Fall 2012 Docket.p65 - Berrien County Historical Association

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Page 6 Back in Print! The Heyday of Hinchman The History Center at Courthouse Square has issued a reprint edition of the popular book The Heyday of Hinchman, by Beverly Campbell Pottle. The 67-page book includes dozens of photographs of people and places in the hamlet of Hinchman, located a few miles north of Berrien Springs. It includes endnotes, a bibliography, and index; an appendix lists all the students of the Hinchman School and the years of their attendance. Photographs in the book come from the History Center’s own collections as well as many private collections. The Heyday of Hinchman was originally published in 2006 and has been out of print for several years. It chronicles the history of the settlement that was named for Hiram and Susannah Hinchman, who moved to Berrien County in the 1830s. Although little more than a crossroads village, it boasted a church, school, store, creamery, and a post office. The Milwaukee, Benton Harbor and Columbus Railroad built a depot in Hinchman in 1897 when it extended a line from Buchanan through Berrien Springs and north to Benton Harbor. The book retails at $18.95 and can be purchased from the museum store, located at the History Center, 313 North Cass Street in Berrien Springs. History Center members receive a 10% ($1.90) discount per book. Museum Store hours at the History Center are 10-5 Monday-Friday. The new book can be purchased through mail order at an additional cost of $4.95 for shipping and handling. Michigan residents should add $1.14 for sales tax. Orders should be sent to the History Center at Courthouse Square, PO Box 261, Berrien Springs, MI 49103. Telephone orders at (269) 471-1202 can pay with Visa or Mastercard. Berrien History on WAUS Radio If you enjoy local history, tune in to WAUS Radio in Berrien Springs every Tuesday. Andrews University’s classical music station broadcasts Berrien History every week at 90.7 FM , airing at three times: 6:55 a.m., 7:55 a.m. and 6:05 p.m. The programs are written and presented by History Center curator Robert Myers. Each program runs about three minutes and covers a particular topic of local history. Recent topics have included the filming of the motion picture Prancer in Three Oaks, the Bell Opera House in Benton Harbor, and the Illinois, Indiana & Iowa Railroad that ran from Galien to St. Joseph. If you live outside the southwest Michigan area, you can still listen in via Live Stream on the Internet. You can find WAUS at www.waus.org.
Page 7 Curator’s Corner Recent Donations Clark Equipment Co. souvenirs . . Mary M. Addison-lamb Baby cradle, 1885 . . . . . . David, Debra & Richard Bartz Wedding dress, graduation dress. . . . . . . . Joellen Bellaire photographs, 1887 county atlas Map of St. Joseph, ca. 1860 . . . . . . . . Marcia M. Fleming Courthouse key, 1838 . . . . . . . . Fort St. Joseph Museum Berrien Springs photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wayne Hall Telephone receiver, ca. 1940 . . . . . . . . Richard Kubsch World War I photographs, papers . . . . Patrick G. McIntosh St. Joseph brewery bottle, . . . . . Patrick & Maxine Walsh business directory, city planning book Patrick McIntosh donated this framed photograph of his father, Pvt. George McIntosh of St. Joseph. George, a Glenlord resident, served as a Michigan “Polar Bear” in Russia immediately after World War I (see below). Michigan Polar Bears Some of George McIntosh’s Polar Bear buddies stage a boxing match in Russia. McIntosh (arrow) poses with the Polar Bears on a log bridge in Russia. George F. McIntosh of Glenlord enlisted to fight the Kaiser, but wound up battling Bolsheviks. He joined the army in 1917 and served with the 310 th Engineers in the 85 th Division. The 85 th , composed mostly of Michigan and Wisconsin men, went to Arkhangelsk, Russia, in 1918 to reinforce British troops already there. Officially the American North Russia Expeditionary Force, the outfit gained fame as “The Polar Bears.” The expedition had three objectives: prevent Allied war material stockpiles in Archangelsk from falling into German hands; rescue the Czech Legion, then stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad; and defeat the Red Army and reopen the Eastern Front against Germany. In the process, the Polar Bears would also halt the spread of communism. The expedition’s offensive ground to a halt in the Russian winter, and in 1919 the Polar Bears returned home. American forces lost over 110 men in battle, another 30 missing, and 70 deaths from disease, mostly due to the Spanish Flu. Pvt. George McIntosh returned home safely and was mustered out in July 1919. The History Center thanks George McIntosh’s son, Patrick, for his donation of rare photographs of the Polar Bear Expedition.
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