In the summer of 1860 a flat bottom boat was walking around the banks of the river. Observers may allow solitary passengers to not understand that they are growing young people who dominate Michigan's two industries, log towing and sugar production. Foster many companies in other industries that bring immense wealth to Michigan's developing economy.
The escape rocked in response to the movement of the steamship and rudder making noise in the flow path of the Saginaw River under the influence of the wave washed away against the bank. That captain, 16-year-old Benjamin Boutell, sighed in the drowsiness. Dreaming of the adventure of the sea where he was a central figure, while experiencing the warmth of the sun, the swinging motion of the river went deeper.
He did not hear the sewing and hammer, ship's pickup from the shore, the ferocious whirlwalk activity common to Bay City, Michigan in 1860. Ten years later, the city's population exploded from only 50 souls From Canada or Detroit I have arrived more than everyday to take a job at one of the 15 sawmills gathered on the riverbank. Before wood was closed in 40 years, more than 100 sawmills were lined up from 30,000 people to their homes, from Bay City, 12 km away from Bay City to Saginaw, before the wood was closed 40 years later.
My father, Daniel Boutell, owned one of the hotels in the southeastern corner of Water and Third Street. It was long ago that it was Sherman House. It was located across the landing of the Detroit Steamboat Company, but in many cases it was the first stop for new recruits. Daniel Boutell moved his family 30 miles north to take over the hotel from Birchran and after intensive renovation hung a new shingle near the entrance. Now we have Boutell House. This is the hometown of the seafarers of Great Lakes, Boutells & 9 children shared the hotel with the hotel
Ben fascinated by the story of the seafarers began to love the huge Saginaw Bay, the entrance to the river and the Great Lake. Meanwhile, he called the Protection · Fire Company, served as First Assistant Foreman, helped the hotel's father, and asked the crew members about Schooner, Roll, Barge and Tagboat. Laughter of infectiousness and sincere concern relaxed the tongue of a sailor who enjoyed Ben's enthusiasm. They were willing to share their adventure and ocean knowledge accounts of all knowledge.
After learning a lot about the nature of the goods transferred from the port of the Great Lakes to the port, he began to pay particular attention to the movement of the logs drawn on a powerful tugboat ship. The task of moving the felt tree to a factory located in one of the provincial major sawmill towns, Saginaw, Bay City, or Muskegon was very important for the success of the timber industry. Water transport was the least costly solution. The logging carved from the forest of Michigan was shed downstream, classified in the estuary, classified as embossed masonry, called boom, detained in a sawmill crossing the river from Saginaw to Bay City. From the forest on the coast of Georgia Bay in Canada, he towed a boom containing thousands of logs across the Lake Hugon and the Saginaw Bay and shipped to a waiting sawmill.
Captain Turbo said that sudden storms that could crush delicate weapons of fire logs that could give up crew to cold water far from the rocks, gusts, shipboard disasters, boiler explosions, many crises I faced. The idea of steering such crafts lost the imagination of the son of a hotel manager.
His ambition inspired when the fire broke Boutell House at the age of 21. Dan · Boutell fought against the fire until a smoldering rubble remained. His lungs were exposed to smoke and refused health until the next year. My family earns a living in the crisis. Ben soon signed as a full time sailor of the steam tag wave. During that year he was a companion of the wave and in the following year he got a paper that acknowledged the responsibility of the master of the ship.
As Captain Boutell, he received the order of Ajax. This is the steam tag which became the asset of the Bay City National Bank first. Banks were acquiring banks in a way that banks acquired assets through default notes. The beginner 22-year-old captain had the help of an engineer named Samuel Jones whose salary like captain was dependent on ship's income. Aunt Kitty who had both impressive waist circumference and disposal for adventure. Ben, Jones, and Kitty aunt ran with Ben who is easily performing mediocre work, such as Ben cutting wood for boilers and managing the management of the boat. The trio cleared $ 6,000 (about $ 84 thousand at 2009 dollar) for the owner and gave the young captain a reputation as a captain captain with a leading knowledge of the Great Lakes.
