A history of Pickford Area Pioneer Families Daniel Morrison

Dr. Donald L. Cummings

Dr. Donald L. Cummings and Mrs. Cummings came to Pickford in 1937. Dr. Cummings was was an osteopathic physician and surgeon, a graduate of Kirkwood Osteopathic College in Kirkwood, Missouri. He came to Pickford after practicing in Menominee, Michigan. Dr. Cummings was born in Lansing, Michigan, and has been in Michigan most his life. He had offices in Pickford in the Pickford Grocery Building, where he practiced until 1944, at which time he went to Los Angeles, California, to specialize. He is now an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist, with an office in Grand Rapids. In October, 1959, he was elected President of the Michigan Osteopathic Association for the ensuing year.

Mrs. Cummings is an attorney and during the war, because of the shortage of teachers, she taught typing, shorthand, and business courses in Pickford High School.

Dr. Carr

Dr. E. S. Carr opened offices in Pickford and Rudyard in 1944. His Pickford office was in the Pickford Grocery Building. In 1949, after five busy years in which he participated in outdoor sports and community activities in addition to his medical practice, Dr. Carr returned to Ann Arbor where he enrolled in the University of Michigan for advanced training in psychiatry.

Dr. Glendon Goddard

Dr. Goddard and his family came to Pickford in 1949 and remained until 1955, when they moved to Sault Ste. Marie. Dr. Goddard had his office in the Pickford Grocery Building and served the entire eastern end of Chippewa County, except the Soo, as well as the eastern part of Mackinac County.

Government and Schools

Pickford Township Officers from 1916 to 1972

Supervisors

Weldon Pickford	1st Supervisor
Sam Roe	2nd Supervisor
George Watson	from 1916 to 1919
William McDonald	from 1920 to 1921
George Watson	from 1921 to 1923
William Miller	from 1924 to 1928
George Tabor	1929
William Millet	1930
George Tabor	1931- 1932
Mervin Rye	1933-1935
Elliott Hancock	1936-1972
Ories Huyck	1972

Clerks

Ernest Nixon	1916 - 1922
Otto Graham	1923 - 1958
James Storey	1958 - 1972
Gerald Harrison	1972

Justice of Peace

William McDonald	1916
William Batho	1917
James Allen	1917
Fuller Cowell	1918
Dudley Aldrich	1919
William Hart	1920
William Batho	1922
William Miller	1923
Fuller Cowell	1923
William Hart	1924
William Batho	1925
Fuller Cowell	1926
William Anderson	1927
William Hart	1928
William Batho	1929
Fuller Cowell	1930
William Anderson	1931
William Hart	1932
John Thompson	1933
Clayton Morrison	1934
William Hart	1940
Roy Smith	1941
Elmer Haines	1941
Clayton Morrison	1942
William Miller	1943
John Thompson	1945
Elmer Haines

Law changed 1955 - Justice of Peace no longer on Township Board - two trustees elected.

Gerald Harrison James Storey

Jack Slater Elmer Haines

James Hill Bert McKiddie

Treasurers

Ford Beacom	1916
Fred Green	1917- 1918
John Shobbrook	1919 -1920
Garfield Graham	1921- 1922
Ford Beacom	1923- 1924
Robert Harrison	1925- 1926
Roy Smith	1927- 1928
Dudley Aldrich	1929- 1930
Mervin Rye	1931-1932
Dewey Morrison	1933-1934
Lorne Steele	1935-1970
Valarie Sanderson	1971-

Present Township Board (1972)

Supervisor	Orris Huyck
Clerk	Gerald Harrison
Treasurer	Valarie Sanderson
Trustee	Bert McKiddie
Trustee	James Hill