Forward 1
Early Use 3
Chippewa (Ojibwa) 3
The White Man Cometh 7
Gladwin County 7
From whence came Beaverton? 9
Tobacco Township 10
Our Experience With Pioneer Life 11
Grout Township 13
Beaverton Township 13
Poetic Prose by Harold Nunn 13
A City Is Born 16
What’s in a name? 17
Cedarville 17
Grand Forks 17
Meran 17
Beaverton 19
Building a City 18
Government 20
Mayors of the City of Beaverton: 20
Part of the Townships 21
Village Organized 21
City Chartered 21
The Industries that Built the City 21
Loggers 22
Lumbermen 26
Ross Brothers Mills 26
Seely & Hood Hoop Mill 31
Brown & Ryan Mill 32
Tonkin & Harris Mill 33
Other mills 34
Agricultural Industries 42
Beaverton Elevator 43
2nd Beaverton Elevator 44
Businesses & Trades 46
McKimmy’s Beaverton Concrete Works 46
Beaverton Security Septic 46
Chris Voleck Concrete Construction 47
Cash A. Carey - Blacksmith 47
Services & Professionals 48
Beaverton Clarion – Walter Dann 49
Doctors, Dentists, etc. 49
Barbour, Harry A. 49
Clifton, Arthur 49
Gibson, R.E. 49
Graham, William 49
Hazen, Ettie B. 49
Kenwendeshon 50
Mast 50
Heslop, John 51
Pierce, Franklin 51
Roth, William 54
Sturge, Arthur S. 55
Swengel, D. H. 55
Thompson, M. E. 55
Waltz, Robert 55
Webber, Thomas 55
Warren, Russel 55
Banks 56
Beaverton Bank – Frank Niggeman 57
People’s State Bank 57
Gladwin County Bank 59
Chemical Bank 59
History 58
People 59
Market 60
Projects 61
Warren Woodside Scholarship 61
Harold A Steinke 61
Comerica Bank 62
Insurance & Real Estate 62
Enoch H. Glidden 62
Fred Woodby Agency 62
Schumacher Insurance Agency 63
Plastics – Production 68
Robinson Industries 68
Sainte-Gobain 70
Loose Plastics 70
Alma Plastics 70
Cyberplast 70
TCI 70
Advanced Engineering 71
Plastics - Machine & Equipment 72
Brown Machine 72
Lyle Development 73
Modern Machine 74
Schools 75
Beaverton Rural Agricultural Schools 75
Educators Remembered 83
Fire in the School 89
Consolidated Districts 91
History of Dundas School 91
Brush College 95
Billings District No.3 95
Churches 127
First Presbyterian 128
Community of Christ 133
Beaverton Church of the Brethren 136
Dale United Methodist Church 140
Lyle Church 148
Church of the Daniel’s Band 149
Beaverton Church of the Nazarene 151
Church of God 153
Beaverton Baptist 154
Cedar River Chapel 156
Good Shepherd Evangelical 157
Lutheran Church 157
Amish 159
Utilities & Services 161
Post Office 161
Mail Carriers 161
The Mailman 161
Railroad 167
Dams 172
Roads 176
The Bridges of Gladwin County 180
Waterworks 191
Sewer 192
Telephone 193
Electricity 193
Supplying the Need 196
Ross Bros. Mercantile Co. 197
Louis Himelhoch 198
William H. Herendeen 200
M. Robt. Morris 201
H. Hunter Hardware & Harness 201
A. T. Brown Jr. 203
Mitchell’s Grocery 211
Beaverton Pharmacy 212
Agin’s 5c to $1.00 Store 213
Lane’s Gas Station 214
Adolph Presidio - Presidio Ford 215
James Methner 223
W. H. Hall & Son Lumber Company 230
Community Building 232
Oberloier Studios 235
Pumpkin Farm 236
Lodgings 224
Services 229
Other Businesses 229
1895 Business Listing 230
1917 Business Listing 230
