Name |
Occupation or Achievement |
Time Frame |
Class of |
Diann Banic Tosh |
Hartford High
School Graduate is director of So. Haven schools lunch
named president of the School Nutrition
Association of Michigan. |
2011 |
1969 |
Terry L. Bisbee, Sp-6
VietNam
|
US Army – Flight
Engineer. Read about Terry
on the military page and view the photos of his helicopter and
special picture that appeared in Time Life Magazine in 1964. Read letter
Terry wrote from Vietnam to his mother about the Purple Heart Award and conditions of the battle front at
that time. |
1954-1974 |
Hartford
1955 or 1956 |
Everard "Eddie" Lorne Carpenter |
Professional NHL hockey player
in Canada. |
1920-1921 |
|
Don F. Cochrane |
• Delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan in 1928.
•
Editor of The Day Spring.
•
Inducted into the
Michigan Newspaper Hall of Fame:
1952-1968 as publisher of the
Hartford Day Spring.
(from the Michigan State School of Journalism website at
http://hof.jrn.msu.edu/hall.html) |
1928
|
|
Martin Conrad |
Professional football player in Kentucky and
Ohio. |
1922-1925 (?) |
Hartford 1912 |
Roy (Bud) Davis |
1985 to present –
writes a weekly feature column, The Paw Paw River Journal,
for
The Tri-City Record, Watervliet MI.
Authored and published three books,
Paw Paw River Times, People and Paw Paw River Days & Nights, and
Flying the Hump. One of
Hartford’s great historians and responsible for capturing much of our
history in a collective account through his books |
|
Hartford
1942 |
Dr. Willis F. Dunbar
b 1902 in Hartford MI
d 8-1970 in Kalamazoo MI
|
Newscaster with
Channel 3 TV, authored book How It Was In Hartford. Head of the History Department at Western Michigan
University in Kalamazoo MI. He was on staff at Western from 1951
until retirement in 1970. Willis F. Dunbar Hall was completed
in 1971. |
1950s |
Hartford
1919 |
Eagle Scouts
Dale Johnson
Nick Madison
Ryan Kent
Alan Herriman |
It is rare that
one in a community attains the highest scouting level of Eagle Scout.
Our community was very honored to have witnessed 4 young Hartford High
School seniors receive this honor in an Eagle Court of Honor Ceremony.
|
2008 |
All 2008 Hartford graduates |
Gary Fernham |
UPS Driver for 25
years, 700,000 without an accident – quite an accomplishment! |
1985-2010 |
HHS
1976 |
George Ernest Foulkes
b 12/25/1878
d 12/13/1960 |
1900 to 1919 – Special Agent
of the United States Treasury Dept. in charge of field service at New York
City, El Paso, Texas, St. Paul MN, and Minneapolis MN
1920 – Moved to Hartford to engage in Agriculture
1924, 1926, 1928 – Delegate to Democratic State Conventions
1933 to 1935 – Elected as a democrat to the 73rd Congress.
1934 – Nominated for Governor by the Farmer Labor Party – declined.
1934 – Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the 74th Congress.
12/13/1960 – Died in Hartford MI, buried in Hartford Cemetery.
|
1900 to1934 |
Chicago Public
Schools and Lake IL Forest University Law Department |
Jon Friday |
Hartford native is
big top ambassador – ringmaster and trapeze artist. |
1985 |
HHS
Class of 1953 |
David Hampton |
Member of Michigan Republican
State Central Committee. |
1979 |
HHS Class of
1971 |
Wallace Heuser
|
World-renowned
horticulturist. Received Michigan State University Outstanding
Alumni Award. |
2007-2012
articles |
HHS Class of
1946 |
Harry R. Hewitt |
Served as Attorney
General of Hawaii for 7 1/2 years. Reappointed as Attorney General
and confirmed by the senate, Hewitt resigned to start a law practice in
Honolulu. Harry, son of Nina Hinckley – owner of the Hartford House,
also graduated from the University of Michigan. (From the Hartford Day
Spring, March 28, 1934.) |
1926 to1934 |
HHS
Class of 1910 |
Ed "Sonny" Kesterke, Cleo Ansteth, Bill
Dyer, Elsa Lightner, Larry Blyly, Dorothy Dyer, and Jackie Calvin |
Hartford High
School students formed a band in 1944 with an incredible journey where
they would meet famous, historic people beyond anyone’s imagination. |
1944 to 2007 |
1944-1947 |
Mike Latus |
As an Outdoor Explorer Guide, Mike provides
weekly Exploring Nature Programs at Michigan’s busiest state park, Warren Dunes
State Park. |
1994 to
2012 and beyond |
HHS
Class of 1973 |
John Madill |
Well-known photographer with the Herald-Palladium. |
1979-2012 |
|
Jake L. Meachum |
Jake was an ag teacher,
principal, and superintendent of schools in Millington, Michigan
(1930-1947). Millington Jr. High School was renamed as Jake L.
Meachum Jr. High.
He received the State
of Michigan 1999 Crystal Apple Award 38 years after his death. |
1919 to
1963 |
HHS
Class of 1919 |
Trever Meachum |
Hartford
farmer appointed to Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural
Development. |
2012 |
HHS Class of
1989 |
Pastor Timothy Nyhuis,
Hartford Federated Church
|
Saved a neighbor’s life during a house
fire in 1985. Pastor Tim passed away in November, 2011 |
1985 |
River Valley HS
1970 |
Barbara Latus Oosterbaan |
Torch Runner for
the 2002 Winter Olympics that were held in Utah.
