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President's Letter Vol. 46, No. 1 Dedicated to the history and heritage of Oakland County, Michigan Feb./Mar. 2013 THE OAKLAND COUNTY PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 405 Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Pontiac, Michigan 48342 Ph: 248-338-6732 Fax: 248-338-6731 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ocphs.org PRESIDENT’S LETTER COUNTY EMPLOYEES GIVE GENEROUSLY OCPHS had a very good 2012. OCPHS was proud to be among 17 local charities to We expanded our operating receive a donation from the 2012 Oakland County hours. Our major events drew Employee Casual Day Fund. Throughout each year, record attendance. Not only did county we cover our expenses but, employees thanks to the generosity of may dress benefactors, we closed the year casually for 20% over budget. This will work in enable us to address some of the needs we have for exchange for 2013. All this is due to the outstanding work of our contributing volunteers and members. Each of you made 2012 a $1 to the success for OCPHS! fund. Since its inception 2013 has gotten off to a good start. Our first two nearly 20 Small Talks drew full house audiences. The years ago, remainder of the year is booked with equally over interesting speakers and topics. The June Small Talk $500,000 has been distributed to area charities (History of Ford) and the September Small Talk through the program. In December, Mary Connell (History of Oakland/Pontiac Motors) will also feature had the honor of representing OCPHS to accept the antique cars from the respective companies. A new donation from county executive L. Brooks Patterson. member “Meet and Greet” is scheduled for Feb. 28. The Library Team has plans to work with Oakland University and OCHR (Library Consortium) to help WELCOME SARA GUY with the digitization of our archives and collections. Thanks to the generosity of one of our members we We’re pleased to will be receiving computer equipment with all the introduce our new office power needed to undertake this huge task. A manager, Sara Guy committee has been formed to update our tour (right). Sara joined program and another is working on our policies and OCPHS in 2010, and procedures. In a short while you will see more soon began volunteering improvements to our campus security. This spring as a docent and helping our members will give presentations for the Baldwin during our community Library in Birmingham and the Birmingham Optimists. events. Her enthusiastic The Summer Social Team is already working on this support of our activities year’s event. Check our website for dates and latest and mission made her a news on these activities winning volunteer and a great candidate when we Sara Guy came on board last October as a part-time decided to reinstate this Office Manager and has made an immediate part-time position. Already Sara has recruited new contribution to our campus. Thanks to the Library members, expanded our social network presence, Team and the service of Sara, OCPHS is now open brought in new visitors, improved response time and Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. and the efficiency, and brightened the office with her ready first Saturday of the month, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Visitors smile. Sara has a Bachelor of Arts degree in and members now have more opportunity to use our sociology from Western Michigan University, with facilities and visit Pine Grove. Stop by and catch up minors in social work and criminal justice. She brings on the latest activities. See you at Pine Grove! excellent communication, organizational, and “people” skills to OCPHS. A newlywed, she lives in Regards, Mike West, President Waterford with her husband Steve. 1 IMAGE FOUND, ALLEGED TO DEPICT WISNER IN News of this turn of events saddened Casamer as CIVIL WAR UNIFORM well as those Society members who had been By Charlie Martinez informed of the initial discovery. As a student of Civil War photography, Casamer leans toward the Oh, how hard it is to find authenticity of the image. He feels “the original was The one just suited to our mind on glass” and framed behind a “golden/brass-colored Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) Song, st. 1 border.” This arrangement was then protected by a hinged case made either of pressed paper, leather, An image of Moses Wisner in Civil War uniform, or gutta-percha (a coagulated, rubber-like material). believed to be the first of its kind, has been found in Kentucky, according to a report recently received by The writer of this article has examined the Society’s the Society. collection of nineteenth-century images and finds that such protective cases were used with the The surprising announcement came in the form