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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-12-15, Page 27Cards For All Occasions * Gifts * Books * Stationery Supplies * Records ANDERSON'S BOOK CENTRE 33 EAST ST. GODERICH n Miller...... bilirererage IA also amiller. - harbor .hill to_.the .. market later, nearing the end square, whereas they are road, and dictating his en styled himself as a an, The word has ancient ursiis from Britain: meanings, king the Reg of Lot 8, opposite the House, the initial entry ed in 41 Ben Mlleracar- leby n car - of a strip of land 43/ s in length to the baron uyll for 100 pounds. ximatef9'l0 seems a rice,,.for a strip -26 x 80 only half th0 ceceringthough to ouse street. Ben's neighbor in the Lot 8, at the time he d the strip to the baron, ebaron himself, who of provided the southern the laneway, giving to Lighthouse street. t lot, No. 54, was taken B32 by Michael Fisher, ad come by ship from in 1929, with the ers and Lobbs, He t Lot 7 on West street at me time. After a year, sold Lot 54 to Jacob er, and he sold to rd and James Ritchie. old the lot in 1836 to the van Tuyll, and lh he mortgaged it •to other, the dowager ss, it was in his name, years, until it was red by Dr. Peter ugall, an early ian and mayor, who was an industrious ser of West street ties, Donald Jeffrey Lot 54 now. of which lends some agement supposition van Tuyll had a nce on Lot 54 during the e was in and about ch and Bayfield. The odious log house on The is supposed to have acted in 1833, but in of the primitive road ns it was not Ion- to town. The baron y had horses. Stage were operating on on road, and even in Jacob Seegmiller ran rse wagons between 0o and Goderich. , the baron paid the nt of $500 for a rwor istry Office ay PUBLIC ROAD of that lane carved 1841? At the provincial ment office here, old were checked by Mr. Iter (the name is just cidence) and he found e land has not at any een shown as private y. It has been a public hfare as long as there record, and in recent has been known as Lane, Mrs. (Capt.) dived for many years ouse next'west. mentioned in the ng, there is nothing in cord of Lot 8, West to show how or when Miller acquired it. ons of this kind are mesencountered in the of the early years. mystery," lawyers the deed just wasn't red,v is instance, Miller got afew years late, from eriff. Dated Sept. 9, re is the text : Henry Hyndman, of Hifon.District. In ration of 55 pounds pounds 10 shillings Y Benjamin Miller, per, of the town of ch, Lot 8, being 1/4 and Lots 1 and 2, Sion III, Colborne, Baron Vincent eester S'rooskerken a held at'the time of of a writ of fieri atthe suit of Benjamin orner lots on Con III in e had been purchased Tuyllfrom the Canada nY In 1840. Miller after Years sold the land to Crewe, Sam Hart omas McCabe. the time of these cions, West street lots numbered from the numbered now from The Square, the same as other spokes of the wheel.) OWNED A & P SITE By the same method as here detailed, Miller became owner of Lot 19 on West street, part of the site oc- cupied in later years by the A & P store and still occupied by the brick residence which originally was Carl's barrel factory. It is resonable to suppose that Ben Miller, being a builder, built Dan's hotel, and may have lived there. His deed was dated May 25, 1848, and there would not be any building much in advance of the title. Ben paid the Canada Company 136 pounds for 50 acres, comprising Lot 1, Con. 1, Colborne, E.D. Ben was described as "of the township of Colborne, yeoman." The price paid the Canada Company was far more than charged for farm lots; evidently the Company put special value upon potential waterpower. At this point, Ben became what we would now call a developer. He began at once to sell small lots. (See map). First purchasers were James Stacey, William and Thomas Logan, woolen mill operators before the Gledhill brothers built theirs in 1877, and Stanley Meiklejohn, Scotch blacksmith. Probably these people were already on the ground as squatters; Miller, too, but he could not sell lots without his deed. There is strangely little on record about his gristmill, first built beside the river and afterward moved up to Main street. When it was at the riverside, there was a sawmill between it and Main St. as would be expected in view of the building operations, operated by Gledhills. Ben's son Archibald is described in one document, after his father's death, as "miller," but he could not have continued long in that capacity before the mill "passed into stronger hands, David Rodges, M. Pfrim- mer." The quote is from John Elliott, who was a boy at Benmiller when his father (this writer's grandfather) worked for Rodges at the mill. MILL HISTORY The Huron Gazetteer of 1863 lists David Rodges as a miller in Colborne, but it was 1866 before Dan Miller con- veyed the property. It passed in 1873 to Michael Pfrimmer, who evidently did not operate it continuously through the years, for in 1881, according to the Signal, "W.G. Luker, proprietor of the Benmiller flouring mill, left on the 20th for Victoria, B.C." In the next year, "William Piper, of the Harbor Mills, Goderich, leased the