Bold ability, Captain William Mitchell, attracted the attention of the Master of Tension Unions. Mitchell has recognized the youth of the wilderness with an attractive smile that seems to be expanding energy to meet every challenge. They became fast friends and business partners, and over time we acquired the fleet of tugboats, barges, schools and freight forwarders historically numbered more than 50. Boutell organized a huge raft with 4 million boards stacked together and made timber from the timber era the biggest driving force. On the whole, log rafting of taps and other towing work was using 500 services. He counts myself in them. Even though his assets and his reputation grew, he continued his tight limit as an Annie Moiles captain for five years alone, until the responsibility made by the rapidly growing property kept him on the shore It was.
Ben never left the boy who studied the river bank with a small cliff, but the capital that was collected as a boat owner and captain of Michigan Lake, Superior Lake, Huron Lake, Georgia Bay is Ben Butter, William Mitchell , And when a future partner Peter Smith connected them to the timber industry they were connected to a star that was a bit distant before the fire. When the white pine forests melted under the onslaughter of the shaft and saw, the need for Boutell's tug of war has ceased. For a while, he planned to continue the place where he began to cut down from Canada. However, the forbidden mission ended the hope of profiting from Canadian timber. In the sunken heart, Ben who was transporting an average of 100 million boards of wood in the past season watched the ship.
So, Captain Benjamin Boutell was 53 years old in 1897 and was wealthy but was unemployed and aspiring for new opportunities. He was no longer a legend inspired trim youth, but he was still fashionable and comfortable. Although he paid close attention to the weekly sermons of the Maggison Avenue Methodist director's church, he sent impressive sentences to his speech that brought deep troubles to his minister. It is his characteristic that he was uttered in his existence. Results of too much dinner prepared in general portrait, his wife, about 30 years under the direction of Amelia, forced him to build a motion once. The body was rounded, full, I could not manage the rigging of Schooner on my own, but there was still a fairy youth in the eyes that suggested adventure.
Thirty years after Ben towed the raft of the first raft, as Ben passed the age of timber, many people who gathered wealth in Michigan's forest were carrying wealth to distant cities. Ben Bautel reinvested most of his property in Michigan. He opened his heart to the possibilities of many industries. Without knowing little about any of them, curious incompetence led his direction. Soon, he owned major stocks of coal mines, shipping companies, machine factories, cement factories, banks, telephone companies, foundries, and sugar factories. His interest crossed the border from Boston, owned a maritime barge in Redwood City, California, co-founded the state's first portland cement factory. In the Beat sugar industry in Michigan State, I have served as an officer or a director of 32 companies (9 out of them). He took over the two sugar companies in Colorado State and attended the Board of Directors of the two Canadian companies that later became the foundation of the Canadian Dominion Sugar Company and co-founded the Beat sugar industry in Colorado and Canada . In addition, he owned a large farm. There were sugar pickles and 4,000 acre farms in the northern part of the state.
His sugar attention would have kept busy two or three executives. One individual in Michigan State did not spend wealth and time on the state's advanced sugarcane industry, like Benjamin Boutell captain. He was one of the founder of Michigan Sugar Company, the first Beat sugar company in Michigan, and served as Director and Vice President. I also did a similar job at the Bay City Sugar Company. He co-founded Saginaw Sugar Company, and served as a director in charge of accounting. He is the president of the Lansing Sugar Company, the treasurer of the Marine City Sugar Company, and served as a director at sugar companies in Mount Clemens, Carrollton, and Menominee.
The vast sugar trust that had been supplying sugar to the steel grip for decades did not get that support. When the trust increased its power, he sold shares to companies under its control, invested in independent companies, and moved away from business organizations that had lost support to the United States.
Captain Boutell routinely makes investments to instigate the formation of companies hiring hundreds of people by ordering the sailing and sipping and conference deck equally and easily. But he went through the entrance of the house and went into a maternity society ruled by his wife Amelia and her same sister twin sister Cornelia.
Amelia Charlotte Duttlinger and her sister were born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1850 or 1851. The tragedy came early in the twins. Their father passed away at the age of three months and the mother 's Catherine moved to Bay County. There, she operated the hotel with the help of twins. They were old, two employees, and a bartender. Among the guests in 1869, there was Ben Boutell. Twenty-four young sailors were already legendary and became man of the means. It was indeed impossible for him to notice the amalia and Cornelia, or the mother of their widows, that he was a catch.
