Robert and
William McNeely. Caleb Carmen moved there
from Rock Center after Trent left and made
shoes.
THUS the town soon became self-supporting
and had not been for the fact that II was almost
inaccessible except from the west, there is no rea