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- John S. Junior is the son of Mary Tufford & John Solomon Teetzel Sr.
> Two Lawrences sisters married two Teelzel brothers:
. Hadassah Hester Lawrence married John Solomon Teetzel Jr.
. Jane Lawrence married Mathias Teelzel &
> Lawrence cousin married their sister:
. Richard Lawrence Johnston married Julia Ann Teetzel.
. 1835 - (Esquesing, County of Halton) As soon as it was completed the first religious services were held in the Balinafad village school & meetinghouse on the corner of Nathaniel Rossel's lot [Roszel]. The meetings were held on a weekday & it was surprising to see the way the people would leave their work attend Divine Service. This was continued for several years.
The first religious awaking was brought about in a rather mysterious manner. A man named John Teetzel, who lived near where Acton now is, was thrown on a sick bed. He thought he was going to die. He had been a wicked man. In seeking someone to pray with him, he learned that in all the families for miles around no one could be found to do it. He then thought that he was lost. But just as he was about sinking into despair, the Lord gave some peace to his soul & gave him joys of salvation. He then & there pledge himself to God that he would consecrate his life to Him. And he faithfully kept his promise.
As soon as he got well, he sought out the Methodist ministers & they took him into the church. He at once commenced to hold meetings on Sabbath days around in private houses. A number of people were awakened & converted. My parents were among the number. For some years Mr. Teetzel was a power for good in that section of the country. He long since died in full assurance of faith & is now enjoying the reward of the father.
[Exact date is unknown, but the writer's story continues in fall of 1835 - PJA]
Ref: Experiences of a backwoods preacher, by Rev. H. Heiland, 1887
. 1842 Census Upper Canada, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario:
John Tetizel, Lot 228, Con 1 or Lot 28, Con 2? [last lot before Palermo, ON.], Labourer, 7 residents, 25 Acres, 10 cultivated.
Note1: To researchers: a dot artifact on microfilce may appear to read John Titzel.
. 1842 Upper Canada Census - Trafalgar Twp., Halton County, Ontario:
Tetzel, John: Con 1, Lot 30, faded entry, [No column names on this census page & by count are:]
Column 7: 4; Col 12-13: one; one; Col 22: one; Col 26: one; Col 29: one; Col 46: four; 100 Acres; 60; 50; 20, - ; 25. {rest runs off page.]
. 1852 January Census Trafalgar, Halton County, Ontario
John Teetzel, Farmer, Age 34 b. 1818 Canada, E. Methodist, Frame one story house
Hadasah Teetzel, Age 40, b 1812, Canada
Elizabeth J, Age 14, b. 1838, Canada
Mary A, Age 12, b. 1840, Canada
Margaret, Age 9, b. 1843, Canada
John W., Age 8, b 1844, Canada
George, Age 5, b. 1847, Canada
Esther F., Age 3, b. 1849, Canada
Charles W Teetzel, Age 1, born 1851, Canada, E. Methodist.
Ontario Land Registry Abstract Halton Co.,
Trafalgar Book 24, & p189-90.
Lot 30, Con 1 South of Dundas Street, Trafalgar Twp.
. 1808 Oct 18, Patent, Crown, to Bildad Simons, All 200 Acres;
. 1811 Apr 27, B&S, Bildad Simons, to Chas Teetzel, 90A, North Lot
. 1854 Mar 23, John Teetzel & Wife, to Aleucusedge Trxx?, fifth of an Acre, Half.
. 1859 Mar 23 - Advertisement St. Joseph Foundry & Machine Shop! too H Botham Proprietor, All Kinds of Work on the shortest notice. Steam Engine of 20 horse power has lately been added to establishment, also Extensive Iron lathes,
Bore out Gear Wheels, or bullies 20 feet in diameter.
Drills for mill owners, Iron Columns & window Sills & capes, Sugar kettles, cooking stoves for valor & box stove, Plows of 8 different kinds.
- I have lately had a trail of my plows on Mr. John Teezel's farm in Benton twp. against a plow manufactured in Mishwakee, Ind. Signed, St. Joseph Plow, Henry C Morton, Chas. Hull, John Teetzel, Jas Silver, of St. Jospeh, Mich.
Ref: St. Joseph Saturday Herald newspaper.
. 1865 - Application for Pension, Widow Mary Elizabeth Lawrence, wife of Richard S Lawrence, Jr. for his death of Typhoid Pneumonia during the American Civil War.
Witnesses sworn: Signed, John Teetzel & Hester Teetzel, Benton Twp., Widow of Richard S Lawrence. They know the decreased soldier from a long personal acquaintance of more than 30 years.