Amelia has a gentle character and beauty, and is physically the same as twins' sister, but managed to present a difference with Benh. Perhaps it was a friendly treatment and an unwilling attitude that greeted a smiley merry relation that remained in her eyes and memory. Her hair of her small animals cascaded across her shoulder and ended with a ringlet that bounced at each step she took.
Cornelia seemed to protect the guests of the hotel more, but most of them seemed to have failed to meet the criteria of her severe dress and exile. Amelia's nonstop reference to Ben began to sound like a Cornelia wedding bell. She implied her own bloating romantic affair.
The wedding was shaped by a busy schedule of seamen in the Great Lakes. Despite the falling in love and they have not been used yet, they were companions of the soul. Each one lost his father at a young age, each spent the year of forming adults responsible for managing the hotel, each one was expected in the life measured by the outcome. Marriage took place after the sea road closed on 22nd December 1869 for the winter. Ben and Amelia looked forward to a long honeymoon, which ends when the Great Lakes were thawed in March.
But before the honeymoon was over, Cornelia arrived at their doorstep to recover from the tragic events in her loving life in great suffering. Then, the sisters become indivisible. One does not go anywhere without anything else. Amelia's claim, Ben bought two of monogram items, a coat, a dress and a hat to identify the twins to which it belongs. On the pros and cons arguments of accepting the permanence of the existence of Cornelia in their lives, he named one of his ore carriers "Twins Sisters". The twins he loved were called "Mail".
The only difference between the twins was a small bug on Amelia's neck behind one ear. Ben had a secret way to distinguish one from the other. The features of Amelia were generally satisfied, but the aspect of Cornelia was acidic and irritable. The birth of three sons, Frederick, William and Benny, to direct special objectives to Amelia's life, to oversee development for trained gentlemen in a coarse river wood town is a special mission of Cornelia became. She abandoned hope of doing the same for her obligation. His lump of restless made all delicate objects out of his reach easy to break. The tea cup, eyeglasses, jewelry clasp, high-end furniture seemed to be broken and damaged.
The sisters decided that it was time for the captain to build a house of such a size as to appropriately announce the range of his / her life's achievement. They bought four consecutive lots at Bay City in Fifth Avenue and Madison Street. Today, Center Avenue shows a magnificent exhibition of residential buildings from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. For the famous citizens of Bay City, in the 1890s and the next half a century it was the right place to live. Industry leaders such as woodcutters, sugar, coal and shipbuilding have built a stylish house reflecting their real fortune.
A prominent architect, Phillip C. Floeter, who designed the Trinity director church a few years ago, developed a plan and built a huge, decoratively calculated mansion of the center avenue's house.
Floater imported Italian tiles and marble for 11 fireplaces and ordered the quantity of mahogany, maple, birch, pine from the house and interior panel. Parlor showed Ben's love for the Great Lakes. It was in the form of a bow of a boat. At the far end the mirrors from the floor to the ceiling are lined up on both sides of a tall cabinet with a mirror. Another tribute to the bright stone of the Great Lakes, which was carried from Lake Erie and was set in a gable overlooking the front, attracted the attention of passers-by. The panel covers the inner wall at a height of 5 feet, is covered with a canvas on it, and is decorated with gold leaf. Lighting fixtures are made of sterling silver.
In addition to the storage room, the basement has a kitchen and dining room, Ben entertained business people and friends who want to bubble Bacchic celebrating while celebrating. Activities in other places of concessions were banned there. Two private balconies opened from the bedroom on the second floor and a pouch on the first floor ran the entire length of both sides of the house. From that point of view, you can catch a glimpse of the river and you can hear the pool of slopes flowing at night. The house is painted green. A large barn that housed four horses and a carriage standing behind the house.
Boutell was low key. He avoids limelight, executive speeches, former speeches, official holdings or other traps that are often favored by executives and community leaders. Benjamin retired as compared to those who set up the public and those who appeared before the Bay City business group or social group. Apart from his mansion, he conceded to his wife that he refused nothing and avoided the disclosure of wealth. He tended to encourage children who created toboggan slides to children who gathered extensive lawn, rather than engaging in politics, often spending time with their families than business customs.
