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THE "OTHER" MILL AT LOGTOWN
The W. W. Carre Company owned two mills when the company was liquidated in 1874. Henry Weston bought out part of the Carre's interest, and became the sole owner of the Logtown mill (Hickman, 1962) (Thigpen, 1965A). The other mill, a circular mill at Boguehoma Bayou, appears to have been bought by E.G. Goddard of Saginaw Michigan, but it is not clear when this occurred. The Goddard mill was said to have been the first good sized sawmill at Logtown, however (Thigpen,1965A), and it was located at Boguehoma Bayou (Baxter, 1942).
The offices of the E.G. Goddard Lumber Company were located at 102 S. Washington Avenue in East Saginaw, Michigan. This business was a partnership formed by Ezra G. Goddard, Erastus T. Judd, Elijah Hallenbeck, and Willis H. Gilbert (from Saginaw, Michigan City Directory, 1893-94).
E.G. Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 16 1833. He chose the profession of a civil engineer, and applied his talents in the service of numerous railroads; at one time, he was chief engineer for three of them. After Leaving Worcester he made his home for a time in Ithica, N.Y., where he was married to Rhoda E. Vincent in 1854. The couple had two children,
Vincent A Goddard, and a daughter who later became Mrs. M. T. Batley, Jr. In 1862 Goddard moved to Saginaw where his services as a civil engineer were in demand by the railroads. In Saginaw, he also engaged extensively in the lumber, pine land, and real-estate business (from Goddard's obituary - in The Saginaw Courier-Herald, 7/14/1893, p.5). Goddard purchased land in Saginaw County as early as 1863. He seems to have been a surveyor first but is identified as a lumberman in 1870" (letter, Byrne, G. J., to Scharff, R.G., August 26, 1994). He formed a partnership with his son, Vincent, (E. G. Goddard and Son, 102 S. Washington Ave., E. Saginaw) to engage in the pine lands (timber lands) business (Saginaw, Michigan City Directory, 1891-92) .
E. T. Judd was the self-made president of the First National Bank of East Saginaw. He was born at Geneva, New York, May 31, 1822, and attended school there until seventeen years old. He worked on a farm until twenty-three when he learned the carpenter's trade. Soon afterward, he went to Canada where he contracted with the Great Western Railway to supply wood for their locomotives. Judd moved to the Saginaw valley in 1864.
The First National Bank, which was the first national bank chartered in Saginaw Valley, was opened in January 1865, with offices in the Bancroft House on Washington Avenue. Officers