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| Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan Vol. XIV, 1890 Lansing, Michigan W. S. George & Co., State Printers & Binders Page 61 BAY COUNTY |
| Col. Henry Raymond, who was identified with much of the early history of Michigan, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Henry C. Moore, in Detroit, April 13, 1889. He was born in Woodstock, Vt., August 29, 1804, of Puritanic descent, who trace their connections back as far as John of Beverly, 1654. He was married in Utica, N. Y., to Mary Alvord, a native of Greenfield, Mass. They came to Michigan in 1829, residing in Detroit and vicinity over twenty years. They had six children. His wife and three children survive him. |
| In 1850 Col. Raymond came to Lower Saginaw, now
Bay City, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, erecting a mill at the
foot of Water street. His family followed him in May, 1851. He
soon became identified with the growth and prosperity of the Saginaw
valley. Col. Raymond had implicit faith in the future of his adopted city, and embarked in numerous enterprises indicative of that faith. He was a man to secure the confidence of those with whom he came in contact, and this was manifest in the public trusts imposed upon him. He was Bay county's first representative in the State legislature, and in looking after her interests made a record that is worthy the emulation of more modern statesmen. During the war he was one of the provost marshal's staff, and for several years he was collector of internal revenue. It was in 1870 that disease forced Colonel Raymond to abandon the active life to which he was so naturally inclined and much of the time since he had spent in California with a hope of restoring his health or at least prolonging his years. Those who recall Colonel Raymond in the prime of life will remember a magnificent specimen of manhood. He was about six feet three inches in height, finely proportioned, straight as an arrow, active, strong and full of life. |
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