Ben - miller flouring mill. It is going to receive a general repairing." Anyway, Pfrimmer's son Ernest took over in 1910. He sold out ,to his sons Russell and Elwyn, who operated the mill until it closed. Con- version into a roller mill took place in 1890, and in wartime, with electrical power, it turned out a great deal of flour. Ben Miller bequeathed to his brother Dan "Lot 2 in the village of Colborne Mills." He appointed as executors "my esteemed neighbors Elijah Martin and Thomas Gledhill" and later added Joseph Gooding of Goderich. Wit- nesses to the will were Arthur Molesworth, teacher; Robert Carflpbell of Kinloss, and Nesse Gledhill, Benmiller. He left to his brother Joseph "my interest in the lease of that parcel of land which I hold on lease from the County, commonly known as Joseph Miller's farm and situate in the western division of Colborne." R.K. PECK APPLIANCES "In The Heart of Down Town Varna" 'Vacuum Clbdners - Sales and Service of most makes 'pRRdlos and Accessories '11"16I1Queen Appliances Moffat Appliances woks Sensors :Insect Lights and Fly Killing Units IkIndtroifted Gifts Phone 482-7103 —Thonghie"re described as leased' land, the farm was disposed of by Joseph in his will, made ten years before his death in 1882. "To Thomas and Sam Heddle, sons of Andrew, each one acre, being part of he area I now occupy, part 'of Falls Reserve, but not to come into full possession until they are 21, that they may keep me in their memory. To Andrew Heddle all the remainder of my real estate, as a token of my thankfulness to him and his wife for the care and kindness ex- perienced since coming to live with them." Joseph named as sole executor "Sam Hart the younger." Date of Daniel Miller's death has not been deter- mined. He is listed in a gazetteer of 1863 as in- nkeeper, at which time Jonathan would have been 19. It is riot known just when Jonathan took over, but according to the Huron Signal of Sept. 18, 1877, he had erected a large addition to his hotel. "Part of the new building," it was stated, "has been fitted up for a grocery store and post office. Last summer 'Mr. Miller increased his stable accommodation, so that in every particular the Benmiller hotel is indeed a first-class stopping place." SPRING WATER TALE The Registry Office records that on Sept. 7, 1880, John Breen conveyed to Jonathan Miller certain water • privileges. The story behind that routine item is that Dan had a tenant to north of the hotel, on whose land was a stream of spring water. One evening Dan got him "a little tight" and he signed over the water privileges. Thereafter, the hotel, previously supplied only from a well and pump in front, was provided with cool running water. Jonathan Miller after leaving Benmiller conducted Hotel Bedford in Goderich from 1896 when it was built after the Albion fire, until 1904. In 1901 he was dickering for a suitable automobile: The Signal reported that he "was in Detroit a few days this week looking over the machine that will soon be finished and sent here for the well known proprietor of the Bedford". . Also in the 1900s, he operated the Grip House in Seaforth. That site is now occupied by Topnotch Feeds head office building on south Main street. For some time he conducted a livery stable on East Street, Goderich, but the Motor Age had doomed that business and Jonathan moved to Carlow, where he died in 1910 at 61. • "Jonathan in youth was somewhat slender," the Signal stated in its obituary article, "and was known as an active young man. At maturity his chest measurement was 84 inches, Turn to page 10A • 0I CAMPBELL'S v•111 CAMERASI Kodak FIS M S , 0 1 Ili l 4 1111 at PR0rt. SSIN and PRINTS by 8FN /q Lp 85 MN • f • • It Royal 84N. 8/0e 60000( • 532 st GODJ RICH SIGNAL -STAR, THU RSDAY, DECa 'Towle AIS= sways basad, OR*tstarip L.aw,are Publto h..ttr iMnrm a.d reef to adkiM. N. oto! should try t9.'rr Ir: ill- torpret.the law without Seto aid -and advice of it trained expert whe knows the facts, sines the facts of each case limy t the application of the late" NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Date of tale photo is uncertain, but it shows the Benmiller hotel and stables, the grist fill, "Ben Miller's bridge" and a house on the street next to the river. The Huron Signal announced in September, 1877, that Jonathan Miller had built a large addition to his hotel at Benmiller, part of which was to be used as a general store and post office. Here it is shown three years later, complete T. withcustomers in buggies and on foot. The store windows appear to have 20 panes .. Jonathan, who took over the hotel from his father, Daniel, would be 32 years of age at the time this photo was made. BUSINESS DIRECTORY DIESEL Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Populai'Makes _- Huron Fuel Injection Equipment Bayfield Rd. 482-7971 1 Durst, Vodden & Bender CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 37 West Street Goderich, Ontario 524-2011 j AI BLE J Rif THS WEEK OR MONTH _KElTH LOVELL PfOMPT ` PROFessIONaL SeRVICE C1oA iE Kincardine. Ont CAN -DO CONCRETE FINISHER LIMIT ED yr, IND:, RES., COMM. 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