January in the Saginaw Bay area is a cold season. The ice in the bay grows thick, the pace of the river slows down, and it finally stops completely. I will warn you that a cold day will come every day to hold this area with a cold embrace until the spring in winter. It was 1902, and Bay City was no longer hospitalized in a frozen waterway for 5 months every year. The rocket can now move to the place where Ben did business. He frequently used trips in the US and Canada, attended the Board of Directors and shareholders meetings, and valued new investment opportunities.
When he came back from such an excursion in late January 1902 he entered his home and found Amelia and Cornelia together in a sitting room. Cornelia's hand was busy knitting a shawl, one of many gifts she and Amelia made throughout the year for members of the family and church. Amelia's hand was wrapping and the other was turning back. Amelia was generally busy from dawn to evening like Ben.
Something sent a cold shiver along his spinal column and pulled his attention. The twins were no longer identical! In fact, their dresses were as usual, in a fashionable Edwardian afternoon dress (black), in line with the hidden methodist 's view not covered with jewels. Each now pulled her hair tightly and fixed with a sinion behind the head. However, the feature of Amelia has changed in a few weeks, anyway, when I saw her every day I noticed the accumulation of missed attention.
She was losing weight, her face was drawn and narrowed. Her shoulder is tilted like a defeat, and in the worst case, the gloss has taken his eyes off her eyes. He shook his head to his left and found a pair of children's gloves sitting on the hall stand and moisture on the floor. After reconciliation, he assumed that the two arrived just before him, and in haste prepared himself to deceive him believing they were there all day. A knitting needle scattered in the busy hand of Cornelia. Her gaze first to Amelia, then to Ben. Amelia looked at her suffering, as if to rise to greet her husband, but looking at her suffering, hurrying through the small gap between them to take her into her arms went.
He summoned an expert to her and took her to someone who was unable to visit her at home. She got worse. Cancer ranked sixth place of cause of death in Michigan province behind tuberculosis, heart disease, pneumonia, cholera, influenza. Since Ben's fierce efforts to save her she steadily deteriorated.
By Thanksgiving, Ben realized that Amelia understood that the end was close. He drew a chair near his bed when he helped him to approach nearby with frail behavior. She was informed of her ultimate desire with a too loud voice to travel a distance of more than a few feet. She reminded of him, was part of her life from the moment of her birth and was part of Ben from the moment of his marriage. She appealed to marry Cornelia in order to protect the wealth of families suffering from division and total loss when Benjamin married another person. Marriage, Cornelia, she said, it all stays together where it belongs.
She grabbed Ben's hand with the small power that remained and asked her to promise her right now. In 33 years marriage, Ben brought her all hope. He did not see the reason for speculation right now. After preserving his promises, he smiled and told her she promised to be like rain by Christmas!
Amelia died five days after November 25, 1902. Ben vowed to death on February 11, 1904 after 14 months, married Cornelia.
Ben promotes the pace of its activities, such as establishing YMCA and YWCA, activities as a church trust, giving free time and money to local needs, forming businesses, expanding others, expanding time to community projects I divided it.
In April 1912, he attended the shareholders' meeting of Wallaceburg Sugar Company of Wallaceburg, Ontario. At the conclusion of the conference, I returned to Chatham's railway station and came back on my way home as the engine warmed up. Black smoke got off the chimney. A cold engine appeared in a hurry quickly! Quickly! Leaders who could not have the last one-half of the borders leaned forward as if removing the small wooden steps used by passengers to get on the train. Ben fell in love. The train suddenly penetrated before, as if he kissed a bar that allowed him to board the ship. He grabbed it with one hand and got into the board, but he had no power to complete the maneuvering. He relaxed his grip and fell to the platform. At first, he did not just shake it badly. When I got home he began to feel discomfort, pain, and suffering. In a short period of time, he became a state of semi-consciousness, and from there it drifted on 26th October 1912.
When Benjamin Boutell entered history, Michigan lost the members of bold male and female executives born around the time the nation was born. He injected an energetic and dangerous attitude towards the border which makes himself a pioneer of Hubei Province and Pioneer in fostering the Great Lakes and Michigan farms and some industrial concerns. When Michigan gradually abolished the timber industry and faced an economic hardship, it ignited the safer road and entered a new industry that expanded economic opportunities in small cities in Michigan. Benefit to more secure ports far in Michigan, New York, Cleveland, Boston. That alone, he is remembered as Michigan's true son.
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