Affidavit1: 1865 Sept 13, Notary Public for Berrien Co.
Jane Teetzel of St. Joseph, Aged 55 years, b.1810 &
John Teetzel of Benton, age 49 years, b. 1816 ... Certify to be repeatable & entitled to credit. That they resided for many years previous & subsequently to 14 Oct 1830 at Palermo in Halton Co., Canada West. On that day Richard S Lawrence & Mary Elizabeth Simons were united in holy matrimony at the house of William Simons* in said Village of Palermo by the late Rev Mr King, a Presbyterian Clergyman. She is his widow. Jane Teetzel was present & witnessed the ceremony.
John Teetzel was a boy at that time & was at the house of his father on the opposite side of the Street from the said house where the said marriage took place & that the other members of the family were present & public records were not made & he know the said parties, signed, Jane Teetzel & John Teetzel.
Note2: Who is William Simons?
. 1860 Census Benton Twp., Berrien, Michigan
John Teetzel, b 1816; Hester, b 1813; Mary A, b 1841; Marg., b 1843; John W., b 1845; Geo, b 1840; Hester F., b 1851; Charles W Teetzel, b 1852.
IRS Tax Assessments Lists: 1863 Jan - Dec.
. Teetzel, John, Benton- Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A.32, Abstract Class B #241, Class C: Enumerated articles: 32. Total Tax Due: $3.00.
. Teetzel, John, Benton- Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A.32, Abstract Class B #10, Class C: B. Enumerated articles: 59.
. 1862 Dec 17 -Dr. Collins is located on the bluff north of the Paw Paw, has an orchard of 10 acres of peaches… Mr. Teetzel & J T Smith have each orchard from 10 to 20 acres new by & several more from 5 to 20 A.
Ref: St. Joseph Herald.
1864, May 17: Teetzel, John, Benton - Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A3, Abstract Class B #A, Class B: 32. Total Income Tax Due: $3.00.
. Teetzel, John, Benton - Sources of Income: Farming. Valuation $100., Tax Duty A.32, Abstract Class B #10, Class B: 59. Total Income Tax Due: $10.00.
. 1865 May 8, Teetzel, John, Benton Harbor, Source: Stallion Keeper, #236, Tax on item $10. Total Income Tax Due: $10.00. Benton Harbor.
. 1867 Bell Chapins, Michigan Gazetteer:
Benton Harbor: John Teetzel, Fruit grower.
Bridgeport Centre, John Teetzel, Carpenter. Bridgeport Twp. on Flint & Here Marquette railroad, 6 miles s of E Saginaw, Population about 500.
. 1870 Jun 24 Agricultural Census Benton Harbor
John Teetzel: 75 Improved Acres, 75 Unimproved A., Value $15,000.
Live Stock 7 Horses, 3 Milch Cows; 4 Working Oxen; 2 Other Cattle; Sheep 5; Holxx 6 = value $12,000;
Grains: Winter Wheat 100 bu.; Indian Corn 300 bu., Oats 250 bu., & Buckwheat 20 bu.
. 1871 March 8th, Ottawa. No. 836, John Teetzel, of the Twp. of Howard, Co. Kent, Province of Ontario, Farmer, a certain new & useful machine for ditching to be called or known as: "Teetzel's Ditching Machine."
Ref: Canada Gazette, Vol5, #25, 1871 Dec 116, Pg. 5.
. 1817-1877 - Brothers Hiram H. & Mathias Teetzel resided Benton Harbor, MI, John Teetzel fruit grower, also listed as carpenter in Bridgeport Centre, Saginaw.
. Benton Harbor, A thriving post village in the Twp. of Benton, Berrien Co., situated on the St. Joseph river, 1 m. from its mouth. It contains 4 general stores 1 hardware & 1 drug store, 1 hotel 1 flouring mill, a large grain house, 4 saw mills & several mechanics shops. Population 300.
1871 Jun 9 - NARROW ESCAPE: One of the severest electrical explosions we overheard occurred here last Friday afternoon, when there was but little appearance of a storm. the report was instantaneous, like that of a pistol short & was such a crash of thunder as to startle every one who heard it. The lightning struck & shattered a cherry tree not far from the residence of Hon HC Morton & so socked John Teetzel, who was near the tree & in charge of men repairing the road, that for a few moments he was unconscious He was however, uninjured.