1903 Business Listing 236
1904 Business Listing 239
Organizations 238
Lions Club 239
FFA 242
4-H 242
National Honor Society 245
Miss Beaverton Pageant 245
Tobacco River Muzzle Loaders 250
Townsend Club 251
American Legion 253
Veteran Listing 262
Stories
The Big Bang 265
Fire! Fire! – February 1912 272
Ice Storm - 1922 275
Herendeen Building 278
Threshing Around . . . 279
The Threshers are Coming...... 280
The Children Tell the Story 282
Quarantine 282
Frank Wixom’s Lumberjack Picnics 282
Lumbering in Tobacco Township 283
Collapse of the Dale Bridge 287
LP Gas Explosion 288
Tornado Hits Beaverton Area 288
Aided by Neighbors 289
Tornado Statistics 289
Saturdays in Beaverton 289
The Card Room 290
Some People Never Learn: 291
The Story of Roy Nunn 291
Buried Treasure at Knox 291
Remembering the 30s & 40s 291
Horses in World War 1 292
Streetscapes – 2000 - 2002 293
Biographies and Family Histories 294
Ross Brothers - Beaverton’s First Family 294
Ivan and Helen Agin 294
Bernard Allen 295
Henry Andrist family 295
Charles M. Andrist 295
Samuel Asch family 296
Charles Brown 296
Gaylord Brown 296
The A. L. Brubaker Family 297
E. Maude Budge 298
Loraine Budge – First Miss Michigan 298
Laurin J. Budge 298
James Burgess 299
Ransom W. Burgess 299
Grace Burr 299
Ada Campbell 299
Ova Carpenter 299
Earl F. Colbeck 299
Herman Herm Colbeck 299
George Crawford family 300
Crockett family 300
David Crowell 301
Reuben & Martha Crowell family 301
Danielak Family 302
Kenneth and Rose Davis Family 302
Dow – Harris – Knox – Rich – McKimmy 302
Evans Family – A.C.P. Evans 303
Russell Farling 303
Sherm Smith Fassett Family 303
John Fitzgerald 304
Aunt Ellen Fraser 304
Jerry and Maril Geer Family 305
The Govitz Family 305
Jacob Kenneth Grant Family 306
Floyd Hall 1895-1972 307
George C. & Margaret Hooper Family 307
Effa Hunter (pronounced Effie) 307
Joe Hunter 307
Sylvia Hunter 307
Jerome I. Kintner family 308
“Crazy” John Kister 308
William Lang 308
Maxwell Family 309
Willis & Sadie (Lytle) McCulloch family 310
William McKenna 311
Cecil McKellar 311
Royal Bird McKibbin 311
Rev. Perry McKimmy 313
Merle and Laura McKimmy 313
Leon F. Methner 314
Mishler and Stern Families 314
David B. Mote 314
Frank Niggeman 315
Maude Niggeman 315
Wayne B. Page 315
Demp Paxton 316
Lee Perry 316
Adolph Presidio 316
Hattie Fry Ross 316
Leo Campbell Ross 316
Virginia Myers Ross 316
Walter Ross 317
John Willis Schrock 317
Laura Wilbur Scott 318
Emery “Em” Sharp 318
Shock Family 318
William Snyder Family 318
William H. and Luella Snyder 319
Phillips & Staley families 319
Mary Stockton 319
George Swift 319
Ben Tarzwell 319
Robert Tarzwell 320
Henry J. Taylor 320
James Fuhrman Tremain Family 320
Archie & Amina (Crowell) Van Dyke 321
Vallender Family 321
Justus Eugene ‘Jess’ Wagner Family 321
Wagner Brothers Farm 323
Whitmer Family 324
John & Flossie Whitmer 325
Eldon Witkovsky 325
Darrell Wood 325
Fred and Helen Woodby 326
Earl Woodruff Sr. family 326
H. Stuart Woodward 326
William Young 326
Austin A. Zimmerman 326
4th of July 2003 327
Centennial Committee 328