of an Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, and tintype photographic email from Doug Casamer, Society member and processes. The Daguerreotype produced a likeness Armada, Michigan resident. He is also the author of on a silver-coated, copper plate, the Ambrotype on a the monumental work, The History of the Michigan sensitized glass plate and the tintype on a black Twenty-Second Infantry and the Men who Served japanned iron plate. All these processes shared the During the American Civil War (2006). Wisner was same disadvantage, however, that of being unique the first commander of that regiment. images that could not be reproduced from a master negative. nd Moses Wisner? Colonel 22 Michigan Volunteer Infantry September 1862 – January 1863 Moses Wisner, 12th Michigan Governor, 1859 - 1861 The image was supposedly found in a box of old Tintype photography survived competition by photographs that was located in a Lexington, improvements in the attendant camera that made Kentucky church. The reverse of the likeness carried their images inexpensive, sturdy, and highly sought the cryptic inscription, “Colonel 22nd Michigan.” An after. The tintype’s only true rival was the “carte-de- acquaintance of Casamer, who deals in antiques, visite” or visiting card. It was made from a wet plate acquired the contents of the box which held a number negative which was mounted on a cardboard card. of other early photos. Notified of the find, Casamer The emotional factor and family separation brought asked the dealer for more details, only to learn that about by the Civil War triggered an explosion in the he had sold the artifacts to an unnamed party. production of tintypes and carte-de-visites. “A picture is worth a thousand words.” That oft- quoted saying applies to the newly discovered image 2 of Moses Wisner in uniform. Is it a true likeness or a benefit of such distractions as radio, TV, text fake? The Society will undertake an investigation messaging, vacuum cleaners, Dr. Phil, yoga, and with the help of professionals to learn more of the trips to the mall. techniques used to produce it. At the same time we will re-examine details of Wisner’s life along with that Putting such human interest happenings in historical of his family and friends. We will also look into the perspective has become the retirement vocation of identity of possible photographers and the time frame David Walls, one of the Society’s top genealogical involved when the image may have been made. researchers. For the above noted pioneer incidents are drawn from David’s third great grandfather, We are asking you the reader for your opinion based Erastus Durkee. That gentleman, together with on a comparison of the two images accompanying brother Jedediah and father William, settled in West this article. Are they the same man? Email us your Bloomfield, Oakland County near Pine Lake in 1829- reply to [email protected], or if you prefer, drop us a 1830. Dave Walls now shares his skills at note in care of Wisner Survey, Oakland County uncovering ancestral data with Pine Grove library Pioneer and Historical Society, 405 Cesar Chavez, patrons. One day your family’s history may find its Pontiac, MI 48342. Your verdict, together with our way onto the pages of our Oakland Gazette. But survey results, will appear in Part 2 of the article that’s another story. scheduled for the next issue of the Oakland Gazette. YOU THINK YOU GOT IT BAD? By Charlie Martinez Your alarm clock didn’t go off this morning. The shower handle stuck. The toast burned. Your Smart Phone died and the Impala’s right rear tire is flat. What a blankety-blank way to start the morning! Well, that would have been a walk in the park if you had a handy park to walk in nearly two hundred years ago in the Oakland County. As it was, your pioneer neighbor had just lost his home to fire and you have generously offered to share yours for several weeks of joint accommodation, bringing the total number of mouths to feed to twenty-four. To meet expenses as male head of the family you usually walk four to five miles a day to work and back. In so doing you might earn fifty cents for yourself and a whole dollar for your durable oxen who do all the heavy plowing. It’s not uncommon to find yourself without meat for the table, so you load up your musket and kill a deer or bear. Of course if you Jedediah Durkee fought wolves to save his West Bloomfield farm are a good shot you might make some bounty money in the 1830s. Image from OCPHS Collection. eliminating those pesky wolves who constitute a threat to your family and livestock. They run in packs and their howling provides your loved ones with a MEADOWBROOK HALL: NATIONAL LANDMARK bone-chilling symphony on those bright moonlit nights.
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