. 1871 Benton Harbor, Berrien Co. Directory: John Teetzel, fruit grower, SW Section 17, Territorial Road, Dr. Talman Wheeler established the "Teetzel Orchard" where he grew peaches & other fruit crops. These were the area's first formal peach orchards; they began bearing fruit in 1852. By 1855 several thousand baskets of peaches - mostly Crawfords - were being shipped to Chicago annually. The fruit was sold for $3 per bushel; the peaches were then peddled by street vendors for 10¢ each. When news of the growing qualities of south western Michigan reached points east, a steady stream of families moved to the area to try their hand at growing peaches. When the Civil War began, (1863) the departure of men joining the army created a shortage of manpower to work the state's farms. .... New sawmills produced apple barrels & peach baskets. The peach also was responsible, in large part, for the founding & early growth of Benton Harbor. Sometimes the profits form one peach crop paid for the entire land they were grow on on. ... (after 1906) the introduction of refrigerated railroad cars, Michigan's monopoly of the Chicago peach market disappeared.
Ref: Berrien County's Great Peach Boom, by Wm. John Armstrong.
. BY AN OLD SETTLER OF BERRIEN COUNTY, The "Peach Belt" was inaugurated in 1847, at this time there lies in sight from the ridge where I first got sight of that tall timber…& out of that rail timber I had at one time a mile of fence which was too high for a deer to jump. This was necessary in the fall to keep the bucks from rubbing & twisting my fruit trees with their horns. In 1850 (I think it was), Mr. E. Morton put out something of a peach orchard in addition to his fence corner trees & shortly after Dr. Talman Wheeler set what is known as the Teetzel orchard. At this time nearly all the older farms had seedling trees bearing & those men who had a surplus above their own wants began to sell at what they thought good prices.
In Watervleit, Michigan, there was a boarding-house for mill hands ...afterwards it was sawed in two, one-half as Bradt's blacksmith-shop & the other as Mr. Teetzel's residence. - Mr. Teetzel of Berrier.
. 1876 Nov 18 - MORTGAGE SALE - Default has been made in the conditions of a mortgage made Oct 6, AD 1874, by John Teetzel & Hester Teetzel his wife, to Ephraim E Gates of Thorndike, Mass., recorded Oct 7, 1874, Liber 13, p 268, Register of Deeds, Berrien Co., MI. There is claimed to be due & unpaid on this mortgage at the date of this notice, $1302 & $75 mentioned in said mortgage.
Wed. Feb 14, AD 1877 this mortgage will be foreclosed by sale of the mortgage premises, at front door Berrien Springs Court House.
Description of mortgage premises is substantial: E 35 A. of section 17, Town four south, range 18W & much of W NE section 17 between Watervleit & Territorial Rd, including Residence at the junction of said roads & 3 acres adjacent. Signed, St. Joseph, Nov 15, 1876. E B Gates, Mortgagee.
Ref: St. Joseph Saturday Heard newspaper.
. John H Lee advertises in another column for a renter to take charge of the 140 acres known as the Teetzel farm just east of this village. Ag good chance for someone to do well.
.I will lease on favorable terms, that farm of 140 A., half mile east of Benton Harbor, , formerly known as the Teetzel place, to an energetic & reelable man. for particulars see John H Lee, St. Joseph.
. 1880 May 18 - Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA. United States Patent Office:
Partner Information U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909 Record for U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patents - Invented a Well-Boring machine.
. 1881 Apr 28 - John Teetzel reports things booming in the well boring machine. Ref. Daily Evening Herald, Saint Joseph, MI.
. 1881 Jul 14, The Town Pump is coming, but it is coming under a storm. The Committee having the well in charge have gotten the Teetzel Well boring Co. at work investigating the old well, which has already cost the corps many hundreds of dollars. Public opinion this morning seems be decidedly against trying the site of the old experiment over again. The objections raised to this site are, that it is over an old ravine & under a gutter thought which passes mrs of the filth of a block & has twice been tried without success, no more funds should be risked there. Many want the all tried on the school lot, corner of main & Ship St.; or near Mr Marsh on ship St, of St. Charles Hotel, provided the wells sunk at a new point. However, all the people want in this matter is cusses & PURE Water. How would it do to decide the location by petition.
Ref: Daily Evening Herald, St. Joseph.
. 1882 Sep 14, At Benton Harbor a Teetzel well augar was placed in position at 2 pm. & the last tile was adjusted at 10 minutes past 5 o'clock, making 40 feet of 12 inch well dug & stoned up in a trifle over 3 hours.
Ref: Lake County Star Newspaper, Chase, Michigan.
. 1884 May 24, St. Joseph, Sat.
The St. Joseph Iron Works has just closed a contract with J W Teetzel & R A Kneeland, of Benton Harbor, for the exclusive manufacture & sale of the well known Teetzel Patent Well-Boring Machine. The Iron Works Company will push the work on this machine with a view of making it one of the leading industries of our village.
