Henry H. Hadley

Henry H. Hadley of the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Company in Westminster, Grand Traverse County, was born in Livingston County, New York, 18 March 1838.  He moved with his parents to Eaton County, Michigan in 1854.  His father's occupation being stock dealing, Henry was employed in that business until he was twenty-four when he changed to farming.

For the past twenty years he has been manufacturing and handling hard wood lumber, principally in Grand Rapids.  Henry was a purchasing agent for I. L. Quimby of Grand Rapids for five or six years.  He then  was working for Phoenix Manufacturing Company for six and one half years.  

1863 was the year he enlisted in the First Michigan Engineers.  He was on detached  duty as topographical engineer under Col. E. M. Poe, chief of staff to General Sherman.  Henry was wounded from a sabre bayonet at Rocky Face Creek, North Carolina and mustered out in October 1865.

Emeline Cure, native of Albany County, New York, became his wife on 13 March 1861.  They had two daughters, ages fourteen and seventeen.  Mr. Hadley came to Grand Traverse County in 1882 with his brother Levi J and bought the land on which the mill of the Hadley Bros. Manufacturing Company stands and other lands to the amount of 1,040 acres in the vicinity.  They constructed the mill and operated it under the firm name of Hadley Bros. until February, 1884, when the present stock company was formed.

Source: The Traverse Region, published 1884.

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