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- . 1842 Census Upper Canada, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario:
John Tetzel, Lot 228, Con 1 [last lot before Palermo, ON.], Labourer, 7 residents, 25 Acres, 10 cultivated.
Note to researchers: a dot artifact on microfilm may appear to read John Titzel.
. c. Jan. 1852 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.
. 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.
. 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.
. 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 - 8 Chapins, Michigan Gazetteer: Benton Harbor: John Teetzel, Fruit grower.
. 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.
. Brothers Hiram H. -1817-1877 & Mathias Teetzel resided Benton Harbor. 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.
. John Teetzel, fruit grower, SW Section 17, Territorial Road, Benton Harbor, Berrien Co. Director 1871.
. 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 three dollars per bushel; the peaches were then peddled by street vendors for ten cents 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.
. Mich. Crop Report: 1887 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.
. 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.
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.
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.
- 1888 Mar 24, St. Joseph Herald
F. Platt has just had a well dug by the Teetzel Well-Boring Co.
. 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 va 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 roc 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.]
. 1903 Mar 1, Saginaw Newspaper: Niles has secured the Teetzel machine works of Ottawa, Il, which employes 57 men. The had of the firm is here & has secured suitable quarters. - -- - [1]
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