* 1887 Jul 15, Friday. John Teetzel has returned from ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO, where he attended the meeting of the Teetzel heirs. They are arranged to send Wm. Teetzel of Detroit & James Teetzel, of St. Thomas, to Germany to look after the estate.
. 1894 Sep 21 - Mrs Wm Eberlee & daughter of Saginaw, visited at John Teetzel's this week.
Ref: Yale Expositor newspapier, MI.
. 1887 Mich. Crop Report: Solar halos were reported at Benton Harbor on May 5, 9, 25, 18. ( i.e. weather -planing forecast); Snow on the ground. Benton Harbor 1.5 Inches at the end of month May. High temperature: 82 degrees at Benton. Apples, peach, pear & cherry trees in bloom 2nd May, - Red headed woodpecker, king bird, wild canary & red bird first seen on the 3rd day. Large flock of ducks passing rapidly north, very noisy 3rd day.
Ref: Rainbow Benton H. 17th May.
. 1888 Mar 24, St. Joseph Herald
F. Platt has just had a well dug by the Teetzel Well-Boring Co.
. 1889 Feb 16 - John Teetzel is quite ill at his home on Empire avenue.
. 1892 Jan 26 - John Teetzel & on Chas W Teetzel & Miss Franc Teetzel are all quite such with the grip.
. 1889 Sept 20, Fri. The Dowagiac fair will be held 24th to & will be a first class exhibition throughout this Premium lists or other information will be supplied by Teetzel brought us some fine samples of peaches from his new variety Crawford. He has one hundred trees of this variety. Ref: Weekly Palladium.
. 1890 Sept 12, Homestead Newspaper, Des Moines, Iowa
Article & LARGE DRAWING of the TEETZEL WELL AUGER & DRILL, made by the Globe Well Works, Ottawa, Illinois.
The cut on this pate shows the Teetzel Well Auger with the new drilling attachment as used on all the combined machines now by by the Globe Well Works of Ottawa, Illinois. The same attachment can be added to the old machines made by them at a small expense. The drill as now operated is believed to be the most complete & practical device for drilling through rock of any yet made, as it works faster with the least lost of time or power. The manufactures in their circular describe it as follows:
A ratchet arm is fastened on the end of a shaft driven by a sprocket chain & intermediate gear & comes in contact with the rope to which the drill is attached, while making a sweeping movement, thereby raising the drill until the arm passes the perpendicular when it disengages itself in the ratchet & the drill is dropped, the arm being thrown around just in time to catch the drill on rebound & the operation is repeated."
To those familiar with well making apparatus this may be very plain, but to many others it will not be so easily understood. It is plain & simple enough, however, when seen in operation. The same apparatus in general is used to operate this as is used to operate the TEETZEL WELL AUGER which has the great advantage over all others of removing the dirt as fast as it is bored without taking the boring rod or shaft from the well. In operating some well machines in less than less the time is spent in taking the shaft to pieces to get the dirt out & in putting it together again. The advantages of using the one here described is apparent. For full information write the Well Works, Ottawa, Illinois.
[Drawing Description: a portable drill mounted on a metal carriage bed, employing a bicycle-type chain gear, with an offset balance bar which appears to turn in circle for use by human or horse power (?). I would like to suggest this invention by John Teetzel may have its origins back to the successful water mill that John Teetzel with brother Mathias Teetzel, operated back in Trafalgar, Halton Co., (now Milton, Ontario). - P J Ahlberg 2010.]
. 1894 Jun 1, Fri. Death of John Teetzel, an old resident of Benton Harbor, died at the home of his son Charles Teetzel, last Tuesday 8 o'clock, aged 75 years old. some weeks ago his mind became xx & for the past 3 weeks has been confined to his bend with complains of the stomach from which he xx. Teetzel was a native of Canada.
He leaved the following children: Chas. & George Teetzel Mrs Smith, Mrs Andrew Kennedy. Miss Hester Teetzel of Chicago, Mrs Horace Brunson of Chicago, John Teetzel also of Illinois. Funeral was held Thursday afternoon from the house on Empire Ave. burial in Morton Cemetery.
Ref: Semi Weekly Palladium, Benton Harbor, page 3 is slightly torn with a few missing words.
. 1903 Mar 1, Saginaw Newspaper: Niles has secured the Teetzel machine works of Ottawa, Il, which employs 57 men. The head of the firm is here & has secured suitable quarters. the concern turns out each-boring & rock - driving machines & air systems for water works.
Ref: Saginaw News, Michigan.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - [2]
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