Click here to read the story and see a photo of Barb in her official
Torch Runner uniform. |
Jan 13, 2002 |
HHS
Class of 1971 |
Steve Olds
|
Wrote several books on Tax
Accounting, appeared on TV specials. |
1948 to 2000 |
Hartford
1966 |
Chief Simon Pokagon
|
During his lifetime, he became
known as the best educated full-blooded Indian in North America. He was
fluent in English, Latin, and Greek. Simon was the third-born son of
Chief Leopold Pokagon who, in 1833, signed the treaty at Tippecanoe
River, Indiana and gave the site of Chicago into the possession of the
whites for $.03 per acre.
Simon Pokagon became tribal chief of the Potawatomis of southwestern Michigan. He was well known as an
eloquent writer, poet, orator, and philosopher who exhibited great
visionary and moral leadership for his people and the world.
|
1830 to
1899 |
Notre Dame,
Oberlin College, Twinsburg Institute |
Jim Rhinehart
|
Patent through Sony Corp.
(Alabama) for a new computer system and chip. Received patent
on April 16, 2002.
US Patent No. 6,374,328.
No. US 6,402,210 B1 is for a hand held device for
removing data cartridges from data drives on computers. It’s called an
Ergonomic Data Cartridge Grip. |
April,
2002
2003 |
Attend school in Hartford through the 3rd grade. Started with the
HHS Class of 1964. |
Robert Scranton |
POW during WW11. Teacher-coach,1946-1952, at Hartford High
School. 1952-1983 Principal at Brighton Middle School, Brighton MI.
School was renamed Scranton Middle School prior to his 1983 retirement.
Robert passed away
4-26-2009. |
1946-1952 |
|
Flo Shepard |
Flyin’ Flo lands at airport.
Flo Shepard has been up in the air a lot in her life, but now she’s
enjoying the ground game
|
2000-2013 |
Chicago
transplant to Hartford MI |
Adelbert Stagg, MD |
A 59-year legacy of
medical care in the Hartford area. Stagg, 87, said he stopped counting how
many babies he delivered a long time ago but estimates it may have been as
many as 4,000. He said he used to deliver as many as 180 babies a year.
To put that number into perspective, the population of the city of
Hartford is about 2,500 (in the year 2007). |
1948 to 2007 in Hartford |
Attended high school at Fletcher Academy, Fletcher NC. Class of 1939 |
Stillman
F. Breed, Samuel Robertson, Gilbert Conklin, Ansel Reynolds, Husen Taylor,
and many citizens from the community.
|
Saved a young
man from certain death in 1848.
Eli Ruggles was trapped in an open well in the township. |
1848 |
|
Maxine Sinclair
|
Red Arrow
Elementary Teacher.
1984 – Michigan
Mother of the Year
1996 – Hartford Citizen of the Year |
1926 to
2002 |
Middleville
Public Schools Class of 1944 |
Bernard A. Stowe |
Bernard was the
son of
Freeman Stowe, a Civil War veteran and pioneer resident and builder of
Hartford. Bernard Street was named for him. While working as a
contract engineer at an electrical firm in Cleveland, Bernard invented the
modern oscillating fan. During WW11, he was engaged as a war
production technician. Bernard’s great grandfather,
Francis DeLong, is the only known Revolutionary War soldier to have
lived in Hartford. |
1870 to 1949 |
HHS
Class of 1888 |
Warner P. Sutton |
Born in Bangor Twp and only son of Luther Sutton, editor of the Hartford
Day Spring 1877-1882.
Luther was in the Civil
War. Warner was also Superintendent of Saugatuck School prior to
becoming Consul General in Matamoras.
1878 – appointed Consul to
Northern Mexico for 5 years;
1884 – served as Consul General at Matamoras and Nuevo Laredo;
1889 – served as Chief Clerk of International Pan-American Congress.
An original letter written by Consul Warner P.
Sutton, in 1879, foretells details of his 3000-mile
wagon and horseback trip across the Rio Grande frontier and Northern
Mexico. Very interesting. |
1878 to
1889 |
|
William (Billy) Vann
Musician |
Professional Musician – played
on WKZO-radio and WKZO-TV with Rem Wall and the original Green Valley
Boys. The group organized during the 1940s, with Billy Vann joining the
band in 1955.
2000 – famous for his mastery of the steel and electric guitar,
Billy was inducted into the Michigan Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.
2008 – Billy’s steel guitar was silenced
as he passed away 3-1-2008.
|
1955 to 2008 |
HHS 1952 |
Billy
Van Camp – Sergeant
WW11
US Air Force – Sergeant
Ball-Turret Gunner
Assistant Flight Engineer
Crew Member
B-24 Bomber, Cold Iron |
Hartford Soldier returns home
57 years after his plane went down in 1944 while on a mission over New
Guinea. Two articles about what happened to Billy. |
1944 |
|
Emily
Winkel
Right Hand Man |
8th grade student
at Hartford Middle School wins State and National Hispanic Heritage
Student Art-Essay Competition. |
2005 |
Hartford Middle
school
2005 |