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FALL 2017 in This Issue Official publication of the Ypsilanti Historical Society, featuring articles and reminiscences of the people and places in the Ypsilanti area FALL 2017 In This Issue... The Most Jacob Grobe – The Most Popular JACOB GROBE - Man in Ypsilanti in 1870! .................1 Popular Man in Ypsilanti in 1870! By Janice Anschuetz What Makes a Successful School .....6 BY JANICE ANSCHUETZ By Jack Minzey Hidden in Plain Site: Michigan Ladder Company in Ypsilanti ...........8 By Jorge Avellan Marie Tharp– Renowned Scientist from Ypsilanti .................................12 By Janice Anschuetz Class Renunion Poem .....................16 By Jo David Stockwell Eastern Michigan University Athletic Club ...................................18 By Jack Minzey The Strange Death of Edger Slater ....................................21 Jacob Grobe (at the back of the wagon) with his Peninsular ice wagon (c 1868). By James Mann The Plank Road Tavern ..................22 By James Mann This is another in the River Street This is how I first “met” Jacob Grobe. Saga series which I have been writ- The map clearly shows his residence Wedding: Was There or ing but I didn’t know it until my and place of business at the south Was There Not? ..............................24 story was finished! All roads seem west end of the wooden Forest Ave- By James Mann to lead me to River Street. Please nue bridge in the year 1888. He must come along on this journey and have been amongst the small town of Society Briefs discover how we get back to River Ypsilanti’s most popular men. Why? Street from the first commercial Because in the sweltering heat of an From the President’s Desk ................2 brewery in Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti summer he provided ice to Society Board Members ..................2 keep food fresh and cool, before the Museum Advisory Board Report ...17 his story started on a snowy days of electricity and refrigerators, winter day when I discov- Membership Application ...............26 ered that the Library of Con- Tgress had added several years’ worth GLEANINGS Sponsors ....................27 of Sanford Fire Insurance maps of Advertising Application .................27 Ypsilanti to their web page (https:// www.loc.gov/maps/?q=ypsilanti). These hand-drawn maps provide in- terior sketches of businesses with notations regarding the safety of the building such as what type of heat and YpsilantiHISTORICAL SOCIETY lighting is used and if there is a night watchman. What fun to be able to view drawings of the interior of busi- During the harvesting of the ice it was cut into www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org nesses at the end of the 19th century! cords that were 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet. From the PRESIDENT’S DESK BY ALVIN E. RUDISILL Ypsilanti HISTORICAL SOCIETY ur Fall Quarterly Membership ical Society. Russel has organized Meeting was held on Septem- and scanned over 10,000 images in Ober 17, 2017. The program was our Photo Archives Collection and Board of Trustees: presented by Lynda Hummel who brought invaluable technical knowl- Jim Curran, Maria Davis, provided a slide show on past Ypsi- edge and skill in the care and preser- Virginia Davis-Brown, lanti Heritage Festivals. It was very vation of our photographs. Further, Pattie Harrington, Rick Katon, Gerald Jennings, Karen Nickels, interesting to see the impressive his- he has been a true and steady sound- Alvin Rudisill, Nancy Wheeler, tory of this annual event. ing board and source of advice for Bette Warren others working in the Archives. Another feature of the Membership Museum Advisory Board: Meeting was the presentation of two We have installed a new Microfiche Virginia Davis-Brown, “Gerald Jennings Service Awards. Reader in the Archives that was paid Kathleen Campbell, Jim Curran, This award program was established for by earlier fundraising activities. David Mongson, Louise Nagle, Fofie Pappas, John Stewart, in 2012 by the YHS Board of Trust- Also, a new color printer has been Nancy Wheeler, Daneen Zureich ees to honor individuals who have installed that will improve the quality Archives Advisory Board: dedicated a significant amount of of copies provided for visitors to the time and talent to Society programs. Archives. Thanks to all of those who Kelly Beattie, Kim Clarke, Maria Davis, Rick Katon, This year the awards were present to contributed to and supported these Jerry Pety-ex officio, Hank Prebys, Russel Kenyon and Ann Thomas. acquisitions. Louise Schmaltz, Jane Schmiedeke, Lisa Walters, Bette Warren The award presented to Ann Thom- Our Endowment Fund Advisory as reads as follows: “Presented to Board is working with the Ann Arbor Endowment Fund Advisory Board: Ann Thomas for extraordinary ser- Community Foundation to promote Lynda Hummel, Mike Kabat, vice and dedication to the Ypsilanti charitable gift annuities and retire- Paul Kuwik, Don Loppnow, ment beneficiary plans that will estab- Jesus Medrigal, Karen Nickels, Historical Society since 1978. Ann Melanie Parker, Steve Pierce, has served as a regular and substi- lish the long term financial stability of Alvin Rudisill, Bette Warren tute docent in the Museum and has the Ypsilanti Historical Society. We consistently helped with school and are fortunate to have so many loyal • group tours. She is a valued con- supporters that enable us to provide Ypsilanti Historical Society tributor to our community and her our archival services and museum 220 North Huron Street service sets an example for all of our programs free of charge to the public. Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197 other volunteers.” Museum: 734.482.4990 We appreciate the continuing sup- Archives: 734.217.8236 The award presented to Russel port being provided to the Society by www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Kenyon reads as follows: “Presented the Ypsilanti Ale House and Haab’s • to Russel Kenyon for extraordinary Restaurant through fundraising service and dedication over the past events at those establishments. several years to the Ypsilanti Histor- GLEANINGS Staff Editor ...................................... Al Rudisill Assistant Editors .....................Peg Porter Fofie Pappas Design & Layout .........Pattie Harrington Advertising Director ............Sarah Reyes Finance Director ................Bette Warren Distribution ..........................Sarah Reyes If you have suggestions for articles or if you have questions, contact Al Rudisill at 734.476.6658 or [email protected]. 220 North Huron Street | Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS is published 4 times a year by the Ypsilanti Historical MUSEUM ARCHIVES Society, 220 N. Huron Street, Ypsilanti, 734 482-4990 734 217-8236 MI 48197 [email protected] [email protected] 2 Ypsilanti GLEANINGS • FALL 2017 • www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org Jacob Grobe – The Most Popular Man in Ypsilanti in 1870! continued from page 1 and he also brewed ... ice was harvested of Meckleburg, beer to keep the res- on the Huron River by Germany and idents of Ypsilanti horse and man power his parents were happy and refreshed Jacob “Fritz” all year long. in the area that Grobe and Mary St. Joseph Hospital Agusta Guiton. Of course, after see- ing Grobe’s brewery now exists. They had other and ice house on the children includ- Sanford map I want- ing Anna, Jo- ed to learn more hann, Augusta about him and his and William, ac- life, and this is what cording to family I was able to discov- researchers on er after searching Ancestry.com. far and wide and We know that even contacting his Records found from July of 1893 indicating how after settling in many barrels of malt were shipped. great-grandson and Monroe, Mich- a Grobe family genealogist. In the igan with his parents, the young Ja- book The History of Washtenaw cob at age 22 moved to Detroit where County published in 1881 on page he lived with a brewer named John 1207 we read “Jacob Grob (note – Gredinger and perhaps was appren- spelled wrong here and forever more ticed to him. In 1861 in Ypsilanti, he whenever he is written about) brew- married Sophia Marie Christina Post, er and ice dealer, Ypsilanti, was born who had also been born in Meck- in Wurtenberg, Germany in 1839. lebug and had come to the United In 1851 he crossed the Atlantic and States with her parents when she was first located in Monroe, Michigan. 12 years old. In 1864 Mr. Grob (sic) erected an ex- After purchasing land west of the tensive ice house and supplied tons wooden plank Forest Avenue Bridge of that cooling luxury to the inhabi- they settled in a home at 5 West Forest tants of Ypsilanti during the hot and Avenue (some of the city directories sultry summer months.” give his address as 15 Forest) and he Jacob was actually born in the town erected a small brewery behind it. In Jacob Grobe’s crew cutting the cords of ice into smaller sizes that were delivered to homes and businesses. 3 www.ypsilantihistoricalsociety.org • FALL 2017 • Ypsilanti GLEANINGS Jacob Grobe – The Most Popular Man in Ypsilanti in 1870! continued from page 3 the year 1864 he constructed that made ice using electricity an extensive ice house. The set up shop on nearby Huron picture accompanying this Street. article shows Jacob with his ice wagon and horse in 1866. Getting back to Jacob and So- Before the days of electric phia, they were blessed with refrigeration, ice harvesting three children, first a daughter was an important and dan- Elizabeth Marie, born in 1865, gerous activity participated another daughter Edith born in by farmers and ice dealers in 1872, and John Frederick alike. In the Ypsilanti area, born in 1883 and dying at the ice was harvested on the Hu- age of five in 1888. Grobe’s ron River by horse and man brewery is written about not power in the area that St. only in The History of Washt- Joseph Hospital now exists. enaw County but two other This activity generally took recently published books Ann place in late January into Arbor Beer by David Bardallis February when the ice on published in 2013 by Ameri- the river would be at least 11 can Palate A Division of The to 13 inches thick.
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